Non-graphic and electronic art forms Books
Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Die Romische Wolfin / The Lupa Romana: Ein
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£69.35
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Attische Sarkophage Aus Ephesos
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£18.00
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani, Osterreich / Die
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£41.80
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press The Bouleuterion at Ephesos
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£62.70
Dr Ludwig Reichert Spatantiker Ideal- Und Portraitplastik:
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£98.80
König, Walther Josephine Baker Icon in Motion.
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£16.20
König, Walther Merce Cunninghams Events Key Concepts
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£14.40
Books on Demand Katzen in der Kunst Zeitleiste
£69.68
Hatje Cantz Alexandra Bircken: A-Z
Book SynopsisThe title seems to announce a comprehensive encyclopedia: from A to Z, each and every object or material has the potential to become an element in one of Alexandra Bircken’s charged objects and installations. Whether it’s packaging materials, machine parts, or bones, everything finds a use—the organic as well as the inorganic, raw materials and industrially produced goods. The constant reference point in her artistic explorations is the human body and its contradictory relationship to the environment, as defenselessly at its mercy as it is dependent on it. This catalogue is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of Bircken’s sculptural practice from all creative periods, which here enter into a dialogue that explores the artist's multi-layered statements on surface, body, movement, shell, and skin.
£38.40
Hatje Cantz Lygia Pape (Bilingual edition): The Skin of ALL
Book SynopsisAs one of the key figures of Brazil’s Neo-Concrete movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Lygia Pape developed a specific understanding of geometric abstraction that resulted in a radical new conception of concrete-constructivist art, challenging an overly rigid rationalism by moving toward more subjective, multi-sensorial modes of expression. Marking Pape’s first solo exhibition in Germany, this richly illustrated book presents the artist’s unusual creative power in all its breadth, drawing on a body of documents that is being published for the first time. Against the backdrop of the tension between Brazil’s vibrant avant-garde and the growing political repression through the military dictatorship (1964–1985), Pape’s work reflects ethical and socio-political issues and harnesses experimental explorations of not just metaphorical geometric but social space to create poetic manifestations of subtle resistance. Emphasizing the primacy of the sensorial experience of the viewers, Pape went as far as to declare them to be the actual creators of her works.
£48.00
Hirmer Verlag Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume to document and contextualize Sonya Clark’s large-scale, collaborative artworks. These projects demonstrate Clark’s career-long commitment to addressing the urgent issue of racial inequality in American society and her philosophy of creatively engaging the viewer in reflection on the nation’s history of slavery and our roles in dismantling systemic racism today. As an extension of her abiding commitment to issues of history, race, and reconciliation in her work, Clark is also distinctive as an artist for her use of textiles and other everyday materials, which she aligns with the intertwined histories of art and craft. For marginalized people (African Americans and women, in particular) handwork has been essential to survival and consequently has functioned, and continues to function, as an important means of creating a group identity. Hence, for Clark, craft is essential to the question of equality.
£31.50
Prestel 50 Modern Artists You Should Know
Book SynopsisStarting with James Abbott McNeill Whistler and ending with Matthew Barney, nearly every prominent figure in Modern art is represented in vibrant double-page spreads that show how these artists redefined norms and challenged tradition. Fascinating biographical and anecdotal information about each artist is provided alongside large reproductions of their most celebrated works, stunning details, and images of the artists themselves. From the Impressionists to the Surrealists, Cubists to Pop artists-readers will find a wealth of information as well as hours of enjoyment learning about one of the most popular and prolific periods in art history.Trade Review"This meticulous reference is 160 pages of gorgeous." --Arts & Activities"Teachers from middle schools through higher learning institutions will find this book to be an invaluable resource." --Arts & Activities
£13.49
Schnell & Steiner Der Berliner Skulpturenfund. 'Entartete Kunst' Im
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£39.00
Schnell & Steiner Der Cranach-Altar Zu Neustadt an Der Orla (1513):
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£49.27
Schnell & Steiner Griechisch-Agyptisch!: Tonfiguren Vom Nil
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£26.81
Schnell & Steiner Die 'Porta Della Morte' an St. Peter Von Giacomo
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£46.00
Schnell & Steiner Sigmund Haffner Und Der Hochaltar Zu Rabenden:
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£46.00
Schnell & Steiner Gegenuberstellung: Brucke Zwischen Sichtbarem Und
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£21.80
Schnell & Steiner Georg Jakob Best: Klee-Schuler - 'Entarteter
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£43.14
Schnell & Steiner Der Magdeburger Reiter: Bestandsaufnahme -
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£58.00
Jan Thorbecke Verlag Die Fruhe Marmorskulptur Aus Dem Kloster St.
