The Arts Books
Kerber Verlag Constructing the World: Art and the Economy 1919
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£41.25
Hirmer Verlag The True Size of Africa
Book SynopsisOpening up the cosmos of an entire continent New perspectives on Africa This lavishly illustrated volume approaches the vast continent of Africa from a variety of viewpoints; beyond prejudice and stereotypes, via cultural history and contemporary art: by means of permanent changes of perspective and a diversity of artistic voices. The history of humankind meets the colonial past and the omnipresence of aspects of Africa in many regions of the world. On the one hand, surprising views of Africa are focused on from Europe. And on the other, works and installations by Africans or protagonists from the diaspora present ideas, impulses and identities which all signify Africa. The texts illustrate the broad time frame from the first humans to Pan-Africanism and Afro-Futurism, as well as present literary and philosophical narratives.
£45.00
Hirmer Verlag From Odesa to Berlin
Book SynopsisImportant masterpieces of European painting from the Ukrainian city of Odesa have been preserved from the threat of damage during the ongoing war. In this magnificently produced volume, the collection shines forth in superlative reproductions alongside texts in English, German, and Ukrainian a symbol of solidarity with Ukraine and its cultural institutions. At the heart of this publication are seventy-six works from the painting collection of the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art masterpieces of European art that span the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Presented in an art historical dialogue with exquisite works from Berlin's Gemäldegalerie, this unique collection encompasses Biblical and mythological stories from Italy and the Netherlands, portraits, still lifes, genre scenes, images of the Madonna, and landscapes by artists such as Francesco Granacci, Bernardo Strozzi, Cornelis de Heem, Frans Hals, and Andreas Achenbach.
£28.00
Hirmer Verlag Black Ancient Futures
Book SynopsisArtists from the vast African diaspora challenging the dominant aesthetic representations of Africa The visual and textual proposals presented in this book challenge the dominant aesthetic representations of Africa through languages that propose and reimagine a past, a present and a future for the black artistic experience in a transcontinental reality. These are broad proposals that do not aim to illustrate a current or movement, but embrace the creation of fantasies, science-fiction narratives, and discourses where criticism, satire and irony are evident. This book brings together a significant group of voices from the vast African diaspora that offers dense visual and philosophical thought rich in references to African history, mysticism, mythology, ecology and fictions. Through visual and textual proposals, these voices challenge the dominant aesthetic representations of Africa through languages that propose and reimagine a past, a present and a future for the black artistic experience in a transcontinental reality.
£28.80
Hirmer Verlag GmbH The Mannerist Mind
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£37.50
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence
Book SynopsisJacob Lawrence (1917-2000) is among the most distinguished 20th-century African-American painters. He is widely known for his modernist illustrations of everyday life as well as epic narratives of African American history and historical figures. The new book Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence explores his life, work, and legacy not only as an acclaimed artist but also as a storyteller, educator, and chronicler of the mid-20th-century African American experience. The book's first part, 'Relations', traces some of the engagements that shaped Lawrence's personal and professional life. It presents his work in dialogue with that of his contemporaries, mentors, and historically significant artists, such as Josef Albers, Richmond Barthe, Romare Bearden, Jose Clemente Orozco, George Grosz, Marsden Hartley, Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, Horace Pippin and Augusta Savage. Its second part, 'Legacy', explores Lawrence's influence on contemporary artists living and working today and those who share similar formal and conceptual concerns.
£49.50
Nieves Paintings Objects Installations
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£11.40
Nieves Mount Horeb Palestine
Book SynopsisIn 1962 at the age of 71, Joseph E. Yoakum (18911972) reported having a dream that inspired him to draw. Thereafter the retired veteran began a daily practice and over the next 10 years produced some 2,000 works. Yoakum was born into poverty, had very little schooling, and at an early age left home to join a circus. He wound up working with several circuses, traveling across the United States as well as abroad and becoming intimately familiar with the world's various landscapes. These experiences would provide the foundational memories that fueled his deeply spiritual vision decades later. When he began to put that vision to paper in his apartment on Chicago's South Side in the early 1960s, Yoakum quickly developed a unique visual language, independent and distinct from other artists in the city, such as those involved in the flourishing Black Arts Movement or the up-and-coming Chicago Imagist group. His drawings predominantly landscapes in ballpoint pen, colored pencil, pastel, a
£11.40
Walther Koenig Counter Gravity: The Films of Heinz Emigholz
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£30.60
EI Publishing Co., Ltd Lightning Vol.174 Japanese Craftsman
Book SynopsisGuest editorThomas Marecki
£24.70
Schilt Publishing b.v. Mar Saez Terza Vita
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£21.25
Tulip Seminars Love in Action: Encountering Gods Manifold
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£11.88
Set Margins' publications Who can afford to be critical?
