Individual artists, art monographs Books
National Galleries of Scotland Joan Eardley
Book SynopsisJoan Eardley was one of the best-loved Scottish artists of the twentieth century. Her observations of children in the back streets of Glasgow as well as her expressionistic drawings and oils of the elements on the north-east coast of Scotland have caught the imagination of the Scottish public. Eardley is cherished as a painter of the Scottish identity in both town and country, who had a unique ability to sum up a community and the timeless drama of the natural world. This book examines Eardley's ouevre and its place in the international and British context and her reputation. It includes paintings and drawings from private collections, which have not been seen for many years, and works from the collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, which also holds the Joan Eardley Archive.Table of ContentsThe Early Years; Italy and France; Glasgow and Childhood; Catterline; The Late Work; Joan Eardley and Photography by Sara Stevenson; Chronology.
£17.09
Halsgrove Rosa Sepple RI: SWA Out of the Blue
£33.24
Bill Woodrow Alphabet
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£7.96
Frenetic Happiness Victor Boullet - Toxteth Error Lad. Painting,
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£23.75
Black Dog Press Introducing Suzy Lake
Book SynopsisSuzy Lake has been examining and critiquing ideals of the body, gender, and identity since the late 1960s. In her photographs, videos, and performances, she draws attention to social norms and constraints and aims to diminish the barrier between the viewer and the artwork. Introducing Suzy Lake follows the artist in images across five decades, as her political ideals are forged in Detroit’s civil rights movement in the late 1960s; as she realizes her first successes in Montreal’s artist-led cultural boom of the 1970s in the post-Expo 67, post-Duplessis era; and since 1978 in Toronto, as she finds her home and hones her artistic vision. Influenced by artists such as Cindy Sherman, Lake’s work demonstrates the innovation and continued influence of the “Feminist Avant-Garde” on contemporary art. Introducing Suzy Lake features almost 100 reproductions of Lake’s photographs, some drawn from celebrated installations, others from newly commissioned series. Complemented by essays by Allyson Mitchell, Robert Longo, Elizabeth Smith, Michelle Jacques, and Sara Angel, Introducing Suzy Lake reveals the richness and originality of Lake’s work and her stature as one of North America’s most influential contemporary artists.
£22.46
Ridinghouse Cecily Brown: Shipwreck Drawings
Book SynopsisThese extraordinary works by Cecily Brown, of wrecked ships, frantic and prone bodies, carefully illuminate the tensions between the past and the present. Taking inspiration from Delacroix’s shipwreck paintings, as well as one of the most feted paintings in the world; Géricault’s, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818–19. In her introduction to the book, Whitworth curator Dr Samantha Lackey writes, 'These extraordinary works by Cecily Brown, of wrecked ships, frantic and prone bodies, carefully illuminate the tensions between the past and the present. Of course, these drawings also push to the forefront of our minds the images we see every day on our screens, of shipwrecked refugees attempting, and failing, to make their own sea voyages.' The exhibition 'Cecily Brown: Shipwreck Drawings' was shown at The Whitworth (University of Manchester) from 12 November 2017 to 15 April 2018.
£22.50
D Giles Ltd Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party
Book SynopsisPierre-Auguste Renoir's famous painting Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880-81) portrays an informal gathering of real people he knew: fellow artists, journalists, critics, collectors, models and actors. Renoir and Friends deconstructs the painting, revealing the stories behind those he painted and explaining his working methods. Extraordinary details, photographs and contextual works - by Renoir and his contemporaries including Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas, Leon Bonnat and Edouard Manet, draw out information about who these people were. Essays by leading academics focus on Renoir's models and look at how the artist created a painting with universal appeal whilst remaining convincingly specific. AUTHOR: Eliza Rathbone is chief curator emerita at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. SELLING POINTS: . The first volume to look in depth at Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party . Features over 100 colour images of works by Renoir and his contemporaries, from international museum and private collections 102 colour illustrations
£21.21
Sansom & Co The Holy Box
Book SynopsisHistory of the building of the Sandham War Memorial Chapel, Burghclere and the art of the murals inside, painted by war artist Stanley Spencer
£22.50
MACK Doug Aitken: Works 1992-2022
Book SynopsisThe first catalogue raisonne of Doug Aitken's work spans all of the artist's major ground-breaking projects in film, photography, sculpture, and beyond, with authoritative texts on his practice and oeuvre.
