Non-graphic and electronic art forms Books
HarperCollins Publishers Hammer Nail
Book SynopsisInspired by radical Italian designer Enzo Mari, this practical book with step-by-step DIY projects forhand built, beautiful furniture is a tribute to his simple ideas that challenged the consumerism of the furniture industry.Many interpreted Enzo Mari's book Autoprogettazione? as a manifesto of nostalgic longing for a pre-capitalist society where people built what they needed themselves, but Mari's goal wasn't to make people cease consuming. Mari wanted people to consider the more basic aspects of the objects we surround ourselves with and what it is that makes a piece of furniture, beautiful, comfortable and functional.Taking Enzo Mari and his book as his influence, Erik Eje Almqvist unpacks the practical aspects of the Autoprogettazione? theory, offering simple designs for handbuilt, beautiful furniture. Using just a hammer, nails and boards cut to standard dimensions, Hammer & Nail explores only a few techniques but arms the reader with skills and inspiration for life. With easy-to-
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3DTotal Publishing Ltd The Sketchbook of Loish: Art in Progress
Book SynopsisThe Sketchbook of Loish offers readers a unique look into Loish’s creative processes and idea generation, providing an insight into the role her sketches play in her extremely popular work. Peek inside Loish’s sketchbook and discover how she explores gesture, stylization, and sketching for animation. Learn the different techniques she uses when sketching with traditional and digital tools, and follow the book’s two detailed tutorials on character construction and sketching digitally to improve your own processes. The book also features handy quick tips for capturing movement, using different line weights, shading, and using textured brushes. Including an insight into Loish’s character sketching, development sketches, landscape, and reference studies this book will show you how Loish captures the spirit of her finished artworks in her exquisite preliminary work. In addition to showcasing a comprehensive collection of Loish’s sketches, this book features exclusive artwork, and a special chapter exploring Loish’s personal concepts to give an in-depth look at how her initial ideas evolve through sketches to culminate in her accomplished concept designs. A truly inspiring and informative book with a high-quality finish and slipcase, The Sketchbook of Loish will have you itching to get sketching!
£20.69
Oxford University Press Inc Human Anatomy for Artists
Book SynopsisEliot Goldfinger, a realistic sculptor and instructor of human and animal anatomy, has designed and written a reference work for artists and art students on the visual and descriptive components of human anatomy. The format is simple and accessible; all information about one aspect of a topic is set forth on facing pages. For example, the anterior leg muscle is illustrated in a series of precise anatomical drawings and well-lit photos, with text on origin, insertion, action, structure, and how it relates to creating surface form directly opposite the pictures. Unique to this book are photographs of a series of sculptures which show the basic volumes of the figure, revealing the basic principle of the dynamic between the form units of the body. No other artistic anatomy book is so well organized, detailed, and clearly rendered, and its illustrations are of exceptional quality.Trade Review`there are so many [other] useful benefits that this book is within an affordable range for young professional illustrators ... It is an extremely informative book and one which would remain a source of knowledge for years to come.' MAA News, April 1992`this is a very thorough anatomical reference book designed specifically for artists' Artists Newletter, August 1992`This is a learned and exceptionally thorough work which provides a definitive, copiously illustrated and highly accessible reference guide specifically for the artist ... the author has compiled and up-to-date single volume on artistic anatomy currently available ... Human Anatomy for Artists will, I am sure, prove an invaluable source of reference to all those interested in figurative art.' Oliver Lange, The ArtistTable of ContentsIntroduction; Skeleton; Muscles; Surface Structures; Proportion; Mass Conceptions/Geometry; Bibliography; Index
£65.00
Dover Publications Inc. The Materials and Methods of Sculpture Dover Art
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Search Press Ltd Drawn from the Wild
Book SynopsisTransform foraged and found materials into vibrant, sustainable drawing media, from richly pigmented pastels and smoke-black charcoal to deep, lightfast inks.?If you love culture, but know in your bones you are also part of nature, like me, you?ll want to make your art practice more ecologically sound and sustainable.? - Caroline RossThis stunning, practical book, sequel to the best-selling Found and Ground, contains both ancient and modern techniques for ?rewilding? your art practice. With hands-on advice and simple, step-by-step instruction, artist and author Caroline Ross shows you how to create beautiful, useful art supplies from wild and ancient materials ? whether those materials are foraged, natural, discarded or repurposed.Inside the book you?ll discover:? Advice on how to forage safely and ethically, as well as tips on scavenging in the urban environment and rewilding your art practice gradually? Practical, step-by-step instructions for using lump media, preparing pigments, and creating hard and soft pastels? A complete guide to creating charcoal, from assessing different wood types, refining your sticks and then a guide to burning? A guide to creating tannin, iron gall and botanical inks, plus instructions for making your own quill pen and brush? Surfaces on which to work, from found paper, leather and bark, to making your own sewn sketchbook? A final section on more permanent and long-lasting materials, such as metalpointExpansive, inclusive and ethically-aware, Caroline illustrates the book with her own inspirational artwork alongside that of other artistic contributors from different cultures and different parts of the world, with their own distinctive materials, approaches and uses of the same core techniques.
