Individual artists, art monographs Books
David Zwirner Mamma Andersson: The Lost Paradise
Book SynopsisAndersson’s works embody a new genre of landscape painting that recalls late nineteenth-century romanticism while also embracing a contemporary interest in layered, psychological compositions. Her panoramic scenes draw inspiration from a wide range of archival photographic source materials, filmic imagery, theater sets, and period interiors, as well as the sparse topography of northern Sweden, where she grew up. The paintings utilize a selection of motifs from throughout her career: barren branches and thick-barked pine trees, domestic interiors, horses, and young women. Resembling still lifes, they further a tradition of quiet, dreamlike domestic scenes by Scandinavian artists such as Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916) and Edvard Munch (1863–1944). Part of a self-conscious effort to capture an experience rather than a specific event, the compositions are freer and more abstract. Splendid color reproductions bring the textured brushstrokes, loose washes, and stark graphic lines to life on the page. The book also features a new essay by critically acclaimed author Karl Ove Knausgaard. The Lost Paradise is published on the occasion of an eponymous exhibition presented at David Zwirner, New York, in 2020.
£25.60
Phaidon Press Ltd Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now
Book SynopsisAs seen in The New York Times, Vogue Mexico, Latina Magazine, and The Art Newspaper The essential survey showcasing the work of more than 300 modern and contemporary artists born or based in Latin America Latin American artists have gained increasing international prominence as the art world awakens to the area’s extraordinary art scenes and histories. In an accessible A-Z format, this volume introduces key artworks by 308 artists who together demonstrate the variety and vitality of artwork being made. Focusing on those born, or who have lived, in the 20 Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions of Latin America, and featuring historic and living artists – both those celebrated internationally and names less-known outside their native countries – this book has been created in close collaboration with an expert panel of 68 advisors and writers. Artists featured include: Allora and Calzadilla, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Francis Alÿs, Olga de Amaral, Fernando Botero, Leonora Carrington, Lygia Clark, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Leonor Fini, Gego, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Carmen Herrera, Graciela Iturbide, Alfredo Jaar, Frida Kahlo, Guillermo Kuitca, Wifredo Lam, Teresa Margolles, Marisol, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Hélio Oiticica, Gabriel Orozco, José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Zilia Sánchez, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Cecilia Vicuña, Adrián Villar Rojas and Faith Wilding. The advisory panel includes: Deri Andrade, David Ayala-Alfonso, Fernanda Brenner, Estrellita B. Brodsky, Tatiana Cuevas, Anna Di Stasi, Andrés Gustavo Duprat, Raphael Fonseca, Zanna Gilbert, Laura Hakel, Yina Jiménez Suriel, Maya Juracán, Pablo Léon de la Barra, Miguel A. López, Bernardo Mosqueira, Gerardo Mosquera, Rodrigo Moura, Laura Orozco, Taisa Palhares, Maylin Pérez, Catherine Petitgas, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Florencia Portocarrero, Ileana Ramírez Romero, Amy Rosenblum-Martín, Emiliano Valdés and Michael Wellen.Trade Review'Portrait of a region.' – The New York Times Best Books of 2023'Showcasing established giants like Frida Kahlo and Fernando Botero alongside lesser known and contemporary artists ... highlight[ing] the breadth of creative activity across Latin America.' – The New York Times New & Visual ‘Extensive [and] authoritative.’ – The Art Newspaper ‘A treasure.’ – Booklist, STARRED review ‘Extensive compendium of 308 artists who have lived in the 20 Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions of Latin America, ... revealed is the extent to which these artists have been part of an international network of influences and idea.’ – Aesthetica‘Monumental.’– Colossal'A gateway to worlds.' – The Chicago Tribune'An art object in itself.' – Shelf Awareness‘Art that was once relegated to national and regional contexts, is slowly rising among mainstream art circles. Phaidon’s latest publication Latin American Artists From 1785 to Now reminds us of the vast aesthetic, political and intellectual contributions of artists from the region.’ – Latina Magazine‘A rich, diverse assemblage.’ – Publisher’s Weekly‘Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now is an inviting tome that beckons a look through and delivers a one-two punch of sensational imagery.’ – New York Journal of Books‘This comprehensive survey in accessibly A-Z format introduces key artworks by artists who together demonstrate the variety and vitality of artwork.’ – Artmag ‘Tired of seeing fabulous art books that center on European artists? Want a stunning coffee table book that will also educate you on important Latinx creatives? Then you need to pick up Phaidon’s impressive Latin American Artists.’ – Latina Media
£42.46
Metropolitan Museum of Art Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age
