The Arts: art forms Books
Taylor & Francis Ltd Visual Media in Indonesia
Book SynopsisIn the age of digital communication and global capitalism, people's mental, social and natural environments are interconnected in complex and often unpredictable ways. This book focuses on the visual media, one of the key factors in shaping the contemporary ecology of colliding environments. Case-studies include video artists, community media activists, television programme makers and literary authors in the fourth most populous country in the world, Indonesia. The author demonstrates that these actors are part of an international creative and social vanguard that reflect on, criticise and rework the multidimensional impact of the visual media in imaginative and innovative ways. Their work explores alternative and more sustainable presents and futures for Indonesia and the world. This research is urgent and timely, as Indonesia has emerged in recent years as one of the world's most vibrant hubs for contemporary art and media experimentation.Using an innovative interdisTable of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: Media Environments 2. Media Critique 3. Media Literacy Part 2: Media Reflexivity 4. Media Democracy 5. Video Bodies 6. Video Interactivity Part 3. Media Utopia 7. Participatory Media 8. Video Communities 9. Video Simulations Part 4: Media Ecologies 10. Sustainable Media 11. Disaster Media 12. Conclusion
£137.75
Taylor & Francis Ltd Photography and Migration
Book SynopsisWritten in the context of unprecedented dislocation and a global refugee crisis, this edited volume thinks through photography's long and complex relationship to human migration. While contemporary media images largely frame migration in terms of trauma, victimhood, and pity, so much more can be said of photography's role in the movement of people around the world. Cameras can document, enable, or control human movement across geographical, cultural, and political divides. Their operators put faces on forced and voluntary migrations, making visible hardships and suffering as well as opportunity and optimism. Photographers include migrating subjects who take pictures for their own consumption, not for international recognition. And photographs themselves migrate with their makers, subjects, and viewers, as the very concept of photography takes on new functions and meanings.Photography and Migration places into conversation media images and other phoTable of ContentsList of MapsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsAbout the ContributorsChapter 1Photography and Migration: KeywordsTanya Sheehan(Im)mobilityChapter 2Back to America: Photography and Japanese Americans from Incarceration to ResettlementJasmine Alinder Chapter 3Residential School Photographs: The Visual Rhetoric of Indigenous Removal and ContainmentCarol WilliamsChapter 4Animating Death: Stills That MigrateAnne Teresa DemoBorderChapter 5The Razor’s Edge: Image and Corpo-reality at Europe’s BordersParvati NairChapter 6Fantasy Islands: Photography, Empathy, and Australia’s Detention ArchipelagoJane LydonChapter 7The Indecisive Moment: Photoethnography on the Undocumented Migration TrailJason De LeónRefugeeChapter 8Refugee Photography and the Subject of Human InterestThy PhuChapter 9Feelings, Facebook, Forced Migration: Photographs of Refugees and Affective Spaces OnlineMarta ZarzyckaChapter 10The Visual Politics of Climate RefugeesT. J. DemosDiasporaChapter 11Photography and Diaspora: A RoundtableAnthony W. Lee with Pok Chi Lau, Surendra Lawoti, and Wei Leng TayChapter 12Intimacy Out of Doors: Landscape, Labor, and Chinese Diasporic Practices of LookingNadine AttewellChapter 13Kan Azuma and the Japanese Canadian Diaspora: Perception, Identity, and Their ErosionMartha Langford
£999.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Closeup and Macro Photography
Book SynopsisFocusing on fieldcraft techniques for macro and close-up photography, Thompson covers the vital but often overlooked skills necessary to achieve consistent professional results in the field. Case studies covering a broad and often challenging group of subjects from the seashore to your back garden form the core of the lavishly illustrated book. Biology, life history, subject behaviour and ethics along with best practice approaches are discussed in detail and underpinned with photographic tips. The book is divided into four sectionsDigital Fundamentals, Fieldcraft & Methodology, Portfolio Case Studies, Digital Workflow & Presentationcovering the full photographic process from capture through to editing, captioning, development and storage are discussed. Moving beyond the surface-level approach to macro instruction, this book provides readers with techniques that work in the field. Illustrated with over 250 of the author''s own inspiring images, this publicTrade Review"Every image is accompanied by details of the camera used, lens, focal distance, aperture, and ISO. He reveals natural and artificial lighting techniques, as well as tricks of the trade, learned over years and years of dedicated fieldcraft. The emphasis is very much on ‘art and fieldcraft.’ But the author also emphasizes the importance of ethics in nature photography, something that we as photographers must adhere to at all times. His dedication to capturing his subjects in camera and his incredible knowledge is inspirational. Each page oozes with information that every bona fide nature photographer should know."—Bill Power, FIPF, ARPS, EFIAP/s, EPSA; Fellow of the Irish Photographic Federation"This is both a beautiful and intensely-practical book from a master of his trade, covering everything you could need or want to know in order to improve your close-up photography of butterflies, moths and other wildlife. Set out in four parts, the book covers all the fundamentals of digital photography and kit, fieldcraft and methodology, case studies and a brief section on processing and presenting your images.Lavishly illustrated with Robert Thompson’s superb images, not just of Lepidoptera but a wide range of subject from fungi to fish, this book is a joy to browse as well as a fount of information and hands-on tips."