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Editions Flammarion The Louvre
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Bierke Publishing What Ought to Be Done
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Diaphanes AG Exotic Switzerland? – Looking Outward in the Age
Book SynopsisDuring the 17th and 18th centuries, foreign material culture was introduced into France and Switzerland and integrated into European interiors and decorative arts. Scholars have emphasized this era’s emerging taste for the exotic in order to explain the unprecedented craze for lacquer, porcelain, and textiles that imitated non-Western techniques and iconography. Yet what constituted the exotic during the age of Enlightenment? How was the place of foreign material culture negotiated? And how did it impact European identities? Exotic Switzerland? moves from questions about the nature of exoticism to explore exoticism in practice. The physical relocation of material fragments in European interiors is the core of this volume. Finally, the contributors also explore the rise of disciplines such as anthropology and ethnology through collection, publication, and print culture.
£38.00
Diaphanes AG The Human Face and Other Writings on His
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive collection in English of Antonin Artaud’s writings on his artworks. The many major exhibitions of Antonin Artaud’s drawings and drawn notebook pages in recent years—at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Vienna’s Museum Moderner Kunst, and Paris’s Centre Georges Pompidou—have entirely transformed our perception of his work, reorienting it toward the artworks of his final years. This volume collects all three of Artaud’s major writings on his artworks. “The Human Face” (1947) was written as the catalog text for Artaud’s only gallery exhibition of his drawings during his lifetime, focusing on his approach to making portraits of his friends at the decrepit pavilion in the Paris suburbs where he spent the final year of his life. “Ten years that language is gone” (1947) examines the drawings Artaud made in his notebooks—his main creative medium at the end of his life—and their capacity to electrify his creativity when language failed him. “50 Drawings to assassinate magic” (1948), the residue of an abandoned book of Artaud’s drawings, approaches the act of drawing as part of the weaponry deployed by Artaud at the very end of his life to combat malevolent assaults and attempted acts of assassination. Together, these three extraordinary texts—pitched between writing and image—project Artaud’s ferocious engagement with the act of drawing.
£12.00
Diaphanes AG NO Rhetoric(s) – Versions and Subversions of
Book SynopsisAn incisive examination of the intersection of global art and political resistance.NO Rhetoric(s) examines a subject intensely debated during the last three decades but rarely a topic of its own: art as an agent of resistance, whether as a rhetorical stance or critical strategy. In the face of today’s discourse on revolt and insurrection, it is necessary to ask whether the gesture of “negation” still has an emancipatory potential. NO Rhetoric(s) contributes a deeper understanding of the different logics of resistance at play between art and politics. Showcasing a diverse array of voices, this volume presents contributions on topics as varied as sexual dissidence, ecology, and geopolitics in the digital age. Through this interdisciplinary show of force, the collected authors, artists, and scholars shed light on how art approaches the most urgent issues facing today’s society.
£34.20
Diaphanes AG Liquidity, Flows, Circulation – The Cultural
Book SynopsisInterdisciplinary studies that combine the current of materialist thinking with discussions of ecologies and environmentalization. Placed at the intersection of art, media, and cultural studies as well as economic theory, Liquidity, Flows, Circulation investigates the cultural logic of environmentalization. As flows, circulations, and liquidity resurface in all aspects of recent culture and contemporary art, this volume investigates the hypothesis of a genuine cultural logic of environmentalization through these three concepts. It thus brings together two areas of research that have been largely separate. On the one hand, this volume takes up discussions about ecologies with and without nature and environmentalization as a contemporary form of power and capital. On the other hand, it takes its cue from Fredric Jameson’s notion that each stage of capitalism is accompanied by a genuine cultural logic. The volume introduces this current of materialist thinking into the ongoing discussions of ecologies and environmentalization. By analyzing contemporary art, architecture, theater, films, and literature, the fifteen contributions by scholars and artists explore different fields where liquid forms, semantics flow, or processes of circulation emerge as a contemporary cultural logic.
£21.60
Edition Skylight Katie a
£26.25
De Gruyter Francis Bacon – In the Mirror of Photography:
Book SynopsisThe British painter Francis Bacon (1909–1992) is famed for his idiosyncratic mode of depicting the human figure. Thirty years after his death, his working methods remain underexplored. New research on the Francis Bacon Studio Archive at Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, sheds light on the genesis of his works, namely the photographic source material he collected in his studios, on which he consistently based his paintings. The book brings together the artist’s pictorial springboards for the first time, delineating and interpreting recurring patterns and methods in his preparatory work and adoption of photographic material. In addition, it correctly locates ‘chance’ as a driving force in Bacon’s working method and qualifies the significance of photography for the painter. German Photo Book Award 23/24, Gold in the category Text Volume Photo Theory
£46.80
De Gruyter Neues aus dem 19. Jahrhundert: Von Kühen, edlen
Book SynopsisDas Museum Wiesbaden – im 19. Jahrhundert gegründet – ist den künstlerischen Werken dieser Zeit besonders verbunden. Wie an einer Perlenschnur reihen sich in der Galerie des 19. Jahrhunderts die mannigfaltigen künstlerischen Entwicklungen dieser Zeit bis zum Jugendstil auf: Porträts, Genremalerei, Landschaftsdarstellungen, Tiermotive, Historienmalerei von großen Namen wie Max Klinger, Ludwig Knaus, Hans von Marées, Hans Markart, Moritz von Schwind, Carl Spitzweg, Hans Thoma oder Heinrich Vogeler und andere mehr. Diese, aber auch viele in diesem Buch neu zu entdeckende Künstler führen uns die einzigartigen gestalterischen Fähigkeiten der Kunstschaffenden dieser Epoche vor Augen.