Book SynopsisA provocative study of a freedman painter that recognizes the labor of enslaved artists and artisans in seventeenth-century Spain Diego Velázquez’s portrait of Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670) has long been a landmark of European art, but this provocative study focuses on its subject: an enslaved man who went on to build his own successful career as an artist. This catalogue—the first scholarly monograph on Pareja— discusses the painter’s ties to the Madrid School of the 1660s and revises our understanding of artistic production during Spain’s Golden Age, with a focus on enslaved artists and artisans. The authors illuminate the highly skilled labor within Seville’s multiracial society; the role of Black saints and confraternities in the promotion of Catholicism among enslaved populations; and early twentieth-century scholar Arturo Schomburg’s project to recover Pareja’s legacy. The book also includes the first illustrated and annotated list of known works attributed to Pareja. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule:The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (April 3–July 16, 2023)
£38.00
Hirmer Verlag Mack: Painting
Book Synopsis“There is no substitute for the happiness which colours give me.” After a long break, Heinz Mack has been focusing intensively on painting again for over thirty years. A cross-section of his "Chromatische Konstellationen" from 1991 until the present day shows how he translates the greatest possible purity of colour, light and immateriality into a broad spectrum of colour sequences and structures. Texts by Heinz Mack and Robert Fleck illuminate the essence of these colour worlds. Colour as light and light as colour – this represents, as it were, the nucleus of Mack’s painting. Within this premise he offers us a wide variety: chapters on, for example, the primacy of colour, atmosphere and nature, space, movement and geometric forms show the fascinating bandwidth of his work. The volume closes with an unusual undertaking: in a personal juxtaposition with works from art history from Duccio to Barnett Newman, the artist grants us an insight into his collective pictorial memory.
£28.00
Taschen GmbH Julian Schnabel
Book SynopsisJulian Schnabel makes art out of life, finding his materials in the fabric of the everyday. He uses broken plates as an improbable picture ground; he paints on velvet, market stall covers, army tarps, kabuki theater backdrops, and boxing ring floors, found surfaces that lend their own rich history to the artist’s exploration. A figurehead for the return of painting after his overnight success with a first New York solo show in 1979, he has since worked in a wide variety of media: making sculptures that transpose his pictorial forms into space as raw, seemingly time-worn artifacts; directing award-winning movies that paint portraits of artists and other subtly heroic figures; and even building his own dream of a Venetian palace in New York. “I want my life to be in my work, crushed into my painting like a pressed car. If it’s not, my work is just some stuff,” Schnabel has said, and this urgency permeates his oeuvre no matter what means or media the artist chooses.Now available in a popular edition, the complete range of Schnabel’s work is portrayed in unprecedented depth in this TASCHEN monograph, made in dialog with the artist. The texts were contributed by friends and collaborators: Laurie Anderson draws an intimate portrait of Schnabel; in three essays by curators and art historians, Éric de Chassey discusses the paintings, Bonnie Clearwater the sculpture, and Max Hollein the site-specific work; Donatien Grau writes on the Palazzo Chupi, the artist’s extravagant home in New York’s West Village; while the novelist Daniel Kehlmann explores his cinematic oeuvre. This edition allows you to study the surfaces and artistic gestures and actions, offering the most generous opportunity to experience Schnabel’s art outside of meeting it in person.Trade Review“His greatest book, and yes, it is his book, because it was edited in close collaboration with the artist. It, too, is “larger than life”... Schnabel’s paintings celebrate painting, they are a feast of colors, connections, and references, and above all of freedom.” * Neue Zürcher Zeitung *
£63.75
University of California Press Edward Hopper
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Truth and Pain The Roots of Conflict: 1882-1899 Defining the Talent: 1899-1906 Seductive Paris: 1906-1907 The Ambivalent American: 1907-1910 In Search of Style: 1911-1915 The Detour through Etching: 1915-1918 The Deeper Hunger: 1918-1923 The Leading Lady First Success: 1923-1924 Getting Established: 1925-1927 On the Road to America: 1928-1929 Recognition: 1930-1933 First Retrospective and the Truro House: 1933-1935 An Intellectual Self-Portrait Consequences of Success: 1936-1938 The Struggle to Paint: 1939 The War Begins: 1940 Failed Odyssey: 1941 Nighthawks: 1942 Mexico: 1943 War on the Home Front: 1944 The Aesthetic Divide: 1945 Anxiety: 1946-1947 Illness and Loss: 1948 Melancholy Reflection: 1949 A Retrospective Year: 1950 Mexico Again: 1951 Planning Reality: 1952 Reality: 1953 Taking Stock: 1954 Personal Visions: 1955 Time Cover Story: 1956 Toward Reconciliation: 1957-1958 Excursion into Philosophy: 1959 Protest: 1960 Prints Again: 1961-1962 Last Rehearsal: 1963-1964 Final Curtain: 1965-1967 Bibliographical Notes Notes Acknowledgments Index
£22.50
National Galleries of Scotland F.C.B. Cadell
