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Fabrice Samyn I Am?

Despret Vinciane, Rousseau Pascal, de Traux Wivine

ISBN: HB: 9780300250466, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2020
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

Contemporary Belgian artist Fabrice Samyn (b. 1981) works in a wide variety of media, including painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and recently choreography. His art engages with history and the passage of time, raising important questio...

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Still Life Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum

Dominguez Rubio Fernando

ISBN: PB: 9780226714080, ISBN: HB: 9780226713922, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones, 4 line drawings

How do you keep the cracks in "Starry Night" from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph eternal – or should you attempt it at all? These are some of the questions that...

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Christina Quarles

Deveney Grace

ISBN: PB: 9783791359120, Prestel Publishing, June 2020
120 pp., 27.5x19.2 cm, 60 colour illus.

A member of the vanguard of artists who are upending the white-male-dominated art scene, Christina Quarles's art is often considered in relation to her identity as a queer, ciswoman of mixed race. Her large-scale, exuberantly colored paintings reflec...

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Interiorities Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Leonor Antunes, Henrike Naumann, Adriana Varejao

Der Kunst Haus, Schneider Anna

ISBN: HB: 9783791359557, Prestel Publishing, April 2020
176 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 92 colour illus.

The artists featured in this book approach the inner self through a variety of media. The work of Njideka Akunyili Crosby comprises vibrantly patterned paintings on paper that negotiate the complex cultural terrain of a life formed between two worlds...

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Bill Brandt - Henry Moore

Droth Martina, Messier Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300251050, Yale University Press, March 2020
264 pp., 33x24.7 cm, 285 colour and black&white illus.

"The camera", said Orson Welles, "is a medium via which messages reach us from another world". It was the camera and the circumstances of the Second World War that first brought together Henry Moore (1898-1986) and Bill Brandt (1904-1983). During the...

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Drawings of Al Taylor

Dervaux Isabelle

ISBN: HB: 9783791359496, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
176 pp., 27.5x24 cm, 192 colour illus.

This book investigates important and illuminating aspects of Al Taylor's drawings, which numbered over five thousand at the time of his death. It includes a chronological survey of Taylor's drawings from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s, highlighting...

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Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion

Dion Mark, Adler Margaret C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300246193, Yale University Press, January 2020
168 pp., 27.9x23.4 cm, 175 colour illus.

Renowned artist Mark Dion (b. 1961) has a deep passion for history and the natural world. His installations mine the materials of the past to level an institutional critique in the present. Evoking the grand expeditionary journals of the 19th century...

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Sidney Nolan The Artist's Materials

Dredge Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781606065945, Getty Publications, January 2020
144 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Sidney Nolan (1917-1992) is renowned for an oeuvre ranging from views of Melbourne's seaside suburb St. Kilda to an iconic series on outlaw hero Ned Kelly. Working in factories from age fourteen, Nolan began his training spray painting signs on glass...

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Virgil Abloh Figures of Speech (Special Edition)

Darling Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783791359007, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
496 pp., 30.5x23 cm, 1935 colour and black&white illus.

For Abloh, the museum catalogue is another opportunity to "question everything". This special-edition monograph, produced in close collaboration with the artist himself, explores his creative output in a three-books-in-one format. The catalogue secti...

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Our Bauhaus Memories of Bauhaus People

Droste Magdalena, Friedewald Boris

ISBN: HB: 9783791385280, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
336 pp., 21x13.5 cm, 60 black&white illus.

Although it flourished for only fourteen years, the Bauhaus school remains one of the most influential art and design movements of the 20th century. This collection of personal memories from Bauhaus teachers, students, and friends provides a uniquely...

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