£95.00
MACK Evidence
Book SynopsisThis limited edition artist’s book brings together digital collages and manipulated photographs by painter James White based on the celebrated and hugely influential series 'Evidence' by Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan. In 'Evidence', Sultan and Mandel drew on the archives of more than a hundred US government agencies, finding surreal narrative suggestions in deadpan images that were intended as functional documents, upending and interrogating the documentary natures they espoused. The book has been a continual reference for the grayscale photographic paintings for which James White has become known. In this volume, White pays tribute to Sultan and Mandel’s project by further undermining the evidentiary nature of the photographic medium through a process of intervention and painterly gesture which disrupts and reconstitutes the images’ mercurial surfaces. Published as a limited edition of 1000 signed copies.
£57.00
Strange Attractor Press Postcards for Mia
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£25.65
Strange Attractor Press Vision of the Hawk: The Art of Arik Roper
Book SynopsisThe first full colour monograph on the work of acclaimed graphic artist Arik Roper.Arik Roper’s vibrant psychedelic illustration and painting springs from the depths of a fertile imagination, invoking psychedelic visions, ancient dreams, and idyllic natural environments. Since the 1990s, his creations have appeared on the rock and metal album covers of such bands as The Black Crowes, Sleep, Earth, Sunn O))), and OM, screen-printed posters, in books and magazines, animations, game designs, and beyond. Vision of the Hawk collects an epic selection of his art for the first time in a single volume, alongside unpublished material and sketches, and texts by Roper describing his creative process, as well as by some of his many collaborators including authors Erik Davis, Peter Bebergal, and Jay Babcock, as well as musicians Stephen O’Malley (Sunn O)))), Al Cisneros (Sleep, Om) and Matt Pike (Sleep, High on Fire).
£40.50
Mandrake Out There
£25.50
Mandrake Wormwood Star
£15.30
MACK Base Matter and Uncommon Solvent Drawings Prints
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£142.50
MACK Magdalena Suarez Frimkess
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£50.00
MACK Positive Illusions
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£30.00
Mal Journal Mal N 4 Real Girls
Book SynopsisOn projection in three stories, four poems and a sequence of poems. Featuring illustrations by Birdie Hall. First published: October 2019 This issue of Mal Journal considers projection, transgression and adolescence, bringing together texts that challenge received notions of innocence and moral reasoning. It features new fiction by Chris Kraus, Luke Brown and Natasha Stagg, poetry by Rachel Long and a sequence of poems by Sasha Dugdale.
£10.00
Vault Editions Ltd The Gustave Doré Collection
£20.54
Monash University Publishing Renee So: Provenance
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£29.69
Pace Wildenstein Mark Rothko: The Realist Years - Selected Works
£22.13
Blue Dome Press Silver in Turkish Art
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£22.09
Parallax Press Fear, Illustrated: Transforming What Scares Us
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£19.55
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Amazing Art Nouveau Anton Seder: Coffee Table Edition
£18.29
Massey University Press Gretchen Albrecht: Between gesture and geometry
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£56.09
Massey University Press Edith Collier
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£48.00
Massey University Press Bordering on Miraculous
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£31.49
Massey University Press Mark Adams
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£52.69
MACK My Birth
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£40.80
Kaugummi Estelle Hanania - Dondoro
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£15.20
Jean Boite editions Marilyn Minter: All Wet
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£23.75
Jean Boite editions David Horvitz: Change the Name of the Days
Book SynopsisChange the Name of the Days is an artist's book designed by the American artist David Horvitz. Thirty-two lessons and short teaching units were developed by David Horvitz, artist and father, with the help of his 5 year old daughter. In the tradition of conceptual action books, David Horvitz has created a long poem inviting us to delve in the depths of the imagination. To play and learn with the notion of guide someone through the sounds of the world around you and discover the immateriality of the elements that constitute the world. From welcome the night into your house to exchange breaths with a plant, this publication by JBE Books, in association with Yvon Lambert, is also an opportunity to develop a performative action for each lesson and to constitute your own personal collection of poetic instruments. The book is enriched with a text by Natilee Harren, researcher and Fluxus specialist.