Book SynopsisF.C.B. Cadell was born in Edinburgh, where he lived for most of his life, and studied in Paris and Munich. This book illustrates many of the works for which Cadell is celebrated, including stylish portrayals of Edinburgh New Town interiors, vibrantly coloured, daringly simplified still lives of the 1920s, and evocative landscapes of the Scottish west coast and the south of France. Based on new research, a special section concentrates on Cadell's relationship with Iona, where he painted nearly every year from 1912 until 1935. The book accompanies a major exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, the first retrospective exhibition of Cadell's work held at a public gallery since 1942.Table of ContentsSponsor's Foreword Director's Foreword Introduction The Birth of an Artist A Colourist in Venice Private Cadell 6 Ainslie Place The Later Years and Cadell's Legacy Warmed by the sun, blown by the wind: Cadell and Iona Chronology People in Cadell's Life
£16.10
Cannibal/Hannibal Publishers Emile Claus
Book Synopsis? A major monograph on the artist widely regarded as one of the greatest Impressionist luminist painters Emile Claus (1849-1924, published to mark the anniversary of his death 100 years ago? This book is published on the occasion of the Emile Claus centennial exhibition in MUDEL Museum, Deinze, Belgium from September 28, 2024 to January 26, 2025Dive into the mesmerizing world of Emile Claus (1849-1924), a master of Impressionist Luminism, with this stunning monograph celebrating the artist''s centennial. From his early works to his later masterpieces, this book offers a comprehensive overview of Claus''s spectacular oeuvre, showcasing his mastery of light, color, and atmosphere. With insightful commentary and exquisite reproductions, one will be transported to the idyllic landscapes and enchanting scenes that defined Claus''s legacy. Whether you''re a seasoned art enthusiast or discovering Claus''s brilliance for the first time, this volume is a must-have addition to any art lover''s collection. Image MUDEL, Deinze
£40.00
Distributed Art Pub Gertrude Abercrombie The Whole World Is a Mystery
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£45.90
Lisson Gallery Peter Joseph
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£55.25
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Beryl Cook Tom of Finland Boijmans Van Beuningen
Book SynopsisThis bold catalogue brings together the work of two cultural icons for the very firsttime: Beryl Cook (19262008) and Tom of Finland (19201991). It was inspired by the2024 exhibition Beryl Cook / Tom of Finland at Studio Voltaire in London. Beryl Cook was a painter renowned for her exuberant style and descriptions of everydaylife. Her work captures the social milieu of the areas she lived in and visited, notablyPlymouth. Her most enduring images are of larger-than-life women carousing innightclubs, eating in cafés or enjoying ribald hen parties, rendered in graphic andcolourful forms. Cook's work came to prominence in the mid-1970s and she quicklybecame known as one of Britain's best-loved artists, highly recognised for her distinctiveworks, which are both celebratory and provocative. Tom of Finland's pioneering depictions of homosexual machismo in his images ofbikers, soldiers, cowboys, sailors and labourers broadly represent queer, leather andmuscle communities. A master draughtsman, he used his works to give form to animaginative universe that, in turn, helped fuel real-world liberation movements and hadsignificant influence on a wide range of cultural figures including the Village People,Freddie Mercury, Jean Paul Gaultier and Robert Mapplethorpe. Beryl Cook / Tom of Finland puts their work into conversation for the first time. Thepairing is perhaps unexpected, yet immediate and compelling relationships betweentheir practices are evident. Fundamentally, both artists employed a sustained andcoherent way of hyper-realising the body in images that celebrate pleasure and denyshame. Together, their works reveal interconnected ideas surrounding sexuality, gender,taste and class. Artist and writer Huw Lemmey has contributed an incisive new essay exploringthe queer contexts inherent to Tom of Finland's work, but that also finds latentresonance in Cook's paintings of gay bars and shapely women. He further considersthe commercial forms of distribution that made their complex bodies of works highlyaccessible. Spanning five decades of paintings, drawings and archival materials, this companioncatalogue contributes to new readings of the artists' practices and their enduring impacton popular culture.
£19.00
Hatje Cantz Paul Cezanne: A-Z
Book SynopsisThe incomparable play of light and color in Paul Cezanne’s work was the foundation of his reputation as a forerunner of modernism. From the start he went his own way, and his paintings initially evoked a lack of understanding in art critics of the time, as well as ridicule. Despite his romantic, baroque, impressionist, and finally classical influences, it is still difficult to ascribe Cezanne to any particular art movement. Still, which specific places left lasting impressions on the scion of a provincial banker’s family? What and who were major influences supporting and advancing his innovative oeuvre? James H. Rubin traces Cezanne’s life and work from A to Z in this brief volume, creating an image of a painter who wanted to transform painting itself. The author—and established connoisseur—succeeds in closely approaching the artist while at the same time maintaining the necessary distance to his inimitable paintings.
