Individual artists, art monographs Books
Prestel Brian Jungen: Friendship Centre
Book SynopsisBorn in the remote northern community of Fort St. John, British Columbia to an Indigenous mother and a Swiss-Canadian father, Brian Jungen’s dual heritage often provides the themes and subject matter for his work. Over the past twenty years, he has created an extensive and imaginative body of sculpture using repurposed material. This book looks at over 80 sculptures, drawings, and film stills, from whale skeletons composed of white plastic chairs and gas cans decorated with floral bead-work designs to totem pole-like forms constructed out of golf bags and Northwest Coast masks made out of repurposed sneakers. The book also includes a selection of archival materials including photographs, images of the artist working, unrealized works, and research pictures. Essays, an interview with the artist, and a timeline round out this generously illustrated book that details Jungen’s deep material explorations which highlight a long history of inequality, a concern for the environment, and a profound commitment to Indigenous ways of knowing and making.
£28.49
Edition Patrick Frey Ideas Know No Time of Day
Book SynopsisEinfälle kennen keine Tageszeit (Ideas know no time of day) contains Max Küng's best reporting from DAS MAGAZIN (such as the piece in which he describes his bike conquest of the Alpe d'Huez, or his seven day trip around the world) and other magazines:The collected columns (naturally including the complete We love Chris series). Discovered pictures. Unbelievably important notes. Very finely printed fine print. 100 favorite songs. Suggestions for a few super DJ names. A homage to the Concord. Interviews (Metallica, Britney Spears). An eating splurge through New York. A very old picture of Juergen Teller. Thoughts on the inventor of the saxophone. A self-experiment (watching Swiss television for a week, nonstop). A visit to Locarno (and to China). Quite a few tips, advice with self-help appeal. A little poetry. Portraits of Erich von Däniken and Dries Van Noten. And much much more.
£30.60
Edition Patrick Frey MONDFOTOGRAFIE
Book SynopsisPictures of the moon, the ultimate topos in photography,have been given a new twist in Erik Steinbrecher'sMONDFOTOGRAFIE. The Swiss artist collects picturesof the moon and rephotographs them, placing a fingeron the lens. In this way, images of the full moon are transformedinto obscure crescents. MONDFOTOGRAFIEis a dark and witty artist'sbook that takes a subtle, yet illuminating approach notonly to the discourse on the photographic imagebut also to the interpretation and reading of images ingeneral.
£19.95
Nieves Kerim in the Sky with Seiler
Book SynopsisIn the mid-nineties, Kerim Seiler paints Zurich city furnishings on found pieces of fiberboard. Chosen workaday design serves as ready-to-paint object and is protocoled in pictograms. Seiler''s paintings dissolve into single elements turning three-dimensional. His work becomes walkable and can be viewed from behind. One stands within the picture, inside of the outside, so to speak. Perspicuity and practicability lend Seiler''s work the claim of social sculpture, without depending on fundamental contentions. Through flexibility and humor, the sculptures emit an integrative quality. The work of Kerim Seiler is always on the road and sometimes the guest of nice people. A. C. Kupper
£41.40
Edition Patrick Frey Shirin Azari: Stories of Little and Big Blossoms
Book SynopsisStories of Little and Big Blossoms is about emotional ordeals like being a stranger in a strange land or losing a loved one, told from the perspective of children. Elham, for instance, a little girl from Iran, has to start over again in Germany, where everything starting with the streets, buildings and playgrounds of her new city is alien to her. And at school she feels insecure and excluded, and has a hard time making friends. Shirin Azari processes her own childhood experiences in these stories. One night in 1996, her family had to flee Iran there wasn't even time to say goodbye to relatives and friends. Over the years that followed, she attended no fewer than eleven different schools in Germany and suffered from never staying in one place for very long. Azari's own story is the message she seeks to put across, for she learned her lesson the hard way: to struggle, to assert herself and never to give up. The tribulations of Elham, Jonathan, Aylin and her other hapless protagonists, illustrated with Azari's delicate, poetic drawings, reflect her own uprooted childhood and youth, and the need for the most innocent victims of all, namely the children, to be courageous, assertive and open-minded.
