Individual artists, art monographs Books
National Gallery Company Ltd Discover Manet & Eva Gonzales
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary story behind Manet’s portrait of his only pupil Eva Gonzalès, placed within the broader context of women painters of the period Edouard Manet (1832–1883) only ever had one formal pupil, Eva Gonzalès (1849–1883). The daughter of a prominent writer, she entered Manet’s studio aged 19. He portrayed her the year they met and exhibited the ambitious full-length portrait at the Paris Salon of 1870, at which Gonzalès also displayed her own work, for the first time, to positive reviews. The first in a new series of Discover titles, in which a single work of art in the National Gallery’s collection is reconsidered from a fresh perspective, this book reveals the extraordinary story behind Manet’s portrait by examining it in the context of women’s artistic practice in nineteenth-century Paris, Gonzalès’s development as a professional painter, and Manet’s career in 1870. Combining new art historical research with engaging essays on women artists and their representation in visual culture, Discover Manet & Eva Gonzalès provides a richly illustrated, in-depth study of Manet’s portrait and offers a groundbreaking viewpoint on both artists. Published by National Gallery Global/Distributed by Yale University Press
£16.99
El Croquis Ana Mendieta Search for Origin ESEN edition
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£46.20
Penguin Books Ltd Rooms of Wonder
Book SynopsisFrom bestselling author Johanna Basford, a stunning new coloring book that invites artists to explore the great indoorsThrough her bestselling coloring books and distinctive illustrations, Johanna Basford''s beautiful forests, ocean depths, and hidden magical kingdoms have enchanted millions of people around the world. In this newest work, Basford takes her audience indoors, inviting them to explore the wonders of the worlds within. Hidden within every illustration in Rooms of Wonder is a secret key and a locked door. Find the key, unlock the door and continue to the next room. Discover a busy craft studio, a wizard’s workshop, a mouth-watering ice cream parlour and an opulent banquet hall. With hidden treasures, curious spaces and a few enchanted interiors, all you need to do is unlock the first door and begin your magical journey.Now printed on a new snowy white paper, to allow for more vibrant coloring, but still with enough texture to blend and create wonderful colored pencil effects.
£16.20
Munch Museum Living Lines: Five Contemporary Artists on Edvard
Book SynopsisIn this book the five prominent contemporary artists Marlene Dumas, Terje Nicolaisen, Nalini Malani, Georg Baselitz and Tracey Emin have each compiled a personal selection of Edvard Munch’s drawings. Munch drew more or less daily throughout his long life and left behind approximately 7700 drawings. Each of the five selections provide a unique glimpse into this abundant material and is presented together with works by the artists, and an interview in which they reflect on Munch’s drawings and their own art.Table of ContentsIntroduction Edvard Munch’s Drawings in Perspective Ambiguity is Munch’s Middle Name Marlene Dumas interviewed by Mieke Bal Dumas chooses Munch The Same Free, Interesting Zone Terje Nicolaisen interviewed by Halvor Haugen Nicolaisen chooses Munch Modes of Thinking and Figuring Nalini Malani interviewed by Mieke Bal Malani chooses Munch There is No Longer Any Need for Landscape Georg Baselitz interviewed by Jon-Ove Steihaug Baselitz chooses Munch True Drawing is Like a Heartbeat Tracey Emin interviewed by Jon-Ove Steihaug Emin chooses Munch The Work Behind the Catalogue Raisonné of Munch’s Drawings Magne Bruteig
£31.96
Birkhauser Verlag AG Visual Philosophy: Thoughts on I and We
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£21.25
Bobo Incantation, Wendy
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£16.15
Rutgers University Press Photo-Attractions: An Indian Dancer, an American