£14.39
Penguin Books Ltd The Beauty of Everyday Things
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIt would not be entirely amiss to describe Yanagi's position in Japan as comparable to that of Ruskin and Morris in England ... He left as a legacy an aesthetic and religious creed of vital importance to men and women all over the world -- Bernard LeachWhat impresses me most in Yanagi is the strength of his vision, his direct eye for beauty. His was an immediate and intuitive faculty of an extraordinary kind -- Shoji HamadaRadical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial -- Edmund de WaalSoetsu Yanagi's unerring eye has influenced generations of makers. His notion of Zen and the art of design continues to inspire all those involved in shaping our everyday world -- Jasper Morrison
£9.49
Orion Publishing Co The Museum of Broken Relationships
Book SynopsisWhat to do with the fragments of a love affair?A postcard from a childhood sweetheart. A wedding dress in a jar. Barbed wire. Silicone breast implants. Red stilettos, never worn. These objects and many others make up the inspiring, whimsical, sometimes bizarre, and always unforgettable population of the real-life Museum of Broken Relationships.A decade ago, two lovers were struggling through their own painful breakup, desperate to heal their heartbreak without destroying the memory of the love they had shared. Then, an idea struck: they would create a communal space, a kind of refuge for - and cathartic celebration of - the everyday objects that had outlasted love. These items, along with the anonymous, intimate stories each piece represented, quickly captured hearts and imaginations across the globe. As word spread, the tiny museum became a worldwide sensation.Collected here are 203 of the best, funniest, most heartwarming and thought-provoking piecesTrade ReviewEach photograph in this poignant collection is labelled with a note about the relationship it represents - from the flippant, to the sweetly melancholy to the downright savage - and hint at how that relationships came undone. Compelling and addictive. -- Eithne Farry * THE SIMPLE THINGS *
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Marsilio Pierre Huyghe Liminal
Book SynopsisHuyghe's transitional exhibition environments mark the threshold between human and inhumanFor French artist Pierre Huyghe (born 1962), the ritual of the exhibition is capable of generating new possibilities of interdependence between the events and elements that manifest themselves. A central figure in the search for art's relationship with the non-human, even in his earliest works, he adopts an animalistic or otherworldly perspective in order to explore what lies outside our understanding.Huyghe's Venice solo exhibition in the spring of 2024 incorporated all facets of his multidisciplinary practice to explore liminal spaces: areas of emotional, physical and spiritual transition. Within the darkened, hushed rooms of the Punta della Dogana, soundtracked only by bubbling water and the shuffling of visitor's footsteps, the artist creates new, intangible encounters with every work. Video installations show an apelike creature wearing a human mask or a faceless woman feeling for craters on the moon. Elsewhere, fish float in an aquarium tank and an AI-powered system spouts steam, smoke and music from two suspended boxes.Liminal is an opportunity to retrace the career of an artist perpetually fascinated with skimming the surfaces of other worlds. This large, richly illustrated volume, features specially commissioned photographs of the Punta della Dogana installation. The texts by Chiara Vecchiarelli, Tristan Garcia, Tobias Rees and Patricia Reed outline the perimeter of Huyghe''s intervention, which is further clarified in his dialogue with curator Anne Stenne. An index of the featured works, spanning 1993 to the present, make this book the most complete Huyghe publication to date.
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Silvana Boltanski: Souls From Place to Place
Book SynopsisThis volume travels through the most important moments and crossroads in the lifetime and career of Christian Boltanski, which have led him into reflecting upon the outcome of some historical events during the twentieth century and on the need to reconsider appropriate representation methods. History, histories and the statute of the image are the fulcrum of the conversation being proposed. In particular, this conversation deals with some fundamental themes: the difference between collective memory, recollection and oblivion; relations between the individual and the crowd; the entity of absence, intended as proof of a destroyed presence, but also as device for the reactivation of memory; the incidence of an isolated glance, that of the observer, upon whose primacy the history of western art has constructed its foundations.