£27.38
Hatje Cantz Pacific Century: E Ho'omau no Moananuiakea:
Book SynopsisPacific Century – E Ho'amau no Moananiakea is a substantial publication and catalogue published on the occasion of the Hawai'i Triennial 2022 (HT22), providing key art historical backgrounds and contemporary discussions on art, expanding the frame of reference for the Asia-Pacific region. Curatorial essays by the HT22 co-curators lay out the critical approaches that shaped the framework of the Triennial with the fluid concept of a Pacific Century, while a selection of previously published seminal texts by artists and scholars reflect on the expanded field of art history in the region. Also included is a newly commissioned conversation with Homi K. Bhabha, illuminating his theoretical criticism that continues to carve out a new discursive space where the marginalized find their agency. Each participating Triennial artist is included in a dedicated section with an original introductory text, work information, and images. Pacific Century – E Ho'amau no Moananiakea/i> will be an essential resource for critical exploration of contemporary art in Asia-Pacific at large.
£38.40
Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH Biomedical Visions
£27.20
Hirmer Verlag Calatrava
Book SynopsisNick Mafi is an Iranian-American writer living in Brooklyn, NY. His work has appeared in Architectural Digest, Conde Nast Traveler, Esquire, GQ, Slate, The Daily Beast, and Vanity Fair. He has written for The Metropolitan Museum of Art and is currently a Senior Features Editor at Architectural Digest. Santiago Calatrava Valls is a Spanish architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his railway stations, stadiums, and museums, whose sculptural forms often resemble living organisms. His best-known works include the Olympic Sports Complex of Athens, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Turning Torso tower in Malmö, Sweden, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York City, the Auditorio de Tenerife in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas, Texas, and his largest project, the City of Arts and Sciences and Opera House in his birthplace
£48.75
Hirmer Erwin Wurm
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Hirmer German Expressionism
Book SynopsisIn a time like our own, where a young generation feels a great need to change our way of living, thinking and organizing ourselves, the publication on the artist group Brücke feels particularly relevant. These young artists also wanted to renew art and life in the German Imperial Empire and have ever since inspired younger generations of artists. In bright paintings with simplified forms and large fields of color they expressed rather their feelings than an external reality. They were interested in topics like man and nature, the naked body, portraits, self-portraits, the merging of life and art and life in the vibrant metropolis of Berlin. The catalogue discusses among others how we today perceive and can take on challenging themes like inspiration from African and Oceanian colonial cultural objects and of very young female models. Artists include Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.
£33.60
Hirmer Verlag Monet and the Impressionist Cityscape
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Hirmer Verlag Meeting of Cultures
Book SynopsisThe catalogue A Meeting of Cultures: Fashions of North Africa is a pathbreaking work focused specifically on contemporary fashion designers and influencers in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. This work broadens the scope of scholarship on the fashion industry, which to date has focused primarily on American and European designers. To illuminate the myriad ways North Africans dress, this catalogue showcases the works of contemporary fashion designers along with photography by fashion photographers, journalists, and social media influencers. The catalogue is organized around five themes which bring together the work of fashion practitioners from different countries and draw out the diverse approaches to retaining cultural distinctiveness while adapting to contemporary concerns ranging from sustainability to gender identity.