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£14.25
APE What is a good world?: Internationalisation in a
Book SynopsisThis essay series attempts to stimulate the debate about the moral challenges that internationalisation confronts us with, both in the Netherlands and abroad, and in particular for Artist-in-Residencies (AIRs). The publication is a reflection on how the crisis is reconsidering our international ambitions, starting from a post-COVID society. Internationalisation is an inevitable reality, inherent to the art landscape. The current time calls for a critical reflection on major issues such as climate inequality, plurality and the Western-dominant canon. With contributions and critical insights by Jeanne van Heeswijk, Jack Segbars, Erik Hagoort, Pascal Gielen, Cecilia Bengtsson, Merlijn Twaalfhoven, Hicham Khalidi, reinaart vanhoe and Suzanne van der Beek. Thanks to Jan van Eyck Academie, Mondriaan Fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds en het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst for their support.
£12.35
Springer Verlag, Singapore Artists in the University: Positioning Artistic Research in Higher Education
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the relationship between the university and a particular cohort of academic staff: those in visual and performing arts disciplines who joined the university sector in the 1990s. It explores how artistic researchers have been accommodated in the Australian university management framework and the impact that this has had on their careers, identities, approaches to their practice and the final works that they produce. The book provides the first analysis of this topic across the artistic disciplinary domain in Australia and updates the findings of Australia’s only comprehensive study of the position of research in the creative arts within the government funding policy setting reported in 1998 (The Strand Report).Using lived examples and a forensic approach to the research policy challenges, it shows that while limited progress has been made in the acceptance of artistic research as legitimate research, significant structural, cultural and practical challenges continue to undermine relationships between universities and their artistic staff and affect the nature and quality of artistic work.Table of ContentsForeword.- Artists in the University: An introduction.- Worlds colliding - the ongoing influence of amalgamation.- The University as a Site for Artistic Practice .- Is Artistic Practice Research?.- Artistic Research Within National Research Policy.- Artistic Research and university research management practices.- Institutional research management from the inside.- Beyond Equivalency: Repositioning Artistic Research Within higher education.- Appendix.
£62.99
Lugemik Matching MotherDaughter Tattoos
Book SynopsisThe story was, me returning home from a trip to NY and showing her my new black star tattoo I got to match hers. She was busy cooking, as per, and turned to me with an eyebrow raised. In her kinda cutting sarcasm she said 'matching mother daughter tattoos? Charming.' She was half smiling and DEEPLY unimpressed. France-Lise McGurnPublished on the occasion of the exhibition Matching Mother/Daughter Tattoos' by France-Lise McGurn and Rita McGurn at Margot Samel, 295 Church Street, New York, September 5 October 14, 2023. Rita McGurn (19402015, Glasgow, UK) was an artist and set designer who worked with figuration, painting, and textiles. France-Lise McGurn (b. 1983, Glasgow, UK) is an artist based in London, UK.
£12.35
Printed Matter, Incorporated Jaguar Group
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£22.80
Dashwood Books Fortuna Y Fetiche
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£49.50
Etudes MARJORIE
Book SynopsisArtworks by Daniel TurnerImage post production by Janvier
£14.25
RVB PARKETT
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£23.75
Nieves Das Grosse Buch der Strunke, Knorze und
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£17.10
Nieves Peter Piller - Spekulationen (II)
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£15.20
BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE UG (haftungsbeschrankt) Ixiptla Volume V Amarantus
Book SynopsisThe word amarantus, which gives name to this publication, comes from the Greek a??a????, and describes a flower that never wilts. This plant is still used to prepare ixiptlahuan, which are anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures that are ritually consumed by some indigenous peoples in Mexico. The amaranth flower represents the persistence of the uncomfortable objects that Castillo Deball makes visible in her historical itineraries and approximations, and that keep speaking to us in the present. Ever since her early works, the artist has explored how chance a product of the passing of time, erosion, fragmentation, and human intervention, among other factors determines, to a large extent, the way we learn about the world and the narratives we create. This interest has led her to investigate the history of certain artifacts and their vicissitudes, reproductions, appropriations, and disappearances. Her formal strategies tend to reflect an inclination toward methodologies used by archaeo
£22.80
EI Publishing Co., Ltd Riders Jacket Stylebook
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£20.42
EI Publishing Co., Ltd Leather Products
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£25.17
Reijinsha.Co.,Ltd. Whispering with Elves Trolls and Hidden Folks
Book SynopsisWhispering with elves, trolls and hidden-folks is a series of 50 photographs that I took in Iceland between 2011-2012 during my year as an Artist in Residence, granted by POLA Art Foundation. Iceland is a country with an entirely unique culture among powerful weather and extraordinary nature such as geothermal activities, glacier-cut fjords, lava fields, valleys full of herbs, generous pure water and hot springs. Furthermore, Iceland is a mystical place. In this distinctive environment I was always attracted to eerie senses, as if I was spellbound by the mythical and imaginary beings that dwelled in that nature. When those mystical views were evoked in me, I took photographs. Optically speaking, only the visible real world can be depicted in the photographs. My attempt however, is to try and capture the correlative phenomenon between invisible figments and real natural principles, and I am gradually getting convinced that it is in truth possible to prove the fantastical recognition through optical media - photography. I try to show the results of my trial within this work, hoping what i have captured has an effect on other people too. This series of 50 photographs were taken with 1 shutter release on 5x4 films with a pinhole camera and printed in a darkroom. There were no double exposures and no digital manipulation.
