Individual artists, art monographs Books
Ludion Kerry James Marshall: The Complete Prints
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£56.25
Primary Information Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Live Audio Essays
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£16.15
Primary Information Tiffany Sia: On and Off-Screen Imaginaries
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£15.20
Artvoices Books JAMES MACDONELL RETROSPECTIVE 20042024
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£26.44
JRP Ringier Subodh Gupta: Common Man
Book SynopsisSubodh Gupta (born 1964) agglomerates everyday Indian household objects such as cooking utensils into monumental entities such as mushroom clouds or skulls, often sabotaging the fiction of intrinsic value through witty inversion and conjunction. Among the fruits of his methods are sculptural works such as bronze mangos, Hindu-swastika ceiling fans and worn-out sandals placed alongside three-dimensional Mona Lisas. Gupta''s mostly found materials, which range in texture from aluminum, bronze and stainless steel to fiberglass and neon, identify themselves as Indian in origin, but are recomposed into sculptural meanings accessible to all nationalities (one implication of the title''s common man). This monograph is published on the occasion of Gupta''s first solo exhibition in London; alongside full-color reproductions, it includes an interview between Gupta and Hans Ulrich Obrist and an essay on the artist''s work by Martin Herbert.
£21.60
Edition Patrick Frey Matthias Brunner: Magnificent Obsessions Saved My
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£54.00
Edition Patrick Frey Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs: Water Column
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£34.20
Dirimart Karin Kneffel: Haymatlos
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£17.10
Mousse Publishing Elizabeth Price: Sound of the Break
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£24.70
Mousse Publishing Lily Stockman Minotaur
£26.25
Distributed Art Pub Trn Luong Soaked in the Long Rain
£27.38
Yale University Press Sonia Delaunay
Book SynopsisA richly crafted tribute to the avant-garde artist and designer Sonia Delaunay, whose boundary-breaking approach is echoed in the volume’s interdisciplinarity and its inspired design
£54.00
Thames and Hudson Ltd The Artist Box Frida Kahlo
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£18.23
Thames & Hudson Ltd Queen of Arts
Book SynopsisLydia Miller, Assistant Curator at Pallant House Gallery, holds a PhD in History of Art from the University of York. Previously, she was Chanel Assistant Curator for the Reframing Narratives: Women in Portraiture project at the National Portrait Gallery, London. She is also the author of Inspirational Women: Rediscovering Stories in Art, Science and Social Reform. Laura Callaghan is an Irish illustrator based in Belfast, renowned for her visually rich female-centric illustrations, hand painted in watercolour, gouache and isograph pen.
£15.29
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed The Fox and the Star A Keepsake Journal
Book SynopsisFrom Coralie Bickford-Smith, the award-winning author of the beloved children's book The Fox and the Star, comes a beautiful foil-stamped cloth journal with blank lined writing pages punctuated by five-color illustrations from the original book--with a ribbon marker for keeping your place.Whether for your nightstand or nursery, this keepsake journal with smooth, cream writing paper and lay-flat binding gives you plenty of space for writing, drawing, doodling, and dreaming.
£15.36
Monacelli Press Rogan Gregory: Event Horizon
Book SynopsisThe first monograph of Rogan Gregory, the artist/designer on the forefront of contemporary organic form-making Rogan Gregory’s work pushes boundaries across media and scale – from miniature bronze animal forms to towering sculptures and furniture in innovative aggregated materials. Gregory’s iterative process and life-long interests in abstract forms, geology, and evolutionary biology allow him to develop an organic aesthetic unlike that of any designer working today. This debut monograph explores Gregory’s work through the elemental inspirations that condition his work. Contributions by landscape architect Edwina von Gal, interior designer Pamela Shamshiri, and conservation biologist Tremaine Gregory reflect the synthesis of disciplines Gregory brings to his practice. Co-published with R & Company, this book is an object in its own right, incorporating Gregory’s design and materials sensibilities.Trade Review‘Beautifully photographed . . . Event Horizon demonstrates the fruits of [Gregory’s] earnestness.’ – 1stdibs Introspective
£33.96
The Monacelli Press Luciano Fabro
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£43.96
The Monacelli Press Shahzia Sikander
Book SynopsisThe definitive publication on internationally acclaimed artist Shahzia Sikander, one of the most influential feminist artists working todayBorn in Pakistan and active in New York since the 1990s, Shahzia Sikander navigates the interplay of multiple identities, encompassing a range of artistic disciplines in her work and critically reinterpreting South Asian material history. Sikander?s distinctly feminist iconography focuses on the narratives of immigrant women to challenge Eurocentric art histories and counter Orientalist scholarship. This volume, published to coincide with a major mid-career retrospective that premiered during the Biennale Art in Venice and will be held concurrently at the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art, is the first comprehensive exploration of Sikander?s ideas and art. With hundreds of images, many presented as a full page or an entire spread, the richly illustrated book immerses readers in Sikander?s vibrant and subversive art.
