History of art Books
Cabinet Cabinet 58 Theft
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Cabinet Cabinet 62 Milk
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Cabinet Cabinet 64 The Nose
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£10.20
Cabinet Cabinet 66
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Cabinet Cabinet 67
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£8.93
Mandala Publishing Group Krishna Art Postcard Book
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£10.64
Akashic Books,U.S. Animals And Objects In And Out Of Water: Posters
Book SynopsisFeaturing iconic Chicago underground poster artist Jay Ryan's 120 favourite pieces of art from the last three years.
£20.66
Ugly Duckling Presse Emergency Index 2013: Volume 3
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£18.00
Drag City Tickle Me
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£49.59
Zero+ Publishing Asad Faulwell: Les Femmes D'Alger
Book SynopsisFocusing on issues of colonization, faith, power and gender relations through an examination of the political history of the post-colonial Middle East
£32.79
Siglio Press Troy Montes-Michie: Rock of Eye
Book SynopsisStitches and sutures: tracing the body and landscape in Troy Montes-Michie's collages To tailor a garment by “rock of eye” is to rely on the drape—on experience over mathematical measurement—in the fitting process. It is a kind of drawing in space—a freehand, an intuition, a trust of materials. Rock of Eye, published on the occasion of Troy Montes-Michie’s (born 1985) solo exhibition at the California African American Museum, is a collection of the artist’s collages, drawings, and found and woven images sourced from vintage erotic magazines, French tailoring magazines, found photographs and other materials. These materials are familiar from Montes-Michie’s recent large-scale paintings and collages that center on the Black male body and his series that traces the social history and form of the zoot suit. Troy Montes-Michie was born in El Paso and his practice reflects his experience growing up along the US/Mexico border. This book is a study in ambiguity between portraiture and landscape; his are the cuts and folds of patterning and mapping. In Rock of Eye, Montes-Michie’s stitches suture histories and geographies; they establish thresholds for crossing; his needle hits rock. Including essays by Tina Campt and editor Andrea Andersson, with an interview by Brent Edwards, Rock of Eye is a tactile and sensuous artist’s book recalling the form of fabric swatch books and affirming that collage is an art of selection.Trade ReviewBy painting clothes over these archival nude images, we see them intimately rather than explicitly, stepping away from the fetishized Black male body that had been left on display in the magazines they originated in. -- Adam Lee * Hyperallergic *Montes-Michie’s critical gestures of veiling are both protective and defiant. Desire isn’t banished from the frame, and this is the joyful knot of the work. He beholds his subjects with tenderness and dresses them in their rebellious threads. -- Laura Larson * Photo Eye *In the artist’s hands, the images’ sitters are rendered more complex through elisions and additions that cause them to double and seem slightly imperceptible. -- Alex Greenberger * ARTnews *Revels in contradiction, ambivalence, beauty, queerness, time, and place. -- Rasheeda Saka * Alta *
£33.25
PictureBox Inc Julia Chiang: Coming Together, Coming Apart
Book SynopsisJulia Chiang's word and pattern based artwork has been exhibited across the world. Her deceptively simple yet precisely painted patterns are merged with poetic language to form the core of her exuberantly colourful work. This collection of her artwork was produced in conjunction with Chiang's summer 2013 exhibition in Tokyo and collects her abstract artwork and ceramics from 2011 to the present. This edition is accompanied by an introductory essay by Lumi Tan.
