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John Graham Maverick Modernist

Longwell Alicia G.

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791356082, Prestel Publishing, May 2017
176 pp., 29x24 cm, 130 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

This monograph explores how John Graham became an influential figure in American painting and discusses the development of his distinctly American approach to art-making. John Graham was an American Modernist and figurative painter. He was a mentor...

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David Evans (1929-1988)

Liss Paul, Gage Pete, Hicks Alistair

ISBN: PB: 9780993088469, Casemate, Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, May 2017
192 pp., 27x21.5 cm, 160 illus.

David Evans' death in a road accident in 1988, at the age of 59, bought to an abrupt end the career of one of the most distinguished watercolourists of his generation. The recent discovery of pictures remaining in his studio, nearly thirty years afte...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Richard Diebenkorn The Catalogue Raisonne

Livingston Jane, Liguori Andrea, Elderfield John, Nash Steven, Fine Ruth E., Nordland Gerald, Grant Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300184501, Yale University Press, October 2016
2176 pp., 31.1x25.1 cm, vol. 1: 299 colour illus.; vol. 2: 1645 colour illus.; vol. 3: 2344 colour illus.

A four-volume definitive resource on the career and unique works of the postwar American artist Richard Diebenkorn The celebrated American artist Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) was a singular figure in postwar American art. Early in his career, he cr...

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WW2

Llewellyn Sasha, Liss Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780993088421, Casemate, Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, September 2016
160 pp., 27x21.5 cm, 130 illus.

This book is published on the eve of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the launch of the War Artists' Advisory Committee and the iconic War Pictures by British Artists series. The scheme, devised by Kenneth Clark, played a vital role in both how the...

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Essential Paul Laffoley Works from the Boston Visionary Cell

Laffoley Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226315416, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
320 pp., 28x28 cm, 118 colour plates, 15 halftones

Paul Laffoley, who once worked for Frederick Kiesler and Andy Warhol, emerged in recent years as one of the leading visionary artists of our time. Lavishly illustrated, "The Essential Paul Laffoley" documents the evolution of his unique intellectual,...

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Charles Cundall (1890-1971)

Llewellyn Sasha, Liss Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780956713988, Casemate, Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, March 2016
160 pp., 27x21.5 cm, colour illus.

The first book to appear on the 20th century British artist Charles Cundall, this publication examines aspects of Cundall work done at home in England, abroad – Cundall made numerous painting trips to the continent, but also to the United States – an...

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Wolfe von Lenkiewicz

Lucie-Smith Edward, Dyer Richard

ISBN: HB: 9781910221099, Casemate, Anomie Publishing, January 2016
236 pp., 32x26.8 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.

This is the first major monograph on the work of one of Britain's most dynamic artists, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz. His striking paintings and drawings mine the hallowed halls of art history and popular culture in search of visual languages, imagery, theme...

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American Studio Ceramics Innovation and Identity, 1940 to 1979

Lynn Martha Drexler

ISBN: HB: 9780300212730, Yale University Press, November 2015
432 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 150 colour illus.

In the mid-20th century, ceramics evolved from a utilitarian craft or therapeutic hobby into a well-recognized fine art that continues to occupy a place in today's art world. In this pioneering study, leading scholar Martha Drexler Lynn explores how...

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Polonica

De.Fi.Cien.Cy Andrzej Wroblewski, Rene Daniels, Luc Tuymans

Loock Ulrich

ISBN: HB: 9783954761210, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, September 2015
216 pp., 26x19.5 cm, 135 colour illus., 3 black&white illus., language: English / Polish

United in DE.FI.CIEN.CY are three artists from different generations and national backgrounds. Andrzej Wroblewski, perhaps Poland's preeminent postwar painter, died in 1957 at the age of thirty, and ill health forced Rene Daniels (b. Eindhoven, 1950)...

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Sybil Andrews and the Grosvenor School Linocuts

Leaper Hana

ISBN: HB: 9780993078644, Casemate, Osborne Samuel Gallery, September 2015
90 pp., 24.5x19.5 cm, colour illus.

Sybil Andrews was a printmaker first and foremost and, like her Grosvenor School colleagues, was encouraged by their mentor and teacher Claude Flight (1881-1955). They adopted a Cubist-Futurist-Vorticist pictorial language that discarded the outrageo...

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