£29.71
Monacelli Press Derrick Adams
Book SynopsisThe highly anticipated first monograph on one of the most celebrated American contemporary artistsThrough portraits, social scenes, photographs, sculptures, and immersive installations, Derrick Adams has developed an artistic practice that jocundly visualizes modern Black American life.Equally informed by popular culture as he is by the history of modern art, Adams's work brings the everyday experiences of Black Americans to the forefront, capturing fashionable moments of joy, resilience, and celebration. His art is filled with color, energy, and complexity, whether they depict intimate, everyday moments or grand, sweeping statements.Adams's first-ever monograph includes 150 of the most significant works from his thirty-year career, along with four newly commissioned texts from cultural luminaries. Filled with beautifully reproduced images and presented in a cloth case with a painting tipped onto the front cover, this stunning book establishes Derrick Adams as one of the most important figurative artists working today.
£47.96
Museum of Modern Art Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Dada Head
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£10.95
Workman Publishing Hello Dahlias 1000Piece Puzzle
Book SynopsisWorld-renowned artist and dahlia obsessive Frances Palmer celebrates her favorite flower in this all-new 1,000 piece puzzle.Featuring: 1,000 full-color interlocking pieces Art print with puzzle image Finished puzzle is 26 3/8 x 18 7/8
£18.35
Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd Eric Ravilious: Imagined Realities
Book SynopsisA collection of illustrations showcasing many previously unpublished paintings of the artist Eric Ravilious. Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) is now firmly one of the most popular artists of his period. He was a painter of watercolours and murals, a book illustrator in wood engraving and lithography, and a designer of transfer-ware pottery. He applied a dry and precise style of working to imaginative and romantic subject matter from the world around him and from his imaginative transformations of the art and imagery of the past. From 1940, he was an Official War Artist, painting memorable pictures of ships, aircraft and coastal defences before his tragic death in a flying accident off Iceland. This book includes illustrations of many previously unpublished paintings, including a number from private collections, as well as surveying his other artistic activities. The text also draws on many letters and other documents, again previously unpublished, and is the most comprehensive account of Ravilious' career ever published. It positions the artist in relation to the English art of his time, and more recent critical and cultural issues. The book accompanied a centenary exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, London.Table of ContentsForeword Introduction Murals Illustration Design Watercolours War Paintings Conclusion: Imagined and Imaginal Realities Notes Plates Bibliography Catalogue Chronology Acknowledgements Lenders
£22.50
Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd Halim A. Flowers: Love is the Vaccine
Book SynopsisKnown for his colourful, irreverent, and often politically charged paintings, Halim Flowers is a contemporary visual artist, spoken word performer, and author who has become one of the hottest newcomers in the contemporary art scene. As a minor, Flowers was arrested and wrongfully sentenced to two life sentences in Washington, DC, later to be released under a new juvenile lifer resentencing law. His experiences aired on HBO in the Emmy award-winning documentary Thug Life in DC, as well as Kim Kardashian-West’s film The Justice Project. Since his release, Flowers has produced a stunning spectrum of paintings expressing his ardent advocacy for human rights, and his resonant, up-lifting mantra “Love is the vaccine”. This beautifully illustrated volume provides the first full treatment of Flower’s artistic vision, with insightful interpretation from leading scholars of this star on the rise.
£36.00
Flame Tree Publishing Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights (Foiled
Book SynopsisPart of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed, then foil stamped. And they're powerfully practical: a pocket at the back for receipts and scraps, two bookmarks and a solid magnetic side flap. These are perfect for personal use and make a dazzling gift. This example features Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights
£11.87
Flame Tree Publishing National Gallery: Bosschaert the Elder: Still
Book SynopsisPart of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed then foil stamped. And they're powerfully practical: a pocket at the back for receipts and scraps, two bookmarks and a solid magnetic side flap. These are perfect for personal use and make a dazzling gift. National Gallery: Bosschaert the Elder - Still life of Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase. Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder was a Dutch Golden Age painter. The flowers in this arrangement, which include lilies, tulips, roses, and carnations, are painted with almost scientific precision. Bosschaert’s choice of a smooth copper support enhances the extraordinary detail of his brushwork. The bouquet itself, however, is a fiction: these flowers do not bloom at the same time, and would have been far too precious to cut for temporary display.