£16.50
Getty Trust Publications Michelangelo's Tomb for Julius II - Genesis and
Book SynopsisIn 1505, Michelangelo began planning the magnificent tomb for Pope Julius II, which would dominate the next forty years of his career. Repeated failures to complete the monument were characterized by Condivi, Michelangelo's authorized biographer, as "the tragedy of the tomb." This definitive book thoroughly documents the art of the tomb and each stage of its complicated evolution. Edited by Christoph Luitpold Frommel, who also acted as the lead consultant on tge recent restoration campaign, this volume offers new post-restoration photography that reveal the beauty of the tomb overall, its individual statues, and its myriad details. This book traces Michelangelo's stylistic evolution; documents the dialogue between the artist and his great friend and exacting patron, Pope Julius II (who died long before the work was completed); unravels the complicated relationship between the master and his assistants, who executed large parts of the design; and sheds new light on the importance of Neo-Platonism in Michelangelo's thinking, which gave shape to the tomb's most famous statue, the Moses, and the work as a whole. A rich trove of documents in the original Latin and archaic Italian-many unpublished-relates the story firsthand through letters, contracts, and other records covering Michelangelo's travels, the purchase of the marble, the concerns that arose as work progressed, and numerous disagreements and negotiations. The book also includes catalogues of fifteen sculptures designed for the tomb and more than 80 related drawings, as well as an extensive and up-to-date bibliography.Trade Review"An indispensable reference work, rich in documentation and interpretation." --Renaissance Quarterly "A superbly illustrated and meticulously documented volume."--Spectator
£63.00
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Max Bill: No Beginning, No End
Book SynopsisSwiss artist, architect, designer, typographer, and theorist Max Bill (1908-94) was one of the most important exponents of concrete and constructive art and a key figure in the history of 20th-century European applied arts and design. Educated by such eminent teachers as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Bill immediately displayed a genius for work in fields as diverse as painting, sculpture, architecture, typography and design from the outset of his career in the 1930s. In the 1950s, he teamed up with Inge Scholl and Otl Aicher to found the legendary Ulm College of Design in Ulm, of which he became the first director. In his work, Max Bill carried on the Bauhaus legacy, both as an artist and a teacher, and made a decisive and lasting contribution to 20th-century cultural life. The new edition of this authoritative and much sought-after monograph displays Bill's wide-ranging work and sets him in the context of his cultural milieu by featuring works by his contemporaries, such as Kurt Schwitters, Wassily Kandinsky, and Donald Judd. Accompanying essays investigate Bill's influence on other artists and the lasting importance of his oeuvre in the present. Text in English and German.
£36.00
Art / Books On Being An Artist
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£13.46
Denpa Books H-Girl: Hisasi Artworks 2011-2018
Book SynopsisCompiling over 100 gorgeous illustrations from Hisasi's various comics and magazine covers, this collection covers eight years of Hisasi's celebrated career. A collection of pin ups and character art that covers the artist's early career, this full color artbook also features dozens of previously undisclosed rough drafts revealing a side to the artist that is rarely accessible!
£26.09
Unicorn Publishing Group Liotard: A Portrait of Eighteenth-Century Europe
Book SynopsisJean Etienne Liotard (1702-1789) was one of the most accomplished, idiosyncratic and witty artists of 18th-century Europe. Born in Geneva, he pursued a remarkable career, travelling across the continent and the Near East, portraying a riveting cross-section of society. Liotard worked in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Venice, Constantinople and Vienna and excelled as a specialist in the delicate art of pastel. He became renowned for the uncanny realism of his portraits as well as the beauty of his drawings, while also experimenting with watercolour, oil painting, printmaking and enamels. In Britain he enjoyed notoriety because of his exotic persona, and received commissions from royalty, aristocrats, grand tourists and celebrities. LIOTARD: A Portrait of Eighteenth-Century Europe plots the career and practice and reputation of an extraordinary artist who deserves to be better known. This new study throws light on the wider cultural environment he navigated, illuminating connected themes, including fashion history, orientalism and the promotion and display of portraits in the public and private spheres of Enlightenment Europe.