Book SynopsisIn Spring 1938, an Indian dancer named Ram Gopal and an American writer-photographer named Carl Van Vechten came together for a photoshoot in New York City. Ram Gopal was a pioneer of classical Indian dance and Van Vechten was reputed as a prominent white patron of the African-American movement called the Harlem Renaissance. Photo-Attractions describes the interpersonal desires and expectations of the two men that took shape when the dancer took pose in exotic costumes in front of Van Vechten’s Leica camera. The spectacular images provide a rare and compelling record of an underrepresented history of transcultural exchanges during the interwar years of early-20th century, made briefly visible through photography. Art historian Ajay Sinha uses these hitherto unpublished photographs and archival research to raise provocative and important questions about photographic technology, colonial histories, race, sexuality and transcultural desires. Challenging the assumption that Gopal was merely objectified by Van Vechten’s Orientalist gaze, he explores the ways in which the Indian dancer co-authored the photos. In Sinha’s reading, Van Vechten’s New York studio becomes a promiscuous contact zone between world cultures, where a “photo-erotic” triangle is formed between the American photographer, Indian dancer, and German camera. A groundbreaking study of global modernity, Photo-Attractions brings scholarship on American photography, literature, race and sexual economies into conversation with work on South Asian visual culture, dance, and gender. In these remarkable historical documents, it locates the pleasure taken in cultural difference that still resonates today.Trade Review"A trio performs: a beautiful male dancer of Indo-Burmese origins, a cult photographer with a Leica, the metal prosthesis that acquires a life of its own — 'photo-eroticism'. This expansively researched book with a non-linear structure has a discursive flamboyance. A historical moment spins into the contemporary; the language of the writer enthralls the reader." — Vivan Sundaram, visual artist, founder and trustee, Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation "With extraordinary finesse, Ajay Sinha reconstructs two remarkable artists’ collaborative fantasy-making through a Leica camera, which produced what he calls the 'photo-dance': a voluptuous intermedial object imbued with cross-cultural provocations. As much an astute commentary on Orientalism, postcoloniality, and race as it is an informed critique of the silences of established archival memory, this virtuosic study is a mesmerizing read." — Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Duke University “Sinha’s is an extremely luminous and well-researched project. It is also a beautifully written, deeply analytical, and entirely accessible book, narrated with verve, and a pleasure to read.” — Saloni Mathur, author of A Fragile Inheritance: Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art “Sinha provides a remarkably rich account that does justice to the contact zone unearthed by his archival discovery. Both vivid and perceptive, Sinha’s prose grips from the start and unfolds three days in the 1930s into a marvellous larger panorama of representational practices, a broader inter-cultural landscape, and the intimacy of personal encounters.”— Christopher Pinney, Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture, University College London “In Sinha’s lucid, incisive analysis, we encounter a world of technological messiness and experimentation, cultural disparities, and new, transitional queer masculinities, all set against the backdrop of the twentieth-century reinvention of Indian dance and the complexities of Euro-American Orientalism. A timely contribution to the fields of both dance studies and visual culture studies."— Hari Krishnan, Wesleyan University, author of Celluloid Classicism: Early Tamil Cinema and the Making of Modern Bha “This book arises from a thrilling pas de deux between a Modernist American photographer and an Indian classical dancer, in which it’s never entirely clear who is calling the shots. In deciphering the subtle aesthetic, erotic, and intellectual weave of these sessions, Ajay Sinha identifies a third partner in this elaborate dance, namely Van Vechten’s German-made Leica camera. This is an exhilarating book, intellectually compelling and visually mesmerizing. And the photographs are to die for.” — Christopher Benfey, author of Degas in New Orleans and The Great Wave "Ajay Sinha has woven a finely detailed tapestry of the social, personal and aesthetic allusions that contribute greatly to understanding and reimagining Ram Gopal's mystique and presence. This is timely, refreshing, colorful and a much needed intervention in our his-and her-stories around dance and the camera."— Uttara Asha Coorlawala, co-curator of Erasing Borders Festival of Indian Dance "Photo-Attractions is the fascinating account, by a masterful storyteller, of a single extended portrait session that took place between Indian classical dancer Ram Gopal and photographer Carl Van Vechten in New York in 1938. Sinha’s cosmopolitan vision, deeply informed by histories of dance, gesture, performance and photography, offers brilliant new perceptions of trans-cultural exchanges of gender, sexuality and desire in the early twentieth century. An illumination." — Laura Wexler, author of Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U. S. ImperialismTable of ContentsPrelude Chapter 1: The Photo Studio Chapter 2: The Dancer Chapter 3: The Photographer Chapter 4: The Camera Chapter 5: Photo-Dance Chapter 6: Afterimages Acknowledgements Notes References Index
