The Arts: art forms Books
Silvana Brazil: Knife in the Flesh
Book SynopsisPublished to accompany a show at PAC in Milan, which explores other continents through collective shows of contemporary art: this summer Brazil will be in the spotlight. Knife in the Flesh (Navalha na Carne) is the title of a play by Brazilian writer Plínio Marcos, particularly active during the years of the Brazilian military regime. Thus, from its very title, this project declares itself to be in conflict. By means of installations, photographs, videos and performances, several of the artists invited to the PAC make reference to this conflict - which has no beginning, much less an end, is hard to sum up in words and rarely translates into physical fights or battles. A social - and above all symbolic - conflict, then, rather than a military one. Gathering together a series of works created in Brazil over the past forty years, this book shatters conventions and stereotypes without, however, setting out to draw a portrait of the country or its artistic scene, reflecting instead on their inherent conflict: the fights and violence, the political, social, racial, ecological and cultural abuse. A direct language that appears naïve, whilst actually pregnant with meaning as it tells of broken dreams and disappointed hopes, but also of a people capable of keeping their incredible optimism and trust in the future.
£29.96
Silvana Paolo Canevari: Self-Portrait
Book SynopsisSelf-Portrait explores 30 years of artistic research by Paolo Canevari (Rome, 1963), proposing a series of sculptures, drawings and installations ranging from the first creations in the wake of Arte Povera, to those made of rubber from the 1990s, up to the more recent series Monuments of the Memory: Landscape and Constellations. The works tell of Canevari’s vision of art-making, which moves from a classical training combined with a profound conceptual research, while also animated by a strong political character. Through the use of different media and materials – with a predilection for the rubber of inner tubes and tyres – Canevari adopts a language that is sometimes brutal, often ambiguous, certainly evocative, to bring light into the dark territories of man, understood both as an individual and as humanity. His radical and subversive approach aims to stimulate a reaction in the observer, with the intention, on the one hand, of breaking prejudices and clichés, on the other of investigating personal, intimate and inner aspects in relation to the work of art and its universal meaning. The volume includes a critical text by Robert Storr, two interviews with the artist collected respectively by Robert Storr and Francesca Pietropaolo and by Shirin Neshat, and a tribute to Canevari written by late Sicilian novelist Andrea Camilleri. Text in English and Italian.
£32.00
Skira Sophie Taeuber-Arp (bilingual edition): A Life
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£27.00
Skira Basketball & Contemporary Art
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£41.25
Skira CB Hoyo: I didn’t know how to name this
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£22.40
Skira Nejat Sati: Colour as Psychological Balance
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£24.00
Skira Conrad Marca-Relli (Bilingual edition): Il
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£24.00
Skira Japan Arts and Life: The Montgomery Collection
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£32.00
Skira Lahore Biennale 01: Reader
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£30.40
Skira Lux et Veritas: Pushing a White Wall
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£25.50
Skira Wanda Czelkowska: Art Is Not Rest
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£28.00
Damiani Namsa Leuba: Crossed Looks
Book SynopsisNamsa Leuba: Crossed Looks is the first artist monograph featuring the work of Swiss-Guinean artist Namsa Leuba. This publication accompanies the first solo exhibition of Namsa Leuba in the United States, at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, South Carolina on August 27 – December 11, 2021. Crossed Looks features Leuba’s major projects to date, including photography series in Guinea, South Africa, Nigeria, Benin, and the debut of a new series recently made in Tahiti. The exhibition and publication consider how Leuba’s photographic practice explores the representation of African identity and the cultural Other in the Western imagination. Over 90 photographs inspired by the visual culture and ceremonies of West Africa, contemporary fashion and design, and the history of photography and its colonizing gaze present Leuba’s unique perspective that straddles reality and fantasy. Through the adaptation of myths attributed to the Other, Leuba’s photographs acknowledge this double act of looking, a cross-dialogue of global cultures. The exhibition is supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and from Pro Helvetia. The publication features essays contributed by exhibition curator Joseph Gergel; writer and art critic Emmanuel Iduma; and art historian Dr. Mary Trent. These essays examine the nuanced themes of identity and representation in Leuba’s multiple bodies of work.
£33.75
Skira When Trash Becomes Art: Trash Rubbish Mongo
Book SynopsisThe result of painstaking research by Lea Vergine, this volume explores the meaning of the “trash” phenomenon in contemporary art from the early 20th century (Boccioni, Carrà, Depero, Picabia, Schwitters), through the Sixties and Seventies (Burri, Kounellis, Fontana, Vautier, Rotella, César, Arman, Manzoni, Pistoletto, Beuys, Spoerri), and up to the present (Cragg, Parmiggiani, Boltanski, Sherman, Bourgeois, Serrano, Cattelan). It examines the challenge launched by these artists, who use waste as a material for creating art. In an era marked by great concern about the environment, the artistic use of the discarded object expresses the alienation and distress that appear to be eroding the wantonly consumeristic social model represented by the West. Recovering and preserving refuse is a means of trying to hold on to it, of making it survive by saving it from a void, from being nothing, from the dissolution to which it is destined; it is about the desire to leave a mark, a trace, a clue for those who remain, hence touching a dimension that is psychological as well as political.
