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Unnatural History Museum
ISBN: HB: 9783791385198, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
200 pp., 28x24 cm, 160 illus. 
For over a decade, from a tiny storefront in east London, the artist Viktor Wynd has been reinventing the cabinet of curiosities for the 21st century. The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History is now one of the city's most t...
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£35,00
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Horace Pippin, American Modern
ISBN: HB: 9780300243307, Yale University Press, February 2020
264 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 96 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.
Arguably the most successful African American artist of his day, Horace Pippin (1888-1946) taught himself to paint in the 1930s and quickly earned international renown for depictions of World War I, black families, and American heroes Abraham Lincoln...
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Thinking in Thin Air Anthology of a Decade Engadin Art Talks
ISBN: PB: 9783037786246, Lars Muller Publishers, February 2020
312 pp., 21x15 cm, 87 illus.
E.A.T. / Engadin Art Talks, the forum in Zuoz in the crystalline winter-wonderland of the Swiss Alps, takes place at the end of January each year and has become famous as a meeting point for thought leaders and disruptive minds. The event is curated...
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S.M.A.K. Highlights for a Future The Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780300248012, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, February 2020
304 pp., 26.4x22.2 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
The Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (translated as the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art and commonly abbreviated as S.M.A.K.), located in Ghent, Belgium, has quickly established a reputation for both a superlative permanent collection and pro...
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Manifesto of Artistic Research
ISBN: PB: 9783035802207, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2020
128 pp., 29.2x17.7 cm
Since its beginnings in the 1990s, artistic research has become established as a new format in the areas of educational and institutional policy, aesthetics, and art theory. It has now diffused into almost all artistic fields, from installation to ex...
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Carole Solvay To Move Without Noise
ISBN: HB: 9780300246551, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2020
208 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 115 illus.
This is the first book to explore the oeuvre of contemporary Belgian sculptor Carole Solvay (b. 1954). Using primarily feathers and thin wire, Solvay has over the past 25 years created ethereally beautiful sculptures that seem to defy gravity. This p...
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£45,00
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Drawing Is Everything Founding Gifts of the Menil Drawing Institute
ISBN: HB: 9780300247121, Yale University Press, January 2020
256 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 224 colour illus.
Featuring outstanding 20th-century drawings promised or bequeathed to the Menil Collection for the opening of the Menil Drawing Institute, this elegant volume is a testament to the growing significance of drawings as stand-alone artworks over the pas...
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Activity-Based Teaching in the Art Museum Movement, Embodiment, Emotion
ISBN: PB: 9781606066171, Getty Publications, January 2020
184 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, illus.
An essential resource for museum professionals, teachers, and students, the award-winning "Teaching in the Art Museum" (Getty Publications, 2011) set a new standard in the field of gallery education. This follow-up book blends theory and practice to...
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Kathe Kollwitz Prints, Process, Politics
ISBN: HB: 9781606066157, Getty Publications, January 2020
140 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
German printmaker Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945) is known for her unapologetic social and political imagery; her representations of grief, suffering, and struggle; and her equivocal ideas about artistic and political labels. This volume explores her most...
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Sidney Nolan The Artist's Materials
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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