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£109.25
Taschen GmbH Strandbeest. The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen
Book SynopsisFor seven years, photographer and artist Lena Herzog followed the evolution of a new kinetic species. Intricate as insects but with bursts of equine energy, the “Strandbeests,” or “beach creatures,” are the creation of Dutch artist Theo Jansen, who has been working for nearly two decades to generate these new life-forms that move, and even survive, on their own. Set to roam the beaches of Holland, the Strandbeests pick up the wind in their gossamer wings and spring, as if by metamorphosis, into action. As if it were blood, not the breeze, running through their delicate forms, they quiver, cavort, and trot against the sun and sea, pausing to change direction if they sense loose sand or water that might destabilize their movement. Coinciding with a traveling exhibition, Herzog’s photographic tribute captures Jansen’s menagerie in a meditative black and white, showcasing Jansen’s imaginative vision, as well as the compelling intersection of animate and inanimate in his creatures. The result is a work of art in its own right and a mesmerizing encounter not only with a very surrealist brand of marvelous, but also with whole new ideas of existence.Trade Review“They really do appear to be alive. Purposeful, resolute. They don’t fall into the uncanny valley that afflicts so many other robotic assaults on the absolutely lifelike… they almost seem to evince a soul.” * The New York Times Magazine *“Spectacular, mechanical, philosophical beauty all rolled up in the talents of a man who is both artist and artisan in the broader sense of both words.” * Forbes *
£48.00
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Charles Simonds: Cracking
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£23.74
Universitatsverlag Regensburg GmbH Rudolf Maison (1854 - 1904): Regensburg - Munchen
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£42.70
JOVIS Verlag Vertauschte Köpfe: Konrad Mühe, Andreas Mühe
Book SynopsisZweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition (English/German) Vertauschte Köpfe erscheint begleitend zur ersten gemeinsamen Ausstellung der Brüder Andreas Mühe und Konrad Mühe im KUNSTWERK Sammlung Klein. Wie können sich zwei Brüder, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten, auf Augenhöhe begegnen und ihre Arbeiten in Einklang bringen? Was sie eint, ist die intensive Auseinandersetzung mit der Familiengeschichte. Unterschiede ergänzen sich: Während sich der eine mit der Verwobenheit von Familiengeschichte und deutscher Geschichte beschäftigt, bearbeitet der andere das Verhältnis von menschlichen und technologischen Körpern sowie deren politische Subtexte in der Gegenwart. Gleich einer Familie, die sich unterschiedliche Geschichten übereinander erzählt, greift der Katalog die verschiedenen Zeitebenen und Erzählstränge auf. So enthält Vertauschte Köpfe gleich mehrere Bücher, die sich aufeinander beziehen und gegenseitig herausfordern: Die Arbeiten von Andreas und Konrad Mühe treten in Wechselbeziehung mit Texten von Valeria Waibel, Karsten Ehlers, Monika Maron, Kito Nedo und einem Comic von Gregor Hinz. Es schwebt die Frage im Raum: Wie fest ist der Untergrund des gemeinsamen Fundaments?
£38.40
Edition Axel Menges Auf der Suche nach verlorenen Paradiesen
Book SynopsisThe fact that the entire history of culture and technology could represent a single, continuous expulsion of mankind from the original, paradiese state of nature was already described visionarilyin the Bible and predicted with all its positive and negative consequences. Everyone knows the story of Adam and Eve, of their 'Fall' and their 'Expulsion from Paradise'. Even as a non-Christian it is worth taking a look at the fairytale-like-mythic text of the Old Testament, although the picture and the process completely contradict our current scientific findings. One would almost be inclined to assume that the idea of a primeval paradise is innate in all human beings and that every human being with his becoming, his birth, his childhood and his adulthood experiences something like a Genesis. He is born innocent and helpless, wakes up, looks around, believes to be free, gets to know his time, his surroundings, his life. The final expulsion of every human being from life is his death. He is a sentenced to death. Despite all religious promises, man has always been aware of this fact, also of the fact that he has only this one life and that he ultimately cannot count on the hope that beyond this life there is something that could be called 'salvation', a happy return to the Garden of Eden. As the book shows with numerous, primarily European examples, the history of man is therefore full of efforts to regain here and now the lost paradise, no matter how precarious the result may be. In search of the lost paradises: a somewhat unusual history of man in his relationship to nature, followed by a description of the current state of landscape planning and garden design. In the third, concluding part of the book, the author develops new, strangely surreal and poetic concepts of the treatment of nature, inspired by literature, film, theatre and tourism.Hans Dieter Schaal, born in Ulm in 1943, is an architect, landscape architect, stage designer and exhibition designer. His works, the majority of which have been published by the Axel MengesEdition, have meanwhile reached an audience far beyond his in my homeland. The author lives and works in a village near Biberach an der Riss.
