Individual artists, art monographs Books
David Zwirner Chris Ofili: Paradise Lost
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£21.25
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 Bridget Riley: Recent Paintings 2014–2017
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£28.00
Distributed Art Pub American Artist Shaper of God
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£32.38
Gagosian Gallery Stuck Maurizio Cattelan The Unauthorised Autobiography
£33.75
Rizzoli International Publications Helen Marden
£60.00
Hat & Beard, LLC Lost Objects
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£32.79
Hat & Beard Press Psychodessins
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£30.59
Hat & Beard Press Sent from My Slimy Brains
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£22.10
Hat & Beard Press Drawings by Derek Boshier
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£29.75
Rizzoli Monet Water Lilies The Complete Series
Book SynopsisA complete catalog of Monet’s famous Water Lilies, featuring 210 paintings from private and public collections. Monet devoted the last twenty-five years of his life to painting the water lilies that floated on the pond of his garden in Giverny. In capturing the reflections on the mirror-like water and the subtle interplay of light, the artist’s genius went beyond painting, committing to his canvas the otherwise ephemeral. The Water Lilies brought together in this volume, are mirrors of time that influenced the greatest painters of modern times. A catalogue raisonné of the 251 Water Lilies known to exist, essays of art historians Jean-Dominique Rey and the late Denis Rouart, panoramic photographs of the Orangerie murals in Paris, period photographs of Giverny by Henri Cartier-Bresson, and rare archival documents complete the work.
£17.95
Editions Flammarion Renoir: Father and Son: Painting and Cinema
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£14.23
Editions Flammarion Hubert Le Gall: Fabula
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£86.25
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
Actes Sud Djamel Tatah
Book SynopsisA unique look at the works of Djamel Tatah and those of the minimalist artists in the Lambert Collection. Djamel Tatah’s refined paintings reveal the way in which humanity can assert itself as a presence in the world. From reality, ordinary life and world events, the artist paints life-size figures which seem to be suspended in time, set in unspecified places and caught up in a world of silence. Reinterpreting solitude as virtue, Tatah intends to surpass reality, experimenting with colour, light and line to explore his feelings of being part of the world. This catalogue creates a dialogue between the collection’s minimalist artists such as Robert Barry, Robert Ryman, Robert Mangold, Richard Serra, Sol LeWitt and Brice Marden, among others, and Tatah’s sober refined life-size figures, which somehow seem suspended in time and detached from the world. The artist draws inspiration from everyday situations or major news events to create a metaphysical representation of contemporary man. While Djamel Tatah’s work shows a clear relationship with modernist and contemporary monochrome painting, it is also part of a more classical tradition. Hence, the Paris School of Fine Art (ENSBA), where has taught since 2008, has loaned over fifty works from its own illustration collection, works by Delacroix, Matisse, Corneille de Lyon, Cimabue, Giotto, Piero della Francesca, and more, with a view to broadening the dialogue with Djamel Tatah’s work over time.
£31.50
Actes Sud JR Giants
Book Synopsis Explores the history of street artist JR’s work in Brazil, focusing in particular on his Giants series The photocollages of French artist JR (born 1983) have populated streets and skylines all over the world. But he decided to outdo himself at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio by creating what he called ‘his craziest work ever’: the Giants series. Perched on scaffolding, gigantic athletes leaped over abandoned buildings and swan-dived into the ocean. And, while his Giants were on show, the ‘Inside/Out’ photo booth was zapping out supersized prints of enthusiastic games-goers. This volume explores the history of JR’s work in Brazil, beginning in 2008 with his work in Rio’s favelas and continuing today at the Casa Amarela, a culture and education centre for kids. Focusing particularly on the Giants series, the book offers insights into how the artist transforms places and spaces by focusing on the daily lives of their inhabitants.
£36.00
Actes Sud Akram Khan: The Fury of beautiful things
Book SynopsisFounded 20 years ago in London by the dancer and choreographer Akram Khan (born 1974) and the producer Farooq Chaudhry, Akram Khan Company has become one of the most dynamic troupes on the international contemporary dance scene. Trained in Kathak, Khan has created an innovative choreographic language that fuses the vocabulary of traditional Indian dance with contemporary dance. His performances also feature collaborators from a vast array of disciplines: he has collaborated with the dancer Sylvie Guillem, the actress Juliette Binoche, the artists Antony Gormley and Anish Kapoor, the choreographer and dancer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Israel Galvan and Kylie Minogue, among others. This beautifully illustrated book is the first monograph on Khan, appraising two decades of his ceaseless production and the 26 pieces created by Akram Khan Company since its foundation.