£28.90
Spector Books Martin Kippenberger: Metro-Net
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£22.00
Distanz Living in One Land, Dreaming in Another
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£35.20
Concordia University Subject to Change: Writings and Interviews
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£999.99
Skira Toni Zuccheri at Venini
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£38.40
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art The Radical Vision of Edward Burne-Jones
Book SynopsisA bold reassessment of nineteenth-century British painter and decorative artist Edward Burne-Jones, elucidating his fundamentally radical defiance of the Victorian age Challenging the dominant characterization of Edward Burne-Jones as an escapist who withdrew from the modern world into imaginary realms of his own creation, this groundbreaking book argues that he was engaged in a fundamentally radical defiance of the age, protesting against imperial aggression, capitalist economic inequality, and environmental destruction in the wake of the industrial revolution. Harnessing the utopian power of embodied aesthetic encounters, Burne-Jones drew inspiration from the medieval concept of dreams as visionary states of transformation. Therefore, his art functioned not as a retreat, but as a vehicle for revolutionary awakening. Often characterized as a painter, this book re-centers Burne-Jones’s practice in the decorative arts, demonstrating that he consistently interrogated the boundaries of artistic media, in keeping with wider debates over the role of the arts in the nineteenth century. The first scholarly monograph solely devoted to Burne-Jones since 1973, The Radical Vision of Edward Burne-Jones offers a thorough re-examination of his work, illuminating his radical defiance of the artistic, social, and political hierarchies of nineteenth-century Britain.Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
£42.75
HENI Publishing Suad Al-Attar
Book SynopsisSuad Al-Attar is an extensively illustrated monograph featuring original photography of more than 100 expressive and surrealistic paintings and drawings by one of Iraq’s most renowned artists. Written by the artist’s granddaughter – writer and art historian Nesma Shubber – the book offers unique access to the career of a truly sensational artist and painter. In beautifully written prose, Shubber tells the story of her grandmother’s life and work. Beginning with the artist’s early formative years in Baghdad and her arrival in London in 1976, we discover the origins of Al-Attar’s international career up to the present day in a personal account of an extraordinary woman and artist. For the first time, this book brings together treasured drawings and paintings carefully selected from the artist’s archive to form the most comprehensive published collection of work by Suad Al-Attar as well as a rare document of her remarkable life.
£29.99
Yale University Press Mel Bochner Drawings
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking examination of Mel Bochner’s inventive drawing practice produced collaboratively with the artist
£38.00
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Dennis Creffield: Art and Life
Book SynopsisHugely admired by artists and writers from Henri Cartier Bresson to the Booker prize winner Howard Jacobson, the extraordinary life and work of painter Dennis Creffield (1931-2018) are explored in this, the first major monograph on the artist. The narrative traces the artist's 'Dickensian' upbringing, his formative experiences as a teenager under the tutelage of David Bomberg, his conversion to Catholicism and his award-winning years at the Slade. Focus is given to Creffield's passions for the stories of England, not only in the Cathedral drawings, but in his expressive work on Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, on Blake and in his paintings and drawings of London, the great Petworth House, Cornish tin mines and the eerie military buildings on Orford Ness. Complementing his work on England's sacred and profane identity is an equally audacious body of work on the human body, from tender paintings of mother and child to erotic paintings of women to his late paintings of men near death - Turner, Nelson and Rimbaud. To quote his fellow artist R.B. Kitaj, Creffield's