The Arts Books
Ziggurat Books International ternella Other Poems
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Solar Books Genteel Perversion
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£13.46
UPPERCASE publishing inc The Elegant Cockroach Love Longing and Six Legs
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£15.19
Primary Information Removal Technician
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£11.78
Life Media Group (LMG SE LTD) The Dench Dozen Great Britons of Photography
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£25.19
Arcadia Missa Publications All the Things
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£11.78
125 World 125 Annual Book 1
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Occasional Papers Daniel Bosser Philippe Thomas Declines His
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£11.78
The School of Historical Dress Headwear
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£36.00
Marmalade, Publishers of Visual Theory The Being of Drawing
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£18.04
Marmalade, Publishers of Visual Theory Ixion
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£23.74
Occasional Papers LIVE
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£12.00
Occasional Papers Explorer
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£10.57
New River Press Ltd Branch and Vein
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£18.00
Redstone Press Everyday Play
Book SynopsisAre you bored by daily routine? Learn how to restore play to the everyday, with games and life tips from artists, writers and thinkers from Louise Bourgeois and Hunter S. Thompson to Lydia Davis and Karl LagerfeldLife must be lived as play, said Plato, and this book will help you rediscover the wonder in the weekly grind, and the extraordinary in the ordinary. Throughout history, philosophers, artists and writers have found liberation in taking play seriously. Everyday Play shows you how you can use creativity, games and the imagination to transform your life.Learn how to be someone else for a day; explore how to draw a poem, paint a book and reorient your library; enjoy writers using constraints or languages they don't understand; play the Edible Book Game or become a living sculpture; become a writer and play word games to find new ways of saying what you mean.Everyday Play is the essential compendium of artists' games, philosophers''
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Macmillan Learning Inside Track for Independent Filmmakers
Book SynopsisInside Track for Independent Filmmakers is your roadmap to getting your movie made, seen, and distributed. With 11 Inside Tracks and 99 step-by-step tips, you''ll discover insider secrets, step-by-step instructions, and time-saving shortcuts - everything you need to approach financiers, actors, agents, and distributors like a savvy professional.
£32.66
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Postcards from the Trenches
Book SynopsisIrene Guenther is Instructional Professor of 20th-century European and American History at The Honors College, University of Houston, USA and recipient of the University of Houston's Provost Teaching Excellence Award and The Honors College Student Board's Distinguished Teaching Award. She is also the author of Nazi Chic? Fashioning Women in the Third Reich.Trade Review[Guenther] pursues the larger project of rescuing a German expressionist painter from oblivion … The book recounts [Schubert’s] life and reproduces artwork from its many phases (at considerable cost and to great effect). * Times Literary Supplement *Postcards from the Trenches comprises Guenther’s exhaustive research and Schubert’s extraordinary art ... A hundred years on from the Armistice, these intimate and exquisite mementoes stand as a testament to what Schubert saw and heard, experienced and endured. They showcase his talent, demonstrate his love and enlarge our understanding of a war that was supposed to end all wars. * The Herald *This beautifully produced book is a unique addition to research on the art of the Great War. While there is much to dwell upon here for both the general and specialist reader, the book’s restoration of Schubert’s art among discussions of the war’s visual legacy makes it a valuable resource on the history and history of art of the Great War. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Irene Guenther’s moving and beautifully illustrated book is superb in every way. It will excite the interest of historians of the First World War. It should be read by anyone interested in twentieth-century Germany. Schubert suffered immense misfortune. Irene Guenther has now done him justice and secured his place in the history of modern German art. * Journal of European Studies *Without doubt, Irene Guenther enjoys the ability to impart detailed research readably and informatively. This is a very special memorial; one which I can do no other than highly recommend to all with an interest in the art of the Great War. * Stand To!: The Journal of the Western Front Association *[An] accomplished author … using powerfully descriptive and illustrative language ..., Guenther provides an interesting analytical perspective on the individual and psychological expression conveyed through the use of postcards during World War I. She persuasively presents a survey of historical artwork and evaluates the primary sources while humbly acknowledging the limited scope of this work in the context of World War I. This is an excellent read for anyone