£47.25
Actes Sud Robert Ryman
Book SynopsisThe second volume of the Lambert Collection Icons series collects some of the finest works by one of America’s foremost abstract painters, and narrates the creation of his paintings from compositional elements to their “activation” in exhibition spaces. Robert Ryman (1930-2019) was a giant of minimalist painting. He settled in New York in 1952, initially aspiring to a career as a jazz musician. Alone he discovered art, visiting the city’s myriad museums and galleries, and taught himself to paint. In a career spanning 60 years, Ryman relentlessly pared down the essentials of painting and its emotional possibilities. Stroke by stroke, line by line, work by work, Robert Ryman tells the story of the creation of his paintings in its totality from the elements within them to their activation in exhibition spaces or in works - “It was never an intention of mine to make white paintings,” he told Art News magazine in 1986. “The white is just a means of exposing other elements. White enables other things to become visible.” - Robert Ryman
£16.15
Actes Sud Niele Toroni: Lambert Collection artbook no.4
Book Synopsis“If I had to sum up Niele Toroni in one word, without hesitation that word would be ‘loyalty’. Loyalty in friendship, for I have had the joy of sharing his artistic adventure and epicurean side for more than thirty years. And loyalty in his work, because I know no other artist who has followed the same path without ever deviating from his goal.” Yvon Lambert, Œuvres sur papier et photographies, La Collection Yvon Lambert dialogue avec des artistes contemporains, Yokohama Museum of Art, 1998 The fourth volume of the Lambert Collection art book series had to be devoted to Niele Toroni and Yvon Lambert, such is the strength of the relationship between the collector and the artist. Their relationship began back in 1970 when Toroni presented his first exhibition at the gallery, and continues through 2021, when the Lambert Collection will be exhibiting its full catalogue of the artist’s work, spotlighting two works produced in situ for the museum opening in 2000, composed of a series of paintings on paper, tracing paper, canvas, wood, and even on a school blackboard. This book of the exhibition contains gallery views as well as an interview between Niele Toroni and Yvon Lambert. For more than fifty years, Niele Toroni has been developing a subversive and radical vision of the pictorial act. As early as 1966, his method had already begun to take shape, using a brush no.50 to print repetitive brushstrokes at regular 30-cm intervals. This work was presented for the first time in 1967, beside Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset and Michel Parmentier, in the pop-up exhibition “Manifestation I” at the 18th Young Painter’s Fair at Paris’s Museum of Modern Art. The “work/painting” – as the painter calls it – consists of a reproducing a single, minimal, systematic gesture, “which is never the same”. The work/painting has no story to tell and no underlying message to convey. What matters is what you see. The works “reboot” our visual experience. Changing viewers’ perceptions is Niele Toroni’s great ambition; for him, painting means “learning to see again”.
£18.00
Actes Sud Narcissus Theorem
Book SynopsisFrom September 2021, Jean-Michel Othoniel will be taking over the whole of the Petit Palais and its garden. It will be the biggest exhibition devoted to the artist in Paris since the My Way retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in 2011. The Petit Palais itself and its history will provide the running thread of the exhibition, the works entering into a dialogue with the architecture of the building and its garden. For the occasion, Othoniel has come up with the Narcissus Theorem focusing on the man of the beautiful flower who in his own reflection also reflects the world around him. Narcissism is not always a neurosis and can play a positive role in aesthetic creation. And sublimation is not always the negation of desire but can be a means of engaging with an ideal. Whereupon Narcissus no longer says ‘I love myself as I am’ but rather ‘I am as I love myself’. Featuring over 70 new works, the ‘Narcissus Theorem’ exhibition weaves the artist’s spell once again and explores the theory of reflections that he has been developing for nearly a decade in conjunction with the Mexican mathematician Aubin Arroyo, imbuing his recurring themes with a fresh and visionary meaning in the world of today. The exhibition welcomes us with a river of a thousand shimmering blue bricks flowing down the main staircase of the Petit Palais, indicating the start of the path that we will be following. Inspired by the sumptuous architectural flourishes of the Petit Palais and the flowers of its garden, the artist has installed some twenty new works: mirrored pieces that reflect the frescoes of the peristyle painted by Paul Baudoüin, monumental water lilies placed on the mirrors of the water basins with their blue mosaics, gold necklaces attached to the branches of trees from the Orient, and pearls niched in the peristyle. The Crown of the Night comes from a forest in northern Europe and for a long time this sculpture was hidden beneath the 300-year old oaks of a cathedral-like forest. And now, like a coloured glass spider, it majestically fills the dome of the palace’s northern staircase. Narcissus’s grotto awaits us at the foot of the staircase, where we find the whole universe of reflections so central to Othoniel’s art and astutely orchestrated by Aubin Arroyo, including the two-tone Precious Stonewall and monochrome triptychs. The wild knots created over the course of nearly a decade are like Borromean rings in which we discover our own reflections and which reflect themselves in an endless mise en abyme.