£24.00
De Gruyter human error: Louisa Clement
Book SynopsisGerman-english edition The question of identity has always preoccupied artists. Louisa Clement is no different, her central theme is the human being and the human in the digital. In her art, she starts out from herself, but ventures much further, asking how identity will be shaped in the future and examining forms of transformation. In the series of works Repräsentantinnen (Representatives), she creates AI-equipped, adaptive images of herself, with which visitors can converse. In photographic works, the master pupil of Andreas Gursky continues this examination of the body and its possible optimisations and deals with military legacies under the aspect of transformation. This publication is appearing for an exhibition at the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum - both artists are united in their search for self-expression, as Paula Modersohn-Becker's Self-portrait on 6th wedding anniversary from 1906 demonstrates in a succinct manner. Look inside https://issuu.com/deutscher_kunstverlag/docs/blick_ins_buch_human_error_louisa_clement?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ Louisa Clement (born 1987 in Bonn) completed her studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2015 as a master pupil of Andreas Gursky. She has already exhibited in various institutions and museums, including e.g.: Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2022); Casino Luxembourg – Forum d'art contemporain (2022); Ludwig Forum Aachen (2019); Sprengel Museum Hanover (2019) One of today’s most popular young artists Current social issues such as AI, questions about body and self-image, and possibilities of digital storage Exhibition, 2 September 2023 to 21 January 2024, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen
£25.20
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. Jay Matternes
Book SynopsisThe first career-spanning volume on Jay Matternes (b. 1933), whose scientific rigor and artistic skill set a new standard in natural history illustration.Millions have grown up inspired by Jay Matternes' murals of extinct mammals at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History. Others have savoured his depictions of human origins in such prestigious publications as Science, National Geographic, Scientific American, and Natural History. Matternes' art has also graced popular books by such trailblazing wildlife scientists as Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Louis Leakey.Now, for the first time, the entire scope of Matternes' achievement is revealed in this full-colour retrospective, prepared with the artist's full cooperation and featuring many works never before published. Here are his depictions of living species, whose anatomical accuracy and vivid detail owe much to Matternes' lifelon
£32.39
Edition Patrick Frey Karen Kilimnik: Early Drawings 1976-1998
Book SynopsisKaren Kilimnik's artist's book Early Drawings 19761998 is kind of a prequel to Kilimnik's Drawings, also published by Edition Patrick Frey in 1997. Early Drawings 19761998 brings together the artist's own rich and varied selection of around 130 never before published early works on paper. Detailed, finely worked pastel drawings created between 1976 and 1998 are presented along with ink drawings and other work from that same period; together they illuminate the scope, complexity and virtuosity of Kilimnik's thematic world. For more than forty years, Kilimnik has navigated an inexhaustible cosmos influenced by the traditions of Romantic painting, portraiture, and landscape painting. Her work gives equal weight to a broad array of subject matter, finding inspiration in such diverse sources as popular culture and fairy tales, Old Master paintings and television programs, films, literature, magazines, advertising, as well as window displays. The result dissolves the distinctions between high and low culture. This creative mixture appears in some of Kilimnik's earliest output: after studying art and architecture in Philadelphia, the artist exhibited a series of genre-bending constellations in the mid-1980s and early 1990s; assembled works included paintings, photographs, drawings, sculptures, and films. Her oeuvre explores themes of mythology and femininity, history and fiction. Early Drawings 19761998 is published on the occassion of a double exhibition bearing the same title at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in New York and at Sprüth Magers in London, which was shown in early summer 2022.
£54.00
Thames & Hudson Ltd Keith Tyson Iterations and Variations
Book SynopsisBritish Turner Prize?winning artist Keith Tyson is known for a distinctive and diverse body of work, including drawing, painting, installation, and sculpture. Showing a wide range of influences extending from mathematics and science through to poetry and mythology, he has an interest in how art emerges from the combination of information systems and physical processes that surround us every day. For over thirty years, Tyson has probed, dissected, explored, and questioned reality. Not fixed to one artistic style, Tyson?s mission is to challenge himself and the audience, while working with diverse materials?paint, clay, metal, resin?to question our knowledge of the world we perceive as real, and art?s role in representing it.Iterations and VariationsTable of Contents1. Generative Art 2. Studio Wall Drawings 3. Paintings 4. Arrays Biography Index
£999.99
Edition Patrick Frey Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs: Future Memories
Book SynopsisFUTURE is a series of five or six publications by Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs to be published by Edition Patrick Frey over the next few years. The various chapters in the series will be published on an ongoing basis, though not according to any content-based planning or timetable. The idea is to react promptly to current events and sensibilities and publish the results swiftly too. The first installment of the FUTURE series, entitled FUTURE MEMORIES, explores how our conceptions of the future have changed over the past few decades, how that affects our take on the present and our reactions to changes that lie ahead. Re-created by Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs for the most part out of archival material, the pictures in this book constitute a material exploration of the fact that every vision or illustration of the future is bound to be a collage of images drawn from the past. Using a combination of large-format analog photography and various digitally controlled laser technologies, the artists have created a visual world that makes sci-fi allusions and takes an associative approach to an emotional world that swings back and forth between the optimism of the artists' childhood and the dystopianism of the present day and age.