£27.00
Roshin books GO TO BECOME
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£56.10
IST Publishing Net Making. The National Pavilion of Ukraine at
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£27.00
Hyper Hypo Doors of Kypseli
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£37.80
Mousse Publishing Grand Illusion
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£14.25
Mousse Publishing Martin Maeller Nervous Dust
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£19.00
Mousse Publishing Michele Lombardelli Piacenza Los Angeles
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£15.20
Mousse Publishing Voices Communities Ecologies
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£31.50
Mousse Publishing Through the Seasons. Christen Sveaas Art
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£27.00
APE BIRDS OF A FEATHER
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£25.17
Onomatopee Incomplete Neighbor
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£32.40
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Worldmaking within Politics of Sights and Space
£7.50
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press A Story of Nothingness
£7.46
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Masks Off
£7.46
Phaidon Press Ltd Lucian Freud
Book SynopsisA breathtaking visual biography of Freud, told through his own words, unpublished private photographs, and painted portraitsTrade Review'A new book, Lucian Freud: A Life, presents his biography in pictures. It chronicles an extraordinary life from first to last: from Freud as an eight-year-old in 1930, a snapshot from Weimar-era Berlin, to the 88-year-old in London in 2011, the year of his death, laid out on his sofa like an El Greco saint... As Holborn puts it, "It is all about looking: us looking at him who in turn is looking out at the world with that penetrating stare. He was oblivious to anything else. Which is why it's a heroic life.' - The Financial Times 'Thought provoking and engrossing, this lavishly illustrated book is a must for Freud's fans.' - Publishers Weekly Online 'An excellent new addition to your coffee table.' - ES magazine 'An impressive selection.' - Forbes Online 'Taking its cue from previously unseen family snapshots, Lucian Freud: A Life illustrates the artists's biography with private photographs, and intimate portraits by his peers.' - Vogue 'A new visual biography charts the famous Freud gaze... Overwhelmingly photographic.' - RA Magazine 'A sumptuous visual memoir... The smell of oil paint and charcoal dust floats off the pages.' - The Herald 'Despite a strong aversion to paparazzi... [Lucian Freud] was shot by more great photographers than perhaps anyone who ever lived.' - The Spectator 'When it come to Lucian Freud, the avalanche of admiring attention only seems to grow... (Lucian Freud: A Life) takes us all the way from a little boy on the beach in Germany to the near nonagenarian variously in bed with this pet whippet and none other than Kate Moss.' - Evening Standard 'A vivid pictorial companion... from childhood through to intimate shots in his studio, including Bruce Bernard's extraordinary images of the artist painting and posing alongside Leigh Bowery... The abundance of documentation provided by these books [...] contributes to the most detailed picture yet on the artist and his work.' - The Burlington Magazine
£112.50
Hayward Gallery Publishing Kiss My Genders
Book SynopsisAn important and timely survey of work from the late 1960s through to the present, focusing on artists who draw on their own experiences to create works that challenge accepted or stable definitions of gender. Kiss My Genders celebrates more than 30 international artists whose work explores and challenges traditional gender categories. The book features works from the late 1960s through to the present, and focuses on artists who draw on their own experiences to create works that challenge accepted or stable definitions of gender. Working across painting, installations, sculpture, text, photography and film, many of these artists treat the body as a sculpture, and in doing so open up new possibilities for gender, beauty and representations of the human form. The publication includes texts from writers, theorists, curators, poets and artists who have made key contributions to thinking in the field. From pop culture and gender dissidence to the embrace of the ‘monstrous’ or ‘freaky’, from the politics of pose to transfeminism and politics on the street, each of these writers throws light on a different way of seeing. In addition to original texts by Amrou Al-Kadhi, Paul Clinton, Charlie Fox, Jack Halberstam, Manuel Segade and Susan Stryker, the book reprints a key text by artist Renate Lorenz and includes poetry by Travis Alabanza, Jay Bernard, Nat Raha and Tark Lakhrissi. Also featured is a roundtable discussion between a selection of artists and exhibition curator Vincent Honoré.