£13.77
Museyon Guides Lust, Lies and Monarchy: The Secrets Behind
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£16.14
David Zwirner No Problem: Cologne / New York 1984-1989
Book SynopsisIn the words of Peter Schjeldahl, writing in The New Yorker about the exhibition No Problem: Cologne/New York 1984–1989 at David Zwirner in New York, “the show’s cast of artists amounts to a retrospective shopping list of what would matter and endure in art of the era.” With an eye to canonizing that moment, this seminal publication examines the latter half of the 1980s through the lens of international art scenes that were based in Cologne—arguably the European center of the contemporary art world at that time—and New York. While a number of established Cologne-based gallerists, including Karsten Greve, Paul Maenz, Rolf Ricke, Michael Werner, and Rudolf Zwirner, had already begun shaping the European reception of American art in the previous decade, the 1980s marked a period during which art being produced in and around Cologne gained international attention. A burgeoning gallery scene supported the emerging work of artists based in the region, with gallerists such as Gisela Capitain, Rafael Jablonka, Max Hetzler, and Monika Sprüth showing artists such as Walter Dahn, Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Rosemarie Trockel, and others. The works of these German artists were exhibited along with the latest contemporary art from the US by artists like Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, and Christopher Wool. Conversely, the works of German artists were presented in New York, with breakout exhibitions at galleries such as Barbara Gladstone, Metro Pictures, Luhring, Augustine & Hodes, and other significant venues. Important museum exhibitions that explored work being produced and exhibited on both sides of the Atlantic also set the tone for this ongoing dialogue, among them Europa / Amerika (Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1986) and A Distanced View: One Aspect of Recent Art from Belgium, France, Germany, and Holland (New Museum, New York, 1986). Big, bold, and vibrant, this Pentagram-designed publication revives the conversation, reproducing in full color over one hundred immensely varied artworks by the twenty-two international artists included in this massive exhibition—one of the largest in David Zwirner’s history. Beyond its stunning visual components, the book features crucial new scholarship by Diedrich Diederichsen and Bob Nickas, and an illustrated chronology of the decade by Kara Carmack. The book also includes an arsenal of compelling archival material, from documentary photographs from the period to reproductions of Cologne’s culture magazine Spex. Taken as a whole, this ambitious exhibition catalogue encapsulates the energy, heart, and “dissonance of styles”—in the words of Schjeldahl—embodied by this fascinating and fecund moment in global art history. Artists featured in the book include Werner Büttner, George Condo, Walter Dahn, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Günther Förg, Robert Gober, Georg Herold, Jenny Holzer, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Albert Oehlen, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz West, and Christopher Wool.
£33.60
David Zwirner Tell Me Something Good: Artist Interviews from
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£23.80
David Zwirner ArtCenter Talks: Graduate Seminar, The First
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£23.80
David Zwirner Summoning Pearl Harbor
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£8.50
David Zwirner Ruth Asawa
Book SynopsisKnown for her extensive body of intricate and dynamic wire sculptures, American sculptor, educator, and arts activist Ruth Asawa challenged conventional notions of material and form through her emphasis on lightness and transparency.Asawa began her now iconic looped-wire works in the late 1940s while still a student at Black Mountain College. Their unique structure was inspired by a 1947 trip to Mexico, during which local craftsmen taught her how to create baskets out of wire. While seemingly unrelated to the lessons of color and composition taught in Josef Albers’s legendary Basic Design course, these works, as she explained, are firmly grounded in his teachings in their use of unexpected materials and their elision of figure and ground. Presenting an important and timely overview of the artist’s work, this monograph brings together a broad selection of her sculptures, works on paper, and more. Together the body of work demonstrates the centrality of Asawa’s innovative practice to the art-historical legacy of the twentieth century. In addition to an incredible group of photographs of the artist and her work by Imogen Cunningham, a selection of rare archival materials will illustrate a chronology of the artist’s life and work. Featuring an extensive text by Tiffany Bell which explores the artist’s influences, history, and, most importantly, the work itself, as well as a significant essay by Robert Storr discussing Asawa’s work in relation to mid-twentieth century art history, culture, and scientific theory.