£30.60
Editions Dilecta Jeff Koons: Mucem: Oeuvres de la collection
Book SynopsisThe art of Jeff Koons imagined anew, alongside more than 200 works from the acclaimed Pinault collection This new volume brings together the work of one of the most iconic living artists with over 200 pieces from the Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean in Marseille, France. Although his art encompasses a wide range of satirical sculptural work as well as digital collages and paintings, American sculptor Jeff Koons (born 1955) is best known for his unmistakable large-scale recreations of familiar objects in stainless steel. These famous mirror-finish works and other pieces from his oeuvre are placed in conversation with a series of selections from the Mucem archives, the result of a meticulous curatorial effort by the artist himself. The publication takes advantage of the richness of the Mucem’s collections, with everyday objects, traditional art, documents and photographs, encouraging readers to compare and contrast the artworks on levels both formal and symbolic.
£31.50
Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd Outlaws
Book Synopsis Dress as though your life depends on it, or don't bother.'(Leigh Bowery, 1985) Outlawsdives into the anarchic energy of London's 1980s club scene, celebrating the avant-garde, experimental designs of Leigh Bowery and his fellow fashion renegades, including John Galliano, Stephen Linard, BodyMap, Pam Hogg, Rachel Auburn and Wayne Hemingway. This unique and daring creative movement sparked an explosion of outrageous fashion. Outlaws features specially commissioned photography of original outfits crafted by 28 trailblazing clothes designers. They are accompanied by first-hand accounts from musician Holly Johnson, DJ Mark Moore, artist Peter Doig and photographer Dave Swindells, as well as rare photos and flyers from club nights where these outfits were worn, such as Bowery''s legendary Taboo. Outlawscaptures a subculture that defied norms and pushed the boundaries. It is a tribute to the visionaries who reshaped Bri
£28.00
Pallas Athene Publishers Scenes From the Passion
Book SynopsisThe leading artist of the German Reformation, and close collaborator of Martin Luther, Lucas Cranach was one of the most influential and prolific printmakers of the northern Renaissance. His spare and eloquent images of the Passion series, begun in 1509, are among his finest creations; they have a drama and pathos that rival the work of his exact contemporary Dürer.
£12.34
Ridinghouse Alison Wilding On Paper
Book SynopsisBest-known for her ambitious sculptural works, this volume explores how Alison Wilding's compelling drawing and extensive use of collage have been integral to her development for five decades.
£40.50
Distributed Art Pub Judithe Hernández Beyond Myself Somewhere I Wait for My Arrival
£999.99
Mandragora Sofonisba Anguissola
Book SynopsisMarco Tanzi the leading expert on 16th- and 17th-century Cremonese painting delves into some hitherto unknown aspects of the Sofonisba Anguissola's artistic production.
£23.85
Phaidon Press Ltd Joseph Beuys
Book SynopsisThe perfect introduction to the life and work of Joseph Beuys.Trade ReviewOn the Phaidon Focus series "Excellent introductions to modern masters series."—The Observer Magazine "Satisfyingly hardback yet not too hefty. Tastefully simple, encased in a plastic cover to protect them from all those crayons and paints that you're sure to whip out in a frenzy of inspiration after browsing these pages. Each contains a trove of images of artwork and educational focus chapters on themes and techniques."—It's Nice That "Concise yet spirited introduction... Plenty of colour plates make it brilliantly useful as a reference tool."—The Sunday Telegraph "Eschewing the heavyweight doorstop format of many art books, these beautiful and compact Phaidon Focus artist monographs are small and slick, and refreshingly affordable... Designed by Julia Hasting, the Zurich-based design director at Phaidon Press, who manages to create a clean, fresh look that - as art book design should - put the artists' work centre stage... Coated in a translucent grey plastic with a clear window, the book's pared back approach continues with clean, black typography on a white background. Never cluttered, but resolutely in-depth, the series manages to condense some of the 20th century's most famous artists' work into small, but by no means diminutive introductions."—DesignWeek.co.uk "Beautifully designed... The most iconic artists of the modern day... Bring you the essentials in a concise manner."—It's Nice That "Phaidon are adept at packaging up key artists and movements in contemporary art, ensuring each generation has a familiar and forward-thinking way of immersing itself in visual culture. The newest tranche of introductory monographs is Phaidon Focus. [...] The Focus series is an extended primer, a handsome hardback designed to provide an in-depth overview of an artist's life, plus a more concentrated focus on key works from the artist's career to date."—Wallpaper.com "Amazing... An essential addition to any art lover's collection."—Grazia
£13.46
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. Living Jewish Art
Book SynopsisThe art of Itshak Holtz (1925?2018) is an intimate guide to the Jewish world, approached with a sensitivity, confidence, and thorough familiarity that only someone living and breathing it could attain. Holtz was born in a small town near Warsaw and moved with his family to Jerusalem when he was ten years old; he pursued his artistic training there and in New York, at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design.