£30.60
Ei Publishing FASHION PORTRAIT NEW YORK
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£29.70
Getsuyosha Limited Complete Works
Book SynopsisBorn 1960 in Saitama. Started his career after studying photography under Seiryu Inoue while still enrolled at Osaka University of Arts. While having numerous devoted fans, he doesn't present new works very often, as his extremely persistent approach is reflected in every single print that he finishes in up to one month of highly concentrated work. Charged with astonishing density and intensity, his works have been awarded a New Photographer Prize at the Higashikawa International Photo Festival in 1993. Photo books include deja-vu #11: Inose Kou ('93) and Inose Kou Visions of Japan (98). Solo exhibitions include the Inose Kou Photo Exhibition at Space Kobo & Tomo in 2001. He also participated in the group exhibition Lonely Planet at Art Tower Mito in 2004, and is presently one of those artists whose exhibitions are most anticipated.
£109.80
artbeat publishers Unfinished Topography Collection
Book SynopsisTakashi Kawashima has taken natural catastrophes such as the Tohoku earthquake and volcano eruptions as a starting point to produce his works. He never presents his work as something ex-post like a documentary. Rather, drawing on novels by Susan Sontag, Michel Houellebecq and Kobo Abe, he considers the installations he constructs by combining fragments of narratives and images as something implying the near future or as a ground in which to reflect it. This book, which comprehensively introduces his works since 2011, will be an accumulation of fragments of narratives by Kawashima.
£33.30
Libro Arte DIM
Book SynopsisWell known for her use of brightly coloured hues and tones within her photographic work, multidisciplinary artist Hanayo's publication Dim opens up a new exploration for readers to view works taken in black and white. Presenting a collection of images taken in and around cities such as Berlin and Tokyo, Hanayo's Dim revisits moments shared in the past with her many friends and acquaintances made throughout her years living in Berlin. The images captured in black and white create a heightened sense of nostalgia which run through the pages of the photobook, reflecting both memories of places, people and feelings kept and conserved through the photographed images.
£26.55
Soupe Designe Co., Ltd. On Photography
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£25.65
Clear Edition Inc The Path of the Sword
Book SynopsisThe Path of the Sword' is a journey that begins at inspiration to arrive at the realization of an idea. To those who are setting out on this adventure it offers a glimpse at the a few of the previous collaborations of Moritz Waldemeyer with some of the most important names in design, including Zaha Hadid, Fredrickson Stallard and Philippe Starck. The metamorphosis of each of these projects through photography has augmented Moritz's original idea: en- chantingly abstract forms have emerged, as though every LED of the original installation were a brush full of color and the film a canvas to be painted. Moritz starts from this concept and expresses it through the agility and grace of martial arts. Swords studded with LED lights move as though they were choreographed in the hands of martial arts masters that project a flow of visible forms to the public and to the photographic film through the persis- tence of the images in the human eye and thanks to the photos taken with long exposure times.
£24.70
4X5 SHI NO GO Hito
Book SynopsisThe title means people (or person), and the book follows pigs from happy life to merchandise: in colour, with all that this entails. It's neither sensationalist nor sparing, and comes with thoughtful afterwords (in English as well as Japanese) by two of the men whose work is depicted.