£46.75
David Zwirner Duchamp's Last Day
Book SynopsisPublished on the fiftieth anniversary of Marcel Duchamp’s death, Duchamp’s Last Day offers a radical reading of the artist’s final hours.Just moments after Duchamp died, his closest friend Man Ray took a photograph of him. His face is wan; his eyes are closed; he appears calm. Taking this image as a point of departure, Donald Shambroom begins to examine the surrounding context—the dinner with Man Ray and another friend, Robert Lebel, the night Duchamp died, the conversations about his own death at that dinner and elsewhere, and the larger question of whether this radical artist’s death can be read as an extension of his work. Shambroom’s in-depth research into this final night, and his analysis of the photograph, feeds into larger questions about the very nature of artworks and authorship which Duchamp raised in his lifetime. In the case of this mysterious and once long-lost photograph, who is the author? Man Ray or Duchamp? Is it an artwork or merely a record? Has the artist himself turned into one of his own readymades? A fascinating essay that is both intimate and steeped in art history, Duchamp’s Last Day is filled with intricate details from decades of research into this peculiar encounter between art, life, and death. Shambroom’s book is a wonderful study of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.
£8.95
David Zwirner Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art
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£48.00
Silver Sprocket Your Black Friend
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£6.83
Pioneer Works Pòtoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince
Book SynopsisThe Haitian capital at the intersections of history, music, politics, religion, magic, architecture, art and literature Published after a landmark 2018 exhibition at Pioneer Works—the first major survey of the astonishing artists of Haiti’s capital city—Pòtoprens is at once a portrait of a place, a celebration of its arts and a visionary re-mapping of culture in the world’s first Black republic. In this volume, Port-au-Prince's complex present is evoked through artworks, images, oral histories and essays. These contents are organized, as was the exhibition, around neighborhoods identified with particular subjects, materials and forms. Contextualized by leading writers on Caribbean culture, these artists’ stories are situated within Port-au-Prince’s rich heritage of “majority class art.” As cities everywhere grow ever more critical to our changing global environment, this book articulates urban Haiti’s unbroken link with its revolutionary past.Trade ReviewGeographically focused survey shows and their accompanying publications rarely offer such depth, on the contrary, they often border on ethnography. Pòtoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince succeeds wonderfully in avoiding this trap, and serves as the perfect case study for how curators and editors tasked with such projects can produce something meaningful. -- Maymanah Farhat * Brooklyn Rail *
£38.29
Crafty as Ever Wood Background Scrapbook Paper Pad 8x8 Scrapbooking Kit for Papercrafts, Cardmaking, DIY Crafts, Rustic Texture Design, Multicolor
£999.99
Cameron & Company Inc Punk Ikebana: Reimagining the Art of Floral
Book SynopsisTranscendent eco-luxe arrangements and installations created by famed floral designer Louesa Roebuck from seasonal flora foraged from the West Coast From acclaimed artist, author, and floral designer Louesa Roebuck, Punk Ikebana presents breathtaking installations and arrangements that unite the beauty of restraint with the exuberance of nature. Working with seasonal, locally available foraged flora and crafts from various regions of the West Coast, Roebuck aligns her deep commitment to the environment with her love of creating in harmony with her surroundings. Each chapter embodies her unique aesthetic, which is inspired by both the beauty of the region and the poetry of Japan, incorporating the enduring ethos of eco-luxe and zero-waste design. In addition to utilizing distinctive vessels, Roebuck plays with scale, showing readers how to cultivate their own eye to create centerpieces for their homes, from sweeping installations to intimate arrangements. These stunning compositions, which transcend tradition and venture into the realm of the cinematic, celebrate the wholeness of nature, inviting readers to embrace the elemental beauty right outside their doors.
£42.75
Hardie Grant Books Paris Rêvé
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Random House USA Inc The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting
£23.85
Editions Flammarion Lancel: Parisian Maison since 1876
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Editions Flammarion Man to Man: An Obsession, The Pierre Passebon
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£24.00
Editions Flammarion Monet/Rothko
Book SynopsisCyrille Sciama is director general of the Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny and is head heritage curator. Marie Delbarre is a research assistant at the Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny. Géraldine Lefebvre is a historian of nineteenth-century art and an independent curator. Pierre Wat is an art history professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Valérie Reis is responsible for exhibitions at the Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny.