—Richard Fox, Butterfly-Conservation.org"Close-up and Macro Photography focuses on fieldcraft techniques and is divided into four neat sections: Digital Fundamentals, Fieldcraft & Methodology, Portfolio Case Studies and Digital Workflow & Presentation. Each section is generously illustrated with the author’s wonderful images, and the text is full of hard-won knowledge: who knew, for instance, that the pupae of some moths resembles polished wood? Whether you are a keen close-up photographer or a passionate naturalist, this book will satisfy your needs."—Tracy Calder, Amateur Photographer Magazine – March 2018"With Robert Thompson, you have an author and photographer at the top of his game ... This book provides a very good level of knowledge without being inaccessible on the one hand or of being guilty of trivialisation on the other."—Paul Harcourt Davies, learnmacro.com"It doesn’t matter if you are a complete beginner, or an experienced enthusiast, this book sets the benchmark for all future books on close-up and macro photography. If you are a professional photographer, then this book is also of immense value to you. Why? Because it represents a superb example of what us amateurs want from a photography book—full of extremely useful advice set out in a clear and concise manner, together with stunning images throughout that we all want to strive for."—Robert Kent, MacroPhotographyWorld.comTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION PART ONE DIGITAL FUNDAMENTALSHAVING A PHOTOGRAPHIC ROADMAP DIGITAL CAMERAS TRIPODS & CAMERA SUPPORT DEVICES EXPOSURE AND METERING MODES UNDERSTANDING ISO APERTURE DEPTH OF FIELD UNDERSTANDING WHITE BALANCE FILE FORMATS MEMORY CARDS HISTOGRAMS LENSES LIGHT UNDERSTANDING FLASH EXTENDED DEPTH OF FIELD BACKGROUNDS CUSTOM-DESIGNED EQUIPMENT PART TWO FIELDCRAFT & METHODOLOGYSETTING UP YOUR CAMERA FOR MACRO COMPOSITION & ORIENTATION IN THE FIELD WIDE-ANGLE MACRO MACRO ON THE MOVE THE OUTDOOR FIELD STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHING FURTHER AFIELD PHOTOGRAPHING IN CHALLENGING CONDITIONS MACRO THROUGH THE SEASONS BEYOND LIFE-SIZE ACCESSORIES FOR MACRO MY FIELD EQUIPMENT FILTERS PART THREE PORTFOLIO CASE STUDIESJEWELS OF THE INSECT WORLD (Dragonflies & Damselflies) MEADOW DANCERS (Butterflies) NATURE’S NOCTURNAL BUTTERFLIES (Moths) LIFE IN THE FOLIAGE (The Larval Phase of Butterflies & Moths) NATURE’S FLORAL GARDEN (Plants) THE KINGDOM OF THE UNDERWORLD (Fungi) LIFE IN FRESHWATER (The Aquatic Environment) LIFE ON THE SHORELINE (Coastal Creatures & Rockpools) PATTERNS ON BARK & STONE (Lichens) NATURE’S GRAND DESIGNS (Patterns & Abstracts)NATURE ON YOUR DOORSTEP (Macro in the Garden) PART FOUR DIGITAL WORKFLOW & PRESENTATIONDIGITAL WORKFLOW & PRESENTATION CONTACT DISPLAYS & PANELS PRESENTING & PUBLISHING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS ADDITIONAL RESOURCESINDEX
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Binding Space The Book as Spatial Practice
Book SynopsisBooks orient, intrigue, provoke and direct the reader while editing, interpreting, encapsulating, constructing and revealing architectural representation. Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice explores the role of the book form within the realm of architectural representation. It proposes the book itself as another three-dimensional, complementary architectural representation with a generational and propositional role within the design process. Artists' books in particular that is, a book made as an original work of art, with an artist, designer or architect as author have certain qualities and characteristics, quite different from the conventional presentation and documentation of architecture. Paginal sequentiality, the structure and objecthood of the book, and the act of reading create possibilities for the book as a site for architectural imagining and discourse. In this way, the form of the book affects how the architectural work is conceived, constructed Table of ContentsPart I Field: the scope of the book. 1. Artists’ books: historical context2 Qualities and characteristics of artists’ books3 Architecture and printed media4 Recording time, place and memoryPart II Page: the book as cumulation5 The line within architectural documentation6 Architectural drawing and the pagePart III Volume: the book as vessel7 The objecthood of the book8 The book as folded model9 The temporality of interiorityPart IV Series: the book as sequence10 The reproducibility of drawings / buildings / books11 The book as exhibitionConclusion BibliographyIndex
£128.25
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Beholding
Book SynopsisBeholding considers the spatially situated encounter between artwork and spectator. It argues that artworks created for specific places or conditions structure a reciprocal encounter, which is completed by the presence of a beholder. These are works which demand the ''beholder''s share'', but not, as Ernst Gombrich famously claimed, to sustain an illusion. Rather, Beholding reconfigures Gombrich''s notion of the beholder''s share as a set of ''licensed'' imaginative and cognitive projections.Each chapter frames a particular work of art from the remit of a complementary theoretical text. The book establishes a transhistorical notion of the spatially situated encounter, and considers the role of the architectural host in bringing the beholder's orientation into play. The book engages a diverse range of practices: from Renaissance painting and group portraiture to intermedia practices of installation and performance art. Written within the broad remit of reception aestheticsTrade ReviewA beautifully-written interdisciplinary book that acknowledges the permeability of the once strong divisions that separated art, architecture, the cinema and design. Artist and theorist Ken Wilder explains, through his theory of beholding, how the audience’s viewing conditions can shape their understanding of an art work. -- Stephen Farthing, artist, UKTable of ContentsList of Plates List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Sacred Imagery Chapter 1: The Beholder As Witness Chapter 2: Of Clouds and Terrestrial Beholders Chapter 3: The Melancholic Beholder Part II: Group Portraiture Chapter 4: The Artist as Beholder Chapter 5: Two Modes of Beholding Chapter 6: Theatricality and the Beholder PART III: Abstraction Chapter Seven: Beholding a ‘Reversible’ Space Chapter Eight: Virtual Space and the ‘Literal’ Beholder Chapter Nine: On Repetition and Beholding PART IV: Intermedia Chapter Ten: The Complicit Beholder Chapter Eleven: The Beholder in the Expanded Field Chapter Twelve: The Dislocated Beholder Bibliography Notes