interested in a World War I individual perspective, military history, or early twentieth-century art. * H-German *Guenther provides an interesting analytical perspective on the individual and psychological expression conveyed through the use of postcards during World War I. She persuasively presents a survey of historical artwork and evaluates the primary sources while humbly acknowledging the limited scope of this work in the context of World War I. This is an excellent read for anyone interested in a World War I individual perspective, military history, or early twentieth-century art. * H-Net *A universal story of young lovers separated by war ... The postcards are strikingly beautiful and intimate, and describe sentiments which existed in every combatant army on every single front of the war. -- Jay M. Winter, author of 'War Beyond Words,' and Charles J. Stille Professor of History, Yale University, USIrene Guenther has brought good luck and careful research to lay bare the artistic achievement of an ordinary man in extraordinary times. -- Hew Strachan, author of 'The First World War', and Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford, UKThese works speak to the universal issues of war and remembrance. A critical art historical and cultural intervention into 20th century German art - and a superb tour de force! -- Marion F. Deshmukh, author of 'Max Liebermann: Modern Art and Modern Germany' and Robert T. Hawkes Professor of History, emerita, George Mason University, USThis book – on the wartime postcards of a German artist who served on the battlefield – deals with a compelling but under-researched subject in art-historical scholarship … [An] intimate, personal account of the Great War frontline experience. The postcards themselves are poignantly beautiful objects, and this work will finally bring to a wider readership the work of a key German war artist. -- Ann Murray, University College Cork, IrelandTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface 1. The Great War and the Uses of Art 2. German Artists and the Great War 3. The Life and Art of Otto Schubert Postscript The Artworks List of Illustrations Endnotes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jeanne Mammen
Book SynopsisCamilla Smith is Associate Professor in Art History in the Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK, where she specialises in modern art, architecture and design in Germany and Austria. Her research into aspects of German modernism is published in leading journals such as New German Critique, Oxford Art Journal and Art History, and she has contributed to international exhibitions held in London, Berlin and Vienna.Trade ReviewIn this study, Camilla Smith wrests Jeanne Mammen from narratives of a sexually liberated Weimar culture and its fall to reveal a more compelling and complex artist. With both sensitivity and precision, Smith illuminates the complexities of Mammen’s ‘inner emigration’—the fine lines between non-conformism and dissent, camouflage and accommodation—followed by the risks and possibilities of post-war culture in Berlin. * Frederic J. Schwartz, Emeritus Professor of History of Art and Architecture, University College London, UK *Beautifully illustrated and compulsively readable, Jeanne Mammen: Art Between Resistance and Conformity in Germany, 1916–1950 explores the dramatic life and multifaceted work of one of Europe’s most innovative artists. Moving beyond the dazzling “Glitter and Doom” of Mammen’s Weimar-era illustrations, Camilla Smith thematizes Mammen as an observer, artist, and translator, a woman alive to the possibilities of her age who lived through two world wars and negotiated her own inner immigration under the Nazi dictatorship. The is a thrilling new examination of an essential modernist artist whose significance has too long escaped scrutiny. * Elizabeth Otto, Professor of Modern & Contemporary Art History, University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Forging a Career Chapter 2: Berlin 1947 – Going Solo Chapter 3: National Socialism and Private Dissent Chapter 4: Propaganda, War and the Home Front Chapter 5: Beginning Again: Post-War Berlin Chapter 6: Bathtubs and Jellyfish: Mammen and Post-War Cabaret Conclusion Epilogue Notes Bibliography Appendices
£85.50
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Breathing Corpses
Book SynopsisLaura Wade's plays include Home, I'm Darling (National Theatre), Posh (Royal Court Theatre and West End), Tipping the Velvet (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith), Alice (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer (Globe Theatre, Sydney Opera House and Australian tour), Other Hands (Soho Theatre), Colder Than Here (Soho Theatre and MCC Theatre New York), Breathing Corpses (Royal Court Theatre), Catch (Royal Court Theatre, written with four other playwrights), Young Emma (Finborough Theatre), 16 Winters (Bristol Old Vic Basement) and Limbo (Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield). Films include The Riot Club. Awards include the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, the Pearson Best Play Award and the George Devine Award. Laura Wade's plays have been performed in the UK, USA, Australia, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands and Mexico.Trade Review'The tension, the emotions and the sense of absurdity and fear are brilliantly handled... A terrifying tour de force.' * Sunday Times *'[A] powerful new play… The clash between the tone of sadness and the tricksiness of the play’s structure gives the evening its undeniable edge.' * The Stage *'A highly intriguing new play' * The Independent *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I