£47.92
Verlag fur Moderne Kunst The Healthy Times 3
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£17.10
JRP Editions Liam Gillick - Proxemics: Selected Writings
Book SynopsisNo less versatile in his writing than in his installations, films, architecture and sculpture, Liam Gillick unites his critical essays in this collection, most of which were originally printed in art magazines or exhibition catalogues. Lauded for his ingenious reinterpretation of Conceptual and Minimalist art, Liam Gillick has often used language, whether in type on a wall or on a page, as a site of artistic, theoretical and political intervention. He reveals himself here as a witness of and major actor in the largely European 1990s art scene that included Philippe Parreno, Pierre Huyghe, Carsten H?ller, Angela Bulloch, Douglas Gordon and Rirkrit Tiravanija. A key publication of discussions, references, and artistic engagements of the 1990s, the book also allows an examination of the renewed importance at this time of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, John Baldessari and Allen Ruppersberg.
£10.45
Hauser & Wirth David Smith - Origins & Innovations
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£33.75
Hauser & Wirth Lee Lozano - Language Pieces
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£22.50
Hauser & Wirth Calder: Nonspace
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£33.75
Hauser & Wirth Not Vital: Scarch
Book SynopsisA clothbound appraisal of the Swiss artist's enigmatic architecture-sculptures, driven by his longstanding impulse to construct sheltersThis stylishly produced book documents the architecture-sculptures of Swiss artist Not Vital's (b. 1948) vast oeuvre. Throughout the world, Vital has worked on a series of grand works that skirt the boundary between sculpture and architecture. Driven by an impulse to build shelters that he traces back to childhood, Vital has traveled to Niger, Chile, Belgium, Brazil, Indonesia and the Philippines to construct responsive habitats that integrate themselves into the communities in which they are built. For example, his House to Watch the Sunset, a tower-like structure that is at once ancient and futuristic, is built out of local materials sourced in Brazil, Niger and Switzerland. In addition to these projects, Not Vital: Scarch contains sketches for structures, srudio shots, concepts for future works and sculptures related to the projects.
£33.75
Edition Patrick Frey Claudia Comte: After Nature
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£59.50
Ugarit Verlag Ein Assyrisches Bildexperiment Nach Agyptischem
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£11.13
Edition Imorde Funfzig Objekte in Buchform: Vom Reliquiar Zur
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£50.35
Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Jurgen Claus - To the Oceans with Imagination
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£15.20
Anna-Sophie Springer Walking in Cinematic Close-Ups
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£32.25
Distanz Viewshed
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£35.20
Distanz By the Highway: Kontext
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£18.00
Sandstein Verlag Selbst Ist Der Mann!: Erich Bodeker Und Josef
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£19.46
Sandstein Verlag Auguste Rodin Im Albertinum
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£11.90
Sandstein Verlag Begegnungen: Isolde Frepoli Im Agyptischen Museum
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£12.71
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany Tony Cragg. Micro - The Studio
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£58.84
DCV 100 Windows
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£22.40
State Hermitage Museum Publications Greek Gold in the Hermitage Collection: Antique
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£31.50
State Hermitage Museum Publications Netsuke: A miniature sculpture of Japan from
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£49.50
State Hermitage Museum Publications Masterpieces of European Furniture from the 15th
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£54.00
National Book Trust Soft Stone Shilpkala
Book SynopsisA detailed book on the Art carving sculptures called 'Soft Stone Shilpkala'.
£4.86