£100.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mixed Forms of Visual Culture
Book SynopsisThis book celebrates and seeks to understand the overlooked appearances of hybrid forms in visual culture; artefacts and practices that meld or interweave incongruous elements in innovative ways. And with an emphasis on the material aspects of such entities, the book adopts the term ''mixed form'' for them.Focusing on key phenomena in the last half millennium, such as the cabinet of curiosities, the broadside ballad and the chapbook as early forms of image-text, the scrapbook, assemblage, and, in digital times, so-called ''mixed reality,'' the book argues that while the quality of inconsistency is traditionally dismissed, its expression nevertheless plays a vital role in social life.Crucially, Mixed Forms of Visual Culture relates its phenomena to the emergence of the division of labour under capitalism and addresses the shifting relationships between art and life, when singularity and uniformity are variously valued and dismissed in the two arenas, and at different points in hiTrade Reviewit is a pleasure to follow the author on her historical and taxonomic crossing of the world of mixed form, from the Renaissance and post-Renaissance cabinet of curiosities till today’s digital creations, over popular genres such as the broadsheet, the chapbook and the scrapbook – all well documented and cleverly illustrated. The visual material of the book is refreshing and often very original, while the comments are always helpful as well as consistently structured in function of the underlying general question of the link with division of labor. * Jan Baetens, Leonardo *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Mixtures of all sorts 1. The cabinet of curiosities as mixed form: depictions and desire 2. Mixed form in working life: the rise of manufacture 3. Popular mixed forms in a long eighteenth century: from the broadside ballad to the chapbook 4. Visual essay 5. Mixed-form and modernism in the visual arts: assemblage and assembly lines 6. Visual essay 7. Digital culture as Wunderkammer Conclusion: A synthesis of sorts Bibliography Index
£32.99
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery Graysons Art Club The Exhibition Volume II
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£13.50
Taylor & Francis Ltd Apostolic Iconography and Florentine
Book SynopsisFocusing on artists and architectural complexes which until now have eluded scholarly attention in English-language publications, Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform examines through their art programs three different confraternal organizations in Florence at a crucial moment in their histories. Each of the organizations that forms the basis for this study oversaw renovations that included decorative programs centered on the apostles. At the complex of Gesà Pellegrino a fresco cycle represents the apostles in their roles as Christâs disciples and proselytizers. At the oratory of the company of Santissima Annunziata a series of frescoes shows their martyrdoms, the terrible price the apostles paid for their mission and their faith. At the oratory of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo a sculptural program of the apostles stood as an example to each confratello of how Christian piety had its roots in collective effort. Douglas Dow shows thatTrade Review'This impressive volume by Dow ... helps fill a scholarly void in books on religious painting in the last quarter of the 16th century in Florence. ... The text is meticulous and scholarly, supported by copious notes, bibliography, and original illustrations appropriate to such an ambitious and groundbreaking study. ... Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty.’ Choice 'Dow's book uses a rich quantity of illustrations to make his point, both plans and reproductions of the frescoes and some of the statues ... Dow brings to light much detail regarding the confraternities' organisation and motivation in commissioning new works of art both as embellishment of the oratories and as education material for the confratelli.' Sehepunkte 'More than just a window onto a neglected field, it is a thorough, meticulous study based on archival research and stylistic analysis, in one case including a methodical reconstruction of a long-lost interior. It represents the kind of scholarship that has too often fallen by the wayside in an era when detail (and often accuracy) are neglected in favour of the big, interdisciplinary picture. Contributions such as Dow's are especially needed in places like post-Tridentine Florence, where the literature simply has not yet done the groundwork: we will not be able to see the big picture until we get our facts straight.' Burlington Magazine '... Dow focuses new attention on Florentine confraternal identification with the apostles at a time when the Church was asserting its own claims as a purified paleo- Christian institution. This exemplifies yet another dynamic way in which sodalities responded to and shaped the prevailing religious culture.' Renaissance Quarterly'This important, lucid, and elegantly written book is in part a product of the spatial and sensory turn that has driven much recent research. It will be of interest not only to art historians but also to scholars in other disciplines who are concerned with the process by which traditional forms of devotion, and the desired ends of Church reformers, converged and mingled with the city’s artisan culture and patronage relations. In a wider sense, Dow’s evocation of the resulting mélange, and his explication of how urban culture took visual and spatial form, teaches us more about how citizens, including non-elites, inhabited and negotiated the early modern European city.' CAA ReviewsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Alessandro de’ Medici and the Florentine archdiocese at the end of the cinquecento; ’Maledictus enim homo, qui opus Dei facit negligenter’: Giovanni Balducci’s frescoes of the Risen Christ and the Apostles in the church of Gesù Pellegrino; ’Essere amorevole della casa’: the sculptures of the Apostles in the oratory of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo; ’Far bene per i vivi, e morti’: the frescoes of the martyrdoms of the Apostles in the atrium of the oratory of Santissima Annunziata; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