Book SynopsisAnn Murray is an independent scholar from Ireland. She is the editor of Constructing the Memory of War in Visual Culture since 1914: The Eye on War (2018).Trade ReviewBased on an impressive collection of archival material, this study explores critical responses to Dix's work, including National Socialist views and post-war memorialisation. * Nina Lübbren, Associate Professor in Art History and Film, Anglia Ruskin University, UK *Murray’s deeply researched analysis reveals Dix as a trenchant critic of Weimar-era and wartime Germany. Paying close attention to the artist’s critical reception, Murray demonstrates Dix’s profound engagement with the politics of war commemoration and the memory of trauma. * Matthew Biro, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Michigan, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Note on Translations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. 1914-1918 2. The War Amputee as Anti-Icon 3. Disenchanting Mars: The Trench and The War 4. Metropolis as War Memorialisation 5. War at the Prussian Academy of Arts 6. The Fate of the War Pictures in the Early Years of the Third Reich Conclusion Sources and Bibliography Index
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Rowman & Littlefield The Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Films
Book SynopsisAlthough the horror genre has been embraced by filmmakers around the world, Japan has been one of the most prolific and successful purveyors of such films. From science fiction terrors of the 1950s like Godzilla to violent films like Suicide Circle and Ichi the Killer, Japanese horror film has a diverse history. While the quality of some of these films has varied, others have been major hits in Japan and beyond, frightening moviegoers around the globe. Many of these filmssuch as the Ringu movieshave influenced other horror productions in both Asia and the United States. The Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Films covers virtually every horror film made in Japan from the past century to date. In addition to major and modest productions, this encyclopedia also features entries on notable directors, producers, and actors. Each film entry includes comprehensive details, situates the film in the context and history of Japanese horror cinema, and provides brief suggestions for further readinTrade ReviewMurguia, along with more than 50 international academic contributors, presents an A–Z reference guide highlighting Japanese horror (J-horror) cinema. Various aspects of the genre are considered, such as ero guru nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense), tokusatsu (live-action special effects), and anime. This encyclopedia seeks to provide a 'perspective on the intersection between popular culture and the commercial production of horror' that is 'accessible for general audiences and academics alike.' Films (Ringu; Tokyo Gore Police), directors (Takashi Miike, Kiyoshi Kurosawa), and series ('Ju-on,' 'Tetsuo,' 'Daimajin') are examined. Entries on films include information such as date, director, and screenwriter along with graphically detailed synopses and brief analysis, in order to give scholarly credence to these works. Many of the movies are disturbing in theme and involve scenes of rape, mutilation, and torture. Splatter, slasher, and 'pink' films (those with sex or nudity) are discussed. This comprehensive source will benefit those looking for material on these films in a single volume and be of value to film students researching the topic. Some articles offer helpful bibliographies for further exploration. VERDICT: For J-horror enthusiasts and academic libraries with film collections. * Library Journal *For film aficionados, Japanese horror is a well-known genre, influencing horror productions in the U.S. as well as in other Asian countries. Varying widely from monster films, like the iconic Godzilla, to violence-and death-obsessed works, science-fiction-influenced tales, and ghost stories, these films appeal to differing demographics. Designed for both general readers and those in academic venues, this alphabetically organized work covers most of the Japanese horror films made in the past 100 years, both in film-specific entries and those for notable writers, actors, directors, and producers as well as film festivals. Articles, written by approximately 45 international contributors, most with academic affiliations, are accessibly written essays. . . .[T]he essays are generally interesting reading, and many are followed by cross-reference notations and short bibliographies. The contents give film titles and names in both English and Japanese, and the index is comprehensive and accurate. . . .[T]his volume is a sound inclusion for collections at colleges and universities supporting film studies. * Booklist *This offbeat encyclopedia edited by Murguia seeks to fill a niche as the only English-language work on ‘J-horror.’ More than 50 international contributors—mainly scholars—provide write-ups, treating horror broadly, including genres such as hyper-violence, erotic grotesque, or anime horror. The bulk of the work focuses on an admirably wide range of specific films; it also offers entries on important directors, actors, and general themes…. [T]his volume belongs on the bookshelves of aficionados and libraries collecting comprehensively in film…. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers. * CHOICE *Once opened, The Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Movies unleashed wriggly, rubbery tentacles of film analysis and biography and historical context and cultural insight onto the hapless reviewer’s initial cursory interest of the topic and infused it with an irradiated concoction of well-written essays, until the reviewer found himself morphing and transforming and mutating into...an ardent appreciator of J-Horror. . . .According to Murguia, in his two-page introduction, The Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Movies stands alone as the only encyclopedia in the English-speaking market focusing on J-Horror. . . .While the essays about the movies provide the reader with the expected summary and analysis of the film or film series, the contributors’ expertise add unexpected textures to the content. . . .Does Godzilla lurk within these pages? Yes. Will your library’s patrons—J-Horror connoisseur or curious novice—find themselves ensnared by the content of The Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Movies? Place the book on your shelves and walk away. * American Reference Books Annual *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Introduction to Arts Management
Book SynopsisIntroduction to Arts Management offers a unique, dynamic and savvy guide to managing a performing or visual arts organization, be that an arts center, theatre, museum, art gallery, symphony orchestra, or other arts company. For those training to enter the industry, workers in arts administration, or those seeking to set up their own company, the wealth of expert guidance and direct, accessible style of this authoritative manual will prove indispensable. Gathering best practices in strategic planning, marketing, fundraising and finance for the arts, the author shares practical, proven processes and valuable tools from his work with over 100 arts companies and professional experience producing over 100 music, dance, theatre and visual arts events. Unique features include: boilerplate guides for marketing and fundraising a sample Board of Trustee contract specific budget checklists day-to-day working tools that can be immediately instituted in any arts organization resources Trade ReviewIntroduction to Arts Management begins in the right place - with the arts manager and an emphasis on the need to take control of her life … The focus on collaboration is apparent in the organization of his book. Many of the guidelines, tips, and how-tos are presented in list form under descriptive sub-headings. It is the kind of book conducive to sharing with others to discuss its insights and helpful hints … It’s a book to keep on your desk for quick reference during a planning session or to quote from at a board meeting before it has a chance to fall apart … The book is recommended for emerging arts leaders (graduate and undergraduate), and for individuals already working in the field but who lack formal training. * ArtsManagement.net *Table of ContentsChapter 1 An Overview of Arts Management Chapter 2 A Personnel Overview: Producers, Artists, Managers and Organizational Hierarchies in Arts Center Management, Theatre Management, Dance Management, Symphony/Music Management, Opera Management, Museum Management and Gallery Management Chapter 3 Board of Trustees, Volunteers and Community Liaisons and their Role in Arts Administration and the Viability of Producing Arts Internationally Chapter 4 Strategic Planning for the Arts Chapter 5 Personnel Management and Human Resources Chapter 6 Fundraising and the Arts Chapter 7 Marketing the Arts in the 21st Century Chapter 8 Budgeting and Financial Management Chapter 9 Surviving in a Competitive Field Appendices Index
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Cadmium Books Michael Peckham: Balance of the Interior:
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Cadmium Books Look back at now: Paintings from Isolation
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£18.00
Shambhala Publications Inc Trust the Process: An Artist's Guide to Letting
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£17.85
Monacelli Press Prospect.6
Book SynopsisThe longest running contemporary art triennial in North America presents major artistic projects from more than fifty world-renowned artists, in New Orleans
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Ulysses Press Cover Art: 20 Hangable Prints for Book Nerds
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PM Press Signal:06: A Journal of International Political
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Insight Editions DC Comics: Wonder Woman Ruled Notebook
Book SynopsisShow off your Wonder Woman™ pride with this new addition to Insight’s best-selling notebook series.As one of the most powerful characters in the DC Universe, Wonder Woman is without a doubt an iconic figure amongst comic book fans and popular culture. Now fans can show off and celebrate their love for Wonder Woman with this new handy notebook! Featuring a new and sleek soft cover with the heroine’s classic symbol, this is a must-have for any fan. WONDER WOMAN and all related characters and elements © & ™ DC Comics and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WB SHIELD: TM & © WBEI. (s17)
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Redstone Press SEEING THINGS: the small wonders of the world