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Animal Media Group LLC Donald Judd Spaces
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£80.75
Yale University Press David Smith Sculpture
Book SynopsisA monumental new work of scholarship on a luminary of twentieth-century art
£360.00
Hato Press Cooking with Scorsese - The Cookbook
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£40.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sculpting in Wire
Book SynopsisA fun and comprehensive introduction to sculpting in wire with 6 step-by-step projects. This book is a clear, lively and fun introduction to sculpting in wire. Very much aimed at beginners, there are 6 projects of increasing difficulty, aiming to teach you how to sculpt in wire from the most basic starting point up through to soldering. The first projects give you information about wire and using pliers, and then how to incorporate other materials such as tin, feathers and material to your work. The last project includes the use of some simple silver soldering. Get started with clear step-by-step images that show you the processes involved in every project and be inspired by the work of contemporary artists showing everything from hats and shoes, to life-size figures, sheep and even elephants.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Getting Started Inspiration Wire Equipment and Tools Soldering Equipment Basic Techniques Basic Wire Manipulation 2. The Pelican 3. Tortoiseshell Butterfly 4. The Czechoslovakian Teapot 5. The Sheep 6. The Bi-Plane Gallery Appendices List of Suppliers Websites of Artists US Wire Gauge Sizes Index
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University of Minnesota Press Tsuchi: Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese
Book SynopsisAn examination of Japanese contemporary art through the lens of ecocriticism and environmental history Collectively referred to by the word tsuchi, earthy materials such as soil and clay are prolific in Japanese contemporary art. Highlighting works of photography, ceramics, and installation art, Bert Winther-Tamaki explores the many aesthetic manifestations of tsuchi and their connection to the country’s turbulent environmental history, investigating how Japanese artists have continually sought a passionate and redemptive engagement with earth.In the seven decades following 1955, Japan has experienced severe environmental degradation as a result of natural disasters, industrial pollution, and nuclear irradiation. Artists have responded to these ongoing catastrophes through modes of “mudlarking” and “muckracking,” utilizing raw elements from nature to establish deeper contact with the primal resources of their world and expose its unfettered contamination. Providing a comparative assessment of more than seventy works of art, this study reveals Japanese artists’ engagement with a richly diverse repertoire of earthy materialities, elucidating their aesthetic properties, changing conditions, and cultural significance. By focusing on the role of tsuchi as a convergence point for a wide range of creative practices, this book offers a critical reassessment of contemporary art in Japan and its intrinsic relationship to the environment. Situating art within the context of ecology and urbanization, Tsuchi shows artists striving to explore and reprocess raw forms of earth beneath the corruptions of human activity.Trade Review "Tsuchi is a compelling and original book that brings together new insights into the relationships between environmentalism, contemporary art, and the ‘aesthetics of Japanese earth.’ Bert Winther-Tamaki’s interweaving of historical context, close visual analysis, and rich use of Japanese sources make it an outstanding book that will make a lasting impact in the field of Japanese art history and beyond."—Namiko Kunimoto, author of The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art "Tsuchi is a superb key concept that allows us to dig deeper into a rich lode of world art history that is postwar Japan. In his thoughtful study, Bert Winther-Tamaki literally offers us a bottom-up view of what such radical practitioners as Shiraga Kazuo and Nakahira Takuma saw, felt, and experienced with this ubiquitous matter of our planet."—Reiko Tomii, independent scholar "Tsuchi provides an ingenious structure for understanding the visual culture surrounding the very ground we stand on. "—H-Net Reviews "Against the backdrop of the region’s urbanization and intensifying environmental issues, this rigorous text seeks to understand the earth itself as an artistic medium for critiquing the roots of these interconnected crises, and the fusion of ecology and art as a potential path forward."—Hyperallergic Table of ContentsIntroduction: Japanese Cultures of EarthI. The Postwar Silos of Tsuchi Media1. Ceramics: Earth Flavor in Fired Clay2. Photography: Soil Conditions in the Lens3. Avant-Garde Actions: Wrestling and Digging Earthy MaterialsII. Convergence and Proliferation since the 1980s4. The Bubble and Its Aftermath: Containment of Spillage and Blast5. Earth Diving before and after the Triple DisasterEpilogue: Tsuchi in the Contaminated World to ComeAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Indiana University Press Medals and Plaquettes in the Ulrich Middeldorf
Book SynopsisArne R. Flaten is Associate Professor of Art History at Coastal Carolina University. He is co-founder and co-director of Ashes2Art: Digital Reconstructions of Ancient Monuments and of the Digital Jazz Manuscripts Archive. He is editor (with Charles Rosenberg) of a special issue of The Medal.
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Oxford University Press Archaic and Classical Greek Art
Book SynopsisRanging widely over the fields of sculpture, vase painting, and the minor arts, this book provides a brilliant and original introduction to the art of archaic and classical Greece. By looking closely at the social and cultural contexts in which the rich diversity of Greek arts were produced, Robin Osborne shows how artistic developments were both a product of, and contributed to, the intensely competitive life of the Greek city.Trade Reviewa different approach suggesting new perspectives and original connections ... eye-opening and thought-provoking * Professor François Lissarrague, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris *brings all that is best in the 'new' Classical art history to this exciting interpretation ... No reader of Osborne's stimulating and engaging book will come away with their vision of Greek art unchanged * Dr Jeremy Tanner, Institute of Archaeology, University of London *Students of art will be intrigued and challenged by the methods employed and examples so cleverly chosen by one of our leading historians of Archaic and Classical Greece * Professor Joan Connelly, New York University *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter 1: A history of art without artists ; Chapter 2: From praying to playing: the art of the eighth century BC ; Chapter 3: Reflections in an eastern mirror ; Chapter 4: Myth as measure ; Chapter 5: Life enlarged ; Chapter 6: Marketing an image ; Chapter 7: Enter politics ; Chapter 8: Gay abandon ; Chapter 9: Cult, politics, and imperialism ; Chapter 10: The claims of the dead ; Chapter 11. Individuals within and without the city ; Chapter 12: The sensation of art ; Chapter 13: Looking Backwards ; List of Illustrations, Bibliographic essay, Timeline, Index