cover has been 'well and truly blown.'Table of ContentsPreface; 1: Boyhood, Bomberg and the Borough; 2: Discovering Italy, Stockholm, Spain and Marriage; 3: Studying at the Slade and Moving to Leeds; 4: Release in Brighton, Love Paintings and Parents with Children; 5: Exploring English Cathedrals in a Camper-Van; 6: Obsessed with Shakespeare and A Midsummer Night's Dream; 7: Travelling to French Cathedrals in a Dormobile; 8: Finding National Trust Treasures and Living at Petworth; 9: Visiting Jerusalem and Brooding on Atom Bombs; 10: Investigating Tate, New York, Rome and St Paul's; 11: Roaming around Castles and Communing with Blake; 12: Admiring Nelson and Marrying Tess; Epilogue; Notes; Chronology; Select Solo and Group exhibitions; Public Collections; Index
£55.11
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain Sarah Sze: De nuit en jour / Night into Day:
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£32.00
Skira Kishio Suga: Writings, Volume I: 1969–1979
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£25.50
Stolpe Publishing Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné Volume III: The
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£38.00
Skira Gabriele Basilico: Metropoli
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£999.99
Re:Surgo! Sacha Tattoo Flashbook
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£23.75
Rizzoli Toyin Ojih Odutola
Book SynopsisA seminal work by one of today’s most vital figurative artists explores the complexity of race, wealth, and class through storytelling and multimedia drawings. This extraordinary illustrated story—Toyin Ojih Odutola’s best-known body of work—chronicles the private lives of two fictional aristocratic Nigerian families, the UmuEze Amara Clan and the House of Obafemi, if colonialist and slave-trade interventions had never disrupted the country. Rendered life-size in charcoal, pastel, and pencil, Ojih Odutola’s figures appear enigmatic and mysterious, set against the artist’s larger conceived narrative, highlighting the malleability of identity and assumptions about race, wealth, and class. The UmuEze Amara Clan and the House of Obafemi presents the story of these families in four chapters illustrated and authored by Ojih Odutola, accompanied by the artist’s sketches and notes. Also included are several insightful Trade Review"Featuring essays by Zadie Smith and others, this illustrated tale by a Nigerian American artist renders in charcoal, pastel and pencil two elite families in a Nigeria untouched by colonialism and the slave trade." —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW"Best Gift Books of 2021: The UmuEze Amara Clan and the House of Obafemi tells the story of two fictional aristocratic Nigerian families living in a world untouched by colonialism and the slave trade. The narrative is told by Ojih Odutola through words and life-size charcoal and pastel illustrations. The book is an excellent introduction to the artist’s work and includes her original sketches and notes as well as several insightful essays by noted writers and critics Zadie Smith, Leigh Raiford, and others." —NEW YORK MAGAZINE
£36.00
Brepols N.V. Donor'S Image
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£58.25
University of California Press William Kentridge
Book SynopsisTrade Review"...a persuasive new monograph..." * New York Review of Books *"...presents a formidable argument for Kentridge’s realignment in relation to global culture, providing us with an exhilarating image of what it means to be ‘contemporary up south’, and a more nuanced understanding of Kentridge’s unique body of work." * Burlington Contemporary *"By examining the centrality of metaphor to Kentridge’s creative processes, Maltz-Leca weaves a dense tapestry in which individual works from throughout his oeuvre are explicated in terms of the complex ways in which they relate to history, South African history in particular." * H-Net *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments On the Southern Tip of Africa 1 The Politics of Metaphor Erasing 2 History as Process, or Chasing Hegel out of Africa Animating 3 Process/Procession Processing Regime Change 4 Thinking/Doubting/Doubling Drawing (Up) 5 The Most Promiscuous of Metaphors Projecting Being Contemporary Up South World Time and Other Doubtful Enterprises Notes List of Illustrations Index
£37.80
Museum of Modern Art Paul Cézanne
Book SynopsisPaul Cezanne, whom Pablo Picasso called the father of us all, is widely considered to be 20th-century modernisms presiding genius. This essay accompanies each work, illuminating its significance and placing it in its historical moment in the development of modern art.
