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Emmanuel Van der Auwera A Certain Amount of Clarity
ISBN: HB: 9780300253948, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2020
288 pp., 29.8x20 cm, 160 illus.
The work of Brussels-based Belgian artist Emmanuel Van der Auwera (b. 1982) provides cautionary tales and tools for navigating information in post-truth times, making use of emerging technologies, the architecture of mass media, and more traditional...
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£45,00
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Unthought Environments
ISBN: PB: 9780941548755, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2020
215 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 94 colour plates, 7 halftones
"Unthought Environments" brings together art influenced by the forces that are integral to our daily lives, yet are easily forgotten or overlooked, such as the ancient elements of air, fire, water, and earth; weather systems; geopolitics; and the hid...
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£30,00
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Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevitch The Russian Avant-garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922
ISBN: HB: 9783791358079, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
288 pp., 24.5x24.5 cm, 250 colour illus.
When Marc Chagall took over the People's School of Art in his hometown of Vitebsk in 1919, he had already established himself as an avant-garde artist. For the next few years, Chagall established the once-sleepy Belarusian town as a hub of revolution...
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Source and Stimulus Polke, Lichtenstein, Laing
ISBN: HB: 9781944379223, DAP, Levy Gorvy, February 2019
136 pp., 33x25.4 cm, 22 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! United in their desire to create images "absolutely of the moment", Polke, Lichtenstein and Laing – three artists on separate but interrelated artistic journeys – turned their attention in the early 1960s toward the Ben-Day...
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£53,00
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Josef Albers Interaction
ISBN: HB: 9780300240832, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 140 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
"Only appearances are not deceiving" – Josef Albers Josef Albers (1888-1976) was one of the leading pioneers of 20th-century modernism: he was an extraordinary teacher, writer, painter, and color theorist, who is best known for the "Homages to the S...
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£30,00
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Jeffrey Gibson Like a Hammer
ISBN: HB: 9783791357331, Prestel Publishing, May 2018
144 pp., 28x23 cm, 85 colour illus.
Featuring work from the past decade by Jeffrey Gibson, one of America's most prominent contemporary artists, this monograph shows how he blends American Indian and Western cultural influences and explores issues of identity, alternative sub-cultures,...
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£29,99
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Picasso and the Art of Drawing
ISBN: HB: 9780300234800, Yale University Press, February 2018
230 pp., 27x21 cm, 144 colour illus.
In this generously illustrated and lively book, Christopher Lloyd sets out and interprets the lifelong achievement of Picasso (1881-1973) as a draftsman. Although there have been many publications about his drawings that have tended to focus on parti...
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£25,00
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Alicja Kwade
ISBN: HB: 9783954761234, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, August 2017
128 pp., 26.5x24 cm, 65 colour illus., language: English / German
Creation Dialectical acuity and lucid absurdity are the defining characteristics of the sculptures and object constellations created by Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, 1979; lives and works in Berlin). The artist deftly combines elementary materials and o...
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Isa Genzken Sculpture as World Receiver
ISBN: HB: 9780226409979, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
192 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 68 colour plates, 12 halftones
The work of German sculptor Isa Genzken is brilliantly receptive to the ever-shifting conditions of modern life. In this first book devoted to the artist, Lisa Lee reflects on Genzken's tendency to think across media, attending to sculptures, photogr...
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Whitney Biennial 2017
ISBN: PB: 9780300223095, Yale University Press, May 2017
256 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 200 colour illus.
Always highly anticipated and beautifully packaged, this book is an essential record of the current trends in contemporary art in America. Since its introduction by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in 1932, the Whitney Biennial has charted new developmen...
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£37,50
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