The Arts Books
Carus Kids Dog Cat
Book SynopsisCRISIS! Dog and Cat find out the family is moving. Dog freaks out. He does NOT want to move. He goes through all the classic stages: denial, anger, bargaining, and depression. Cat tries to get him to acceptance. But Cat is fine—really she is—or is she? Dog and Cat plow through the days until moving. They eat. They nap. They argue. They take care of their owners. But can they figure out how to stop this terrible move? Dog & Cat is told in a series of funny concrete (shape) poems and hilarious conversations. Perfect for any kid, age 9 and up. Or anyone who just wants a fun book.
£13.18
Paizo Publishing, LLC Pathfinder FlipMat Enormous Forest
Book SynopsisThe biggest Flip-Mats in history just got bigger! Introducing Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Enormous Forest, a brand-new amazingly giant Flip-Mat bigger than any Paizo has produced before! Measuring a titanic 30 by 46 when unfolded, this exciting new map presents a sprawling section of forest on each sideone side dense and primeval, and the other cut through with a shaded road just perfect for ambushing player characters. Spread this woodland across your tabletop and watch your players' eyes pop out at the enormity of it all! Your player character's biggest problems just got even bigger!A special coating on each Flip-Mat allows you to use wet erase, dry erase, AND permanent markers with ease! Removing permanent ink is easysimply trace over any permanent mark with a dry erase marker, wait 10 seconds, then wipe off both marks with a dry cloth or paper towel. Each Enormous Flip-Mat measures 30 x 46 unfolded, and 8 x 10 folded.On tabletops across the world, the Flip-Mat Revolution i
£23.09
David Zwirner Bob Thompson
Book SynopsisA colorful, fantastical, and musical body of work by the painter Bob Thompson 'Thompson, who finally seems to be on fame's doorstep, invents in much the same way: he makes you feel how it might have felt to see a picture of an angel for the first time.' The New Yorker Influenced by jazz music, Bob Thompson painted spirited, colorful compositions that feature an interplay of bodies, allegories, and natural landscapes while reconfiguring European masterworks. Though his career as a painter spanned only a brief period, from 1958 to his untimely death at age twenty-eight in 1966, Thompson left behind a singular and influential body of figurative work that remains vitally resonant. Looking at his particular consideration of color, line, and figurationdeveloped during a period when abstraction was the dominant trend in American artthis intimate exhibition catalogue, the seventh volume in the Clarion series, pays homage to the friction Thompson generated between his proximity to and deviat
£21.25
Brown Dog Books An Englishman in Cuba
Book SynopsisIt will encourage those who already know Cuba to explore it further and persuade those who have never visited to see this amazing place for themselves.
£999.99
Palais de Tokyo P L S 38 â ancestries
Book SynopsisIssue 38 of P L S magazine calls upon ancestries, be they intimate or political, transgenerational and historical, human or more-than-human, symbolic or material. Its contributions invite us to communicate with the invisible, in the words of Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé in her novel I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. It is a matter of conjuring away oblivion and erasure: to revive connections and lineage, something both familiar and held in common, so as to find strength, protection, guidance and, perhaps, healing. With texts and visual contributions by: Malala Andrialavidrazana, Yasmine Belhadi, Massabielle Brun, Neringa Bumbliene, Miryam Charles, Barbara Chase Riboud, Guillaume Désanges, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Rebecca Hall & Hugo Martínez, Liz Johnson Artur, Isis Labeau Caberia, Simone Lagrand, LeRhonda S. Manigault Bryant, Myriam Mihindou, Dorothée Munyaneza, Amandine Nana, Deimantas Narkevicius, Naudline Pierre, Anastasia Sosunova, Émilie Villez, Claire ZanioloThis issue is published on the occasion of a new season of exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo (17.10 2024 05.01 2025), and in particular: Tituba, Who Protects Us?, a group show which invites artists with Carribean and African diasporic trajectories to come together around a meditation on the relationships between grief, memory, migration and ancestrality; Barbara Chase-Riboud's exhibition Everytime A Knot is Undone A God is Released; Myriam Mihindou's exhibition Praesentia; Malala Andrialavidrazana's exhibition Figures; the group show Borders Are Nocturnal Animals / Sienos yra naktiniai gyvunai, organized on the occasion of the Season of Lithuania in France.