£36.00
The University of Chicago Press Helio Oiticica
Book SynopsisHelio Oiticica (1937-80) was one of the most brilliant Brazilian artists of the 1960s and 1970s. His unique melding of geometric abstraction with works that directly engage viewers' bodies has influenced contemporary artists from Gabriel Orozco and Cildo Meireles to Rirkrit Tiravanija and Nick Cave. This is the first book to examine Oiticica's impressive works against the backdrop of Brazil's dramatic postwar push for modernization. From Oiticica's late-'50s experiments with painting and color to his mid-'60s wearable Parangoles, Irene V. Small traces a series of artistic procedures that foreground his later inclusion of the spectator. Analyzing artworks and a wealth of archival material, she shows how Oiticica's work recast-in a sense folded-Brazil's utopian vision of progress and the legacy of European constructive art. Ultimately, Helio Oiticica argues that the effectiveness of Oiticica's participatory works stems not from a renunciation of art, but rather from their ability to dia
£37.05
The University of Chicago Press Willem de Kooning Nonstop
Book SynopsisIn the early 1950s, Willem de Kooning's Woman I and subsequent paintings established him as a leading member of the abstract expressionist movement. His wildly impacted brushstrokes and heavily encrusted surfaces baffled most critics, who saw de Kooning's monstrous female image as violent, aggressive, and ultimately the product of a misogynistic mind. In the image-rich Willem de Kooning Nonstop, Rosalind E. Krauss counters this view with a radical rethinking of de Kooning's bold canvases and reveals his true artistic practices. Krauss demonstrates that contrary to popular conceptions of de Kooning as an artist who painted chaotically only to end a piece abruptly, he was in fact constantly reworking the same subject based on a compositional template. This template informed all of his art and included a three-part vertical structure; the projection of his male point of view into the painting or sculpture; and the near-universal inclusion of the female form, which was paired with her re-doubled projection onto his work. Krauss identifies these elements throughout de Kooning's oeuvre, even in his paintings of highways, boats, and landscapes: Woman is always there. A thought-provoking study by one of America's greatest art critics, Willem de Kooning Nonstop revolutionizes our understanding of de Kooning and shows us what has always been hiding in plain sight in his work.
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University of Chicago Press Norman Rockwell The Underside of Innocence
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Tellwell Talent The Crystal Rose
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The Fine Art Of Minerals
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MIT Press Piranesi and the Modern Age
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University of Washington Press Doris Chase Artist in Motion
Book SynopsisDoris Chase has achieved international stature as a pioneer in the field of video art since she moved from Seattle to New York City in 1972. An artist of remarkable and continuous creativity, Chase now divides her time between her video headquarters in New York and a Seattle studio where she works on new projects in painting and sculpture. Beginning as an innovative painter and sculptor in Seattle in the 1950s, Chase created sculpture that was meant to be touched and manipulated by the viewer. Chase then developed large-scale kinetic sculptures in collaboration with choreographers, and her art was set in motion by dancers. In New York, her majors contribution to the evolution of artists' video has been her work in videodance. On videotape, dancers and sculpture evolve into luminous abstract forms which represent some of the most sophisticated employments of video technology by an artist of the 1970s. In the 1980s, Chase began working in the nascent genre of video theater. In these pr
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Yale University Press Aleksandr Rodchenko
Book SynopsisThrough the lens of Aleksandr Rodchenko’s photography, a new and provocative understanding emerges of the troubled relationship between technology, modernism, and state power in Stalin’s Soviet UnionTrade Review“Glebova’s book is a valuable addition to the literature on this remarkable and always relevant figure.”—Peter Lowe, Russian Art + Culture“Glebova’s painstaking analysis reveals a more complex side to [Rodchenko’s] work. . . . An unflinching focus on the far more opaque and challenging work Rodchenko undertook in the dark years of the 1930s.”—Rosamund Bartlett, Literary ReviewCo-winner of the MSA 1st Book Prize, sponsored by the Modernist Studies Association“Glebova’s perspicacious and eloquent readings of Rodchenko’s works make new, and make much richer, his body of work.”—Kristin Romberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign“This is the most important book on Rodchenko, and an indispensable book to Russian art history, to the history of photography, and to the story of how modern art intersects with life and how artists practice their politics.”—Andrei Pop, University of Chicago
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Yale University Press Back to the Drawing Board
Book SynopsisThe first book to consider the importance of commercial art and design for Ed Ruscha’s workTrade Review“Ruscha has captured the zeitgeist of American culture for decades, and Jennifer Quick helps us understand that an essential part of his talent for representing the popular, the spectacular, and the alluring is connected to his lifelong fascination with design.”—David Brody, Parsons School of Design, The New School“Jennifer Quick’s approach is timely and compelling, given the high profile of design in contemporary culture, but it is her close reading of Ruscha’s complex play with materials and form that ultimately make this such a rewarding account of his art.”—Ken D. Allan, Seattle University
