History of art Books
Taschen GmbH Japanische Holzschnitte
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£14.25
Taschen GmbH Estampes japonaises
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£14.25
Taschen GmbH Hieronymus Bosch. Das vollständige Werk. 40th Ed.
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£999.99
Taschen Deutschland GmbH Caravaggio. Das vollständige Werk. 40th
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£22.50
Taschen GmbH Henri Matisse. CutOuts. Zeichnen mit der Schere.
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£22.50
Taschen GmbH Das Buch der Bibeln. 40th Ed.
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£999.99
Taschen GmbH The Book of Bibles. 40th Ed.
Book SynopsisIn the beginning was the word, and in the Middle Ages were kings, princes, and high-ranking religious members whose wealth and influence produced illustrated bibles of extraordinary craftsmanship. This edition brings together 50 of the finest medieval bible manuscripts from the Austrian National Library. With examples from every epoch of the Middle Ages, the collection explores visualizations of the bible in various theological and historical contexts. In impeccable reproduction quality, these stunning images may be appreciated as much as art historical treasures as they are important religious artifacts. Texts by Andreas Fingernagel, Stephan Füssel, Christian Gastgeber, and a team of 15 scientific authors describe each manuscript in detail, exploring both the evolution of the Bible and the medieval understanding of history. A glossary of important terms is also included so that those not versed in bible history can enjoy the texts as well.Trade Review“Here is the entire creative diversity of the artists of the Middle Ages, each with their unique genius and spiritual sensibility.” * Le Nouvel Echo *“A stunning reminder of a time when the word of God inspired images of astonishing luminosity and daunting levels of physical sacrifice.” * The Independent *"This treasure trove is enough to make a heathen turn to God." * The Independent *
£999.99
Taschen GmbH Frida Kahlo. 40th Ed.
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£999.99
Taschen GmbH Rembrandt. Sämtliche Gemälde
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£63.75
Taschen GmbH Leonardo. Sämtliche Gemälde. 40th Ed.
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£22.50
Taschen GmbH Leonardo. Tutti i dipinti. 40th Ed.
Book SynopsisOne of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) remains a quintessential Renaissance genius. The perfect companion to the Leonardo Graphic Work edition, this book is a compact catalogue raisonné of all of the artist's masterful paintings. Drawn from our best-selling XXL edition, the book traces the artist's life and work across 10 chapters, presenting all known paintings and drawing on his letters, contracts, diary entries, and writings to explore the man behind such groundbreaking artworks. From Virgin of the Rocks to Virgin and Child with St. Anne to the ever-beguiling Mona Lisa, you'll find some of the finest treasures of the Louvre, Prado, and National Gallery, London here, as well as Leonardo works lost to time, but no less startling in their precision and poise.
£22.50
transcript Assemblages of Belonging
£41.24
V&R unipress Romantik 2023
Book SynopsisThe study of romantic modes of thought
£999.99
Gta Verlag The Landscapes of Dieter Kienast
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£63.75
Snoeck Verlagsges. Marius Lüscher Untitled Paintings
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£31.84
Snoeck Verlagsges. Nikola Ukic. about the Senses of Possibilities
£31.84
Seemann Henschel Otto Mueller Catalogue Raisonn Vol I Paintings
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£148.50
Kehrer Verlag Extended
Book SynopsisA collection of the most pertinent German art produced since the 1980s including work from artists of international renown such as Franz Ackermann, Wolfgang Tillmans and martin Kippenberger.
£23.39
Kehrer Verlag Compeshitstem - The New Deal
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£21.25
Kehrer Verlag The Saints
Book SynopsisDocuments the Artangel supported video installation which was presented for the opening of the new Wembley Stadium.
£28.79
Kehrer Verlag Signs Of Life: Ancient Knowledge in Contemporary
Book SynopsisDraws attention to the increased reference to old pictorial forms made by contemporary visual artists. Features work by Louise Bougeoius and Kiki Smith.
£25.20
Kehrer Verlag The Art Of Writing
Book SynopsisA global survey of writing based artistic practices from Asia, the Arab World and Europe which demonstrates its power, origins and development.