£6.95
Rizzoli International Publications Sorolla and the Paris Years
Book SynopsisPublished on the occasion of a major retrospective, this gorgeous new survey focuses on the paintings related to the years Joaquín Sorolla spent in Paris. A native of Valencia, Spanish Impressionist Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923) first went to Paris in 1885 as a young artist at the age of twenty-three. He exhibited at the international salons, winning the Grand Prix at the Exposition Universelle in 1900, and in 1906, he exhibited for the first time at the Galerie Georges Petit, one of the principal galleries of the Impressionists. The exhibition was a resounding success and helped establish Sorolla’s international reputation. Known for his vigorous compositions, unusual color palette, and loose, radiant brush strokes, Sorolla’s sun-drenched landscapes, beach scenes, and luminous portraits even impressed such contemporaries as Claude Monet. Richly illustrated and with newly researched essays by noted scholars, this important book reveals much new information about SorTrade Review"Sorolla and the Paris Years is a comprehensive study of the life and oeuvre of a naturalist painter who is known as one of baroque master Diego velaquez's best heirs. It explains not only his oeuvre as a whole but also includes analysy of individual paintings. This book is a gift for art lovers. . . It is simply a treat to hold this beautiful book in your hands." -WASHINGTON BOOK REVIEW
£999.99
Gagosian/Rizzoli Richard Serra 2013
Book SynopsisA catalogue of five monumental new works, shown in two exhibitions at Gagosian Gallery, New York. Richard Serra’s most recent sculptures, all from 2013, include 7 Plates 6 Angles, his largest indoor work to date.
£47.50
McMullen Museum of Art Rafael Soriano: The Artist as Mystic/El artista
Book SynopsisCuban painter Rafael Soriano (1920–2015) was an acclaimed master of geometric abstraction and a global figure in the twentieth-century art world—his work resonated with such international artists of Latin American origin as Roberto Matta, Rufino Tamayo, and Wifredo Lam. As a result of the revolution in Cuba in 1959, Soriano left the country in 1962 for the United States. The effect of the Cuban revolution on his art as well as his aesthetics in general are the focus of this book, an unprecedented examination of his entire oeuvre. Featuring more than ninety paintings, pastels, and drawings, this bilingual English-Spanish catalog for an accompanying exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; the Long Beach Museum of Art; and the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University begins with a contextual analysis of Soriano’s relationship to the Cuban avant-garde and his position within the emerging mid-century modernists. Essays then trace his evolving styles, examining his work through the lens of surrealism and European and Latin American transnational aesthetics. The idea of exile and struggle is a leitmotif and is framed within questions of transcendence and spirituality. Taken together, the contributions suggest both Soriano’s rootedness in Latin America and his striving for universality. The most comprehensive exploration of Soriano’s work to date, Rafael Soriano: The Artist as Mystic deftly takes the idea of exile and struggle so prominent in the artist’s work and frames it within important questions of transcendence and spirituality. This book will be essential reading for anyone intrigued by Latin American and modern art.
£26.50
BIS Publishers B.V. Art Jam The Card Game
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£16.31
Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH Janaina Tschäpe
Book SynopsisThe painterly conquest of space Through highly gestural and beautifully colored compositions, Janaina Tschäpe's paintings skillfully blur the line between landscape and imagination. This volume highlights the last seven years of the artist's work, which has seen a breakthrough in the level of visual complexity, technical confidence, and aesthetic freedom that she brings to it. A new essay by art historian Joachim Pissarro delves into the literary and historical references that shape and inform Tschäpe's approach to painting. Richly illustrated, with superb reproductions of the artwork alongside installation images of Tschäpe's museum and gallery exhibitions worldwide, this monograph documents a prolific period of creativity and her boundary-pushing use of media.
£46.40
Luath Press Ltd Skye Through an Artist's Eye
Book SynopsisThe paintings are grouped under various headings to take the reader through specific visual experiences beginning with some of the artist’s tools, colour palettes and showing the development of texture. Seascapes and shorelines are the first stop, going through to the moors,hills and beyond.