£29.96
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Franz Wanner. Eingestellte Gegenwarten. Bilder einer Ausbeutung
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ZK/U Press Here Comes Trouble
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MIT Press Theater of Exhibitions
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Sternberg Press Allan Sekula – OKEANOS
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£24.00
Floating Opera Press Raphaela Vogel: Outside Form
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Pie International Co., Ltd. Romantic Princess Style: A Collection of Art by
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£21.25
PIE Books Beautiful Scenes from a Fantasy World: Background
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PIE Books Yokai Wonderland: More from YUMOTO Koichi
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£23.99
Pie International Co., Ltd. Decorative Japanese Painting: The Rinpa Aesthetic
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£22.00
Pie International Co., Ltd. Shiba Inu Ryuji
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Pie International Co., Ltd. Auspicious Animals: The Art of Good Omens
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£23.99
Pie International Co., Ltd. The Beautiful Traditional Colors of Japan: A
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£23.38
Pie International Co., Ltd. Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art
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£40.00
Pie International Co., Ltd. Soleil: Illustration Lookbook
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£21.25
Pie International Co., Ltd. S vol. 83
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£16.99
Pie International Co., Ltd. Tomidoron
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Pie International Co., Ltd. Honojiro Towoji Illustration Works 2
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Pie International Co., Ltd. Small S vol. 76
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Nippan IPS Pom Pom Cats: 30 Unique Pom Pom Cats Made by Wool
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£12.34
MASP Gran Fury Art Is Not Enough
Book SynopsisA sweeping look at the history of the artist collective whose graphic poster designs helped define the visual culture of AIDS activismGran Fury (198895) was a New Yorkbased activist artist collective that emerged from ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an organization founded in 1987 to raise awareness about the HIV/AIDS crisis in the United States through political activism. Named for the vehicle favored by the New York City police, Gran Fury formed to summon a sense of collective indignation. The collective's innovative graphic design campaigns were mobilized in ACT UP demonstrations to awaken the public to the disdain, neglect and silence of Ronald Reagan's administration during the epidemic. The group produced posters, newspapers, stickers, photographs, videos and billboards that were circulated to transform perceptions about HIV/AIDS, interrogate ineffective public policies and underreported government data, interrupt misconceptions disseminated by the media, confront the morality of religious institutions, and alleviate the stigma and discrimination faced by people living with HIV/AIDS. They worked closely with other activist groups, including the Silence=Death Project, whose posters featuring a pink triangle came to be a defining visual of the AIDS crisis.This richly illustrated catalog is a comprehensive survey of the collective's body of work. It includes unpublished essays, historical interviews, rare pamphlets, photographs and ephemera that altogether chart the development of a new visual language for effecting social change. Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough is an indispensable reference for the study of the intersection of activism and the arts in the late 20th century.
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Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw New Beginning New Questions
Book SynopsisA timely reflection on the Museum of Modern Art's collection. The opening of a new museum building offers a unique moment for reflection and reinvention. This book explores the Museum of Modern Art's collection as a lens through which to critically examine the very institutions of the art museum, collecting practices, and artistic canon in the present day. Leading voices in contemporary art and museum studies contribute a range of perspectives on crucial questions: How do museums navigate their historical and political contexts? How can they better engage and represent diverse communities? What does it mean to decolonize a museum collection? Through insightful analysis and case studies, this volume charts a path for museums to embrace their evolving role in an increasingly complex world.
£54.00
University of Chicago Press Was Socialist Realism Global
Book SynopsisA wide-ranging examination of Socialist Realism that shows it extended far beyond Eastern Europe. Was Socialist Realism Global? takes up a question that was posed by art historian Piotr Piotrowski in his final book. It offers new perspectives both on socialist realism in a strict sense and on aspects of politically and socially engaged art of the twentieth century that employed broadly understood figuration. Contributors to the volume shed light on the genealogy of figuration, relate socialist art and socialist realism from Europe to analogous artistic practices in Latin America and beyond, and more. To date, they argue, the rewriting of the artistic canon of the postcolonial world has failed to sufficiently underscore the fact that through the period of decolonization and Cold War divisions internationally, artists across half the globe were educated according to doctrines of real socialism. Contributors: Jérôme Bazin, Kate Cowcher, Tatiana Flores, Joanna Kordjak, Partha Mitter,
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Skira Stefan Gierowski
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Set Margins' publications The Failed Painter: Or: Unchained by Material
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Aesthetics in India: Transitions and
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£33.72
Double 9 Books Sir George Tressady Vol.-I
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£12.59
Double 9 Books Sir George Tressady Vol.-II
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£13.49
Leuven University Press Thinking with the Harrisons
Book SynopsisWhat is the role of the arts in the global environmental crisis?Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, known as the Harrisons', dedicated five decades to exploring and demonstrating a new approach to artistic practice, centred on doing no work that does not attend to the wellbeing of the web of life. Their collaborative practice pioneered a way of drawing together art and ecology. They closely observed, often with irony and humour, how human intervention disrupts the dynamics of life as a web of interrelationships. The authors of this book think with' the Harrisons, critically tracing their poetics as a reimaging and reconfiguring of the arts in response to the unfolding planetary crisis. They draw parallels between the artists' poetics and rethinking in the philosophy of science, particularly drawing on the work of Isabelle Stengers and Alfred North Whitehead.Thinking with the Harrisons is for anyone concerned with the implications of ecol
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Meta4Books vzw Bruegel and Beyond: Netherlandish Drawings in the
Book SynopsisThe Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels houses the largest collection of drawings in the country. Among its highlights are works by leading artists of the Low Countries, including Pieter Bruegel I, Joris Hoefnagel, Hendrick Goltzius, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacques Jordaens. As the library’s collection has been little studied up to now, it is largely unknown to scholars and the general public. To acquaint a wider audience with these important works of art, this richly illustrated publication brings together for the first time over one hundred master drawings from the Royal Library’s vaults. Not only new art-historical insights are presented, but also numerous rediscovered drawings and revised attributions to artists such as Maarten van Heemskerck and Karel van Mander. This carefully researched book, written by thirty specialists in the field, aims to make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the history of Netherlandish drawing from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.Distributed for Hannibal Books
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Onomatopee Modes of Criticism 4: Radical Pedagogy
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Onomatopee Artist-Run Democracy: Sustaining a Model: 15
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£11.40
Rab-Rab Press bie bao volume 7
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