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Rough Trade Books Pretty Ugly Kirsty Gunn
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Albion Barn Publishing Joana Vasconcelos Material World
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Distributed Art Publishers Do Ho Suh: Portal
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary journey of an “impossible” sculpture made from the negative form of an ancient Korean gate In 2006, London-based Korean artist Do Ho Suh (born 1962) began work on a seemingly impossible project—to “make something out of nothing,” casting the negative form of a traditional Korean gate in solid acrylic resin. Portal would take nearly a decade to complete, and would provide the site for fundamental developments in Suh’s thinking on the role of both artist and museum in the 21st century, as well as the relationship between East and West. This volume tells the epic story of that process through those who made it possible. Through color illustrations and texts, it provides unique access to the typically veiled fabrication process: the process of scanning, modelling and constructing a nine-ton sculpture that would appear as if it was not there, a “living ghost image” cast from negative space.Trade ReviewReally nice balance of stunningly sequenced imagery and process/development drawings created an immersive, unforgettable experience with great support from the spare, methodical design. * AIGA *
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D Giles Ltd Isamu Noguchi, Archaic/Modern
Book SynopsisIsamu Noguchi, Archaic/Modern brings together more than eighty works, from six decades, which reveal how the ancient world shaped this inspirational artist s vision for the future. Monolithic basalt sculptures and floating Akari ceiling lights are juxaposed with works that use stone, water, and light to call to mind elemental structures in civilization across time. Noguchi saw himself as equal parts artist and engineer and this volume devotes special attention to his patented designs, such as Radio Nursethe first baby monitor, and also includes his designs for stage sets, playgrounds, and utilitarian articles, many of which are still being produced today. "
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Precious Indian Weapons and other Princely
Book SynopsisAn informative and beautifully produced guide to one of the worldâs most spectacular collections of Indian jewelled weapons.Trade Review'An accessible book of sound scholarship that serves as an excellent introduction to the topic of fine Indian arms for a non-specialist. … Precious Indian Weapons has undoubtedly raised the bar for future publications and will be an important work for years to come' - Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsForeword by Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Historical Overview • 1. The Katar; 2. The Chilanum; 3. Hourglass-Shaped Hilts; 4. Eared- or Cloven-Pommel Hilts; 5. Pistol-Grip Hilts; 6. Animal-Head Hilts; 7. Floral Hilts; 8. Deep-Sheathed Knives; 9. The Pish-Qabz; 10. Swords; 11. A Crutch Dagger, Crutches and a Staff Finial; 12. The Archery Ring; 13. A Jewelled Shield, Harness Fittings and Dagger-Cord Ornaments; 14. Insignia of Rank and Status
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Spector Books Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017
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Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Hans Josephson
Book SynopsisHans Josephsohn, born in 1920 in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), came to Zurich via Florence as a Jewish immigrant in 1938. In more than six decades he has created a sculptural oeuvre that transcends the fashions and fads of the art world and yet testifies to his incomparably sensitive understanding of our age. This comprehensive monograph introduces the reader to Josephsohn's approach, outlines his development and places him within the development of twentieth-century art. The book shows the fascinating uniqueness and the tense calm of an oeuvre that offers many young artists an attitude to art that mirrors their own concerns. AUTHOR: Gerhard Mack is the arts editor of the Sunday edition of the "Neue Zurcher Zeitung" and the author of numerous essays and publications on art and architecture, literature, and theatre." 136 colour, 92 b/w illustrations
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Precious Indian Weapons and other Princely
Book SynopsisAn informative and beautifully produced guide to one of the world's most spectacular collections of Indian jewelled weapons.Table of ContentsForeword by Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Historical Overview • 1. The Katar; 2. The Chilanum; 3. Hourglass-Shaped Hilts; 4. Earedor Cloven-Pommel Hilts; 5. Pistol-Grip Hilts; 6. Animal-Head Hilts; 7. Floral Hilts; 8. Deep-Sheathed Knives; 9. The Pish-Qabz; 10. Swords; 11. A Crutch Dagger, Crutches and a Staff Finial; 12. The Archery Ring; 13. A Jewelled Shield, Harness Fittings and Dagger-Cord Ornaments; 14. Insignia of Rank and Status
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ACC Art Books Tanabe Chikuunsai IV: Masterpieces in Bamboo
Book SynopsisThe bamboo: tall, strong and flexible. This fast-growing shoot has been used as a construction material, a foodstuff and fuel for millennia, from India to Japan. Tanabe Chikuunsai IV’s art elevates bamboo to new heights. By weaving together small pieces of fibrous stalk, he creates vast, detailed sculptures without the use of rivets or adhesives. Under Chikuunsai IV’s skilled craftsmanship, bamboo is more than a functional tool: it is modern art, a unifying symbol of Japanese culture. His sculptures revere traditional workmanship, while conveying important contemporary messages – the codependence of nature and man, and the importance of protecting our environment. Part autobiography, part introduction to the craft, this monograph follows Chikuunsai IV’s growth from a child marvelling at his grandfather’s mastery of bamboo, to a maestro in his own right. Bamboo weaves his past to his present, providing a sturdy foundation on which his art continues to build. “Love bamboos, live with bamboos,” says Chikuunsai IV. As this book demonstrates, he has done precisely that.