£9.49
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Gillian Carnegie
Book SynopsisThe singular paintings of British artist Gillian Carnegie (b.1971) have been exhibited and discussed extensively for nearly two decades but this is the first substantial publication on her work.Carnegie’s work is explicitly analytical, systematic yet oblique in its reexamination of traditional painting genres such as still life, landscape, portraits, and the nude – all of them 'genres without a subject', as they have sometimes been called. Yet she makes clear that her impulse to resuscitate these categories is not simply an exercise in formalism, historicism, academic reverence, postmodern pastiche, or nostalgia. And far from being without a subject, far from having no story to tell, Carnegie’s paintings insistently suggest that there is a subject, that there is a story, but that the painting exists not to communicate it but to conceal it, to hold it incommunicado. In contemporary painting Gillian Carnegie's work stands apart, quietly, calmly and insistently uncanny, with an emotional tenor unlike anything else in art today.Trade Review'Gillian Carnegie’s paintings are some of the most hypnotizing reflections on the modern world around; seemingly plain surfaces shimmer with something profoundly mysterious. Barry Schwabsky’s account of the evolution of her work is both wonderfully informative and beautifully written. I unreservedly recommend it.' -- Jennifer Higgie * Editor at Large, Frieze *Table of ContentsI A Weird Time to be a Painter; II What Images Tell Us; III Between Observation and Experience; IV An Absolute Object; V A Needless Bit of Sensationalism; VI Filling the Space with Miniature Abstractions; Notes; Acknowledgements; Biography; Solo Exhibitions; Group Exhibitions; Other Projects; Public Collections; Bibliography; Index
£33.75
Dia Art Foundation Steve McQueen. Bass
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£43.20
University of California Press Hans Hofmann
Book SynopsisHans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction offers a fresh and revealing assessment of the artist's prolific and innovative painterly career. The comprehensive exhibition and accompanying catalogue will feature approximately seventy paintings and works on paper by Hofmann from 1930 through the end of his life in 1966, including works from public and private collections across North America and Europe. Curator Lucinda Barnes builds on new scholarship published over the past ten years and the 2014 catalogue raisonné to present Hofmann as a unique synthesis of student, artist, teacher, and mentor who transcended generations and continents. His singular artistic achievement drew on artistic influences and innovations that spanned two world wars and transatlantic avant-gardes. Over the last fifty years Hofmann has come to be understood primarily from the vantage of his late color-plane abstractions. Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction expands our understanding and reinvigorates our apprecia
£39.10
HENI Publishing Damien Hirst The Light That Shines
Book SynopsisThe Light That Shines is a striking catalogue published to accompany the exhibition of the same name one of Damien Hirst's most ambitious, awe-inspiring exhibitions yet. Opening 2 March 2024 and showing until 23 June 2024, the exhibition spans the entire 500-acre estate of Château La Coste, Provence and its five exhibition pavilions, each designed by some of the world's most renowned architects, including Renzo Piano, the late Richard Rogers and Oscar Niemeyer.The Light That Shines harnesses the nature/culture question that has consistently permeated Hirst's practice, setting his artworks in the beautiful landscapes of one of France's oldest winemaking regions. Works range from the iconic formaldehyde sculptures to never-before-seen artworks, including the sculptures of Meteorites' and Satellites', as well as Cosmos Paintings' all inspired by Hirst's encounter with space in 2003 with the Beagle 2 mission to Mars.Compiled into a stunning catalogue encased withinan illustrated French-f
£44.99
König, Walther Nil Yalter Exile is a Hard Job Walls
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£28.50
VfmK How to Not Fuck Up Your ArtWorld Happiness Vol. 2
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£16.20
David Zwirner Carol Bove
Book SynopsisCarol Bove presents new work by “sculpture’s woman of steel,” as coined by Randy Kennedy in The New York Times. Her new sculptures expand on her investigations of materiality and form.Characterized by compositions of various types of steel, Bove’s ongoing series of “collage sculptures,” begun in 2016, amalgamates theoretical and art-historical influences across time periods and disciplines. To create these lyrical and abstract assemblages, Bove pairs fabricated tubing that has been crushed and shaped at her studio with found metal scraps and a single highly polished disk. Luminous color is applied to parts of the composition, transforming the steel—more commonly associated with inflexibility and heft—into something that appears malleable and lightweight, like clay, fabric, or crinkled paper.Bove’s new works are smaller in scale and elaborate on the “collage sculptures,” with more complex forms that twist, fold, and bend into postures that belie their material construction. Bove manipulates steel to varying degrees, rendering gentle folds in some, and extreme, almost anthropomorphic contortions in others. Their contrasting textures—matte, glossy, or rough—create a further sense of visual play, heightening the surface tension throughout.The publication features a new interview with the artist by Johanna Burton. Published on the occasion of the artist’s solo exhibition at David Zwirner, Hong Kong in 2019, Carol Bove is available in both English only and bilingual English/traditional Chinese editions.
