Non-graphic and electronic art forms Books
Five Continents Editions Hemba
Book SynopsisExpressing one of many Luba sub-styles, the tall, standing male figures created by master carvers of the Hemba culture in southeastern Congo since at least the mid-1800s arguably rank among the noblest sculptural depictions of the human figure in sub-Saharan Africa. With their serene gaze and meditative expression, they exude a tranquility and dignity that befits these idealised likenesses memorialising esteemed leaders of the past. Infused with a life-force or vital energy, these spirit-invested objects were able to communicate between the living and the dead. Thanks to their inner power they had the capacity to impact the material sphere by allowing the ancestors to positively influence the well-being of their surviving relatives. In this publication, through the perceptive lens of art photographer Luigi Spina, we discover nine of the most accomplished Hemba creations whose classical style has triggered comparisons with some kouroi sculptures of ancient Greece. Spina's photographic interpretations help us understand why these proportionally balanced and symmetrically conceived ancestral figures have earned the admiration of African art lovers around the world. These personal readings of the beloved Hemba commemorative portraits also confirm why these sensitive renderings of the human anatomy deserve inclusion in the universal history of artistic creativity and a place in André Malraux's 'Museum Without Walls'. Text in English and French.
£41.25
L'Erma Di Bretschneider The Art of Praxiteles
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£259.35
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Russia IX: The State
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£151.05
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Repertorio Dei Sarcofagi Decorati Della Sardegna
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£327.75
L'Erma Di Bretschneider The Art of Praxiteles V: The Last Years of the
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£104.50
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Bronzi Sudarabici Dal Museo Militare Di Sana
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£37.00
Lannoo Publishers Packshots
Book SynopsisDiscover the fascinating world of fine taxidermy in Packshots, where animals are captured in masterful compositions that blur the line between nature and art, between life and death.
£41.25
Stichting Kunstboek BVBA Breath: Een Ontmoeting Tussen Woord en Beeld
Book SynopsisKatrin Dekoninck is an all-round artist, showing mankind in raw honesty and lonely separation. Though the focus of this book is on her life-sized sculptures in clay, she is also skilled in drawing, painting and traditional (non-computer generated) animation. Her technical strength makes her images breathe. Serenely and with simplicity, she shapes her universe of searching people. Themes such as 'identity' and 'aging' link her oeuvre to the poetry of Steven Van Der Heyden. With words, he tries to find a way to make connections, to start a dialogue. His poems were written in interaction with Katrin's sculptures. Together they make an organic unity of words and images. A fascinating encounter artfully captured through the lens of photographer Stef De Belder. Text in English and Dutch.
£19.12
Peeters Publishers Achaemenid Scuplture
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£68.40
Stockmans NV Peter de Cupere
Book SynopsisScent in Context is a unique document that witnesses the olfactory artist Peter de Cupere's research, the origins and context of his work and practice, and that offers a view and presentation of more than 500 artworks. 7 authors, 472 pages, more than 1500 illustrations and images, 22 images with 11 different scratch and sniff hidden smells, all make this 3kg book a complete guide to discover the world of olfactory art. The publication will surprise and interact with the reader with soft and beautiful smells but in contrast might also shock while presenting intense or mind-teasing smells. Refine your nostrils when reading this book.By exploiting the subjective, associative impact of smells, in combination with visual images, Peter de Cupere generates a kind of meta-sensory experience that goes beyond purely seeing or smelling. Plastic artist De Cupere paints with scents, produces olfactory objects, soap paintings and sculptures, creates video and live performances, makes three-dimensional drawings and builds poetic smell installations.Text in English and Dutch.
£41.25
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Parallel Wings: The Art of Rini Dhumal
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£36.00
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Carte Blanche À Manish Pushkale: To Whom the Bird
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£24.70
Lannoo Publishers Power Mask: The Power of Masks
Book SynopsisSince the nineties, Walter Van Beirendonck has been fascinated with masks. They change your identity, invoke a certain atmosphere and have an instant impact. Many artists, among whom are Andre Breton, Pablo Picasso and even Brueghel, have been influenced by them. Power Mask - The Power of Masks elaborates on the many different aspects of masks: the link between Western art and African masks, the supernatural aspect, rituals about masks, masks in fashion or as a fetish...Walter Van Beirendonck is "a truly engaged visionary and a passionate designer, artist and teacher." - Jurgi Persoons, fashion designer. "Walter Van Beirendonck succeeded where I have failed; he turned me into a muscle-man instantly. He is a true artist and there's not many of them around." - Bono, lead singer of U2. "Come along and take a ride into the crazy helter-skelter, inside-out, upside-down world of Walter Van Beirendonck. Colours and shapes reach psychedelic dimensions to charm and astound you." - Stephen Jones, milliner. This book accompanies an expo in the Wereldmuseum (World Museum) Rotterdam, from 1 September 2017 until 7 January 2018.