£15.13
Stichting Kunstboek BVBA Brides in Bloom: Taivo Piller
Book SynopsisTaivo Piller , who was Estonian champion several times, is one of those young, trend-setting florists who is constantly travelling all over the world and who is 'spotted' by numerous colleagues. His arrangements are very contemporary, as he considers floral art of the twenty-first century as being a part of fashion, interior design and architecture. Stichting Kunstboek Publishers have invited Taivo Piller to make a highly innovative book on the 'wedding'-theme, one of his favourites. It took the author more than fourteen months to complete the job, because he wanted to show both brides and bridal bouquets in the four seasons. More than twenty-five professional models are involved in the making of this exceptional title. Every arrangement is a unique piece of art that finds its completion in the professional expression and the charisma of the model.
£31.88
Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art The People's Art
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£12.00
BAI NV What is Real? What is True?: Picturing Figures
Book SynopsisWhat is real? What is true? Picturing Figures and Faces collects theoretical essays and artists' studies, published between 1988 and 2019, devoted to the artistic representation of the human figure. They deal with the portrait and the death mask, the body and suffering, and with Egon Schiele, René Magritte, Balthus, On Kawara, Paul De Vylder, Jan Vercruysse, Bill Viola, Anthony Gormley, Jan Fabre, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Dirk Braeckman and Elly Strik. The texts are richly illustrated, the book is designed by Antoon De Vylder.
£36.80
MER Paper Kunsthalle Anne Daems: Drawings
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£19.80
BAI NV Les Voyageurs: Tinka Pittoors
Book SynopsisTinka Pittoors (b. 1977) is a Belgian visual artist, who regularly exhibits her work in Flanders, Wallonia, the Netherlands and France. Anyone who crosses the threshold of her studio will feel as if they've stepped into an artificial secret garden. An explosion of shapes and colours awaits in a place where everything has the potential of becoming an artwork. In her sculptures and objects, Pittoors examines the utopia of a malleable world, often using the nature‐culture divide as her starting premise. Each presentation is a moment in time, a snapshot, that is tailored to the venue. Les Voyageurs is published on the occasion of her eponymous exhibition in the gardens of Château Seneffe. Many people in Flanders have yet to discover this hidden gem. And yet the castle and gardens of Seneffe are Wallonia's equivalent of Versailles, with fountains, pavilions, pristine nature, and dreamy paths on 22 hectares of land. For this exhibition, Pittoors created a trail that reflects on the various possibilities of travel, displacement and detachment, arriving and leaving, escapes and quests. The introduction was written by Pieter Vermeulen. Other contributors include Marjolaine Hanssens, Veronika Pot, Carine Fol, Isabelle Pouget, Dominique Legrand, Stijn Tormans, Marc Ruyters, Jan Braet and Saskia De Coster. Text in English, French and Dutch.
£31.12
Set Margins' publications Fair Kin Arts Almanac
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£20.90
Libraryman Co., Ltd. June
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£40.50
Maple Press Pvt Ltd Numbers
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£4.02
Maple Press Pvt Ltd Alphabet
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£4.86
Sharada Publishing House Pottery in South India
Book SynopsisCeramics play an important role in the study of archaeological sites and cultures. Pottery is one of the most abundantly produced material by the ancient communities. Pottery helps us in understanding the state of economy, food habits, technological advancement, trade and contacts, rituals and beliefs, etc. Much of the reconstruction of the history of any archaeological site depends to a great extent on study of its ceramic residues. The data on the pottery is scattered in numerous sources, which makes it difficult to have a synoptic view of the pottery traditions of a region in a particular period. The present work is aimed at filling this gap, and presenting the data in a single source in a comprehensive manner. The book has data on pottery assignable to different cultural periods starting from Neolithic period (from 2500 bce) to Early historic period upto 300 ce, from the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in South India.
£91.19
Niyogi Books Shuvaprasanna: A Man for All Seasons
Book SynopsisShuvaprasanna: A Man for all Seasons attempts to bring together the complete oeuvre of the versatile modern Indian artist Shuvaprasanna Bhattacharya, in a single volume. The book also traces his life and career and the significant events that shaped his artistic sensibilities. This volume features Shuvaprasanna's multifaceted work, be it painting, drawing, portraiture, printmaking, illustrations, installations, sculpture and murals, through his artistic timeline, and his contributions as a socio-political activist in building cultural institutions. Shuva-da, as he is popularly known, was actively involved with the Calcutta Painters Group in the 1970s; he founded the College of Visual Arts in 1975 and thereafter the vibrant and internationally known Arts Acre Foundation in 2008. The in-depth textual description of the artist's creative evolution is accompanied by images of over 80 of Shuvaprasanna's impactful artworks from different phases of his career, including paintings of the city of Kolkata, to his signature charcoal drawings of birds, to his latest collection, The Mystique of the Epic', which comprises striking depictions of characters and episodes from the Mahabharata.