£12.11
Flame Tree Publishing Vincent van Gogh: Café Terrace (Foiled Pocket
Book SynopsisPart of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed, then foil stamped. And they're powerfully practical: a pocket at the back for receipts and scraps, two bookmarks and a solid magnetic side flap. These are perfect for personal use and make a dazzling gift. This example features Van Gogh: Café Terrace.
£9.11
Phaidon Press Ltd Lynda Benglis
Book SynopsisThe definitive monograph on American sculptor and visual artist Lynda Benglis, one of the most important living artists today Since her arrival in New York from her native Louisiana in the late 1960s, Lynda Benglis gained recognition for creating a groundbreaking body of work that challenged sculpture and painting conventions in a largely male-dominated art world. A tireless explorer of new shape and materials, Benglis's gestural and formal approach to art-making has, over the years, elevated her to iconic status, her work being evidence of how process can wield pliant matter and let it 'take its own form' Trade Review‘Lynda Benglis redefined sculpture in the 1960s and is now at her most prolific.’ – New York Times‘She’s a globe-trotting artist who can shock and delight at once.’ – Financial Times‘She rocked the art world.’ – Washington Post‘Her work has been about seizing art as a tool of empowerment and autonomy.’ – Artforum‘Benglis has always gone her own way – an attitude that has sometimes got her into trouble. But trouble can lead to great art.’ – Guardian‘[Benglis’s] work is consistently and irrepressibly ahead of its time.’ — Roberta Smith
£33.96
Phaidon Press Ltd Rashid Johnson
Book Synopsis‘Johnson is a leading voice of his generation.’ – New York Times The most comprehensive publication to date on widely celebrated artist Rashid Johnson Working with a variety of media that includes painting, sculpture, photography, video, and performance, Rashid Johnson has created a nuanced and iconographic body of work that connects literature, music, and art. Personal references and pervasive cultural narratives are interweaved with the legacy of modernist abstraction, producing what critics have labelled ‘conceptual post-black art’. A precocious talent (his work was included in the seminal ‘Freestyle’ exhibition in New York in 2001), Johnson received the High Museum of Art’s David C. Driskell Prize, which honours contributions in the field of African-American art.Trade ReviewAs seen in Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Art Newspaper, and The Chicago Tribune‘Superb.’ – Vogue'Extraordinary.' – Sugarcane'This comprehensive survey explores the influential American artist’s work ... covering a wide range of media from painting, sculpture and photography to video and performance.' – The Art Newspaper ‘An enlightening overview of a profoundly evocative and exciting body of work.’ – Booklist
£33.96
Phaidon Press Ltd Michael Raedecker
Book SynopsisAs seen in The Paris Review, The Art Newspaper, and Whitehot Magazine The most comprehensive survey of the celebrated Dutch artist Michael Raedecker’s work spanning his 30-year career Michael Raedecker, the acclaimed Dutch artist, records the memories held within spaces and objects in his enigmatic and dream-like paintings. Suburban homes, tree houses, and empty rooms and vacant chairs, all float in haunting isolation. Muted hues are penetrated with thread and needle where the artist hand-sews forms into textural materiality. Since the beginning of his career as a painter, Raedecker has incorporated embroidery into his works as a visual counterpoint to his washed-out paint application. This survey of his work, designed by the acclaimed Dutch graphic designer, Irma Boom, is the most comprehensive published to date, featuring essays by a unique and diverse group of critics, curators, artists, and academics.Trade Review‘The production values set this volume apart from ordinary art books. ...If you are building a collection of notable art books I would highly suggest picking up a copy of this one.’ – Noah Becker, Whitehot Magazine
£47.96
D Giles Ltd Polly Jessup
Book SynopsisThe Grande Dame of Palm Beach Decorators comesto life in this new book about renowned interior designer Polly Jessup (1899 -1988).
£21.21
Smith Street Books Artist Playing Cards
Book SynopsisFrom Banksy to Basquiat, Haring to Hockney, and Yayoi to Yoko, your favorite artists have gathered in this deck of cards. Artist Cards is a standard poker set, with the four classic suits. Each card features a different artist, with an illustration and short bio. Who needs art history class when you can celebrate the great artists, instead, with a round of cards?