£8.60
Mousse Publishing In Medias Res 3 Postproductions
Book SynopsisWith Postproduction, the third and final issue of In Medias Res, Fluentum''s research project on the history of its premises concludes by literally taking stock of both the production of and productivity inherent in moving images. At the core of this publication are new essays on film shot in the building: beginning in the mid-1990s, mere months after the US abandoned its West Berlin headquarters, these films formed part of reunified Germany''s nascent creative industry, and continued to be made throughout the 2000s. This chronology is speculatively extended by time-based artworks that were commissioned as part of Fluentum''s multiyear program series In Medias Res: Media, (Still) Moving, which this publication both documents and further explores through artistic contributions. Though varying in their commerciality, audience, and aesthetic, they similarly employ the material and ideological architecture of the space as a matrix for creating history, allowing one to uniquely trace how the past becomes real through the present.
£7.83
Silver Press Steering the Craft
Book SynopsisUrsula K. Le Guin's essential guide to the writer's craft, now publishing in the UK for the first time. A guide for writing groups as well as solo writers, with a brand-new introduction from leading SFF writers Kelly Link, Karen Joy Fowler and Molly Gloss.
£12.59
Art Gallery of New South Wales Cao Fei My city is yours
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£37.20
Liverpool University Press All-women art spaces in Europe in the long 1970s
Book SynopsisThe texts gathered in this volume embrace women artists-only exhibitions, festivals, collective art projects, groups and associations, organised in the long 1970s in Europe (1968-1984). These all-women art initiatives are closely related to developments within the political and politicized women’s movement in Europe and America but what emerges is the varied and plural manner of their engagements with feminism(s) alongside their creation of ‘heterotopias’ in relation to specific sites/ politics/ collaborative art practices. This book presents examples from Italy, Spain, UK, Portugal, Austria, Poland, Denmark, Germany (East and West), The Netherlands, France and Sweden. While each chapter is largely devoted to one country, the authors point to how the local and specific political situation in which these initiatives emerged is linked to global tendencies as well as inter-European exchanges. Each chapter of this book thus assesses the impact of travelling views of feminism, by considering connections made between women artists (often when travelling abroad) or their knowledge of art practices from abroad. Distinct and highly varied attitudes towards political activism (from strong engagement to a clearly pronounced distance and even hostility) are shown in each essay and, what is more, they are shown as based on radically different premises about feminism, politics and art. Contributors: Fabienne Dumont, Annika Öhrner, Katy Deepwell, Elke Krasny, Nina Hoechtl, Julia Wieger, Monika Kaiser, Kathleen Wentrack, Katia Almerini, Márcia Oliveira, Agata Jakubowska, and Susanne Altmann.Trade Review'One can only hope that this book will give rise to new publications on the same subject, which take Europe into account as a space for exchange and thought, as well as other, more peripheral, geographical areas.' (Translated from French) Phoebe Clarke, Critique d’art'All-women art spaces in Europe in the long 1970s is an ambitious and invaluable contribution to the fields of art history and gender studies that acknowledges the diverse practices of women artists and enriches our understanding of this transformative period in the history of art and feminism.'Ksenia Nouril, Women’s Art JournalReviews'The volume is characterized by its wealth of information [...] It is a knowledgeable and multifaceted contribution to the history of the women-specific and feminist art movement of the 1970s in a comparative and global perspective, and continues into the following decades.' (Translated from German.) Edith Futscher, FrauenKunstWissenschaft Table of ContentsAcknowledgements viiIntroduction 1Katy Deepwell and Agata Jakubowska1 Women Artists’ Collectives in France: A Multiplicity of Positionsin a Turbulent Context 19Fabienne Dumont2 Making Space for Feminism. All-Women Art Exhibitions inSweden in the 1970s 47Annika Öhrner3 Feminist Collaborative Projects in the UK in the 1970s 71Katy Deepwell4 ‘For Us, Art is Work’: In♀Akt – International ActionCommunity of Women Artists 96Elke Krasny5 The VBKÖ’s Archive as a Site of Political Confrontation, or HowCan You Sing Out of Tune? 119Nina Hoechtl and Julia Wieger6 The International Exhibition Kvindeudstillingen XX påCharlottenborg in Copenhagen and the Idea of Feminist Art Space 144Monika Kaiser7 Heterotopian Spaces of Feminist Art Practice: The Schulefür kreativen Feminismus and the Stichting Vrouwen in deBeeldende Kunst 167Kathleen Wentrack8 Women’s Art Spaces: Two Mediterranean Case Studies 189Katia Almerini9 Portuguese Women Artists at the National Society of Fine Arts:Why Was This Not a Feminist Exhibition? 209Márcia Oliveira10 No Groups but Friendship. All-Women Initiatives in Poland atthe Turn of the 1980s 229Agata Jakubowska11 ‘And – I have not taken him’. The Erfurt Women Artists’ Group 248Susanne AltmannNotes on Contributors 269Index 273
£36.83
Liverpool University Press Antonio Pedro: Just a Story