£35.10
Mousse Publishing Anouk Kruithof: Be Like Water
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£49.30
Mousse Publishing Louisa Gagliardi Many Moons
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£35.84
Mousse Publishing Duan Jianyu
£27.00
Mousse Publishing Sandra Vasquez de la Horra ENG
£999.99
APE Wandering Off
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£20.90
APE Debby Huysmans - Late Spring
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£25.65
APE Kris Van Dessel - Sampled History
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£17.10
APE Lotte Reimann - Jaunt
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£20.90
APE Tuur & Flup Marinus - Congo Belge
Book SynopsisEN Why copy an album of postage stamps from the former Belgian Congo, page after page, stamp after stamp, and so precisely in terms of dimensions, illustrations and colours? Despite the initial confusion about Tuur and Flup Marinus' project, when confronted by the materiality it soon becomes clear that there's something interesting going on here. We see perfectly reproduced sheets; sets of exotic stamps in soft hues, protected by a transparent strip of varnish, and framed by an intrusive black background. Go on looking and this painterly appropriation becomes the magnifying glass and the mirror which unmask the colonial rhetoric. When we look at colonial collections some 60 years after decolonization, we are struck first and foremost by what is missing in those collections: the real world of colonial subjects and their relationships with Belgians (and other Westerners) and the structural inequalities between the two categories which made the passion for collecting possible. In some of his best stories Jorge Luis Borges showed the absurdity of attempts to create an imaginary world which corresponds fully to the reality or even to another imaginary world, such as Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. Flup and Tuur Marinus' artwork does something similar: the patience and diligence with which they toiled to create it reminds us how absurd it was to try and collect the complete colonial world through collections and by extension how absurd it was to try and control and dominate politically an area as large as Western Europe through colonial rule. (Bambi Ceuppens)
£20.90
APE Thorsten Brinkmann - the Great Cape Rinderhorn
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£27.90
Phaidon Press Ltd Monet
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the work of Claude Monet.Trade ReviewOn the Colour Library Series "Ideal introductions for students and museum-goers."—Independent "Phaidon’s excellent Colour Library series: [...] a good introduction to nearly 50 key artists and movements in art history."—Antiques Trade Gazette "The Phaidon Colour Library Series provides an invaluable introduction to key artists and movements in art history."—Art & Craft
£13.46
Phaidon Press Ltd Celtic Art
Book SynopsisThe essential sourcebook on Celtic artTrade Review"Excellent."—Apollo "A visual and an intellectual treat."—Current World Archeology
£33.96
Phaidon Press Ltd Robert Rauschenberg
Book SynopsisThe perfect introduction to the life and work of Robert Rauschenberg.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
Phaidon Press Ltd Renoir
Book SynopsisCelebrates one of the giants of French Impressionism with luxurious, large-format imagesTrade Review"It wasn't until we saw these books in person that we were able to appreciate how sumptuous, smartly designed, and just plain sexy they are. Best of all are the illustrations. Each volume has 125 crisp and meticulous reproductions – the Van Gogh colors are ripe to the point of bursting." —Elle Decor"We forget, in our image-laden era, just how recent a phenomenon art books are, with their true-colour reproductions of both old and contemporary works of art. We also forget just how essential they are, not just for the pleasure of the general public, but as a source of inspiration for artists and to encourage new generations of collectors and art historians. One key factor in this progress was the founding of Phaidon Press in 1923... Last year Phaidon embarked on a major project to produce a new series of 'Phaidon Classics'... A major decision has been to update the selection of images and the catalogue notes, but to retain the original essays, adding instead a preface by a contemporary scholar. What you get, therefore, besides a beautiful book, is a fascinating dialogue between quite different styles of address to the art-loving audience. This is an astute move." —Apollo-magazine.com
£76.00
Phaidon Press Ltd Lucian Freud