£33.99
Kehrer Verlag Car Fetish: I Drive Therefore I Am
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£33.99
DOM Publishers Ukraine: Art for Architecture
Book SynopsisIn the times when the Ukrainian art sphere was regulated by the Soviet institutions, local monumental and decorative arts existed at the frontier of the Party’s propaganda and the artistic thirst to experiments. Nowadays, Ukrainian mosaics are wrested out of the architectural context of the country in both literal and metaphorical ways. The artworks are liquidated from the buildings they were specifically created for and indiscriminately despised as ideological pieces of no value. Furthermore, in legal terms mosaics are not defined as objects of art that makes them unguarded in the face of the decommunization process. Initially incepted as a guide, this book is an equally beneficial companion for the journey through space (in the context of the geographical area of modern Ukraine) and hitchhiking through time (in terms of Ukrainian cultural history). It incorporates the selection of Ukrainian mosaics which undermines the simplified perspective on the Soviet art heritage in Ukraine. The volume is generously supplemented with unique photographs of the documentary photographer Yevgen Nikiforov who continues the research, initially presented in the book Decommunized: Ukrainian Soviet Mosaics (2017). Together with the art historian Polina Baitsym who reveals striking linkages of the mosaics’ plots with broader historical context, he will guide you through the testimonies of the genuine creativity of Ukrainian monumental artists which managed to flourish on the most infertile soil.
£28.80
Steidl Publishers Jim Dine Hot Dream
Book SynopsisInvents the context for a new melody for the art of Jim Dine. In this title, Dine has reflected authentically on his own identity and through it the identity of reality, nature, art, thoughts, feelings in an extraordinary poetic way: We see a 'POEM', we read an 'IMAGE'. It may be read and regarded as a summary of an unusual life.
£101.25
Deutscher Verlag Fur Kunstwissenschaft Caspar David Friedrich: Seine Gedankengange
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£69.00
Dietrich Reimer Die Beinsattel Des 13. Bis 17. Jahrhunderts
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£85.50
Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Die Romischen Und Fruhmittelalterlichen
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£84.15
C.E.L.F. Hopper, Edward
£9.95
Alexander Verlag Berlin Whats underground about Marshmallows
£26.60
Alexander Verlag Berlin The Lure of the Gaze and the Past
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£37.80
Salon Verlag Chris Newman: Drawing Strings and Writing Things
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£16.62
Arnoldsche Netsuke in Comparison: Motifs and Their
Book SynopsisNetsuke - classic belt decorations for men - are rooted in a historical, mythological and artistic tradition in Japanese culture. Woodcarvers and their pupils, even counterfeiters, continued the work of their role models, in copies or variants of what came before them, and even created major works of art with the smallest of dimensions. Since the opening up of Japan in 1853, the miniature works have gained appreciation, and enthusiasts are found all over the world. Today netsuke are still being created in a great variety of motifs. Netsuke in Comparison presents one hundred netsuke from a private collection. For the very first time, it endeavours to juxtapose them with comparative images from collections and literature in order to locate them within this genre and to convey something of their diversity and expressiveness. Text in English and German.
£43.20
Arnoldsche Documents on Contemporary Crafts 15
Book Synopsis Documents on Contemporary Crafts is a book series published by Norwegian Crafts in collaboration with Arnoldsche Art Publishers. The series provides a critical reflection of contemporary crafts in a wider context and in doing so asks questions about the ties between contemporary craft, fine art and design, thus helping to redefine the concept of crafts as such. The five volumes discuss such topics as skills, materiality, curating, collecting, perception and New Materialism. The more than thirty contributors range from leading craft theorists, such as Jorunn Veiteberg, Glenn Adamson and Liesbeth den Besten, via academics outside the craft tradition, such as Roger L. Kneebone, professor of surgical education, Trevor Marchand, professor of social anthropology, and Margaret Wasz, consultant psychological therapist, to emerging voices like Sarah R. Gilbert, Marianne Zamecznik and Stephen Knott. No. 1: Museum for Skills. Skills are esse
£54.00
Arnoldsche The Degas Plasters: Groundbreaking revelations
Book SynopsisIn 1955 seventy-four original plasters recording sculptures by Edgar Degas (1834–1917) were moved to the old Valsuani foundry in Paris only to reappear in France in 2004. These plasters are now being published for the first time, presenting new documentary and physical evidence regarding their dating following an in-depth analysis into the condition of Degas’s waxes at the time of his death. Technical and documentary evidence now proves that as many as half of the serialised “Hébrard” Degas bronzes now held in museum and private collections around the world were in fact cast at the Valsuani foundry in the 1950s and 1960s - long after the Hébrard foundry closed in 1935/36. All of the now cleaned 74 Degas plasters are recorded in full colour illustrations. The detailed appendix, which can be accessed via a QR code, provides additional information on the objects and is designed as a scholarly catalogue raisonné.