£21.00
Actes Sud Prune Nourry: Mater Earth
Book SynopsisDevised for Château La Coste, Mater Earth takes us into the heart of humanity and the myths of creation. Prune Nourry created a monumental sculpture representing a pregnant work emerging from the earth, an immersive installation based on the principles of eco-responsible architecture. The work was first imagined back in 2010, when the artist invited a pregnant woman to pose in a bath of milk for a photography session. From those images of serenity, she created a life-size sculpture. Prune Nourry was instantly seized by a desire to produce a larger scale version of the work but it took several years of reflection before the desire became reality. The book follows the creation of the statue in situ, offering readers an original experience of symbolic rebirth. The work brings an inside view of the project and the mysteries of its conception, situating Mater Earth in Prune Nourry’s rich and varied career. We see the stages of its development towards an ideal of “ultracollective chaos” involving multiple artists and artisans, as well as Prune Nourry’s own ethical and ecological reflections and self-questioning. The work provides a rare vision of the gestation of creation, a window onto the creative process, showing everything that nourished the project and brought it to life. The illustrations resonate with this birthing process, creating a catalogue of the cultural and artistic motifs that inspired the work. Nancy Huston’s journal provides sensitive, thoughtful insight into maternity, reflecting the slow metamorphosis of all works of creation.
£19.80
Editions Skira Paris Rero (Bilingual edition)
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£27.20
Editions Skira Paris Barthélemy Toguo (bilingual edition)
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£33.60
Editions Skira Paris Shakir Hassan Al Said: The One and Art
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£33.60
Editions Skira Paris Imagine Picasso
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£21.25
Editions Skira Paris Thameur Mejri (Bilingual edition)
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£24.00
Editions Skira Paris Tilt (Bilingual edition): Future Primitive
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£40.00
Editions Skira Paris Pascal Haudressy
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£29.75
Editions Skira Paris Outlooks on Modern and Contemporary Arab Artists
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£36.00
Editions Skira Paris Pascal Dombis
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£28.00
Dis Voir Peter Greenaway: Lucca Mortis
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£17.99
Cahiers d'art Ellsworth Kelly: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings
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£261.25
Cahiers d'art Cahiers d’Art 2018: Miró
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£69.30
Cahiers d'art KIM YONG-IK
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£28.80
Cahiers d'art Cahiers d’Art - Cildo Meireles: 46th Year
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£69.30
Cahiers d'art Ever Goya
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£57.75
Cahiers d'art Cahiers d'Art - Christo: 47th Year
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£999.99
Cahiers d'art Ellsworth Kelly: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings
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£261.25
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain Bruce Nauman
Book SynopsisA highly acclaimed and extremely prolific artist, Bruce Nauman (b. 1941) has been active since the early 1970s. Working in mediums such as sculpture, video, film, installation, performance, and printmaking, he shies away from developing a single characteristic style. His work toys with text and fragmented images of the human body. Often provocative in nature, he connects physical realities of violence, sex, and death with visceral, spiritual messages, like an early neon sign proclaiming, ‘the true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.’ On top of many achievements in his career, Nauman recently represented the United States at the 2009 Venice Biennale and was awarded the Golden Lion prize for best national pavilion. This book accompanies Nauman’s major exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, showing in Paris from 15 March to 14 June 2015. This will be the most significant exhibition of his work in France since the retrospective organized by the Centre Pompidou in 1997. Developed in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition will bring together eight works hitherto unseen in France, some of which are his latest projects.
£21.25
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain Fabrice Hyber, The Valley
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£40.00
DIS VOIR Gerhard Richter
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£18.00
DIS VOIR Dan Graham
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£18.00
Dis Voir Jean-Marc Bustamante
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£17.85
DIS VOIR Stephan Balkenhol
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£18.00
Dis Voir Jasper Morrison
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£17.85
Dis Voir Black Is A Color
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£21.25
DIS VOIR Kim KiDuk
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£25.50
DIS VOIR Nightwatching
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£18.00