Book SynopsisA breathtaking visual biography of Freud, told through his own words, unpublished private photographs, and painted portraitsTrade Review'A new book, Lucian Freud: A Life, presents his biography in pictures. It chronicles an extraordinary life from first to last: from Freud as an eight-year-old in 1930, a snapshot from Weimar-era Berlin, to the 88-year-old in London in 2011, the year of his death, laid out on his sofa like an El Greco saint... As Holborn puts it, "It is all about looking: us looking at him who in turn is looking out at the world with that penetrating stare. He was oblivious to anything else. Which is why it's a heroic life.' - The Financial Times 'Thought provoking and engrossing, this lavishly illustrated book is a must for Freud's fans.' - Publishers Weekly Online 'An excellent new addition to your coffee table.' - ES magazine 'An impressive selection.' - Forbes Online 'Taking its cue from previously unseen family snapshots, Lucian Freud: A Life illustrates the artists's biography with private photographs, and intimate portraits by his peers.' - Vogue 'A new visual biography charts the famous Freud gaze... Overwhelmingly photographic.' - RA Magazine 'A sumptuous visual memoir... The smell of oil paint and charcoal dust floats off the pages.' - The Herald 'Despite a strong aversion to paparazzi... [Lucian Freud] was shot by more great photographers than perhaps anyone who ever lived.' - The Spectator 'When it come to Lucian Freud, the avalanche of admiring attention only seems to grow... (Lucian Freud: A Life) takes us all the way from a little boy on the beach in Germany to the near nonagenarian variously in bed with this pet whippet and none other than Kate Moss.' - Evening Standard 'A vivid pictorial companion... from childhood through to intimate shots in his studio, including Bruce Bernard's extraordinary images of the artist painting and posing alongside Leigh Bowery... The abundance of documentation provided by these books [...] contributes to the most detailed picture yet on the artist and his work.' - The Burlington Magazine
£112.50
Universe Publishing Trout North America Card Deck
Book SynopsisThis beautiful, information-packed deck?a bucket list for the serious angler and introduction for the novice?is an encyclopedia yet smaller than a fly box.The trout of North America range from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and from the Arctic Circle to the mountains of Western Mexico. With the passion of an angler and the stunningattention to detailof afield scientist, artist James Prosek journeyed thousands of miles through the United States, Canada and Mexicoto depict nearly 60 subspecies of North American trout.Those works are now reproduced here, detailing the diversity and brilliant range of colors in the species in vivid watercolors. On the back of each card is an informative description of that trout, including its region and distinctive markings. Each card offers the experience of standing in a clear stream with a seasoned guide at your side to explain what makes each trout special.No other card deck shows all of the popular varieties, much less the rare, exotic, and in some cases extinct species and subspecies, including char; Apache, Gila, and Mexican trout; rainbow, redband, and golden trout; cutthroat trout; brown trout; and Atlantic salmon.
£21.83
Hildegard Press EMMA KUNZ
£9.37
Workman Publishing Amanda Jane Jones Wrapping Paper Shapes
£18.35
Monacelli Press KAWS: New Fiction
Book SynopsisBased on the blockbuster 2022 solo show in London, KAWS: New Fiction documents the groundbreaking, multi-layered exhibition that presented the artist’s new and recent works in physical and augmented reality. A unique collaboration between the acclaimed artist KAWS, the Serpentine Galleries, digital art platform Acute Art, and the online video game phenomenon Fortnite, KAWS: New Fiction bridges the gap between the physical and virtual worlds, showcasing KAWS’s artworks as they’ve never been seen before. This one-of-a-kind book chronicles the iconic KAWS figure as it journeys through viewing the exhibition’s paintings, sculptures, site-specific additional artworks revealed via augmented reality (visible at the show through a dedicated AR app), and the virtual recreation of the physical gallery simultaneously featured in Fortnite. KAWS: New Fiction is a celebration of the unprecedented exhibition, and KAWS’s creative influence, as it was experienced in physical, virtual, and augmented realities.
£29.75
Metropolitan Museum of Art George Grosz in Berlin: The Relentless Eye
Book SynopsisA penetrating reevaluation of the period in which the German Expressionist George Grosz created his best-known, most searing satirical works This overdue investigation of George Grosz’s (1893–1959) most compelling paintings, drawings, prints, and collages offers a reassessment of the celebrated German Expressionist during his years in Berlin—from his earliest artistic endeavors to the trenchant satirical images and searing depictions of moral decay between the World Wars for which he is known today. Menacing street scenes, rowdy cabarets, corrupt politicians, wounded soldiers, greedy war profiteers, and other symbols of Berlin’s interwar decline all met with the artist’s relentless gaze, which exposed the core social issues that eventually led to Germany’s extreme nationalist politics. Featuring masterpieces as well as rarely published works, this book provides further insight into the artist’s creative pinnacle, reached during this critical and ominous period in German history. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
£33.25
Workman Publishing Nathalie Lété Wrapping Paper
Book SynopsisThe latest installment in Artisan's wrapping paper series, Nathalie Lété Wrapping Paper is a curated collection of wrapping paper sheets and matching gift tags from renowned artist Nathalie Lété. The book includes 12 perforated wrapping paper sheets that detach and unfold to 18 7/8 by 25 3/4, along with 12 matching stickers. Nathalie's signature style is displayed on every page, featuring her most popular and beloved illustrationsincluding mushrooms, forest animals, flowers, dogs and cats, and morethat will make a perfect wrapping for any heartfelt gift.