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Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Cinema Mon Amour: Film in Art
Book SynopsisCinema mon amour focuses on the mutual fascination that art and film have for one another. It features work by international artists, including Martin Arnold, John Baldessari, Fiona Banner, Marc Bauer, Pierre Bismuth, Candice Breitz, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, collectif_fact, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Thomas Galler, Christoph Girardet & Matthias Muller, Douglas Gordon, Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler, Samson Kambalu, Daniela Keiser, Urs Luthi, Philippe Parreno, Julian Rosefeldt, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sam Taylor-Johnson, and Mark Wallinger. All of them have engaged with different themes surrounding cinema and filmmaking. The well-founded essays discuss topics such as cinema as space, the film industry, found footage, specific movies and genres, the mechanisms of film, as well as the filmmakers' gaze at art. This lavishly illustrated book, published to coincide with an exhibition at Aargauer Kunsthaus in Switzerland, offers an insight into the allure that film and cinema have on us. Cinema mon amour, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland, 22 January to 17 April 2017.
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Yale University Press Carole Solvay
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Yale University Press Huma Bhabha
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Oxford University Press Greek Historical Inscriptions 478404 BC
Book SynopsisThis volume is both a companion to the editors'' Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404-323 BC, and a successor to the later part of the Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century BC, edited by Russell Meiggs and David M. Lewis and published in 1969. As with the editors'' earlier collection, it seeks to make a selection of historically significant inscribed texts accessible to scholars and students of fifth-century Greek history. Since the publication of Meiggs and Lewis'' collection, a number of significant new inscriptions and fragments have been unearthed and new interpretations of previously known examples developed. As well as updating the scholarly corpus, this volume aims to broaden the thematic range of inscriptions discussed and to include a greater selection of material from outside Athens, while still adhering to the intention of presenting texts which are important not just as typical of their genre but in their own right. In doing so, it offers Trade ReviewThis highly anticipated anthology . . . is in every respect an absolute success . . . There is no doubt that for the next half-century this new edition of the Greek Historical Inscriptions will be the epigraphic and historical reference of the fifth century. * Patrice Brun, Bryn Mawr Classical Review [translated] *[A] general introduction to epigraphical evidence and its uses; a new, enlarged selection of appropriate documents; facing translations of them all (as already in RO); detailed commentaries, incorporating up-to-date bibliography; three maps; seventeen plates. How any of this could have been done significantly better is very hard to see. It is quite superb. * David Whitehead, CJ-Online *Table of ContentsPreface List of plates List of abbreviations and notes on references Introduction 101: Victory of Hieron of Syracuse at Cyme, c. 474/3 102: Public curses at Teos and Abdera, 480-450 103: Thasian laws relating to wine, c. 470/420 104: Thasian regulation of behaviour in the streets, 460s 105: Micythus' dedications at Olympia, c. 460 106: Eleusinian regulations, before 460 107: Decree of the Athenian deme Scambonidae, c. 460 108: Athenian decree concerning the genos of the Praxiergidai, 450s to 420s 109: Casualty-list of the Athenian tribe Erechtheis, 459 110: Samians fight in Egypt, c. 460 454 111: Casualty list of the Argives killed at Tanagra, 458 or 457 112: Thank-offering for the Victory of Tanagra, 458 or 457 113: An Athenian dead on Aegina, after c. 457 114: A victory of Selinus, fifth century 115: A sacred law from Selinus, 450s 116: Athenian dealings with the Delphic Amphictyony, c. 457 117: Thessalian dedications after the battle of Tanagra, c. 457 118: Thetonium in Thessaly honours a Corinthian, c. 450-425 119: Athenian tribute quota lists, 454/3-432/1 120: Athenian judicial relations with Phaselis, before c. 450 (?) 121: Athenian regulations for Erythrae, late 450s 122: Regulations from Erythrae, c. late 450s 123: Political expulsions from Miletus, c. 450-440 124: Lead tablets from Camarina, c. 450 125: Civil laws of Gortyn, c. 450 126: Relations between Argos, Cnossus, and Tylissus, c. 450 127: Elis honours a Spartan and a Euboean, c. 450 128: Treaty between Sparta and the Erxadieis, c. 450(?) 129: Athenian casualty list, c. 447 130: Athenian campaign in the Megarid, 446 131: Athenian relations with Chalcis, 446/5 or 424/3 132: Halicarnassian law concerning disputed property, c. 450 133: Land confiscation and its consequences on Chios, c. 479-450 134: Accounts of Nemesis of Rhamnous, c. 450-440 135: Accounts of Pheidias' statue of Athena, 447-438 136: Cypress from Carpathus, 445-430 137: Athens' appointment of a priestess and building of a temple to Athena Nike, c. 438 or 450 445 138: Payments for Athens' Samian war, 440 and 439 139: Athenian treaty with Samos, 439 140: Victory of Taras over Thurii, c. 443-433 141: Athenian decree regulating the offering of first-fruits at Eleusis, c. 435 or earlier 142: Athenian colony at Brea, 430s (?) 