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Bound by Creativity How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged
ISBN: PB: 9780226784694, ISBN: HB: 9780226784557, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
While our traditional view of creative work might lead us to think of artists as solitary visionaries, the creative process is in fact deeply social. From those trying to land their first solo show to those with dozens of museum exhibitions, artists...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Bisa Butler Portraits
ISBN: HB: 9780300254310, Yale University Press, November 2020
104 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, 39 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
Bisa Butler (b. 1975) is an American artist who creates arresting and psychologically nuanced portraits composed entirely of vibrantly colored and patterned fabrics that she cuts, layers, and stitches together. Often depicting scenes from African Ame...
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£25,00
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Berend Strik Deciphering the Artist's Mind
ISBN: HB: 9780300250459, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, May 2020
304 pp., 27.9x22.2 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
Berend Strik (b. 1960) is an internationally acclaimed Dutch visual artist whose oeuvre ranges from two-dimensional works to sculpture and architecture. He is best known for his embroidered found objects, including photographs. Since 2012, Strik has...
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£35,00
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Bill Brandt - Henry Moore
ISBN: HB: 9780300251050, Yale University Press, March 2020
264 pp., 33x24.7 cm, 285 colour and black&white illus.
"The camera", said Orson Welles, "is a medium via which messages reach us from another world". It was the camera and the circumstances of the Second World War that first brought together Henry Moore (1898-1986) and Bill Brandt (1904-1983). During the...
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£50,00
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Basquiat Boom For Real
ISBN: PB: 9783791359502, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
296 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 312 illus., 237 in colour
Basquiat first came to prominence when he collaborated with Al Diaz to spray-paint enigmatic statements under the pseudonym SAMO. He went on to work on collages, Xerox art, postcards, performances, and music before establishing his reputation as one...
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£29,99
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Before or After, at the Same Time Rome, Milan, and Fabio Mauri, 1948-1968
ISBN: PB: 9783906915449, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, December 2019
212 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 40 colour illus., 67 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! This book takes the life of the Italian multimedia artist and writer Fabio Mauri (born 1926) and the history of his family – a publishing dynasty with close connections to radical Italian art, poetry, cinema, philosophy and...
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£40,00
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Beatriz Gonzalez A Retrospective
ISBN: HB: 9783791359298, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
208 pp., 29.8x24.8 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.
At 80, Beatriz Gonzalez is not only an internationally celebrated Colombian artist, but also a representative of the "radical women" generation from Latin America. Her work spans over six decades and her groundbreaking art has distinct figuration, in...
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£35,00
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Beverly Fresh Really Somethin Else
ISBN: PB: 9780996235020, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, July 2019
268 pp., 17.7x24.1 cm, 150 colour plates
An experimental "expanded catalog" chronicling the recent work and 2018 solo exhibition of artist Beverly Fresh, "Really Somethin Else" not only documents and contextualizes the work in the exhibition, but also includes research, sketches, production...
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Birgit Jurgenssen I am.
ISBN: HB: 9783791358338, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
336 pp., 30x24 cm, 194 colour illus., 59 black&white illus.
Birgit Jurgenssen (1949-2003), one of Austria's leading avantgarde artists, was a strong feminist and fierce advocate for women in the arts. This volume draws on the comprehensive spectrum of Jurgenssen's oeuvre, rooted in deconstructing stereotypica...
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Beatriz Milhazes Collages
ISBN: HB: 9788555910647, DAP, Editora Cobogo, January 2019
240 pp., 24.8x21 cm, 104 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! This is the first book on the collages of Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes (born 1960). During a residency in Brittany, in 2003, Milhazes offered chocolates and sweets to the art center team, asking them to return the wrap...
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