£23.75
Jean Boite editions What Time Is It?: Stories about Painting, Shadows
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£19.00
Jbe Books Google Volume 2
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£112.50
Distributed Art Pub Claire Chesnier The Sky Is Full and Opening Again
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£35.28
Note Note Editions FLOU
Book SynopsisThe work FLOU advances the experiments carried out by twenty photographers from the French and international art scenes during an exhibition held in September 2022, in Agnes Costa's eponymous laboratory. Note Note Éditions offered those photographers the opportunity to publish a selection of images related to the theme of blurriness by reflecting on photography and to venture beyond the aesthetic norms of the proper image. FLOU presents a total of 40 photographs. Despite the variety of techniques used and subjects treated, the photographs agree on the very materiality of the image. FLOU is also an opportunity to bring together, in a single book, a contemporary photographic scene, concerned with various aesthetics matters and priorities, but united in a common desire to exchange and dialogue with its time.
£24.70
M/M Home and Away 19872022 Volume 1 Biscuit Billys
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£58.50
M/M Home and Away 19872022 Volume 2 Seventh Heaven
Book SynopsisForeword by Bob StanleyEssay by Jo-Ann FurnissDesigned at M/M (Paris) What are these books? The greatest hits? Not really. A double album? Sort of. A retrospective? Certainly, but not a definitive one. These books were nearly entitled The New Elizabethans as the last picture was taken just after Queen Elizabeth's death in 2022 while all of the people in the pictures or the locations that appear are British. Yet that title seemed a little too narrowand far too royal. So, it's HOME and AWAY. HOME and AWAY is an idea of where somebody is from, where they travel to, and where, if they are the photographer Alasdair McLellan, they find themselves now after taking pictures for 35 years. These books fall somewhere between those two worlds,as does Alasdair McLellan himself. Alasdair started his life as a photographer aged thirteen, in 1987. His pictures today have changed little; his way of looking at the world is almost exactly the same. The first picture he ever took looks like it could
£58.50
Lone Gentlemen publishing Posthuman Codex
Book SynopsisThe world is burning, and the last humans go down fighting. Alchemical symbols and shifting red moons announce the inevitable demise of the world. An inferno awaits the faceless masses, ignorant to their fate. Strange fantastical creatures of bountiful colours thrive in the posthuman landscape. An allegory of our world on fire. Published by Lone Gentlemen Publishing
£45.00
Patrick Remy Studio Mocafico Numero Volume 7
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£34.20
JRP Ringier Scott King: Art Works
Book SynopsisScott King moves fluidly back and forth between art and design. As Art Director of i-D and Creative Director of Sleazenation magazines (for which he was awarded Best Cover and Best Designed Feature of the Year prizes), King''s design work is already well-known around the world. As an artist, King plays fast and loose with twentieth-century icons: in Brian, for example, a viewer recognizes at a glance Lenin''s familiar visage, with the face turned sternly to the side, the moustache plumping his marblesque upper lip, but the face on this white bust bears eye makeup and a hint of blush, and feathers sprout from the neck on either side. (Lenin as Brian Eno in his early Roxy Music days, King explains.) Often, King''s art seems virtually indistinguishable from his design work, as in his maps whose cheerfully colored Marimekko-ish dots represent domestic murders. This monograph is dedicated to the many hats of Scott King, whose work has been exhibited widely in London, New York and European galleries including KW Berlin, Portikus, White Columns, Kunstverein Munich and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
£21.60
De Gruyter Women of Chinese Modern Art: Gender and Reforming
Book Synopsis Bringing to light the largely overlooked female participation in domestic and international art worlds, this book offers the first comprehensive study of how women embroiderers, traditionalist calligraphers and painters, including Shen Shou, Wu Xingfen, Jin Taotao, and members of Chinese Women’s Society of Calligraphy and Painting, shaped the terrain of the modern art world and gender positioning during China’s important moments of social-cultural transformation from empire to republic. Drawing on a wealth of previously unexhibited artworks, rare artist’s monographs, women’s journals, personal narratives, diaries, and catalogs of international expositions, Doris Sung not only affirms women’s significant roles as guardian and innovator of traditionalist art forms for a modern nation, but she also reveals their contribution to cultural diplomacy and revaluation of Chinese artistic heritage on the international stage in the early twentieth century.