Book SynopsisA captivating compendium of everyday moments of surprise and joy from the Instagram pages of David Byrne, Jarvis Cocker, Nicole Eisenman, Garth Greenwell, William Kentridge and many moreA sunset. A famous writer at the door. A fire hydrant that casts a beguiling shadow. A sinister note from a hotel cleaner. An archival portrait that speaks across the decades. This book gathers some of the most captivating images from the Instagram pages of well-known artists, writers, musicians and archivists, each pursuing interests beyond what they're known for. This hugely entertaining Redstone collection will surprise you, make you laugh and see new things you might have missed.Contributors include: Simon Armitage, Glen Baxter, Rose Boyt, David Byrne, Roz Chast, Amit Chaudhuri, Jarvis Cocker, William Dalrymple, Elizabeth Day, Peter Doig, Nicole Eisenman, Neil Gaiman, Garth Greenwell, Joseph Grigely, William Kentridge, Hari Kunzru, Andrew Motion, Andrew O'Hagan, Cornelia Parker, Marc Quinn, Jon Ronson, Katherine Rundell, Aveek Sen, Elif Shafak, Kamila Shamsie, Conrad Shawcross, Lemn Sissay, Nina Stibbe, Rachel Whiteread and Carey Young."Redstone Press has produced another small masterpiece, a compendium of wonder and alertness. Seeing Things works like an exquisite volume of short stories, revealing with brevity the hidden and the human." Andrew O'Hagan"This eclectic treasure trove will open your eyes a little wider every day." Harriet Walter
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Modern Toss Limited Modern Toss Comic 11
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Verso Books Planet/Cuba: Art, Culture, and the Future of the
Book SynopsisTransformations in Cuban art, literature and culture in the post-Fidel eraCuba has been in a state of massive transformation over the past decade, with its historic resumption of diplomatic relations with the United States only the latest development. While the political leadership has changed direction, other forces have taken hold. The environment is under threat, and the culture feels the strain of new forms of consumption.Planet/Cuba examines how art and literature have responded to a new moment, one both more globalized and less exceptional; more concerned with local quotidian worries than international alliances; more threatened by the depredations of planetary capitalism and climate change than by the vagaries of the nation's government. Rachel Price examines a fascinating array of artists and writers who are tracing a new socio-cultural map of the island.Trade ReviewA rich revelation of Cuban art today; it will amaze, fascinate and instruct. -- Fredric JamesonThis brilliant book charts the cultural life in Cuba from the coming to power of Raúl Castro to the 'normalization' of relations with the US. What could be more timely than a cognitive map of this already heterogeneous island, once a trigger point in the Cold War, as it is vectored by new forces that are planetary in reach-neoliberalism, climate change, and pervasive surveillance? -- Hal Foster, author of Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, EmergencyPrice's insights into this complicated and conflictive landscape make for cultural criticism at its best-ample in range, acute in its eye for the telling detail. Contemporary Cuba is a moving target and this book gets that, following along with clarity, grace and flashes of illumination. -- Rachel Weiss, author of To and From Utopia in the New Cuban ArtA superbly crafted book that takes scholarship on Cuban art and literature in a fresh, entirely new direction. Planet/Cuba is both uniquely timely and full of foresight: it will shape discussion of contemporary Cuba for years to come. -- Esther Whitfield, Brown UniversityPrice shrewdly surveys art in Cuba over the period since Fidel Castro ceded control of the government to his brother Raúl . [An] excellent and welcome study. * Choice *This meticulously detailed text is a productive exploration of globalized Cuban art and culture. * Publisher’s Weekly *
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Chronicle Books Art Trivia
Book SynopsisMaster the art of trivia with Art Trivia! This eye-catching portable box holds 140 multiple-choice questions about global works and artists from all eras. With topics ranging from ancient to contemporary art, fine arts to traditional crafts, museums and galleries to street art, this game will put your art smarts to the test!ENTERTAINING GAME NIGHT QUESTIONS: This bright box is filled with 140 surprising and engaging trivia questions about all things art, including artists, works of art, and art history, from ancient to modern, postmodern, and beyond. FUN FOR THE FAMILY & ART LOVERS OF ALL AGES: With three optional difficulty levels, this set of multiple-choice questions is perfect for players with every level of art knowledge. TAKE IT ANYWHERE: The portable box is the perfect size to throw in your bag to take to game night, a family celebration, or on vacation. FUN TRIVIA GAME GIFT: Perfect f
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Real Review Real Review 13
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Real Review Real Review Issue 14
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Phaidon Press Ltd Drama