£999.99
Arnoldsche Mandala – Auf der Suche nach Erleuchtung: Heilige
Book SynopsisHailing from the cultural realm of India, the mandala signifies in its original sense a sacred circle. It serves as a meditation aid and at the same time reflects an ancient symbolism of strictly geometric basic forms accompanied by an interpretation of its sacred content. As an expression of the awareness of higher affinities, the symmetrically arranged geometry can be found in a variety of pictorial works and the architecture of various epochs and cultural realms, for example in medieval book illumination, the floor plan of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, in Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square, or in various objects of the indigenous peoples of Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. Based on these and other masterpieces from renowned museums and private collections and illustrated in fascinating photographs of unique buildings and rituals, this publication offers an impressive first analysis of the phenomenon of sacred geometry in art and architecture and their underlying ideologies. Text in German.
£51.20
Schiler & Mücke GbR AfriComics
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£25.20
Die Gestalten Verlag The Story of Eames Furniture 12
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£112.50
Hauser & Wirth Alexander Calder / David Smith
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£32.00
Hauser & Wirth Dubuffet and the City - People, Place, and Urban
Book SynopsisAn examination of the city and its inhabitants in the pioneering work of French artist Jean Dubuffet. Dubuffet and the City: People, Place and Urban Space, written and edited by renowned scholar Dr. Sophie Berrebi (University of Amsterdam), is the first in-depth study to address the work of Jean Dubuffet (190184) in relation to the theme of the city. The book examines how the city plays a role in the formation and unfolding of Dubuffet's practice and imagination as a material, a source, and a vehicle for ideas. It analyzes works in which the artist depicts city dwellers, sites and urban spaces, and discusses his architectural projects from the 1960s and 1970s against the background of heated debates in the field of urbanism.
£24.00
Hauser & Wirth Marcel Duchamp
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£75.00
Hauser & Wirth Ed Clark: The Big Sweep: Chronicles of a Life,
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£39.00
Hauser & Wirth Zeng Fanzhi
Book SynopsisThis generously illustrated catalogue documents renowned Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi's 2023 exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles, with new scholarship by Stephen Little, Barbara Pollack and Carter Ratcliff offering an insight into the recent development of the artist's practice and his ambitious approach to image-making. This publication documents Zeng Fanzhi's exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles in early 2023. Generously illustrated with plates, installation views, and life-size details of the paintings and drawings in the show, the book also presents new scholarship by Stephen Little, Barbara Pollack and Carter Ratcliff exploring the recent development of the artist's practice, his ambitious approach to image-making and the significance of abstraction and the line within his oeuvre. The catalogue is written in English, with Chinese translations of the essays.
£45.00
Parkett Verlag,Switzerland Parkett Vol 15: Mario Merz
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£23.75
Parkett Verlag,Switzerland Parkett 28 1991 [Gertsch/Ruff]
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£23.75
Parkett Verlag,Switzerland Parkett
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£23.75
Parkett Verlag,Switzerland Parkett: Vol 55: Andreas Slominski, Edward Ruscha
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£23.75
Parkett Verlag,Switzerland Parkett: Vol 56: Ellsworth Kelly, Vanessa
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£23.75