£107.99
Lannoo Publishers Homes for Collectors: Interiors of Art and Design
Book SynopsisCollectors design their homes with their prized objects in mind. In this book 20 art and design collectors open the doors to their homes, many for the first time. You will be amazed at what you'll see: from a Giacometti sculpture to a garbage bag by Gustav Metzger, from an iconic Eames lounge chair to the Living Tower by Verner Panton. This successor to the successful book Homes for Nomads (9789401477437) offers pages and pages of inspiration for all those who love beautiful and real-life interiors, and who perhaps live with, and love, their own collections.
£45.00
Snoeck Publishers Musée d’art moderne et contemporain Saint‐Etienne
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£37.20
Snoeck Publishers Énigme autodidacte ‐ The Self‐taught Riddle
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£42.00
Leuven University Press Urban Culture and the Modern City: Hungarian Case
Book SynopsisHungarian urban culture in the 20th and the 21st centuries.When consulting key works on urban studies, the absence of Central and Eastern European towns is striking. Cities such as Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and Trieste, where such notable figures as Freud, Ferenczi, Kafka, and Joyce lived and worked, are rarely studied in a translocal framework, as if Central and Eastern Europe were still a blind spot of European modernity. This volume expands the scope of literary urban studies by focusing on Budapest and Hungarian small towns, offering in-depth analyses of the intriguing link between literature, the arts, and material culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. The case studies situate Hungarian urban culture within the global flow of ideas as they explore the period of modernism, the mid-century, and the post-1989 era in a context that moves well beyond the borders of the country.Contributors: Árpád Bak (University of Leeds), Éva Federmayer (Eötvös Loránd University), Magdolna Gucsa (Eötvös Loránd University / ÉHESS), Ágnes Györke (Károli Gáspár University), Ferenc Hörcher (Eötvös József Research Centre), Tamás Juhász (Károli Gáspár University), György Kalmár (University of Debrecen), László Munteán (Radboud University), Ágnes Klára Papp (Károli Gáspár University), Márta Pellérdi (Pázmány Péter Catholic University), Eszter Ureczky (University of Debrecen).This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).This book will be made open access within three years of publication thanks to Path to Open, a program developed in partnership between JSTOR, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), University of Michigan Press, and The University of North Carolina Press to bring about equitable access and impact for the entire scholarly community, including authors, researchers, libraries, and university presses around the world. Learn more at https://about.jstor.org/path-to-open/Trade ReviewTaken together, the chapters in this book provide a coherent overview of representations of the Hungarian city in literature, theater, and cinema. This book will act as an important future reference work for scholars working on the 20th and 21st century Hungarian city. And it reminds scholars unfamiliar with Hungarian urban culture of the vast range of urban phenomena that remain underrepresented in academic literature in English.Lieven Ameel, Tampere University
£48.60
APE The Cabinet of Traces
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£14.40
Rooftop Press Things for Homes Homes for Things
Book SynopsisCan a sculpture survive in the home without being domesticated into just another objecta door stop or something you hang your hat on? What are the civic duties we assign to sculpture today, in comparison to the post-war nation-building and reassertion of civilisation?At the heart of Things for Homes / Homes for Things are conversations about our social relationship to objects and the spatial relations these depend on. Prevett's enquiry is intimate and gentle, occurring as it does on a domestic scale in the homes of people who don't own art, and perhaps have never cared for it that much before. Without the expectations and politics that grand publicness entails, it embraces instead the potential for social connection through making and giving of sculpture to strangers.
£21.60
Museum of Fine Art, Budapest / Hungarian National Gallery Habitat
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£25.50
Department Of Culture, Tourism And Libraries Wall paintings of Sindh from the eighteenth to
Book SynopsisThis book is about the long-forgotten memorial stones of Tharparkar and it is the outcome of 15 years of fieldwork by the author in which he discovered more than 2000 memorial stone sites in Tharparkar district of Sindh, Pakistan.
£78.84
Chose Commune Corps flottants
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£22.80
Nika Simovich Fisher Becoming A. Banana
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£8.00
ZE Books Cellophane Bricks
Book SynopsisA rapturous, ravenous celebration of visual art and storytelling from one of our most innovative writers and critical minds.
£24.00
Magali Duzant The Dry Garden
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£14.25