£17.27
Art Gallery of New South Wales Adman Warhol before pop
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£32.00
The Art Gallery of New South Wales Ron Mueck Encounter
Book SynopsisJackie Dunn is curator and editor of Ron Mueck: Encounter. She is senior curator of exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Previously, she was co-curator and editor of Matisse: Life & Spirit: Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, Paris with Justin Paton and Aurélie Verdier. Other exhibitions she has curated include The Lady and the Unicorn (2018), Under the stars (2020), and Family: Visions of a Shared Humanity in partnership with Pérez Art Museum Miami (2021).
£24.00
Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print
The grid often hides in plain sight, from notepads and spreadsheets to halftone photographic reproductions. It dominates the organisation, perception, and representation of the modern world, especially in print. Deeply embedded in a Western worldview, the grid visualises control, mastery, and order. As an invisible framing device, it has become so pervasive that we habitually ignore it. Yet when artists call our attention to the grid, its layered meanings come fully into view. On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print surveys photographs, prints, artist’s books, and printed sculptures from the dynamic permanent collection of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. From 19th-century scientific and portrait photography to avant-garde and conceptual photography; from mid- 20th-century Minimalist, Pop Art, and Op Art printmaking to experimental bookmaking and photography in the 21st century, this richly illustrated volume explores how artists have embraced, rejected, and reclaimed the grid. By altering and challenging perception, they offer new ways of seeing the world. With contributions by Jared Bark, Jessica D. Brier, Lukas Felzmann, Stephen Frailey, John P. Murphy, Werner Pfeiffer, Alison Rossiter, Stephanie Syjuco, Rhiannon Skye Tafoya, Massimo Tarrida.
£21.25
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Bernard Frize
Book SynopsisThis is the first full-length monograph on the paintings of Bernard Frize (b.1949), an artist whose work straddles movements and styles from Colour Field to Minimalism, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. Frize's works utilise a carefully constructed range of tools, processes, choreography and collaboration to catalogue, in complex and unexpected abstract form and colour, the possibilities of his chosen materials. Emerging from the politicised 1970s onwards, Frize swam against the tide of opinion regarding painting’s apparent obsolescence to develop a painting practice that could express political commitment and social concerns, while avoiding both overt statement and pure decoration. David Rhodes’ text provides a detailed consideration of Frize’s development, from the earliest works onwards. Placing his paintings in a broader art-historical and philosophical context, a wider conversation about painting itself is presented alongside Frize's significant place within the medium's history.Table of ContentsForeword by Barry Schwabsky; 1. Finding a Way; 2. Painting and Its Others; 3. Painting and Thinking; 4. Series and Hapax; 5. Approaching a Painting Methodology; 6. Consistent Change; 7. Abstract Painting's Slow Return; 8. Berlin and the Present; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Biography; Selected Group Exhibitions; Selected Public Collections; Acknowledgements; Image Credits; Index
£33.75
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Guillermo Kuitca
Book SynopsisThis book presents a detailed account of Guillermo Kuitca's major bodies of work, analysing his diverse range of imagery and reflecting on his engagement with the spaces in which we live.Following Kuitca’s development from the 1980s to his latest body of work, the narrative reveals an artist who has continually challenged himself and his audience with new kinds of painterly language. In Kuitca’s hands, everyday visual material such as road maps, street plans, architectural blueprints and theatre seating charts are transformed into remarkable paintings. Their impact comes from their apparent engagement with dark subjects such as the Holocaust and Argentina’s 'Dirty War,' as well as the artist’s innovative imagery and techniques.Drawing on conversations and studio visits the author has had with the artist, Guillermo Kuitca reveals the multifarious elements of a challenging and exciting body of work. It is essential reading for anyone fascinated by this truly original artist.Trade Review'Raphael Rubinstein's fine narrative illuminates the experiences and indeed creators that have marked Guillermo Kuitca's courageous trajectory as an artist. They range from Pina Bausch's dance company playing to a hostile audience in 1980, to his unexpected reinvention of the shifting, yet claustrophobic space of Cubism in