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Bridget Riley Arcadia
ISBN: PB: 9781857094978, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, December 2010
56 pp., 26.8x22.6 cm, 50 colour illus.
For 50 years Bridget Riley has been regarded as Britain's most important abstract painter, renowned for her large abstract paintings, with their complex, repetitive geometric shapes and undulating linear patterns. Given the graphic nature of these wo...
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£9,99
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Traveling the Spaceways Sun Ra, the Astro Black and other Solar Myths
ISBN: PB: 9780945323150, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2010
91 pp., 23.9x16.8 cm, 70 colour illus.
Sun Ra (1914-1993) – self-proclaimed visionary extraterrestrial of the "Angel Race", prophetic jazz band leader and composer, and lyrical proponent of Afro-futurism – was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century music. Though many of...
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£19,00
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Afterall Autumn/Winter 2010, Issue 25
ISBN: PB: 9781846380693, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 100 colour plates
"Afterall" is a journal of art, context, and inquiry that offers in-depth consideration of the work of contemporary artists from around the world, along with essays that set the work in a broader context. Articles on art history and critical theory a...
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£7,50
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On Becoming an Artist Isamu Noguchi and His Contemporaries, 1922-1960
ISBN: HB: 9780970931047, DAP, The Noguchi Museum, December 2010
144 pp., 22.9x22.9 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! "On Becoming An Artist" illuminates the friendships, mentorships and collaborations of Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), in celebration of the artist's experimentations and influences. It opens with an account of Noguchi's earlygu...
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£27,00
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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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Michelangelo Pistoletto From One to Many, 1956-1974
ISBN: HB: 9780300166163, Yale University Press, November 2010
320 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 100 black&white illus., 130 colour illus.
One of Europe's most influential contemporary artists, Michelangelo Pistoletto (born 1933) has persistently investigated and expanded the role of the spectator in art since the 1950s through painting, sculpture, and performance. His present standing...
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£55,00
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Willem de Kooning The Artist's Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781606060216, Getty Publications, November 2010
112 pp., 25.6x18.9 cm, 34 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.
This is the first systematic and truly methodical study of de Kooning's idiosyncratic working methods and use of materials. This in-depth study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Dutch-born American abstract expressionist painter, fro...
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£30,00
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Real Real Thing The Model in the Mirror of Art
ISBN: HB: 9780226772196, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
232 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 50 halftones
Our era is defined by the model. From Victoria's Secret and "America's Next Top Model" to the snapshots we post on Facebook and Twitter, our culture is fixated on the pose, the state of existing simultaneously as artifice and the real thing. In thi...
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£26,00
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Blinky Palermo Retrospective 1964-77
ISBN: PB: 9780300153668, Yale University Press, October 2010
192 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 150 colour illus.
The first retrospective in the U. S. to feature German artist Blinky Palermo (1943-1977) includes more than 60 works, most of which have never before been shown in North America. This beautifully illustrated volume spans the breadth of Palermo's brie...
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£35,00
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In Giacometti's Studio
ISBN: HB: 9780300093933, Yale University Press, October 2010
224 pp., 32x24.5 cm, 120 colour illus.
This deeply engaging book introduces the reader to the creative chaos of the tiny Parisian studio of the great sculptor Alberto Giacometti, from the moment he and his brother, Diego, arrived in 1927, with all their possessions in a wheelbarrow, until...
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£40,00
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