£29.96
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Cao Guimaraes (eye Amsterdam)
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£25.92
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Land Art Live: The Flevoland Collection
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£39.13
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Guido Geelen: Sculpture
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£56.25
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Zoro Feigl: Sun-Spark Spraying
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£23.75
Rab-Rab Press Tenderness Record - The Life of Ilya Zdanevich
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£13.20
Rab-Rab Press Bourgeois with a Heart - The Class Suicide of
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£19.12
Rab-Rab Press Iliazd - Zaum for Strangers - Paris 1921
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£12.60
Rab-Rab Press Robert Linhart - The Sugar and the Hunger
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£15.72
Rab-Rab Press Free Jazz Communism
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£17.00
Rab-Rab Press Iliazda at the Birthday Party
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£12.71
National Gallery Singapore Earth Work 1979
Book SynopsisEarth Work, originally staged at the National Museum Art Gallery In 1980 by Singaporean artist Tang Da Wu, was one of the earliest exhibitions of land art in Singapore. Earth Work 1979, a restaging of selected works from the seminal 1980 exhibition, revisits Tang's then unparalleled usage of organic materials and public spaces. This catalogue delves deeper into Tang's practice and the circumstances of the creation of his earth works through a rich copmendium of essays, interviews, newspaper articles and never-before-seen photo-documentation.
£17.00
Marsilio Olafur Eliasson Nel Tuo Tempo
Book SynopsisA career survey of acclaimed installations from the master orchestrator of sensory experienceIcelandic Danish artist Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) is guided by a keen interest in perception, movement and lived experience, as well as those of the communities in which he works. Best known for his large-scale installation, Weather Project, which occupied the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in 2003, Eliasson often makes use of elementary materials such as light, water and temperature-controlled mist to create an immersive or spiritual experience for his viewers. His practice is not limited to the confines of the museums and galleries where he shows, but also involves local communities through architectural projects, interventions in public spaces and artistic, social and environmental education programs. This volume presents an overview of Eliasson's 30-year career, including a selection of site-specific works, and features a collection of texts chosen by the art
£31.49
Marsilio Gian Maria Tosatti NowHere
Book SynopsisItalian artist Gian Maria Tosatti (born 1980) creates sculptures and site-specific installations centered on collectivity and memory, many of which are conceived for entire buildings or urban areas. His exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca, documented here, consists of two new series of paintings.
£34.00
Marsilio Anish Kapoor Untrue Unreal
Book SynopsisRepresentative sculptural works that probe the limits and potential of our relationship with the worldThis monograph features 30 fundamental works by acclaimed Indian artist Anish Kapoor (born 1954) from the 1980s to the present day, spanning practically the entirety of his long and distinguished career.One of the most notable features of Kapoor's works is the way they transcend their materiality. Pigment, stone, steel, wax and silicone are manipulatedcarved, polished, saturated and moldedto the point of a dissolution of boundaries between the plastic and the immaterial. Color in Kapoor's hands becomes an immersive phenomenon, containing its own spatial and illusive volume. Kapoor seeks estrangement, the erasure of ordinary references, in order to undermine the way that we are accustomed to see things and set them in a completely different perspective, creating works that act as catalysts of energy. This volume reveals the genesis of his artistic practice
£35.69
Marsilio Chiara Camoni
Book SynopsisTotemic figures and forms made through a ritualistic assembly of organic materialItalian artist Chiara Camoni's (born 1974) practice spans drawing, video, sculpture and ceramics. Her works are distinguished by the use of organic materials, where the brown and green tones of earth and vegetation create works that are both spiritual and artisanal.
£27.20
Mw Editions Daniel Brush Thinking about Monet
Book SynopsisSculptures-as-meditations: Brush rearticulates Monet's magnificent lightwork in palm-sized objectsEarly in life, American painter, sculptor and jeweler Daniel Brush (born 1947) discounted Monet's work wholesalethat is, until the pivotal day he saw an 8-by-10 transparency that a collector and friend was considering acquiring. This encounter sparked an obsession with the light Monet so masterfully captured through oil paint. Thinking about Monet contains 60 of the more than 100 steel sculptures Brush createdall of which are meditations on light. The artist hand-carved the same steel for all of his palm-sized pieces, but each one articulates distinct properties of color and light. Mesmerizing in the intricacy and daring of their fabrication, Brush''s objects bear comparison with the work of historical masters.This small, jewel-like book is covered in printed silk cloth, and all the sculptures are reproduced at their original size. Nicolas Bos, preside
£28.00
Marquand Books Inc Determined to Be: The Sculpture of John Rhoden
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£38.25