£21.25
Frances Lincoln Cult Artists 50 CuttingEdge Creatives You Need to
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Józef Czapski
Book SynopsisThis stunning monograph, a long-overdue critical appraisal of Polish artist Józef Czapski arrives at a moment when the artist?s legacy is gaining new recognition. Within these pages, author Eric Karpeles conveys how making art was so enmeshed with Czapski''s way of seeing and being in the world that it was second nature. Given that he lived into his ninety-seventh year, it''s no surprise that the artist has works dating from every decade of the twentieth century but the first. As witness to the tumultuous events of that century, he found in painting ?a refuge and a salvation.?Prolific as a painter, he was equally disciplined in recording the events of his life in pencil, ink, and watercolor in his journals. At a time when abstract art tended to dominate aesthetic discourse, he preferred to observe the world around him, to portray people going about their daily business. Some of his most compelling works depict theatergoers and art lovers doing what they do best?looking.Trade Review'His is a life most deserving of its close-up' - The Lady
£40.00
Skira Maurice Marinot: The Glass 1911-1934
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£32.00
Hauser & Wirth Piero Manzoni: Materials & Lines
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£36.00
Phaidon Press Ltd Jackson Pollock
Book SynopsisThe essential introduction to the life and work of Jackson Pollock, the pioneering Abstract Expressionist painter.Trade Review"As the director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, Helen A. Harrison has worked with great dedication and enormous intelligence to preserve for generations to come the site where these two masters of twentieth-century art created much of their most important work. In her new book on Pollock, she has drawn upon her vast expertise on the subject to write an excellent and extremely engaging introduction to the artist and his art."—Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, co-authors of Jackson Pollock: An American Saga On 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
Hauser & Wirth Publishers Before or After at the Same Time Rome Milan and
Book SynopsisA compelling re-examination of the forces that influenced post-war Italian art, providing an alternative account of a tumultuous period through a focus on the artist Fabio Mauri. Taking the life of artist Fabio Mauri and the history of his family -a publishing dynasty with close connections to radical Italian art, poetry, cinema, philosophy, and literature- as a starting point for a re-examination of the forces shaping Italian visual culture between the end of the Second World War and the Years of Lead, this publication combines commissioned essays and first-person accounts with translated writings from the period to explore the ideas circulating in Rome and Milan in the 1950s and 1960s. The publication aspires to provide an alternative, anecdotal, and partial perspective on a turbulent period, drawing attention to the pivotal personal and professional networks that shaped postwar Italian art.
£28.80
Hauser & Wirth Mike Kelley: Timeless Painting
Book SynopsisAn exploration of Mike Kelley's unique approach to painting as a conceptual medium and his enduring relevance as an artist through responses by various artists that range from art historical analysis to epistolary ode. Published on the occasion of the eponymous 201920 exhibition at Hauser & Wirth New York, Mike Kelley: Timeless Painting the publication reproduces twelve series of paintings from 1994 through 2009 alongside responses to Kelley's work by a diverse group of artists that Porter has invited to contribute: Edgar Arceneaux with Kurt Forman, Carroll Dunham, Daniel Guzmán, Richard Hawkins, Jay Heikes, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Christina Quarles, Mary Reid Kelley, and Laurie Simmons. In writing that ranges from personal anecdote to art historical analysis, cento poem to epistolary ode, these artists consider the enduring relevance of Kelley's practice both as a painter and as an artist more broadly.