Book SynopsisA celebration of the work of contemporary architect David Rockwell, who works at the intersection of architecture and performance This unique insight into the projects and philosophy of renowned architect and Tony Award-winning set designer David Rockwell explores the remarkable range of his work, from restaurants and hotels to museums and Broadway stages. It is the first book to shine a spotlight on the relationship between architecture and performance and features contributions from leading voices and talents in fields as diverse as architecture, lighting design, and the culinary arts. David Rockwell's fascination with theater has long informed his built work. Drama explores the core principles that Rockwell uses to enhance the impact of his architecture, with contributions from experts across the creative world - from record producer Quincy Jones to chef José Andrés. It's both an exciting new insight into the work of an important contemporary architect and a compelling case for the virtues of interdisciplinary collaboration.Trade Review"Full of arresting images... Infused throughout the book is a relentlessly optimistic view that life can be made better and more beautiful if we start by simply designing better spaces, especially where people meet." - Associated Press "Get a behind-the-scenes peek into how some of the world's most spectacular sets come to fruition" - Elle Decor "What most distinguishes David Rockwell's work is its theatricality - its staging, scripting and razzamatazzing - and this book makes the point that, like spectacle, the ephemeral heightens the emotional impact of real life." - Design Observer "As its striking blue, curtain-like cover suggests, Drama embodies the excitement and anticipation of the theater. It is both a definitive collection of Rockwell Group's works and a compelling manifesto for multi-disciplinary collaboration. It distils the magic inherent in both theater and architecture and encourages us to look at creativity in a more personal, human-centered way." - Broadway World "Drama takes you on a journey of the art of imagining the drama of design." - Julie Taymor, director and writer of theater, opera and film "David Rockwell captures, in words, the way architecture on stage can place you in a moment in time - the same way seeing the sweep of the Brooklyn Bridge can evoke breathtaking drama. He explains it, and you sigh and say, 'Yea, that's exactly right. I get it.'" - Whoopi Goldberg "For the Soundtrack of America concert series [featured in Drama] that launched at The Shed NYC, David Rockwell and Adam Stockhausen designed a raw set that welcomed and united audiences and artists." - Steve McQueen "David Rockwell is a great leader and a great inspiration in the field of architecture, design, theatre design, and, well, you name it. He is a voracious creator, but he is an equally great listener with boundless curiosity. Drama shows you all sides of this great talent." - Frank Gehry
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Phaidon Press Ltd Don Marron: Chronicle of Collecting
Book SynopsisA momentous publication that opens the doors to the Donald B. Marron Collection and celebrates the collector's enduring legacyOver six decades, American financier and entrepreneur Don Marron acquired more than 300 modern and contemporary masterworks. This stunning volume pays homage to Marron as one of the most visionary and avid collectors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as a pioneer of corporate collections. Impeccably reproduced illustrations of the works – by artists from Willem de Kooning and Lucian Freud to Agnes Martin and Cindy Sherman – are accompanied by archival materials and family photographs.Trade Review"This lavish book invites us into the prized collection of one of the most intuitive, prolific, and savvy collectors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries." – Forbes
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21 Publishing Ltd A Lawnmower in the Loft
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Trolley Books Eddy Frankel Blob
Book SynopsisA short story about a man who becomes a blob illustrated by nine British contemporary artists, and written by art critic Eddy Frankel. Blob is part fiction, part art catalogue, part curatorial project. It's about depression, ageing, anxiety, body dysmorphia and erections, but, you know, in a kinda funny way? It's a vile, miserable little short story about a man whose bones disintegrate, published alongside newly commissioned artwork by Rachel Howard, Olivia Sterling, Mary Ramsden, Shadi Al-Atallah, Glen Pudvine, France-Lise McGurn, Emma Cousin, Gareth Cadwallader and Luke Burton. Eddy Frankel, Time Out's art and culture editor, approached a bunch of artists he loves and asked them if they'd be up for making work in reaction to this story he'd written. Was he nervous about sending all these amazing painters what is essentially an incredibly depressing wank joke? Yes. But somehow, they all said yes, and produced stunning paintings and drawings to go along with the story. The works in the book track the physical transformation and emotional degradation of the blob. It starts with Rachel Howard's vision of a man lost in the contemplation of his own bits, before Olivia Sterling goes deep on the blob's relationship with himself and his partner, obsessing over his weight and drinking away the misery as his girlfriend cups his jiggly belly and the material of his bones starts coming out in his semen. Glen Pudvine shows the blob in his fully realised, boneless, horny state, Shadi Al-Atallah depicts him splayed across a hospital corridor with an erection and France Lise McGurn shows the blob losing himself in nothingness. Mary Ramsden abstracts the mundane, everyday misery of his emotions, Gareth Cadwallader shows him as a self-obsessed middle aged man staring at himself in the mirror, and Luke Burton depicts the blob's ultimate nightmare: suburban mediocrity. It all ends with the blobby oblivion of Emma Cousin's three near-formless masses of flesh and goo.