£137.75
Taylor & Francis Ltd Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy
Book SynopsisThough Bartolomeo Scappi''s Opera (1570), the first illustrated cookbook, is well known to historians of food, up to now there has been no study of its illustrations, unique in printed books through the early seventeenth century. In Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy, Krohn both treats the illustrations in Scappi''s cookbook as visual evidence for a lost material reality; and through the illustrations, including several newly-discovered hand-colored examples, connects Scappi''s Opera with other types of late Renaissance illustrated books. What emerges from both of these approaches is a new way of thinking about the place of cookbooks in the history of knowledge. Krohn argues that with the increasing professionalization of many skills and trades, Scappi was at the vanguard of a new way of looking not just at the kitchen-as workshop or laboratory-but at the ways in which artisanal knowledge was visualized and disseminated by a range of craftsmen, from engineers to architects. The Trade Review'In Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy, Deborah Krohn brings much needed attention to the genre of culinary illustration. For far too long, even scholars who are fully focused on food's roles in culture have failed to address the work that images perform in cookbooks. By bringing close attention to the first illustrated European cookbook, Krohn helps to lay the groundwork for future work on this topic.'- Journal of Design History'Deborah Krohn tackles what has to be considered by far the most important cookbook of the Renaissance: Bartolomeo Scappi's Opera. Known not only for its massive text but also for its much reproduced illustrations, it has remained in many ways a somewhat mysterious unicum in the realm of high end cookery. Now, thanks to an innovative approach mixing book history, food history and the history of illustration in the sixteenth century, Scappi's cookbook finally finds its place in the context of sixteenth century publishing, a dynamic market in which both authors and publishers experimented with innovative formulas. A welcome contribution in more than one field.' - Allen Grieco, Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, ItalyTable of ContentsTable of Contents to come.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd Max Liebermann
Book SynopsisMax Liebermann: Modern Art and Modern Germany is the first English-language examination of this German impressionist painter whose long life and career spanned nine decades. Through a close reading of key paintings and by a discussion of his many cultural networks across Germany and throughout Europe, this study by Marion Deshmukh illuminates Liebermann's importance as a pioneer of German modernism. Critics and admirers alike saw his art as representing aesthetic European modernism at its best. His subjects included dispassionate depictions of the rural Dutch countryside, his colorful garden at the Wannsee, and his many portraits of Germany's cultural, political, and military elites. Liebermann was the largest collector of French Impressionism in Germany - and his cosmopolitan outlook and his art created strong antipathies towards both by political and cultural conservatives throughout his life.Trade Review"Marion Deshmukh has deftly interwoven a comprehensive study of Liebermann’s life, art, and critical reception within a context of the cultural and political history of Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany. Deshmukh has used Liebermann’s "bourgeois modernism" to reassess the unique and conflicted nature of modernism in Germany. Her book is now the definitive English-language source of information on the painter and will no doubt remain so for years to come." - Marsha Morton, Pratt Institute, USA "At long last, a monograph in English on Max Liebermann, one of Germany’s most important cultural figures of the modern era. Meticulously researched, this study is especially welcome for the way in which it weaves together and illuminates Liebermann’s life, art and times in ways that enormously enrich our understanding of how culture intersected with politics in a period of fraught and conflicting ideologies." - Maria Makela, California College of the Arts, USA"The first biography of Liebermann (1847-1935) in English, this densely written, exhaustuvely researched book is far more than a life of critically important modern German Artist. In writing about Liebermann, Deshmukh (emer., history, George Mason Univ.) looks at critical issue of German history during the first half of the 20th century... Summing Up: High recommended." - J.T. Paoletti, Wesleyan University, CHOICE Reviews "This study succeeds in providing a useful survey of many of the existing approaches to Liebermann's work from within the German literature, including the relevance of his interest in Holland, and his position as an advocate for international Modernism in Germany. At the same time, Deshmukh provides fresh perspectives on some of these interpretations, for example in her exploration of Liebermann's art-world networks and the politicisation of his art. The result is a book of considerable value, for both English-speaking scholars of Liebermann and those less familiar with the artist's work." - Lucy Watling, The Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsTable of Contents to come.