143: Religious decree of Miletus, 434/3 144: Athenian financial decrees, 434/3 145: Building accounts of the Parthenon, 434/3 146: Calendar of sacrifices from the Athenian deme of Thoricus, c. 430 147: Accounts of the Delian Temples, 434-432 148: Payments for Athens' expeditions to Corcyra, 433/2 149: Reaffirmed Athenian alliances with Rhegium and Leontini, 433/2 150: Athenian decrees for Methone, 430/29-424/3 151: Contributions to a Spartan war fund, c. 427-412 152: Athenian decree proposed by Cleonymus about Delian League tribute, 426/5 (?) 153: Athenian decree proposed by Thudippus for the reassessment of Delian League tribute, 425/4 154: Athenian decree proposed by Cleinias about Delian League tribute, 425/4 or slightly later (?) 155: Athenian decree enforcing the use of Athenian coins, weights, and measures, c. 425-415 156: Athenian decree concerning the priestess of Athena Nike, 424/3 157: Athens honours Heracleides of Clazomenae, 423 or later 158: Regulations on the duties of envoys sent to Delphi by Andros, inscribed at Delphi, c. 425 159: Decree of the Athenian deme Plotheia, c. 420 160: Loans to the Athenian state from the sacred treasuries, 426/5-423/2 161: Athens honours Polypeithes of Siphnos, 422/1 162: Athens honours Callippus of Thessaly, 422/1 163: Naupactians and Messenians, c. 420s 164: Thank-offering of the Messenians and Naupactians, c. 423 165: Alliance of Athens, Argos, Mantinea, and Elis, 420 166: Athenian Treaties with Egesta and Halicyae, 418/7-416/5 167: Athenian decree about the sanctuary of Neleus, Basile, and Codrus, 418/7 168: Athenian tribute quota-list, 418/7 (?) 169: Inventory of the treasures in the hekatompedon at Athens, 418/7 170: Payments from the treasury of Athena, 418/7-415/4 171: Athenian decrees relating to the Sicilian expedition, 415 172: Confiscated property of the Hermocopidae, 414 173: Oligarchic Athens honours Pythophanes, 411 174: Payments from the treasury of Athena, 411 175: Eretria thanks Hegelochus for assistance in its liberation from Athens, 411 176: Rewards for denouncing uprisings at Thasos, 411-409 (?) 177: Thasian supporters of democracy and Athens, after 411 178: Theozotides and the Athenian orphans, c. 410 179: Gravestone of the Athenian Myrrhine, c. 410 180: Payments from the treasury of Athena, 410/09 181: Erechtheum building accounts, 409/8 and 408/7 182: Athens honours the assassins of Phrynichus, 410/09 183: Republication of Athenian Laws, 410/09-400/399 184: Athens honours Oeniades of (Palae)Sciathus, 408/7 185: Athenian ratification of Alcibiades' treaty with Selymbria, 407 186: Ratification of an Athenian treaty with the Clazomenians at Daphnus, 407 187: Athens honours Neapolis in Thrace, 409-407 188: Athens honours Archelaus of Macedon, 407/6 189: An Athenian decree concerning Carthage, 406 190: List of sailors in Athenian triremes, 412-405 191: Athens honours the Samians, 405/4 192: Thank-offering for victory at Aegospotami, shortly after 405 193: Monument of the Lycian dynast Gergis, late fifth century 194: Funeral law from Iulis on Ceos, late fifth century 195: Monetary pact between Mytilene and Phocaea, late fifth century (?) Athenian archons, 478/7-404/3 Concordance of standard editions Bibliography Index I: Persons and places Index II: Subjects Index III: Significant Greek words
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Freundeskreis des Gerhard-Marcks-Hauses e. V. Christine and Margaret Wertheim Value and
Book SynopsisDocumenting the internationally acclaimed collective craft project by the Wertheim sisters that brilliantly merges ecology, knitting, science and installation artAustralian-born, California-based sister artists Margaret and Christine Wertheim draw on a unique fusion of mathematics, marine biology, traditional handicraft methods and collective art practice to create large-scale coralline landscapes both beautiful and blighted. Responding to anthropogenic crisis, their soft sculptures and wall-mounted reliefs simulate living reefs using crochet techniques to mimic in yarn the curling, crenelated forms of actual marine organisms. Initiated in 2005, the Crochet Coral Reef project has been exhibited internationally. In addition to their own reefs, the Wertheims have collaborated with communities in 50 cities and countries to create local Satellite Reefs, to which more than 20,000 people have contributed, constituting one of the largest, longest running part
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Spector Books Tim Etchells: Let's Pretend None of This Ever
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Valiz Seven Logics of Sculpture: Encountering Objects
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Marsilio Ann Veronica Janssens
Book SynopsisOver four decades of atmospheric installation worksSince the late 1970s, Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens (born 1956) has been using ephemeral elements such as light to investigate the sensory perception of reality. Her works create situations that disorient viewers, breaking down their conventional perceptive mechanisms. This catalog, accompanying an exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, retraces the artist's entire career across sculpture, video and installation.