Book SynopsisThe Portuguese Antonio Pedro (1909-1966) was a cosmopolitan and multifaceted artist; one of the pioneers of surrealism in Portugal, both as a visual artist and as a writer. He was involved in the London surrealist group in 1944-5. Today Pedro is perhaps best remembered for his steadfast opposition to Salazar's long dictatorship, initially as a BBC radio broadcaster in wartime London and, on his return to Portugal, as the director of TEP (Teatro Experimental do Porto) throughout the 1950s. Just a Story (1942) comes at the halfway point in his forward-looking transnational trajectory. Pedro lived in Brazil in 1940-1 and, while largely ignored up to now, his experience of modernity in the tropics included encounters with major Brazilian cultural players such as Mario de Andrade, Jorge de Lima, Jorge Amado, and Antonio Candido. Just a Story stands, up to a point, as a miniature Portuguese equivalent of the groundbreaking Brazilian rhapsody Macunaima: an iconoclastic novella- or a novel, if we adopt the label Pedro bestowed on his creation simply ‘because he felt like it'. Illustrated by the author, it combines surrealist tendencies with the irreverent streak that so frequently distinguished Brazilian modernism. Written predominantly from a first-person perspective, this surreal tale follows the amazing adventures of the protagonist, including his birth in the rural North of Portugal, his picaresque migration to the city, his uncanny love tryst with alluring Lulu, and his final homecoming and mind-blowing demise. To read it is to step into a child-like world of dreams and playful delight in the nonsensical. Yet, at the same time, this thought-provoking work also invites the reader on a meaningful, profound journey through human experience and reality.Table of ContentsForeword, by Helder Macedo Acknowledgements and note about the translation Introductory articles Transatlantic Travel and Modernist Transformations: the singular case of Apenas uma narrativa, by Cláudia Pazos Alonso Appendices 1–4 António Pedro in Britain and the London surrealists (1944–1945) by Bruno Rodrigues Appendices 5–8 Apenas uma Narrativa Just a Story, translation by Mariana Gray de Castro Appendices 9–11
£30.56
Unicorn Publishing Group Like a Moth to a Flame
Book SynopsisGlen Scouller is a contemporary Scottish artist living in Ayrshire. His passion is for colour and light with a strong bold approach to his subject matter which includes landscape, still life and the human figure. Scouller's work is based on direct observation from nature, painting en plein air' and developing larger works in the studio. Throughout a long and distinguished career, Glen has had over fifty solo exhibitions in the UK and abroad. He has also won many awards for his work in both oil and watercolour and is included in numerous corporate and public collections worldwide including The South African Government, The Scottish Government, De Beers and The Royal Bank of Scotland.
£999.99
Unicorn Publishing Group Xu Xiaowei
Book SynopsisThe book features dream-space photo collages created by Xu Xiaowei. By combining visual representations of objects and places with ready-made images that randomly appear and disappear in contemporary Chinese society, the artist reinvents his memories. The artwork reflects the personal turmoil experienced in the face of rapid changes in Chinese society. Through non-linear and fragmentary stories that unfold in a dystopian fantasy world that is both pre-modern and post-industrial, the artist tries to convey this agitation. Using reconstructed photographs, the artist constructs a space of memory that lies somewhere between the tangible and the absurd.
£24.00
Unicorn Publishing Group Being a Painter
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£24.00
Unicorn Publishing Group Yin Zhaoyang
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£33.75
RVB PARKETT
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Lafayette Anticipations Total
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£999.99
EAR (EDITIONS ANTOINE ROUX) FLOWERS
Book SynopsisFLOWERS doesn't represent flowers.They are explicitly flowers, as per the title, but flowers reduced to the mere forms, on which spray paint and kid's glue can be dumped.They stand reconfigured, their stems artificially grafted together via Serflex, blu-tack or wires.They are an aggregation of materials, textures and colors, a composite greater than the sum of its parts.These (mostly supermarket) flowers end up being transformed into a pile of stuff to disarm the immediate perception of their very nature.Forms are made difficult to increase the length of perception, to delay the understanding of what is seen.It's a stratagem to create a thin breach, through which can arise a visual pleasure unrelated to any what' of any object. It is a loose approach on a constantly evolving, reconfigured, half intentionally and half accidentally produced image, where instability is designed from the start.All these forms are improvised, transient, and modifiable.The structures always collapse, but ins
£49.50
Ness Books Old Ice and Us
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£21.85
JRP Ringier Art and the City: A Public Art Project
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£25.20
JRP Ringier Guillermo Kuitca: Collected Drawings (1971 -
Book SynopsisThis extensive volume surveys the drawings of Argentinian artist Guillermo Kuitca (born 1961) from 1971 to 2017. Gathering together for the first time more than 650 works on paper selected from a body of more than 3,000 produced over the course of 40 years, the book lies somewhere between a catalogue raisonné and an artist's book. While not exhaustive, the book, in its pacing, is somewhat chronological; the works selected suggest the successive aesthetic, visual, and iconographic codes, worlds and concerns the artist has engaged in his puzzling artistic production. Realized with watercolor, ink, colored pencils, pastel, acrylic, chalk and ink-jet prints, Kuitca's drawingsblack and white or coloreddisplay his manifold thematic obsessions: faces and hands, portraits and intimate scenes, insects and beds, and architectural and topographic renderings.