£137.75
Taylor & Francis Ltd Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy
Book SynopsisIn recent years, art historians have begun to delve into the patronage, production and reception of sculptures-sculptors'' workshop practices; practical, aesthetic, and esoteric considerations of material and materiality; and the meanings associated with materials and the makers of sculptures. This volume brings together some of the top scholars in the field, to investigate how sculptors in early modern Italy confronted such challenges as procurement of materials, their costs, shipping and transportation issues, and technical problems of materials, along with the meanings of the usage, hierarchies of materials, and processes of material acquisition and production. Contributors also explore the implications of these facets in terms of the intended and perceived meaning(s) for the viewer, patron, and/or artist. A highlight of the collection is the epilogue, an interview with a contemporary artist of large-scale stone sculpture, which reveals the similar challenges sculptors still encountTrade Review'The book takes up two topics that are almost never considered together - how sculpture is made, and then, how it gets to its destination. The geographical sweep is refreshingly broad, up and down the Italian peninsula and westward into France and Spain. The well-written essays by notable scholars cover a range of media and types of commissions, from Donatello’s sculpture for the High Altar in the Santo in Padua to Bernini’s work in the San Pietro fabbrica. The wealth of material presented here sheds light on important sculptural works about which we may have thought nothing new could be said.' Debra Pincus, independent scholar, Washington, D.C., US 'Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy recognizes the physicality and mass that distinguish sculpture, from its glittering surfaces to its interior core. It addresses overlooked areas of art-making by refocusing on some of the most basic and compelling issues of the sculptor, namely the practical considerations of creating, moving, and otherwise engineering the three-dimensional object. With essays by leading scholars and a practicing sculptor, the book is a fitting complement to the more interpretive and abstract studies that currently dominate scholarship in the visual arts ... an original and timely contribution to the field of early modern sculpture.' Victor Coonin, Rhodes College, USA'Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy is certainly an important addition to the growing field of studies on the mobility and materiality of sculpture, and it offers new insights on many aspects of the history of sculpture that will certainly have a lasting impact on the field and provide materials for further studies and reflections on the variety of themes addressed. The wealth of new evidence and ideas emerging from this book makes it a mandatory addition to the library of any scholar interested in sculpture.' CAA ReviewsTable of ContentsTable of Contents to come.
£128.25
Edinburgh University Press The Making of Islamic Art
Book SynopsisExplores how Islamic art and architecture were made: their materials and their social, political, economic and religious context
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Islamic Chinoiserie
Book SynopsisThis illustrated book aims to provide a fresh insight into medieval Islamic art through the prism of Chinese elements in Iranian art under the Mongols.
£38.00
Museum of Modern Art Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? A Reader
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£32.30
Museum of Modern Art Shigeko Kubota: Liquid Reality
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£24.00
Museum of Modern Art Just Above Midtown: 1974 to the Present
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£32.00
David Zwirner Nora Turato: govern me harder
Book SynopsisThe third title in the Clarion series features Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato and her vibrant enamel panels that magnify the omnipresence of text, design, and speech in our contemporary culture. ---------- “Meticulous as Helen and tricky as Odysseus, the artist invites us first to misread the slick surfaces and humor of her works as effortless, then forces us to attend to the laborious practices they belie, the histories and possibilities of that effort.” — Art in America ---------- Originally trained as a graphic designer, Nora Turato adapts text to subvert and create messages. Although many of Turato’s performances and works appear to be drafted by free association, she meticulously and thoughtfully edits them to evoke a sense of alluring confusion. In three signature murals with a bespoke typeface, Turato addresses the inundation of language, typography, and graphic design in our contemporary culture, whether in the news, on social media, or in advertisements. Published on the occasion of Turato’s widely popular exhibition govern me harder at 52 Walker, this publication features texts by Ebony L. Haynes and Anna Kats. Serving as an extension of the exhibition, performance scripts by the artist are also included in this publication. As described in The Brooklyn Rail, “In the slick sea of graphic smoothness and language lost from meaning, something has still been irrefutably made.”