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Yale University Press Chinati
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Stockebrand’s writings complement a trove of glorious new installation photographs, bibliographies for all the artists, a catalogue of the collection and several other illustrations and appendices."—Janet Stiles Tyson, Cassone
£58.50
Taschen GmbH Decorative Art 70s
Book SynopsisPublished annually from 1906 until 1980, Decorative Art, The Studio Yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture, interiors, furniture, lighting, glassware, textiles, metalware, and ceramics. Since the publications went out of print, the now hard-to-find yearbooks have become highly prized by collectors and dealers. This volume spotlights the futuristic, experimental aesthetic of the 1970s. After the revolutions of the ’60s, the world of design and architecture became an increasingly exciting and fast-moving hotbed of ideas, rife with vehemently opposing schools and movements. In many ways it was a more extreme era for design than the previous decade. Experimentalism was everywhere, and many projects, thought not practical, were forward-thinking visions of a new kind of decorative art and design. Various groups advocated returning to natural methods, rejecting style in favor of craft or pushing the logic of industrial living to its concrete, high-rise extreme. Decorative Art 1970s includes the work of the decade’s brightest stars, such as Afra and Tobia Scarpa, Luigi Colani, Achille Castiglioni, Kisho Kurokawa, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, and Theo Crosby.Trade Review“An indispensable tool for collectors: names are named, designs praised and accusations made.” * San Francisco Examiner Magazine *
£46.01
Five Continents Editions Kifwebe: A Century of Songye and Luba Masks
Book SynopsisKifwebe masks are ceremonial objects used by the Songye and Luba societies (Democratic Republic of Congo), where they are worn with costumes consisting of a long robe and a long beard made of plant fibres. As in other central African cultures, the same mask can be used in either magical and religious or festive ceremonies. In order to understand Kifwebe masks, it is essential to consider them within the cosmogony of the python rainbow, metalworking in the forge, and other plant and animal signs. Among the Songye, benevolent female masks reveal what is hidden and balance white and red energy associated with two subsequent initiations, the bukishi. Aggressive male masks were originally involved in social control and had a kind of policing role, carried out in accordance with the instructions of village elders. These two male and female forces acted in a balanced way to reinforce harmony within the village. Among the Luba, the masked figures are also benevolent and appear at the new moon, their role being to enhance fertility. Although the male and female masks fulfil functions that do not wholly overlap, they do have features in common: a frontal crest, round and excessively protruding eyes, flaring nostrils, a cube-shaped mouth and lips, stripes, and colours. Art historians and anthropologists have taken increasing interest in Kifwebe masks in recent years.
£71.25
Animal Media Group LLC Slant Step Book
Book SynopsisA two-volume publication on the mysterious object that inspired poetry, art and unlikely artistic collaborationsFor nearly five decades a peculiar wooden object called the Slant Step was exchanged between artists from coast to coast, developing a cultlike following and inspiring poetry, art and unlikely collaborations. Artist William T. Wiley first came upon the original object at a salvage store in Northern California in 1965. Covered in worn green linoleum, it looked like a footstool; however, its sharp slanted riser mystified Wiley and Bruce Nauman, his student at the University of California, Davis. Wiley purchased the found object and gifted it to Nauman, who maintained possession over it until Richard Serra absconded with it from San Francisco to New York. In 1969, Sacramento artist Phil Weidman surveyed the first years of the Slant Step in an artist's book that featured contributions by Nauman, Wiley, William Allan, Richard C., Jack Edwards, Jack Fulto
£28.90
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC British Tea and Coffee Cups 17451940
Book SynopsisCharts the development of tea and coffee cups, providing information on the methods of decoration, influential factories and designers. This book guides readers on how to identify the dates of particular patterns, as well as listing a number of museums and auction houses where these ornamental cups can be discovered.
£6.99
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art The Classical Body in Romantic Britain
Book SynopsisA radical, lively departure from received notions about art of the Romantic period For many, the term “neoclassicism” has come to imply discipline, order, restraint, and a certain myopia. Leaving the term behind, this book radically challenges enduring assumptions about the art produced from the late 18th century to the early Victorian period, casting new light on appropriations of the classical body by British artists. It is the first to foreground the intersections of gender, race, and class in discussions of British visual classicism, laying bare artists’ alternately politicizing and emphatically sensual engagements with Greco-Roman art. Rather than rely exclusively on subsequent scholarship, the book takes up the poet John Keats (1795–1821) as a theoretical framework. Eschewing the “Golden Age” narrative, which sees J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) as the pinnacle of the period’s artistic achievement, the book examines overlooked artists, such as Henry Howard (1769–1847) and John Graham Lough (1798–1876). The result is a fresh account of underappreciated works of British painting and sculpture.Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“Cora Gilroy-Ware mounts a refreshing, combative argument for the radical links of white marble statuary.”—Marina Warner, Times Literary Supplement 'Books of the Year'
£36.00
Amherst College Dismantling the Nation: Contemporary Art in Chile
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£16.10
Silvana Lee Mingwei: Li, Gifts and Rituals
Book SynopsisLee Mingwei's artistic practice is primarily concerned with rituals of giving and receiving. His solo exhibition presented at Gropius Bau in Berlin, showcases his installations and performances from the last three decades: central to the exhibition is an exploration of art's potential to be a transformative gift. In Lee Mingwei's works immaterial gifts such as song, conversation or contemplation are given and received. For many of his projects the starting point is his personal encounters, which are then transformed into installations. Seeing such experiences as moments in which time is gifted, Lee's projects reveal a fascination for the role of the host. Accordingly, in autumn 2019, the artist put out open calls looking for Berlin-based hosts to participate in several of his projects. In The Living Room hosts are invited to exhibit their unique collections and in The Mending Project the menders host conversations with visitors whilst repairing their damaged items of clothing. These processes create a common space where viewers are given the opportunity to enter into and exchange, and where rituals of care and healing begin to unfold.