£60.00
JRP Ringier Andro Wekua
Book SynopsisGeorgian artist Andro Wekua (born 1977) uses painting, collage, drawing, installation, sculpture and film to reflect on childhood, memory and political history in his depictions of fictional and dream-like realities, documented in this first comprehensive publication.
£999.99
JRP Ringier Art Basel: Year 49
Book SynopsisArt Basel''s official annual publication captures and documents the exhibitions in Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong, and goes beyond them, featuring interviews, portfolios, essays about contemporary art, and personal highlights from artists, curators, collectors and museum directors. With its AZ format, this year''s publication, designed by Gavillet & Cie (Geneva), maps the world of Art Basel alongside profiles spotlighting each of the 500-plus galleries that participated across the three fairs in 2018. Interviewees and contributors include Lara Almarcegui, Rasheed Araeen, Andrea Bellini, Diana Campbell Betancourt, Ryan Gander, Ingvild Goetz, Valérie Knoll, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Lubaina Himid, Kathy Noble, Irene Panagopoulos, François Quintin, Michael Rakowitz, Agustin Perez Rubio, Semiconductor, Suhanya Raffel, Xiaoyu Weng, Haegue Yang, Nina Zimmer and many others whose work contributed this year to the fairs on all three continents. Art Basel Year 49 is the sixth volume of an innovative series of publications started in 2014, which constitutes a valuable archive of the current state and evolution of the art world in the 2010s.
£37.40
JRP Editions Olivier Mosset: Retrospective
Book SynopsisSwiss artist Olivier Mosset's conceptual abstractions are embodied in the production of this specially designed volumePublished on the occasion of Olivier Mosset's (born 1944) retrospective at MAMCO Geneva, this publication offers an extensive overview of the artist's six-decade transatlantic practice. Stylishly designed, it features details of Mosset''s paintings reproduced actual size and a silver-silkscreened cover.
£999.99
JRP Ringier Katja Novitskova: Ringier 2017
Book SynopsisBerlin-based installation artist Katja Novitskova (born 1984) searches for areas where humans, machines and the environment intersect. In this artist's book, conceived with PWR Studio as the 2017 Ringier annual report, she opens her ongoing archive of digital images.
£22.50
Karl-Alber-Verlag Zur Psychodynamik Kreativen Gestaltens:
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£26.10
CENTRAL BOOKS Mythos Bechtesgardener Land Von Menschen
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£999.99
Hatje Cantz Verlag Kahnweiler Rupf Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisIncludes texts by Michael Baumgartner, Susanne Friedli, Peter Kropmanns, Luise Mahler, Konrad Tobler, Nina Zimmer, Stefan Zweifel.
£46.40
Hirmer Verlag GmbH T. Lux Feininger
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£29.92
Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG Notenbuch Fur Nannerl
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£14.95
Moderne Kunst, Verlag Fur Jonathan Meese Dr No Subscribes to Your War Bonds
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£25.20
DISTANZ Verlag HOSPITAL
Book SynopsisI believe art re-ritualizes the everyday to reveal something fresh about our lives. This revelation is a vitality and it is a power to change the world.Pope.LPope.L (b. Newark, US, 1955; d. Chicago, US, 2023) was one of the foremost creators of political conceptual art in the United States. Among his best-known works rank his Crawl performances, for which the artistvariously wearing business attire, a dandelion in hand, or a Superman costumegot on his hands and knees to crawl through New York's streets for miles. Challenging bystanders to look down and actually see him, he used his body to expose inequalities and power differentials in society. His oeuvre also spanned the media of painting, sculpture, installation art, and photography. Devising a practice with deep roots in philosophy and the theater, Pope.L from the 1970s onward produced seminal works exploring questions of language, gender, racism, and community. Hospital documents Pope.L's 2023 exhibition at the South London Gallery, which tragically turned out to be the last in his lifetime. With an essay by Legacy Russell, an introduction by Margot Heller, and an interview with the artist.