£21.25
Profile Books Ltd 14-18 NOW: Contemporary arts commissions for the
Book Synopsis14-18 NOW: Contemporary arts commissions for the First World War centenary presents a detailed look at the extensive 14-18 NOW programme, which was set up to bring a creative response to the centenary of the First World War. The richly illustrated hardback includes an introduction by Margaret MacMillan and essays by David Olusoga, Danny Boyle, Akram Khan, Helen Marriage, Charlotte Higgins, Mark Kermode, William Kentridge and Rachel Whiteread. Spread over five years, 14-18 NOW created a new way of marking major national moments through the arts, commissioning artists to create works that respond to different aspects of the war through film, visual arts, literature, dance, theatre and music. With a vast number of images from the entire season, this fully-illustrated book is a reminder of the transformative power of the arts to bring the stories of the First World War to life, through projects such as Jeremy Deller's Somme tribute We're here because we're here, Peter Jackson's colourised film They Shall Not Grow Old, and Danny Boyle's Armistice beach memorial Pages of the Sea. The 14-18 NOW programme is one of the largest public art commissions of all time, creating over 100 artworks which have been seen by more than 35 million people. Artists include Rachel Whiteread, John Akomfrah, Gillian Wearing, Peter Jackson, Danny Boyle, Vivienne Westwood, Jeremy Deller, Shobana Jeyasingh, Sir Peter Blake, Anna Meredith, William Kentridge, Akram Khan, Susan Philipsz and Yinka Shonibare CBE. Perceptions of the war have been shaped by the artists of the time, including poets, painters, photographers and film-makers - many of whom served and who reflected on the war and its effects. One hundred years later, today's artists are opening up new perspectives on the present as well as the past.
£29.75
The Lilliput Press Ltd Goodbye Again
Book SynopsisBen Contini, a disenchanted painter of considerable talent, has just buried his mother. Rifling through the attic of her Kilkenny house he stumbles across a Modigliani nude, worth millions. Determined to learn the provenance of the painting, he and Elsa, a disturbed and secretive woman who accosts him at the funeral, become embroiled in the sinister world of Nazi art theft. But they are not the only one with an interest in the painting… Together they set off on a frantic journey that leads them from Dublin to France via the Cotswolds, down the Canal du Midi into Italy. The intrigue surrounding the shadowy half-truths about their exotic families becomes increasingly sinister as Ben and Elsa are forced to confront their pasts and their buried demons. Set in the 1980s, this is a fantastic new book from established thriller writer Joseph Hone, who weaves a breathless, galloping intrigue packed with narrative twists and sumptuous evocations of Europe’s forgotten past.
£9.99
The Lilliput Press Ltd The Caravaggio Conspiracy
Book SynopsisCaravaggio was the greatest artist since Titian, a favourite of Popes and wealthy bankers. But at a timewhen the resurgent Ottoman Empire was planning a second wave of conquest, he discovered a secret sodark that it threatened the very existence of the Catholic Church.The secret endures. Four hundred years later, Declan O’Malley, the first Irish-born Superior Generalof the Society of Jesus, learns that his friend, the German Cardinal Horst Rüttgers, has died in mysteriouscircumstances. With his nephew Liam Dempsey he tries to uncover the truth, bringing him into conflictwith the sinister and virulently anti-Muslim Cardinal Bosani – Camerlengo, or High Chamberlain, of theHoly Roman Church – in charge of the upcoming Conclave to elect a new Pope. As the two prelates grapple, Dempsey finds a bizarre link between Bosani and Caravaggio’smasterpiece, ‘The Taking of Christ’, lost for 200 years until it emerged in 1999 in the unlikely setting of theJesuit house in Dublin. The painting turns out to be more than a sublime depiction of Christ’s seizure in theGarden of Gethsemane; it is also the key to a centuries-old conspiracy of evil. Can O’Malley and Dempsey,aided by the cool and resourceful Maya Studer, daughter of the Commandant of the Swiss Guard, preventBosani from re-igniting a calamitous war between Europe and the Muslim World?
£12.00
Dent-De-Leone The Sky is Touching You
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£23.75
Dent-De-Leone Diplodoclus 2014–2021
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£20.00
Yorkshire Sculpture Park Erwin Wurm: Trap of the Truth
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£27.00
Art / Books Josef Albers: Discovery and Invention – The Early
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£22.95
Tangent Books Street Art And Graffiti: A Dissertation By Street
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£13.30
Hato Press Cookbook of Possibilities
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£14.25
Holland House Books A Certain Slant of Light
Book SynopsisA unique and beautiful book, profusely illustrated, A Certain Slant of Light was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Prize. Duncan White's moving novel reverberates with unspoken grief. A beautifully written meditation on impermanence, in which art and human life are seen as signal flares into the darkness.