£13.56
Smith Street Books Claude Monet
Book SynopsisExplore the works of one of the greatest artists of all time. Claude Monet: 50 Masterpieces Explored is a dazzling collection of 50 cards exploring the masterpieces of one of the most celebrated artists of all time. From the ethereal brushstrokes of Water Lilies and the windswept Women with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son, to the bright red sun peeking through the haze of Impression, Sunrise, each card showcases the beauty and complexity of Monet's style. Through detailed analyses of each artwork, you'll gain a deeper understanding of Monet's techniques, symbolism, and life story, and how they influenced his art. Whether you're an art lover, a Monet aficionado, or simply looking for a beautiful and informative deck of cards, Claude Monet: 50 Masterpieces Explored is sure to captivate and inspire.
£16.31
Scheidegger & Spiess Maria Ceppi
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£38.40
Scheidegger & Spiess Susan Hefuna
£38.25
Scheidegger & Spiess Lart encore et toujours
£24.00
Scheidegger & Spiess Séverin Guelpa
£36.00
Kerber Christof Verlag Regula Syz
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£34.00
Kerber Christof Verlag Arijana Kajfes
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£32.00
Hatje Cantz Raoul Hausmann 18861971
Book SynopsisRaoul Hausmann (18861971) was an exceptionally innovative avant-garde artist. He co-invented collage, explored body, words, and space in early happenings, merged the visual with the haptic, and translated sound into images. In and beyond art, the provocative Dadasoph called out the establishment. Includes texts by Hanne Bergius, Peter Bexte, Ralf Burmeister, Amélie Castellanet, Annina Guntli, Nadine Hartmann, Karoline Hille, Thomas Köhler, Annelie Lütgens, Agatha Mareuge, Nils Philipages, Bernd Stiegler, Adrian Sudhalter, Hélène Thiérard, Timm Ulrichs, Michael White.
£40.80
Hauser & Wirth Cheryl Johnson-Odim & Rashid Johnson:
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£31.50
Hauser & Wirth William Kentridge SelfPortrait as a Coffee Pot
Book SynopsisWilliam Kentridge reimagines his film series Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot through text and image in this striking artist's book. A new film series by internationally acclaimed South-African artist William Kentridge, Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot premiered at the Arsenale Insitute for Politics of Representation during the 2024 Venice Biennale. An experiment in embodiment and phenomenological experience in the digital age that was initially created for online viewing, Kentridge has now reimagined the series as a publication. He reworks its nine episodes through a selection of film stills and script extracts, this new form reinvigorating the series' investigations into the relationship between mark-making and self-fashioning, painting and musical scores, dance and drawing, and its reflection on what might happen in the brain and in the studio of an artist today.
£81.61
Hannibal Books Joelle Dubois
Book SynopsisA heartfelt exploration of the nurturing yet complex bond between mother and daughter, capturing love, challenges, and the profound depth of this unique relationship.
£42.90
Primary Information Martin Wong: Footprints, Poems, and Leaves
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£15.20
Yale University Press Mrs Delany
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive biography of Mary Granville Delany—the artist and court insider whose wide-ranging legacy still reverberates todayTrade Review“Biographer Clarissa Campbell Orr immerses you in the minutiae of Mary’s life.”—Constance Craig-Smith, Daily Mail“The whole work resonates with the sound of not only Delany’s voice in quotations from her letters and occasional poems but also those of many of her contemporaries, which generates a highly pleasurable and instructive image of eighteenth-century sociability.”—Alain Kerherve, Burlington Magazine“This sensitively-written book immerses the reader in the world of a cultivated and artistic eighteenth-century gentlewoman. Through a fully-researched and fascinating exploration of the familial correspondence of Mary Delany, Orr throws new and original light on the attitudes of the eighteenth-century elite to marriage, family life and the education and status of women.”—Jane Rendall, author of The Origins of Modern Feminism“Mrs Delany’s love of gardens and natural history, combined with the dexterity of a craftswoman, led her, at over seventy, to an astonishing project: the wonderful cut-paper flower pictures for which she is now remembered. Orr gives us the Christian gentlewoman rather than the artist, in a panorama of gentry life with its many duties and constraints as well as privileges. One feels that Mrs Delany would give her blessing to the portrait.”—Norma Clarke, author of Queen of the Wits“How was it that Mary Delany so skillfully combined a high-profile social circle, copious letter-writing and attendance at the royal court with gardening, botanical enquiry and prolific and innovative artistic endeavour? This fascinating life is both timely and revelatory.”—James Raven, What Is the History of the Book?“Through a deep study of kinship, friendship and a large cast of characters, Orr skilfully crafts the story behind Mary Delany’s creation of nearly one thousand botanical collages as an album amicorum. With great clarity and verve, the author proves a most faithful companion to Delany and her life’s ‘work.’”—Mark Laird, author of A Natural History of English Gardening