£19.96
British Academy Roman Sculpture from the North West Midlands 9
Book SynopsisThis catalogue of the sculptures from this region of Roman Britain covers locally carved sculptures, and provide an index of Romanisation in the far north-west of the Roman Empire - in particular at Devra (Chester), Viroconium (Wroxeter), and at Letcetum (Wall, Staffs).
£66.50
The University of Chicago Press What Did the Romans Know An Inquiry into Science
Book SynopsisThis study explores three of Bernini's baroque chapels to show how he achieved his effects. It examines the ways in which the artist integrated the architecture, painting and sculpture into a coherent space for devotion, and shows how this accomplishment was understood by religious practitioners.Table of ContentsForeword Hubert Damisch Introduction 1: The Fonseca Chapel 2: The Albertoni Chapel 3: The Altar of Sant' Andrea al Quirinale Conclusion: Flights of Love Notes Index
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press Michelangelos Sculpture Selected Essays
Book SynopsisMichelangelo's Sculpture is the first in a series of volumes of Steinberg's selected writings and unpublished lectures, edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz.
£50.40
The University of Chicago Press WritingsInterviews
Book SynopsisFrom essays like Extended Notes from Sight Point Road to Serra's extended commentary on the Tilted Arc fiasco, the pieces in this volume comprise a document of one artist's engagement with the practical, philosophical and political problems of art.
£31.35
MIT Press Ltd Rethinking Curating Art After New Media Leonardo
Book SynopsisRedefining curatorial practice for those working with new kinds of art.As curator Steve Dietz has observed, new media art is like contemporary art—but different. New media art involves interactivity, networks, and computation and is often about process rather than objects. New media artworks are difficult to classify according to the traditional art museum categories determined by medium, geography, and chronology and present the curator with novel challenges involving interpretation, exhibition, and dissemination. This book views these challenges as opportunities to rethink curatorial practice. It helps curators of new media art develop a set of flexible tools for working in this fast-moving field, and it offers useful lessons from curators and artists for those working in such other areas of art as distributive and participatory systems.The authors, both of whom have extensive experience as curators, offer numerous examples of artworks and exhibitions to illust
£28.80
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Hellenistic Architectural Sculpture Figural Motifs in Western Anatolia and the Aegean Islands
Book SynopsisFocusing specifically on the figural adornment of Hellenistic architecture, this study provides extensive information about the chronology and interpretation of figural motifs adorning religious, civic, commercial, commemorative and domestic constructions.Trade ReviewReading the book was pure pleasure. Webb brings together an extraordinary amount of material, ranging from the extremely familiar to the very obscure, and puts it in overall perspective both as sculpture and as architectural elements. I am certain that specialists in both fields will find it useful and enlightening, and also that it will be accessible and enjoyable for non-specialists and readers with little background in Greek art—including undergraduates."—Steven Lattimore, University of California, Los Angeles"Webb's grasp of the scholarship and coverage of the monuments seem all but total, and her careful and judicious critiques of previous opinion are most valuable."—Andrew F. Stewart, University of California, Berkeley
£47.62
Yale University Press Sculpture in Britain 15301830 The Yale
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive survey of sculpture in Britain from the Reformation to the accession of Queen Victoria aims to shed light on English taste in the period. It examines the family tomb and the portrait bust, the forms of sculpture most favoured in Britain at that time.Table of ContentsPart 1 16th century: Renaissance influence from Italy and France; the Netherlandish refugees. Part 2 The earlier 17th century: Nicholas Stone and his contemporaries - Nicholas Stone, the contemporaries of Nicholas Stone; sculpture at the court of Charles 1. Part 3 Restoration sculpture and the Baroque - 1660-1714: introduction - the Berninesque echo in the work of John Bushnell - Edward Pierce; the influence of the Netherlands - Caius Gabriel Cibber, Grinling Gibbons and Arnold Quellin, John Nost, the mason - sculptors. Part 4 The antique, the Baroque, and the Rococo - 1714-1760: Francis Bird; the first foreign immigrants; Michael Rysbrack; Peter Scheemakers and Laurent Delvaux; Henry Scheemakers and Henry Cheere; Louis Francois Roubiliac; the later works of Rysbrack, Scheemakers, and Cheere; the impact of the foreign sculptors. Part 5 The first royal academicians: introduction - Joseph Wilton, Agostino Carlini and William Tyler, some contemporary sculptors. Part 6 Neo-classicism: Joseph Nollekens; John Bacon and some contemporaries - John Bacon, some contemporary sculptors; Thomas Banks; John Flaxman. Part 7 The early 19th-century: Sir Richard Westmacott; Sir Francis Chantrey.
£33.75