£9.99
Enitharmon Editions The Castle of Perseverance
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£31.50
Occasional Papers Import-Export, Friperie: Mekhitar Garabedian:
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£19.00
Drag City Projectile
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£16.19
Hat & Beard, LLC The Steve Keene Art Book
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£50.25
Editions Skira Paris Jean-Michel Wilmotte: Product Design
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£55.20
Edition Moderne AG, Verlag bbb firebugs
Book SynopsisActually, everything is perfectly okay. Ingken is together with Lily, who seems to be content with herself and her life. Ingken on the other hand is struggling a lot. Set against the background of global climate change, Ingken is searching for a self-determined identity, a new name, for the things that can remain as they were and those that have to disappear. What is it that makes us humans? Do we have to burn everything down in order to define ourselves anew? Or can we also hold on to some things? The World Is On Fire'your own and the real one out there. Bushfires rage in Australia and Ingken's world is thrown off balance. The ecological threat interweaves with fears of change. On this fluid journey to oneself, everything falters and yet is connected. What can we hold on to when we don't know yet how everything might feel right?I like Nino Bulling's way of illuminating complex situations and anchoring them in political dimensions. For me, it becomes great comic art through the fine nuances in the gestures and the vivid sceneries. Whether it's a wild party night, a rural idyll or inner torment, the mood immediately jumps from each page into your own thoughts. That's what I read for. Gesine Claus, Strips & Stories, Bookshop for Graphic Novels, HamburgThe comic is co-published with Colorama and part of Nino Bulling's contribution to documenta fifteen.
£19.00
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Die Windsbraut: Die Geschichte Von Oskar
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Geschichte Der Venezianischen Malerei: Band 3:
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£76.50
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Das Sichtbare Und Das Unsichtbare: Zur
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£55.79
Hatje Cantz Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art
Book SynopsisEver since electricity became ubiquitous artists have been fascinated by the manifold possibilities to create works with it. The catalogue Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art, which accompanies the opening exhibition of Kunsthalle Praha, explores how electricity has transformed artistic practice from 1920 to the present day, including cinematography, sound, kinetic and mechanical sculptures, computer-based art and immersive installations. A historical perspective emphasizes the fact that electricity, with its various usages—from artificial light to computing—has become a defining element of our societies. Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art includes an essay by Peter Weibel, the author of the exhibition concept, four thematic chapters written by the co-curator Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás as well as descriptions and reproductions of key artworks by artists, such as Mary Ellen Bute, William Kentridge, Christina Kubish, Zdenek Pesanek, Anna Ridler, Nicolas Schöffer, Jeffrey Shaw, Takis, Steina, and Woody Vasulka.
£38.40
Hatje Cantz Tomi Ungerer (Bilingual edition): It's All About
Book SynopsisIt’s All About Freedom presents a comprehensive cross-section through nine decades of Tomi Ungerer’s artistic work for the first time—from drawings from the nineteen-thirties to objects from the two thousand–tens. The exhibits selected shed new light on Ungerer’s oeuvre by making it possible to comprehend the artistic dimension of the political and stylistic lines and breaks in his oeuvre as a ‘freewheeling artist’. His passion for experimenting across genres and the interplay between drawing, collage, and assemblage through which he searched for identity and humanity is thus shown in his work again and again. Developed by the Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Sammlung Falckenberg in cooperation with the Tomi Ungerer Estate and the Musée Tomi Ungerer in Strasbourg, the volume brings together contributions on Tomi Ungerer’s life’s work by Thomas David, Belinda Grace Gardner, Aria Ungerer, and Thérèse Willer, with a foreword by Dirk Luckow and Harald Falckenberg.
£33.00
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.
£51.20
Hatje Cantz Suki Seokyeong Kang Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisContemporary Art in Korean Tradition Suki Seokyeong Kang's practice traverses painting, sculpture, installation, as well as video and performance to explore the interplay between the individual and the collective. By developing an artistic vocabulary that draws from the rich heritage of Korean painting, poetry and dance, Kang's oeuvre examines the durability of traditions and expands their significance to contemporary art. The catalogue, accompanying her solo exhibition Willow Drum Oriole at Leeum Museum of Art, proposes to read Kang's practice through a range of varying discourses, such as the status of traditional Korean painting in contemporary art, feminism, and the narratives of the Western avant-garde. Taking the artist's foundational painting practice as a point of departure, the catalogue features a new body of work and charts the development of Kang's artistic language.
£38.40
Hatje Cantz CyberArts 2022: Prix Ars Electronica 2022
Book SynopsisThe Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most prestigious prizes in media art, since 1987. The jury of experts includes Computer/Film/VFX, Digital Musics & Sound Art or Artificial Intelligence & Life Art.
£27.20
Hirmer Verlag Meissen Snuffboxes: Of the Eighteenth Century
Book SynopsisPowdered tobacco, originally used in Europe as a medicine, became a fashionable stimulant in high society during the eighteenth century. Precious little containers, known as tabatières (snuffboxes), were important accessories for elegant ladies and gentlemen. The publication presents 124 of the finest snuffboxes.
£999.99
Hirmer Verlag The Power of Line: Linea III
Book SynopsisIn many cultures lines take centre stage in art and science, in writing, drawing and construction. This publication explores the fascination and power of the phenomenon of the line from the point of view of various academic disciplines ranging from the history of art to philosophy and the history of science. There are no lines in nature; lines are always the expression of human actions, perception and design. Lines divide or connect; they are sometimes static and sometimes gestural and full of movement; they represent and create forms in space and time. The essays in this volume elucidate the semantic and conceptual depth of the line in European, Asian and Islamic cultures and reveal the continuity and transformation of the line over the course of centuries as a constitutive element in architecture, art and writing and as a medium of expression in choreography and scientific and technological fields.