£33.25
Yale University Press Ali Banisadr The Alchemist
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£47.50
University of California Press Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One
Book SynopsisChronicles three decades of conversation between Lawrence Weschler and light and space master Robert Irwin. This book surveys many of Irwin's site-conditioned projects - in particular the Central Gardens at the Getty Museum and the design that transformed an abandoned Hudson Valley factory into Dia's new Beacon campus.Trade Review"A magnetic (now expanded) biography." -- Robert L. Pincus San Diego Union-Tribune "Seeing is Forgetting may not be just the best biography of an artist out there but also one of the best books on contemporary art-making." -- Eugenia Bell FriezeTable of ContentsA Note on the Illustrations A Further Note on the Drifting Present in the Narrative That Follows Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees (1982) Introduction Lifesource 1. High School (1943-1946) 2. Childhood (1928-1943) 3. Army, Schooling, Europe, and Early Work (1946-1957) The Narrows (Part 1) 4. Ferus (Los Angeles/ New York) 5. The Early Ferus Years From Abstract Expressionism through the Early Lines (1957-1962) 6. The Late Ferus Years: The Late Lines (1962-1964) The Narrows (Part 2) 7. The Dots (1964-1967) 8. The Discs (1967-1969) 9. Post-disc Experiments and Columns (1968-1970) Delta Prelude 10. Teaching 11. Art and Science (1968-1970) 12. Playing the Horses 13. The Room at the Museum of Modern Art (1970) Debouchement Oceanic 14. The Desert 15. Being Available in Response 16. Some Situations (1970-1976) 17. Reading and Writing 18. The Whitney Retrospective Down to Point Zero (1977) 19. Since the Whitney: Return to the World (1977-1981) Present All Around 20. Seeing Isn't Doing (1985) 21. Play It as It Lays and Keep it in Play The Irwin Retrospective at MOCA in Los Angeles(1993) 22. When Fountainheads Collide: Robert Irwin at Richard Meier's Getty (1997) 23. Heaven: Irwin and Meyerowitz at the Dia (2000) 24. Irwin in his Seventies (2007-2008) Afterword: On Robert Irwin and David Hockney Acknowledgements Bibliographic notes Index
£25.20
University of California Press Covered in Time and History
Book SynopsisBorn to a prominent family in Havana but exiled to the United States as a girl, Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) is regarded as one of the most significant artists of the postwar era. This illustrated catalogue presents a series of color stills from each of twenty-one original Super 8 films that have been preserved and digitized for the 2015 exhibition.Table of ContentsForeword Howard Oransky Eros, Death, and Life: The Films of Ana Mendieta Michael Rush Ana Mendieta: The Politics of Spirituality John Perreault Difficult Times: Watching Mendieta's Films Rachel Weiss Forever Young: Five Lessons from the Creative Life of Ana Mendieta Lynn Lukkas Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta Howard Oransky Uncovering Ana: The Rebirth of Mendieta's Filmworks Raquel Cecilia Mendieta Unfinished Processes: Going Back and Reeling Forward in Ana Mendieta's Films Laura Wertheim Joseph Filmography Laura Wertheim Joseph Exhibition Checklist Contributors Acknowledgments Photography Credits Index
£46.75
University of California Press Reading Basquiat
Book SynopsisBefore his death at the age of twenty-seven, Jean-Michel Basquiat completed nearly 2,000 works. These unique compositionscollages of text and gestural painting across a variety of mediaquickly made Basquiat one of the most important and widely known artists of the 1980s. Reading Basquiat provides a new approach to understanding the range and impact of this artist's practice, as well as its complex relationship to several key artistic and ideological debates of the late twentieth century, including the instability of identity, the role of appropriation, and the boundaries of expressionism. Jordana Moore Saggese argues that Basquiat, once known as the black Picasso, probes not only the boundaries of blackness but also the boundaries of American art. Weaving together the artist's interests in painting, writing, and music, this groundbreaking book expands the parameters of aesthetic discourse to consider the parallels Basquiat found among these disciplines in his exploration of the productTrade Review"Amply illustrated . . . a lucid account that encourages the reader to look with refreshed eyes at the richness of the artist's work." * Times Higher Education *"Offers a compelling analysis that reveals and elucidates the complex language systems and cultural discourses at play in Basquiat’s work." * Art Practical *"In four chapters, the author gives the artist’s work the scholarly and historical attention it rightly deserves while contributing to the fields of American art, African American art, contemporary art, and diaspora art." * Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Reading Jean-Michel Basquiat 1. “The Black Picasso”: Jean-Michel Basquiat and Questions of Race 2. Creativity Found and Made 3. The Language of Expressionism Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£22.50