the recent immersive murals. Gathered in one volume, the images and backstory prove disturbing as well as oddly triumphal.' -- Catherine Lampert'Rubinstein gives an incisive account of Kuitca's work, which is simultaneously abstract and affective, minimalist and exuberant, and deeply engaged with the world. Gingerly situation Kuitca in an international context, the book focuses on how he side-stepped the post-1960s endgame of painting, exploring ever new and compelling ways to give the medium a new lease on life. A must-read for anyone interested in art from beyond Europe and North America.' -- Andreas HuyssenTable of ContentsChapter 1: A Certain Version of History; Chapter 2: The Painter as Dramaturge; Chapter 3: The Pathos of Home; Chapter 4: Cartographic Dreams; Chapter 5: Discovering the Diagram; Chapter 6: In a Garden of Forking Paths; Chapter 7: Space is a Doubt; Bibliography; Endnotes
£33.75
ACC Art Books Peter Blake: Design
Book Synopsis"Stars, stripes, hearts and targets... If Peter Blake's name is not the first thing you spot on the cover of the latest addition to the Antique Collectors' Club's highly regarded Design series, the Pop motifs in the background positively shout it" Eye, Winter 2010/2011 This new title in the highly successful Design series features the design work of the acclaimed artist Peter Blake. Best known of the British pop artists, Peter Blake came to fame in the late 1950's and early 1960's with iconic works like On the Balcony and First Real Target both now in the Tate Gallery. Tate held an exhibition of his works in 1983 as well as a more recent retrospective at Tate Liverpool in 2007. His famous works for album covers, such as The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band the Band Aid single Do They Know Its Christmas, the Oasis greatest hits album Stop the Clocks and Paul Weller's Stanley Road brought him to a wider audience. This stunningly designed book celebrates the brilliant creative talent of this unique British artist. The Design series is the winner of the Brand/Series Identity Category at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2009, judges said: "A series of books about design, they had to be good and these are. The branding is consistent, there is a good use of typography and the covers are superb." Also available: Claud Lovat Fraser ISBN: 9781851496631 GPO ISBN: 9781851495962 FHK Henrion ISBN: 9781851496327 David Gentleman ISBN: 9781851495955 David Mellor ISBN: 9781851496037 E.McKnight Kauffer ISBN: 9781851495207 Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious ISBN: 9781851495009 El Lissitzky ISBN: 9781851496198 Festival of Britain 1951 ISBN: 9781851495337 Harold Curwen & Oliver Simon: Curwen Press ISBN: 9781851495719 Jan Le Witt and George Him ISBN: 9781851495665 Paul Nash and John Nash ISBN: 9781851495191 Rodchenko ISBN: 9781851495917 Abram Games ISBN: 9781851496778Trade Review"Stars and stripes, hearts and targets - if Peter Blake's name is not the first thing you spot on the cover of the latest addition to the Antique Collectors' Club's highly regarded 'Design' series, the Pop motifs in the background positively shout it" Eye, Winter 2010/2011 "This, the latest title in the ACC's highly acclaimed 'design' series of hardback pocket books, largely leaves his fine art work to one side - concentrating instead on his commercial work" Nude magazine, December 2010
£11.25
D Giles Ltd In the Light of Naples: The Art of Francesco de
Book SynopsisThis is the first-ever scholarly publication devoted to the art of Francesco de Mura (16961782), one of the greatest painters of the Golden Age of Naples. De Mura, the favourite of the Bourbon King Charles VII, was the chief painter of decorative cycles to emerge from the studio of Francesco Solimena (16571747), the famous Baroque artist. De Mura's refined and elegant compositions, with their exquisite light and colouring, heralded the rococo in Naples, and his later style was a precursor of Neo- Classicism. His ceiling frescoes rivalled those of his celebrated Venetian contemporary, Giambattista Tiepolo (16961770). Yet, today, De Mura lacks his proper place in the history of art. Author Arthur Blumenthal argues that this is because nearly a third of De Mura's work was lost during World War II, including, most tragically his crowning achievement, a series of frescos at the abbey of Monte Cassino. It is now time to re-evaluate this once celebrated artist. AUTHOR: Arthur R. Blumenthal is director emeritus of Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College Nicola Spinosa is director of the Capodimonte Museum Naples and former Superintendent of the National Museums in Naples David Nolta is professor in History of Art at Massachusetts College of Art and Design Maria Grazia Leonetti Rodino is governor of the Pio Monte della Misericordia Loredana Gazzara is governor of the Office Picture Gallery and Historical Archive, Pio Monte della Misericordia. 110 colour illustrations
£27.62