£27.20
Hirmer Verlag IS THAT BIEDERMEIER?: Amerling, Waldmüller, and
Book SynopsisThis volume illustrates the development of art in Central Europe from 1830 – 1860 – a period which begins in the age of Biedermeier but extends well beyond it. It shows by means of a selection of representative works how art at this time developed independently and was not restricted to the historical Biedermeier era. DESCRIPTION “Is that Biedermeier?”, we often ask of pictures which date from the same period but do not look typically Biedermeier. The publication concentrates on these works in particular by showi ng the wide range of painting in the years between 1830 – 1860 through portraits, landscapes and genre pictures. The main focus lies on Austrian painters like Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Rudolf von Alt and Friedrich von Amerling, together with artists from N orthern Italy, Hungary, Bohemia and Slovenia including Giuseppe Tominz, József Borsos, Bedřich Havránek and Francesco Hayez. There are also references to the changes in style in furniture production at that time, which also demonstrated a remarkable divers ity.
£33.60
Hirmer Verlag Werner Graeff: Ein Bauhauskünstler berichtet /
Book SynopsisWerner Graeff – painter, graphic artist, typographer, photographer and sculptor – is an important Bauhaus artist and a significant representative of Constructivism in Germany. Prompted by his friend Mies van der Rohe he wrote his moving autobiography “Hürdenlauf durch das 20. Jahrhundert” (The Obstacle Race of the 20th century), which this volume publishes for the first time with a representative selection of texts. Werner Graeff ( 1901 – 1978 ) was a student at the Bauh aus in Weimar and from 1921 a member of the De Stijl Dutch artists’ group. Together with Willi Baumeister he was also closely associated with the “ring neue werbegestalter” founded in 1927 by Kurt Schwitters. At an early stage he focused much of his attent ion on film and photography, but in 1951 after his return to the Ruhr region from exile in Switzerland he once again increasingly devoted himself to his work as an independent artist. Illustrated with a large number of paintings, pictograms, multiples, dra wings and graphic works from the artist’s estate, this volume leads the reader through Graeff’s life and works and is at the same time a fascinating journey through the German art history of the 20 th century.
£29.75
Hirmer Verlag Thought Experiments: The Art of Jonathon Keats
Book SynopsisJonathon Keats’ work as an artist and thinker is compelling for our time. Keats poses critical questions, asks us to fundamentally reconsider our assumptions, and proposes radical methods of response. In a time when the environment and human lifeways are experiencing unprecedented change, thought leaders like Keats are needed to encourage us to consider possibilities –from the absurd to the profound.Since the turn of the millennium, Keats has comprehensively extended his academic training in philosophy by prolifically presenting conceptual art projects that he refers to as “thought experiments.”These include installations and performances in museums and galleries around the globe. His motivations are to make space for exploring ideas, offering provocations, and confronting systems we generally take for granted. By prototyping alternative realities –systematically asking what if...? –these projects probe the world in which we live, exploring the potential for societal change.Trade Review“Introduces a contemporary artist, Jonathan Keats, who embraces absurdity as a means to explore relationships between humans and nature.” * ARLIS/NA Reviews *
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Hirmer Verlag The Candy Store: Funk, Nut, and Other Art with a
Book SynopsisAdeliza McHugh helped put the whimsical, funky, and irreverent aesthetic of California’s Central Valley on the art-historical map at her legendary Candy Store Gallery. Published on what would be the 60th anniversary of the gallery’s founding, this catalogue is the most significant to-date on the Candy Store and celebrates, as McHugh liked to say, art with a “kick.” In 1962, Adeliza McHugh opened the Candy Store Gallery in Folsom, California. The business began as a candy store, but when that closed, McHugh converted it into an art gallery. There, she featured ceramists and painters who would become nationally and even internationally significant, including Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, Irving Marcus, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Jack Ogden, Sandra Shannonhouse, Peter VandenBerge, and Maija Peeples-Bright. Their work, along with that of many other artists, delighted visitors to the gallery for 30 years.
£23.96
Hirmer Verlag Catching the Moment: Contemporary Art from the
Book SynopsisThe catalogue highlights the diversity and relevance of the exceptional collection acquired from St. Louis collectors Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons. The artworks address a broad array of contemporary cultural issues and participate in many discourses of art from the 1960s to the present. Rounding the Bases: The Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection highlights 100 stellar examples from the 833 works in a St. Louis collection recently acquired by the Saint Louis Art Museum. The diverse collection of contemporary art, made mostly by artists active in the U.S., includes prints, drawings, and photographs as well as sculptures and a painting. The book traces the Simmonses’ focus on art and artists of their own time, and on the broader social, political, art historical, and technical issues that have engaged both the artists and the collectors. Artists featured: Mike Bidlo, Enrique Chagoya, Bruce Conner, Damon Davis, Tony Fitzpatrick, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Hammond, Tom Huck, Peter Hujar, Jasper Johns, Bruce Nauman, Liliana Porter, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Kiki Smith, Paul Thek, Kara Walker, H. C. Westermann, and David Wojnarowicz, among others.
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