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Ray Johnson c/o
ISBN: HB: 9780300254334, Yale University Press, January 2021
304 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 350 colour illus.
Ray Johnson (1927-1995) was a celebrated maker of small-scale collages whose works influenced movements including Pop Art, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. Trained at Black Mountain College, Johnson subsequently settled in New York and founded a mail art...
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£45,00
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Masters of Art Kahlo
ISBN: PB: 9783791386577, Prestel Publishing, November 2020
112 pp., 21x17 cm, 55 colour illus.
Although her body of work is relatively small, Frida Kahlo has inspired adoration and admiration that few other artists have attained. This accessible and elegant book offers full page reproductions of a selection of her works, allowing for a broad a...
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£9,99
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Art of Illusion
ISBN: HB: 9783791386799, Prestel Publishing, October 2020
192 pp., 28x23 cm, 100 colour illus.
This spellbinding look at the history and development of illusionistic art reveals wide-ranging techniques that have piqued the public's fascination with this medium. Beautifully reproduced, the images featured in the book includes centuries-old work...
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£29,99
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Heather Phillipson
ISBN: HB: 9783791359526, Prestel Publishing, August 2020
240 pp., 28x21 cm, 200 illus. 
Contemporary British artist Heather Phillipson works across video, sculpture, online projects, music, drawing, and poetry. She has been selected as the next artist for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square and for the 2020 Duveen Galleries commission...
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£35,00
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Suddenly Turning Visible Art and Architecture in Southeast Asia (1969-1989)
ISBN: PB: 9789811406522, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, July 2020
192 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, colour and black&white illus.
In 1981, the Filipino artist and curator Raymundo Albano adopted the expression "Suddenly Turning Visible" to describe the rapid transformation of Manila's urban landscape. The visibility that Albano evoked was aspirational, driven by a desire for ra...
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£28,00
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Fluxus Forms Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network
ISBN: HB: 9780226354927, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 12 colour plates, 70 halftones
"PURGE the world of dead art, imitation, artificial art... Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be grasped by all peoples", writes artist George Maciunas in his Fluxus manifesto of 1963. Reacting against an elitist art world enthr...
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£40,00
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Vida Americana Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945
ISBN: HB: 9780300246698, Yale University Press, February 2020
264 pp., 30.4x24.7 cm, 139 colour illus., 57 black&white illus., including 2 gatefolds
The first half of the 20th century saw prolific cultural exchange between the United States and Mexico, as artists and intellectuals traversed the countries' shared border in both directions. For U.S. artists, Mexico's monumental public murals portra...
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£50,00
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William Trost Richards Hieroglyphs of Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9781892850393, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, January 2020
215 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 277 colour plates
This catalog accompanies the first monographic examination of the art of William Trost Richards in Boston. The exhibition, presented at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, features oil paintings, watercolors, and drawings, including many ra...
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Julie Mehretu
ISBN: HB: 9783791358741, Prestel Publishing, November 2019
320 pp., 26.9x25 cm, 455 colour and black&white illus.
Over the past twenty-five years Julie Mehretu has emerged as a major force in American art. Known mostly for her enormous abstract paintings, she also produces exquisite drawings, often created as studies for larger works. This sumptuous volume accom...
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£49,99
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Marcel Duchamp The Barbara and Aaron Levine Collection
ISBN: HB: 9783791358734, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
220 pp., 25.5x22 cm, 225 colour and black&white illus.
This book documents Barbara and Aaron Levine's extraordinary collection of Duchamp's work, one of the most significant private collections of the artist in the world, which has been promised to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Collected ove...
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£35,00
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