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Anselm Kiefer in Conversation with Klaus Dermutz
ISBN: HB: 9780857426031, Seagull Books, September 2019
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 34 colour plates
"I think in pictures. Poems help me with this. They are like buoys in the sea. I swim to them, from one to the other. In between, without them, I am lost. They are the handholds where something masses together in the infinite expanse" – Anselm Kiefer...
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£25,00
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Beyond Speculation Art and Aesthetics without Myths
ISBN: HB: 9780857420428, Seagull Books, August 2015
436 pp., 21.5x12.7 cm
In his well-known work of art criticism "Art of the Modern Age", Jean-Marie Schaeffer offered a lucid and powerful critique of what he identified as the historically dominant thinking about art and aesthetics from the Jena Romantics, to Nietzsche, He...
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Soho Chronicles 10 Films by William Kentridge
ISBN: HB: 9780857421760, Seagull Books, February 2015
438 pp., 22x22 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Over the last twenty years, William Kentridge has built a worldwide reputation as a contemporary artist, best known for his series of ten animated films created from charcoal drawings. The films introduced a significant character in contemporary fict...
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£112,50
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Between Reality and Dream The Aesthetic Vision of K. G. Subramanyan
ISBN: HB: 9780857420060, Seagull Books, August 2013
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour illus.
K. G. Subramanyan is one of the most influential Indian artists, teachers, and theorists of the twentieth century. Born in 1924, Subramanyan has lived and worked during a transformative period in Indian history, one shaped by the contradictions of co...
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Avant-Garde Race, Religion, War
ISBN: PB: 9781906497996, Seagull Books, February 2012
464 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 halftones
In "The Avant-Garde", Mike Sell rejects the common idea that the avant-garde is only about art and insists that it is much more than a European phenomenon. In doing so, he redefines the historical, geographical, ideological, disciplinary, and theoret...
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£19,00
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Limits of Art Two Essays
ISBN: HB: 9781906497620, Seagull Books, December 2010
96 pp., 25x15 cm
Tzvetan Todorov, one of Europe's leading intellectuals, explores the complex relations between art, politics, and ethics in the essays that make up "The Limits of Art". In one essay, "Artists and Dictators", Todorov traces the intimate relationship b...
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£11,50
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Crucible Bodies Postwar Japanese Performance from Brecht to the New Millennium
ISBN: PB: 9781905422746, ISBN: HB: 9781905422722, Seagull Books, March 2009
224 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 25 colour illus.
"Crucible Bodies: Postwar Japanese Performance from Brecht to the New Millennium" is a collection of essays covering a wide range of historical and theoretical topics, from Brecht in Japan to "children's" bodies in postmodern Japanese performances, f...
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£71,00
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Subversion and Subsidy Contemporary Art and Aesthetics
ISBN: PB: 9781905422715, ISBN: HB: 9781905422708, Seagull Books, November 2008
240 pp., 18.6x15.2 cm
Art today is in deep crisis. Criticism seems to have abandoned any notion of evaluation, the public has been denied the possibility of understanding, and aesthetics have lost all legitimacy. Formerly, artists claimed their right to decide for themsel...
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£75,00
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Correspondence Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein
ISBN: PB: 9780857425850, ISBN: HB: 9781905422913, Seagull Books, November 2008
390 pp., 21.3x19.6 cm
Pablo Picasso was one of the most prodigious and revolutionary artists in the history of Western painting. Gertrude Stein was an avant-garde American writer, art collector, eccentric and self-styled genius. Her Paris home was the leading salon for ar...
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Correspondence Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris
ISBN: HB: 9781905422678, Seagull Books, June 2008
312 pp., 19.4x15.2 cm
In the autumn of 1924, just before Andre Breton published the "Manifeste du surrealisme", two young men met in Paris for the first time. Georges Bataille, 27, starting work at the Bibliotheque Nationale; Michel Leiris, 23, beginning his studies in et...
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