£28.00
Editions Flammarion Intimate Chanel
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£29.75
Actes Sud Sophie Calle True Stories New Edition
Book SynopsisThe latest edition of Sophie Calle''s classic artist's book features three new tales First published in 1994 and regularly reissued and expanded since, this new edition of True Stories returns with three new stories. Calle's projects have frequently drawn on episodes from her own life, but this bookpart visual memoir, part meditation on the resonances of photographs and belongingsis as close as she has come to producing an autobiography, albeit one highly poetical and fragmentary, as is characteristic of her work. The talesnever longer than a pageare by turns lighthearted, humorous, serious, dramatic or cruel. Each is accompanied by an image; each offers a fragment of life. Calle herself is the author, narrator and protagonist of her stories and photography. Her words are somber, chosen precisely and carefully. She offers up her own memorieschildhood, marriage, sex and deathwith brilliant humor, insight and pleasure. By turns serious, hilarious, dramat
£17.10
Editions Skira Paris Shakir Hassan Al Said: The One and Art
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Editions Skira Paris HA! HA! HA!: The Humour of Art
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£27.20
Editions Skira Paris Imagine Picasso
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£21.25
Editions Skira Paris Jean-Michel Wilmotte: Product Design
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£55.20
Editions Skira Paris Outlooks on Modern and Contemporary Arab Artists
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£36.00
Editions Skira Paris PostImpressionism Arabic edition
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£28.00
Editions Skira Paris Inspiration from the living
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£24.00
Editions Skira Paris Colours
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£24.00
Cahiers d'art Cahiers d’Art N°1, 2012: 36th Year
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Cahiers d'art Cahiers d’Art N°1-2, 2013: Rosemarie Trockel:
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Cahiers d'art Cahiers d’Art N°1, 2015: Calder in France
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£58.50
Cahiers d'art Cahiers d'Art 2016-2017: Gabriel Orozco
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£58.50
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain Fondation Cartier pour lart contemporain Voir
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£28.00
Dis Voir Jasper Morrison
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£17.85
Dis Voir Peter Greenaway: Goltzius and the Pelican Company
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£19.80
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Curating Islamic Art Worldwide: From Malacca to
Book SynopsisThis volume gives voice to cultural institutions working with collections of Islamic art and material culture globally, including many from outside Western Europe and North America. The contributions inform a vibrant, ongoing global conversation around curatorship in this field, one that embraces the responsibilities, challenges and opportunities for those engaged in it. Contributors—including art historians, curators and education specialists—discuss curatorial methodologies in theoretical and practical terms, present new exhibitions of Islamic art and culture, and explore the role of educational and engagement practices related to Islamic collections and Muslim audiences. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Objects, Storytelling, Memory and Living Histories: Curating Islamic Art Empathically in an Era of Trauma and Displacement 2. Labelling Islam: Structuring Ideas in Islamic Galleries 3. Not Malacca but Marege: Islamic Art in Australia (Or, ‘What Have the Umayyads Ever Done for Us?’) 4. From Mosque to Museum: the Museum of Islamic and Near Eastern Cultures, Be’er Sheva, Israel 5. Display of the Sacred Relics Gallery in the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art, Istanbul (TİEM) 6. In Pursuit of Islamic Art in Mosco 7. Representing the Bangsamoro in an Exhibition of Ethnography at the National Museum of the Philippines 8. Displaying the Cultures of Islam at the British Museum: The Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World 9. Islamic Art and Saudi Arabia: Reconnecting Communities with Collections 10. Exploring World Faiths in Museum Collections 11. Curating Islamic Art in the Central United States: New Approaches to Collections, Installations and Audience Engagement
£46.74
Palgrave Macmillan The EighteenthCentury London Upholder
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Upholders and Funeral Undertaking in London.- Chapter 3: Upholders as Appraisers, Brokers, and Auctioneers.- Chapter 4: Case Study of Robert Williams.- Chapter 5: Case Study of John Trotter.- Chapter 6: Conclusions.
£107.99
