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Liminal Infrastructure The Optics Division of the Metabolic Studio
ISBN: PB: 9780985096007, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, August 2015
16 pp., 21.6x26.7 cm, 12 colour plates
Led by artists Lauren Bon, Richard Nielsen, and Tristan Duke, the Optics Division of the Metabolic Studio is a team devoted to exploring and expanding the photographic medium. Working with the Liminal Camera, a massive, portable camera obscura fashio...
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£7,50
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Paul Klee The Visible and the Legible
ISBN: HB: 9780226091181, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
256 pp., 22.8x17.7 cm, 32 colour plates, 35 halftones
The fact that Paul Klee (1879-1940) consistently intertwined the visual and the verbal in his art has long fascinated commentators from Walter Benjamin to Michel Foucault. However, the questions it prompts have never been satisfactorily answered – un...
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£36,00
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Lawrence Alloway Critic and Curator
ISBN: PB: 9781606064429, Getty Publications, July 2015
224 pp., 25x15 cm, 34 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.
This incisive book offers a revealing glimpse into the life and thought of a seminal art critic. Lawrence Alloway (1926-1990) was a key figure in the development of modern art in Europe and America from the 1950s to the 1980s. He is credited with coi...
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£30,00
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Freedom Principle Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now
ISBN: PB: 9780226319308, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
320 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 300 colour plates
On the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s, African American artists and musicians grappled with new language and forms inspired by the black nationalist turn in the Civil Rights movement.  "The Freedom Principle", which accompanies an exhibition on t...
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£26,50
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Andrea del Sarto The Renaissance Workshop in Action
ISBN: HB: 9781606064382, Getty Publications, June 2015
264 pp., 25x15 cm, 123 colour illus., 9 black&white illus.
This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition "Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action", on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from June 23 to September 13, 2015 and from October 7, 2015 to...
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£45,00
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Mark Bradford Scorched Earth
ISBN: HB: 9783791354293, Prestel Publishing, June 2015
144 pp., 28x20 cm, 80 colour illus.
This generously illustrated volume features Mark Bradford's newest work which deals with the body and the performance of identity. Mark Bradford's layered, multi-textured paintings have earned him wide critical acclaim. His latest body of work compr...
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£39,99
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Colorful Apocalypse Journeys in Outsider Art
ISBN: PB: 9780226066875, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
198 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
The Reverend Howard Finster was twenty feet tall, suspended in darkness. Or so he appeared in the documentary film that introduced a teenaged Greg Bottoms to the renowned outsider artist whose death would help inspire him, fourteen years later, to tr...
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£12,00
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Revolution of the Eye Modern Art and the Birth of American Television
ISBN: HB: 9780300207934, Yale University Press, May 2015
172 pp., 26x19 cm, 66 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
The aesthetics and concepts of modern art have influenced American television ever since its inception in the 1930s. In return, early television introduced the public to the latest trends in art and design. This engaging catalogue is the first book t...
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£35,00
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Monet | Kelly
ISBN: HB: 9780300207873, Yale University Press, April 2015
96 pp., 24.1x21 cm, 45 colour illus.
Early in his career, Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923) spent six formative years (1948-1954) in France, where he discovered the late work of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926). Visits to the remote island of Belle-Ile off the coast of Brittan...
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£16,95
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Graphic Design for Wine A Selection of Contemporary Wine Labels
ISBN: PB: 9788862421522, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, March 2015
160 pp., 24x17 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian
The book is a collection of about one hundred graphic designs for wineries of various size from across the world. The graphic design approaches are equally varied, either photographic or minimal, based on line drawings or digital concepts, resulting...
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£19,99
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