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Etudes MARJORIE
Book SynopsisArtworks by Daniel TurnerImage post production by Janvier
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Etudes Ecstatic Nature
Book SynopsisTim Barber's Ecstatic Nature, published by France-based Études Books, is a diary-like meandering through natural scenes and urban landscapes. A mix between digital and analog photography, the book wanders between everyday moments (a girl's head resting on the dashboard of a car, a group of friends walking down a street as the sun sets behind them), deliberate stagings (two hands touching with an unnatural gesture, a fishbowl held as if to replace a head), and spectacular views (a car burning on the side of the road). The title Ecstatic Nature refers not only to the book's subject matter but also to the cyanotype process used for some of the images, tinting them a monochromatic shade of blue. The cyanotype process emphasizes how when an image is simplified, it can reveal itself, be more emotionally resonant, truer to form (). Photographs are like rubbings of three-dimensional reality, translations of impressions.- Tim Barber
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RVB PARKETT
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Nieves Das Grosse Buch der Strunke, Knorze und
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Nieves Peter Piller - Spekulationen (II)
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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
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EI Publishing Co., Ltd Riders Jacket Stylebook
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EI Publishing Co., Ltd Leather Products
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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.
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Roshin books GO TO BECOME
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IST Publishing Net Making. The National Pavilion of Ukraine at
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Hyper Hypo Doors of Kypseli
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Mousse Publishing Grand Illusion
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Mousse Publishing Lisa Tan Dodge andor Burn
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Mousse Publishing Martin Maeller Nervous Dust
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Mousse Publishing Michele Lombardelli Piacenza Los Angeles
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Mousse Publishing Voices Communities Ecologies
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Mousse Publishing Through the Seasons. Christen Sveaas Art
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APE BIRDS OF A FEATHER
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Onomatopee Incomplete Neighbor
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Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Worldmaking within Politics of Sights and Space
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Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press A Story of Nothingness
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Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Masks Off
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Thames and Hudson Ltd Comics 19642024
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Persephone Books Ltd They Were Sisters
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Occasional Papers The Natural Enemies of Books A Messy History of
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Yorkshire Sculpture Park Giuseppe Penone: A Tree in the Wood
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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.
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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.
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Onomatopee In these circumstances: On collaboration,
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UPPERCASE publishing inc Print / Maker: Inky, Creative Success:
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Occasional Papers Slammm Ramble Perform
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UPPERCASE publishing inc Ephemera Forever Always Now Encyclopedia of
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MonoKultur Mono.Kultur No. 40 Edmund de Waal
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Triangle Books Yes I Am
Book SynopsisThis publication brings together for the first time a selection of drawings from the Yes I am series begun in 2020 by Soufiane Ababri. Through this gallery of portraits, Ababri weaves a queer community in which he recognizes himself, and which testifies as much to the kinship as to the singularity of each of its members. Some are close friends of the artist, others personalities from the worlds of art, literature, cinema and fashion... James Baldwin, Andy Warhol, Guillaume Dustan, Tom Ford, Jimmy Sommerville, Tarek Lakhrissi, John Waters and many other figures for whom Ababri declares not only his admiration but also his queer closeness. In her essay, art historian and activist Elisabeth Lebovici explores the semantic, historical and political resonances of the bed that serves as Ababri''s studio, and describes his work as bedworks.
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Spector Books Still Life - Photographs 1957 - 2017
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Monacelli Press The First Homosexuals
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking, global survey of queer art, featuring more than 300 artworks made following the introduction of the term homosexual' in 1869
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If I Can't Dance I Don't Want to be Part of Your Revolution Adrian Piper Performing Objects I Have Been
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Cambridge University Press The Gothic Screen
Book SynopsisAt the heart of Gothic cathedrals, the threshold between nave and sanctuary was marked by the choir screen, a partitioning structure of special complexity, grandeur, and beauty. At once a canopy for altars, a stage for performance, a pedestal for crucifixes and reliquaries, and a ground for spectacular arrays of narrative and iconic sculptures, the choir screen profoundly shaped the spaces of liturgy and social interaction for the diverse communities, both clerical and lay, who shared the church interior. For the first time, this book draws together the most important examples - some fully extant, others known through fragments and graphic sources - from thirteenth- and fourteenth-century France and Germany. Through analyses of both their architectural and sculptural components, Jacqueline E. Jung reveals how these furnishings, far from being barricades or hindrances, were vital vehicles of communication and shapers of a community centered on Christian rituals and stories.Trade Review"Recommended." Choice"This book has been long awaited and it does not disappoint in the breadth and richness of its exposition … [U]ndoubtedly it will become a standard reference for studies of both the built environment and iconography of the Middle Ages." The Medieval Review"The Gothic Screen makes stimulating reading for students and scholars, pointing the way for further studies of screens of all kinds throughout medieval Europe. Never again could we wish away the Gothic screen, nor would we want to." Tom Nickson, The Medieval Journal"… one can only be grateful for Jung's insights and keen observations. She has put the discussion of choir screens where it really belongs: within the vast realm of lay religiosity." Dorothy Gillerman, Speculum"At the turn of this century, Jacqueline Jung published an influential article on choir screens in Gothic great churches. She has been regarded as the leading Anglo-American specialist on these furnishings ever since, a status maintained through publication of subsequent essays. Now, at last, her monograph on the topic has arrived in the form of an authoritative statement of the role of screens as space-co-ordinating, performative, psychology-conditioning objects." Julian Luxford, The Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Screen as Sculpture: 1. The choir screen as partition; 2. The choir screen as bridge; 3. The choir screen as frame; Part II. The Sculpture on the Screen: 4. Women, men, and the social order; 5. Jews, Christians, and the question of the individual; 6. Nobles, peasants, and the vernacular mode; Epilogue.
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Phaidon Press Ltd Zhang Xiaogang
Book SynopsisThe first monograph on leading Chinese contemporary artist Zhang XiaogangTrade Review"An impeccable biography, critical companion, and collection of plates into one stunning volume that serves to introduce prominent contemporary Chinese artist Zhang to American audiences."—Publishers Weekly "Disquieting Memories is, for connoisseurs and novices alike, a journey into China's cultural revolution, modernity, and family lives through the eyes of a master artist and observer."—Quartz "A must for contemporary art aficionados."—Design Anthology
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Spector Books Bauhaus No. 10: Standard
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Hayward Gallery Publishing Silver and Glass: Cornelia Parker and Photography
Book SynopsisSilver and Glass is the first publication to explore the application and influence of photography in the art of the popular British artist Cornelia Parker (born 1956). The book is illustrated by works from across Parker''s career, including those which arose from her investigations into the photogravure. Inspired by the 19th-century photographic pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot, Parker combined two of his early techniques?solar prints and the photogravure?to create a new hybrid form of print by exposing translucent three-dimensional objects to ultraviolet light.Presented here are a collection of 20 large-scale prints from three experimental series: Fox Talbot''s Articles of Glass (2017), One Day This Glass Will Break (2015) and Thirty Pieces of Silver (Exposed) (2015). A wide range of Parker''s sculpture and documentary photography is also included.
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Hispanic Society of America Joyas en EspaÐa 15001800
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