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Taylor & Francis Monographic Exhibitions and the History of Art
Book SynopsisThis edited collection traces the impact of monographic exhibitions on the discipline of art history from the first examples in the late eighteenth century through the present. Roughly falling into three genres (retrospectives of living artists, retrospectives of recently deceased artists, and monographic exhibitions of Old Masters), specialists examine examples of each genre within their social, cultural, political, and economic contexts. Exhbitions covered include Nathaniel Honeâs 1775 exhibition, the Holbein Exhibition of 1871, the Courbet retrospective of 1882, Titian's exhibition in Venice, Poussin's Louvre retrospective of 1960, and El Greco's anniversaty exhibitions of 2014. Trade Review"All in all, Gahtan and Pegazzano have put together an excellent volume in which the authors have contributed a great deal of valuable art historical and museological content for our consideration. It is a book that will undoubtedly inspire further research by others, stimulate scholarly discourse, and lead to future publications of import."-Journal of Art Historiography
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WW Norton & Co The Collector of Lives
Book SynopsisA narrative of intrigue, gossip and colourful artistic rivalry, The Collector of Lives presents a lively introduction to a seminal figure in the very human story of art itself.Trade Review"The authors' greatest service to their subject is to reestablish him as a tireless artist and a central witness to an epic period of Italian history." -- Michael Prodger - The Sunday Times"... an insightful and gripping new book... Ms Rowland and Mr Charney draw a panoramic view of the art-world during the Renaissance, placing Vasari at the centre... This is an important book and long awaited. The authors have done a commendable job of returning to his rightful place the man who inflated the reputation of art and artists so successfully that he himself was squeezed out of the picture." -- The Economist"... absorbing... a page-turningly compelling overview of Giorgio Vasari and his age…" -- Literary Review"Ingrid Rowland and Noah Charney give full measure to his [Georgio Vasari's] artistic skills (and the diplomatic adroitness he needed to exercise them) and place him again at the centre of 16th-century Italian art." -- Michael Prodger, Art Books of the Year 2017 - The Sunday Times"Ingrid Rowland, a prominent scholar of Renaissance art and history, and her fellow writer and historian Noah Charney, wear their erudition lightly in their gracefully written biography." -- Deborah Solomon - New York Times Book Review"Readers curious about the making of Renaissance art, its cast of characters and political intrigue, will find much to relish in these pages. This is a lively, highly readable point of entry into an important and fascinating text." -- Cammy Brothers - The Wall Street Journal"[Rowland and Charney's] account of Vasari’s Tuscany, and of the facts (and fictions) that went into his “Lives,” is a fitting tribute to their subject’s biographical achievements." -- The New Yorker
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Blurb, Inc. Sir Michael Artist Drawing Journal
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Blurb, Inc. Sir Michael Huhn Abstract Self portrait art
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Dover Publications Inc. Engravings by Hogarth
Book SynopsisRake's Progress, Harlot's Progress, Illustrations for Hudibras, Before and After, Beer Street, and Gin Lane, 96 more. Commentary by Sean Shesgreen.
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Francis Bacon A SelfPortrait in Words
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Raymond Briggs The Illustrators Series
Book SynopsisBriggs's pencil has drawn everything about being human the comic, the tragic; passion, tenderness, fear, anger, joy, bogeys ... slime' Posy SimmondsTrade Review'Long live the illustrators! Hurrah for their work!' - Philip Pullman'It is wonderful to see these celebrations of our greatest illustrators … an inspiration to future generations' - Chris Riddell'This short, delightful illustrated biography evokes the man and mind behind The Snowman and Briggs’ other light-of-touch, deep-of-feeling, timelessly appealing stories, in the context of English social history ' - Financial TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction • Early years • Starting out • Early work • Nursery rhymes • Fairies and giants • Father Christmas and Fungus • Dreams and nightmares • Uninvited guests • Family histories
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Picasso The SelfPortraits
Book SynopsisThe first book dedicated to Picasso's self-portraits, many held in private collections and published here for the first time. Much has been said and written about Picasso's life and art, but until now his self-portraits have never been studied and presented in a single book, perhaps because the artist always left many doubts about his work. However, there is no doubt that Picasso represented himself ceaselessly, whether in a dashed-off pencil sketch, as a flourish at the bottom of a letter, or on a giant canvas. At the suggestion of Picasso's widow Jacqueline, the distinguished art historian Pascal Bonafoux began researching Picasso's self-portraits more than forty years ago. This meticulously researched book presents the fruits of his decades-long project. From the first attributed painting in 1894 as a thirteen-year-old boy, until Picasso's final self-portrait in 1972, a year before his death, Bonafoux charts the evolution of the artist's life and art. Here is Picasso as Trade Review'Fascinating … an invaluable resource' - Literary Review'An attractive volume that brings together the artist's 170 self-portraits in various mediums, including photography' - The New York Times
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Thames and Hudson Ltd Closer to Vermeer
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