D Giles Ltd Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee
Book SynopsisA major new book about Doris Lee, one of the top female artists - indeed among the top figurative artists, regardless of gender - in the American art world from the mid-1930s through the 1950s. Simple Pleasures presents the first major critical assessment of works by the artist Doris Lee (19041983). Lee was one of the most recognised artists in America during the 1930s and 40s, and was a leading figure in the Woodstock Artist's Colony. Her oeuvre reveals a remarkable ability to merge the reduction of abstraction with the appeal of the everyday. In so doing, she offers one of the very rare examples of a coherent visual identity that successfully bridged the various artistic "camps" that formed with the shift in the art world in the post-World War II era. Doris Lee exploded onto the national scene in 1935 when her painting Thanksgiving was awarded the Art Institute of Chicago's Logan Prize and instigated the Sanity in Art movement in protest. Two years later, her painting Catastrophe was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Simple Pleasures explores this initial national recognition in the 1930s within the context of American Scene painting, and traces the artist's thematic interest in the simple objects and scenes of the everyday through her career. It also examines the influence of the rise in abstraction during the late 1940s and 1950s, and the particular way in which this abstraction found resonance with Lee's long-held interest in, and collections of, folk and non-western art. During this post-war period, Lee, like many of her American Scene colleagues, found lucrative work in the heyday of commercial advertising. Lee's commercial commissions for patrons such as American Tobacco Company, Life magazine, Abbott Laboratories, and Associated American Artists are especially compelling in both their populist accessibility and in their deceptively sophisticated abstraction. Sixty-five works by the artist span the 1930s through the 1960s and are comprised of paintings, drawings, prints, and commissioned commercial designs in fabric and pottery. Included are advertisements by companies that commissioned images from Lee, and photographs that contextualise the artist's work within the Woodstock artist's community. AUTHORS: Barbara L. Jones is chief curator, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA, and the author of Samuel Rosenberg: Portrait of a Painter (2003). Melissa Wolfe is curator of American Art, St. Louis Art Museum, and co-editor of Reflections: The American Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art (2019). John Fagg is professor of American Studies, University of Birmingham, UK, and author of 'That Abused Word: Genre': The 1930s Genre Painting Revival in The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945 (2011). Tom Wolf is professor of Art History at Bard College, NY and leading Yasuo Kuniyoshi scholar. 157 colour illustrations
£32.00
HENI Publishing Focal Points Ad Reinhardt
Book SynopsisHow can we interpret the work of contemporary artists? Focal Points is a new book series of essays, articles and reviews by acclaimed curator and critic Robert Storr. Expertly edited by art historian and curator Francesca Pietropaolo, and richly illustrated, it lends Storr's illuminating insights into an artist's practice and way of thinking across recent decades. Brilliantly scholarly, accessible and engaging, Focal Points offers fresh interpretations of the varied territory of modern and contemporary art. This volume considers the work of American abstract painter Ad Reinhardt (19131967). Active in New York for over three decades, Reinhardt was part of the group of artists who became known as Abstract Expressionists, and he made work that would prove influential to the younger generation of Minimal and Conceptual artists. He believed in a philosophy of what he called art-as-art' and used his writing and satirical cartoons to advocate for abstract art. As he famously wrote in 1962: Ar
£16.99
D Giles Ltd Bruegels Three Soldiers
Book SynopsisNew volume in the Frick Diptych series features an illuminating essay by curator Anna-Claire Stinebring paired with a contribution by artist Salman Toor.
£22.46
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Tilla Durieux: A Witness to a Century and Her
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£32.00
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Piet Mondrian. Re-Inventing Piet: Mondrian and
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£36.00
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Kapwani Kiwanga: The length of the horizon / Die
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£33.15
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig The taste of Studio Jeppe Hein: You cant have a
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£999.99
König, Walther Ulay Marina Abramovi. Love. Hate. Forgiveness
£17.82