£32.40
DISTANZ Verlag GmbH Opera to a Black Venus
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£36.00
IST Publishing Net Making. The National Pavilion of Ukraine at
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£27.00
Historia Informal del Cine Britanico
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£34.41
Indie
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£24.51
Almuzara ARTE DE VESTIR A LA VIRGEN EL N.E.
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£32.84
La Zambomba de Jerez
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£21.49
Obelisco Introducción a la Psicología Junguiana
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£15.18
Obelisco LOS COLORES SIMBOLICOS
Book SynopsisEn la Antigüedad, la Edad Media y los tiempos modernos Este breve tratado sobre el simbolismo tradicional de los colores, escrito de un modo puntilloso y exhaustivo, es uno de los pocos disponibles en una lengua del mundo occidental. Su fundamento teórico consiste en el concepto de que todo lo manifestado procede esencialmente de un principio metafísico y expresa la realidad según su orden de existencia. También los colores obedecen a esta ley y, respecto a su grado específico, encajan en la unidad principal. El simbolismo del color es un modo de expresión universal que ha atravesado culturas y religiones, desde la India hasta China y Persia. Este importante elemento de la iconografía se encuentra en los templos de Egipto, los mo-numentos de Grecia y Roma, y luego en la Edad Media y las vidrieras de las catedrales góticas. Los libros sagrados, desde los textos védicos hasta la Biblia y el Corán, recurren constantemente al simbolismo del color. Frédéric du Portal recorre con detalle el viaje de los colores simbólicos a través de los siglos, y su extensa inves-tigación le ha llevado a la convicción de que los colores tenían el mismo significado entre todos los pueblos de la alta antigüedad. Basándose en una exhaustiva documentación, Portal explica los principios y leyes que rigen el lenguaje de los colores. Un libro fascinante, que invita a la reflexión y que sigue siendo una referencia para artistas y estudiantes de Historia del arte.
£13.61
ALMAS ROTAS DEL ROCK Turbulentas y fascinantes
Book SynopsisAlgunos mú sicos forjaron su mito y su halo de misterio y de grandes estrellas tras una muerte...
£25.49
Ediciones Akal Memorias histricoartsticas de arquitectura
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£33.35
Ediciones Istmo, S.A. La crítica de arte en España 19391976
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£19.64
Publicaciones de Diputacin Provincial de Granada Aquende et allende
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£24.38
Hispanic Society of America Joyas en EspaÐa 15001800
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£42.71
Acantilado La atraccion del abismo The attraction of the
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£11.11
Calamo La lujuria en la iconografía románica
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Mousse Publishing The Strangeness of Beauty
Book SynopsisWhat happens when delusion and reality merge in some unthinkable combination? What is our reaction to such occurrences? When and how does thoughtful reflection replace the initial shock? What role does time play in the process? What do we learn from such incidences? The Strangeness of Beauty project was inspired by Ligeia, an engaging short story by Edgar Allan Poe, in which the Romantic writer and poet explores the interconnected aesthetic of strangeness in beauty. The variety of thoughtful contributions to the project by artists, the wider art community, and Ziba Ardalan in her introductory texts, suggest that such sensitivities are an inherent part of humanity. Presented in 2021 as a digital magazine in twelve themed weekly issues, The Strangeness of Beauty was, after O Sole Mio, the second digital project curated by Ziba Ardalan during the repeated lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic. In it, contemporary artists and other art professionals consider the concept of beauty in art and in their own practice, how it appears in so many ways, and how it is usually the intriguing element of strangeness that makes the experience of true interest and value. Thus, parallels are drawn with the unprecedented challenges faced by humanity during the pandemic. Edited by Ziba ArdalanContributions by Maria Thereza Alves, Carla Arocha, Aline Asmar d'Amman, Heather Bause Rubinstein, Oliver Beer, Luca Berta, Aaron Cezar, Richard Deacon, Jimmie Durham, Cecilia Edefalk, Carlos Garaicoa, Francesca Giubilei, Thomas Hirschhorn, Katy Moran, Si On, Sam Samiee, Stéphane Schraenen, Rayyane Tabet, Jakub Julian Zió?kowski
£999.99
Mousse Publishing Michele Lombardelli Piacenza Los Angeles
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