£36.00
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Becoming Superman
Book SynopsisThe deeper he read, the more he came to realize that he, too, had a superpower: the ability to tell stories and make everything come out the way he wanted it.Trade Review“J. Michael Straczynski is, without question, one of the greatest science fiction minds of our time.” — Max Brooks (World War Z) “Everything I read made me want to stand up and salute. I can’t stress enough how significant and moving (to say nothing of gripping and sometimes hilarious) this book is. It’s a magnificent piece of work that will stay with me for a long, long time.” — Cory Doctorow, author of Radicalized and Walkaway “Once I started, I couldn’t put it down. Straczynski embedded a mystery in an autobiography. Has to be a first.” — Dan DiDio, Editor in Chief, DC Comics “Part Hollywood how-to, part Frank McCourt-style reflection on emotional neglect and poverty, “Becoming Superman” is an enveloping look back at a unique career.” — Washington Post “His ability to stay the course, to work hard at all times, and to keep writing were his salvation time and again. This book is a testament to that — and it is an inspiring, touching look at how someone born into darkness can find the light and go on to do great things.” — NPR “I just finished reading Becoming Superman and can, without a mote of hyperbole, state it is one of the most terrifying and inspirational, funny and empathic nonfiction books of our time. I’m too old to be currying favors. Just trust me. Buy it or die!” — Walter Koenig “A fascinating journey through careers in three different professions—comic books, TV, and movies—from an accomplished master of each. Rare to have such detail and such access. A major literary autobiography!” — Bestselling author Greg Bear “Straczynski [...] delivers a frank memoir that’s equally harrowing and triumphant.” — Publishers Weekly “Becoming Superman is a valuable resource for those wishing to look behind the curtain to one of pop culture’s most cherished and esteemed writers [...] It is an incredible story of familial abuse and its aftermath, of perseverance and fortitude, of endurance and determination. Highly recommended.” — Fantasy Book Review “Gripping. An amazing testament to the range of human durability and determination, overcoming our impossibly dark side with something even more unlikely and miraculous -- hope.” — Hugo and Nebula Award Winning Novelist David Brin “A deeply moving testament to the power of storytelling, and a no-bullshit guide to becoming, if not Superman, a better person and writer.” — Tor.com “Straczynski’s memoir more than lives up to the promises of its sub-subtitle…Joe never saves the world à la Superman, but pulls through with a heart, spine, and soul of steel. ..” — AV Club “Straczynski’s life story is simultaneously horrifying and uplifting. He survives a childhood worse than almost anything you could imagine and ends up taking an unlikely path to Hollywood success. It’s funny, sad, infuriating, and inspiring--often all at once.” — Jason Snell, host of The Incomparable podcast “His true life story turns out to be as gripping and inspiring as any of his fiction.” — B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog “I’ve rarely felt such pain while reading a memoir, or felt so satisfied at its conclusion. It’s some kind of miracle that he’s taken this lifelong experience, leavened it with perspective, and created something so universal. Powerful, powerful stuff.” — Andy Ihnatko, Tech Author and Co-Host of The Material Podcast
£11.69
Skira Adeela Suleman
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£29.75
Arnoldsche Enric Mestre: Ceramic Sculpture
Book SynopsisDespite the fundamental functions that architecture must perform, it will always inspire artists across all genres with its masterful handling of space, harmony and proportion. Enric Mestre (b.1936) is one of those observers of space and volume who have left their mark on the ceramic sculptural art movement of the 20th century and beyond. As one of the key artists of the Spanish school, his name is mentioned in the same breath as master sculptors Jorge Oteiza and Eduardo Chillida. His sculptures come across as sober spatial constructions, but appearances are deceptive: these objects have a poetic force that counters the gaze of the beholder. This book celebrates the master's best creations and is a perfect opportunity to discover or rediscover his timeless work. Text in English and Spanish.
£35.70
HarperCollins Publishers Inc How Women Made Music
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£24.00