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Luath Press Ltd Arts of Independence: The cultural argument and
Book SynopsisThere is only one argument for Scottish independence: the cultural argument. It was there long before North Sea oil was discovered, and it will be here long after the oil has run out… We believe, as teachers, artists, a painter and a poet, both of us travellers in other lands, both of us residents in Scotland, that Scotland should be an independent nation. ALEXANDER MOFFAT AND ALAN RIACHArts of Independence takes a hard look at the most neglected aspect of the argument for Scotland’s distinctive national identity: the arts. The proposition is that music, painting, architecture, and, pre-eminently, literature are the fuel and fire of political change.Following the success of Arts of Resistance, this new work by the same authors takes the argument over Scottish independence out of the hands of politicians and economists and beyond the petty squabbles of party politics.
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SIGNATURE BOOK REPRESENTATION Caro In Yorkshire
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Yorkshire Sculpture Park Robert Indiana: Sculpture 1958 - 2018
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£27.00
Yorkshire Sculpture Park David Nash Full Circle
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£18.00
Ridinghouse Five Sites For Five Sculptures: Roelof Louw and
Book SynopsisRoelof Louw (19362017) created sculpture from wooden slats, cast-iron wedges, sand-blasted and painted scaffolding poles, rope and neon. He made installations using industrial rubber bands, rolled-up lead sheets, or using tape recorders and the movements of viewers around a space. His work addresses itself to our bodies and minds, implicating them in its realisation and its sites, which might be streets, parks, woods or galleries.In Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967), the work for which he is best known, the fit of an orange to a hand and the experience of eating the fruit are crucial aspects, as is the action of destroying the piece in the process. Prescient in anticipating the participatory and interactive art of the present, Louw's work remained resolutely defined as sculpture, at the artist's insistence. This was even so as sculpture became conceptual, dematerialised', or located in the expanded field', and while his art was itself a part of these shifts.Born in South Africa, Louw moved to London in 1961. Practicing in London, New York and Cape Town, Louw participated in some of the most important episodes in sculpture history of the twentieth century. As well as being the first authoritative overview of Louw's oeuvre, this book presents a new perspective on a familiar and much written about era in art.
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Luath Press Ltd Modern Scottish Painting
Book SynopsisIn 1939, Scottish artist and sculptor J.D. Fergusson was commissioned to write a fully illustrated book on modern Scottish painting. The Second World War made this difficult and the first edition of Modern Scottish Painting was published in 1943 without illustrations. This new edition – edited, introduced and annotated by Alexander Moffat and Alan Riach – finally brings Fergusson’s project to fruition, illustrating the argument with colour reproductions of Fergusson’s own work. Moffat and Riach frame Fergusson’s important art manifesto for the 21st-century reader, illuminating his views on modern art as he explores questions of technique, education, form and what it means for a painting to be truly modern. Fergusson relates these aspects of modern painting to Scottishness, showing what they mean for Scottish identity, nationalism, independence and the legacy that puritanical Calvinism has left on Scottish art – a particular concern for Fergusson given his recurring subject matter of the female nude.Trade ReviewThe manifesto of a major working artist, expressing his belief in, and commitment to, what modern Scottish art is for, could be, and should be, and also it is a critical appraisal of how modern Scottish painting, and painting in the modern world, has developed and reached the point at which it has arrived. FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER MOFFAT AND ALAN RIACH
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Hato Press Studio Cookbook: Volume 3
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£24.00
Persephone Books Ltd As As It Was and World Without End
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