£23.99
Smith Street Gift The Cocktail Cabinet Vodka
Book SynopsisKara Newman is a spirits and cocktail writer based in New York. She reviews spirits for Wine Enthusiast magazine, where she's also a writer-at-large. Her writing has appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Food & Wine, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and PUNCH. She's the author of seven cocktail books. Giacomo Bagnara is an illustrator and artist living in Verona, Italy. His work has been recognised over the last years by American Illustration and the Society of Illustrators of NY. Avid observer, Giacomo loves exploring different perspective of the everyday life questioning his own perceptions.
£18.23
Bristol University Press Inside Retirement Housing
Book SynopsisThrough stories and visual vignettes, it presents a range of stakeholders involved in the design, construction, management and habitation of third-age housing in the UK, highlighting the importance of design decisions for the everyday lives of older people.Table of ContentsForewords Bringing Design Research into Gerontology - Judith Phillips Architectural Intelligence, for Older People - Adam Sharr Introduction Part 1: Ageing 1. Ageing Context 2. Specialist Accommodation 3. Baby Boomers 4. Vulnerable Friend Part 2: Villas 5. Villa Context 6. Developer Director 7. Resident Owner 8. Villa Manager Part 3: Professionals 9. Professional Context 10. Architecture Student 11. Company Architect 12. Town Planner Part 4: Reflections 13. Design Tweaks 14. Retirement Reviewed 15. Global Outlook
£76.50
Thames and Hudson Ltd Comics 19642024
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£32.00
Persephone Books Ltd They Were Sisters
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£13.00
Yorkshire Sculpture Park Giuseppe Penone: A Tree in the Wood
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£27.00
Apartamento Publishing S.L.v Nicola L.: Life and Art
Book SynopsisIf I write it all, search and find it all, it's maybe to try to understand what happened, everything is ultimately bound, art and life, children, loves, errors, joys, hopes'. Nicola L. Nicola L. : Life and Art is the first comprehensive monograph about the pioneering artist Nicola L. (1932-2018), whose wide-ranging workimpossible to categorisechallenged ideas about identity, gender, and the body long before such questions were de rigueur. Born in Morocco to French parents, she spent her formative years in Paris attending the Beaux-Arts, only to burn most of her paintings in 1965 and move towards formats that engaged people more directly: wall-mounted canvases that could be worn as costumes, sculptures that doubled as seats, coats designed for many people to wear at once, or films about radical political figures. Far from settling in a time and place, she travelled the world, finding physical and artistic homes in the free-spirited community of Ibiza, in countercultural New York, and even, briefly, in a Lebanese jail. The art Nicola made stemmed from the life she livedthere were no boundaries between the two. This book follows the same logic, intertwining both throughout its 304 pages: on one hand, a comprehensive catalogue raisonné of her artworks; on the other, a fanzine of Nicola's never-seen-before memoirs, in which she narrates her incredible life, punctuated with anecdotes involving Jean-Paul Sartre, Salvador Dalí, Yves Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle, Caetano Veloso, Andy Warhol, Bad Brains, and Carolee Schneemann. Her writing is complemented by the personal stories of those who knew her and the commentary of those who have connected with her work: Christophe and David Lanzenberg (her sons), Gary Indiana (writer and longtime friend), Marta Minujín (artist and longtime friend), Pierre Restany (late critic and mentor), H. R. (Bad Brains frontman and film subject), Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Flavia Frigeri, Ruba Katrib, and Myriam Ben Salah (curators), among many others. Edited by Hannah Martin and Omar Sosa, and made with the support of Alison Jacques, London and the Nicola L. Collection and Archive, this book brings together original images of the work, archival photographs, essays, interviews, and journalsin sum, all the pieces of Nicola's puzzle.
£57.00
Apartamento Publishing S.L.v All the Stuff We Cooked: 49 recipes
Book SynopsisWelcome to the updated edition of Frederik Bille Brahe's sold-out first cookbook, All the Stuff We Cooked, born of that strange moment when we all learnt what it was to go into lockdown for the first time. From the confines of our respective homes, we came up with the idea of publishing this book in the same spirit of simplicity and integrity that we find in Frederik's cooking, and from there it was a question of inviting the Japanese artist Masanao Hirayama to add his unassuming linework alongside Frederik's photos. The result was All the Stuff We Cooked: 44 recipes for simple but thoughtful dishes, a taste of his internationally renowned restaurants in CopenhagenAtelier September, Apollo Bar, and Kafeteriaand the cooking he does at home for his family. The response from everyone who bought the book and cooked from it was deeply touching, and for this new edition we've added in five more recipes: some of the stuff we cooked that didn't make it to the first edition', or the proverbial cherry on top.
£23.75