£54.50
Edition Olms Octavio Ocampo
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£29.75
Kerber Verlag Candice Breitz Love Story
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£33.72
Hatje Cantz Dayanita Singh: Dancing with my Camera
Book SynopsisDayanita Singh is the winner of the 2022 Hasselblad Award. With this book, the internationally celebrated artist Dayanita Singh returns to her artistic beginnings. In the catalogue for the first comprehensive retrospective, the first stop of which is hosted by the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, Singh presents early works from her 1980-1986 oeuvre. From hundreds of slides and contact prints, the artist made a selection of personal and powerful black-and-white photographs. As a rediscovery and look into her own past, the theme of the "archive", central to Singh's work, takes on a central dimension here. The media of photography, installation and book intertwine in Singh's work in a unique way, which is why this book also features recent photographs from the exhibition.
£32.00
Hatje Cantz Max Beckmann: Departure
Book SynopsisTravel is a fundamental experience of human existence. For Max Beckmann it was of existential importance both in a symbolic, but also in a deeply personal sense. In the 1920s, he regularly traveled to the noble health resorts and palace hotels on the Dutch, Italian, and French coasts. His defamation as a "degenerate" artist by the Nazi regime, however, forced him to retreat, first from Frankfurt to Berlin and subsequently into exile in Amsterdam. His emigration to the United States marked the culmination of a life entwined with the longing to travel as well as uprooting, transit and exile. Max Beckmann. DEPARTURE assembles an outstanding selection of artworks and initiates a dialogue with hitherto unseen objects and materials from the Max Beckmann Archive. It shows Beckmann’s relationship to film and literature as a producer of images of aspirations and longing resonating with notions of identity and home.
£40.50
Hatje Cantz Bani Abidi: The Artist Who
Book SynopsisOne of Pakistan’s most notable contemporary artists, Bani Abidi creates videos and multimedia works that interweave autobiographical fiction with socio-political commentary and satire. Her practice explores the sobering realities of the political conditions, bureaucracy, and urban infrastructure in Asia, exposing the absurdities emerging from the dysfunctionalities of everyday life. The Artist Who is the first monograph to look at the work of this Berlin-based Pakistani artist. Envisioned as an artist project, the publication explores notions of humor, playfulness and experimentation by engaging with forms of writing, design, printing, and assembly. Containing a documentation of artworks created over two decades as well as archival material and a rich selection of texts, it represents the wide range of relationships Abidi has fostered during this period.
£32.00
Hirmer Verlag Kubra Khademi (Multi-lingual edition): Political
Book SynopsisThe artist Kubra Khademi (b. 1989) lives in Paris and focuses in her work on her life as a woman and a person with direct experience as a refugee. This makes it both political and highly topical. Multi-faceted themes pervade her art, including her function as mouthpiece and as an element in the fight for the fundamental rights of women, as well as artistic work in exile and in a Muslim society. In paintings and more recently with the use of photographic techniques and embroidery, Khademi presents tranquil nude female figures that – depending on the angle – can nonetheless be interpreted as provocative. They are juxtaposed with impressive performances that draw on the artist’s own physical experiences as a subject. Khademi focuses her attention on the male-dominated society in countries like her native Afghanistan and the socio-political situation there, linking together motifs from mythology, art history and politics. Kubra Khademi has received many awards for her work, and this overview publication presents her oeuvre in all its complexity.
£23.96
