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Calder and Abstraction From Avant-Garde to Iconic
ISBN: HB: 9783791353098, Prestel Publishing, November 2013
208 pp., 31x23.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
Alexander Calder's most beloved creations – from his mobiles to his public sculpture – are examined from every angle in this stunning book. Widely considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Alexander Calder revolutionized mode...
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£42,50
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Comedy Carpet Blackpool The Making of a World Class Monument to Comedy
ISBN: HB: 9781861543394, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2013
208 pp., 29x24 cm, full-colour illus.
Laid out in front of Blackpool Tower, the British home of variety for more than a hundred years, the Comedy Carpet is the largest work of public art in Europe. Thousands of jokes and quotations by more than 850 comedians and writers from the early da...
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£25,00
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Conspiracy of Images Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War
ISBN: HB: 9780300188431, Yale University Press, October 2013
296 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 32 colour illus., 136 black&white illus.
In October 1962, a set of blurred surveillance photographs brought the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The pictures themselves demonstrated little, and explanatory captions were necessary to identify the dang...
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£55,00
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Caro Close Up
ISBN: HB: 9780300176032, Yale University Press, October 2012
250 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
With a career spanning more than sixty years, Anthony Caro (b. 1924) is one of Britain's most acclaimed and best-known sculptors. "Caro: Close Up" accompanies the first survey exhibition of his work in an American museum since his retrospective at th...
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£50,00
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Conversations from the Print Studio A Master Printer in Collaboration with Ten Artists
ISBN: PB: 9780300179897, Yale University Press, September 2012
256 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 169 colour illus.
Over his thirty years as a master printer, Craig Zammiello has established himself as a foremost specialist of intaglio printmaking in the United States. Through lively discussions between Zammiello, Elisabeth Hodermarsky, and ten contemporary artist...
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£35,00
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Cosima von Bonin Character Appropriation
ISBN: PB: 9780936316338, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, March 2012
48 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 27 colour illus.
Spanning a decade of its subject's multifaceted career, "Cosima von Bonin: Character Appropriation" features the Kenya-born, Germany-based artist's signature textile paintings, architectural sculptures, and absurdly outsized stuffed animals. In addit...
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£7,50
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Clay's Tectonic Shift John Mason, Ken Price, and Peter Voulkos, 1956-1968
ISBN: HB: 9781606061053, Getty Publications, February 2012
240 pp., 28.6x22.3 cm, 131 colour illus., 37 black&white illus.
This is an absorbing look at the work of three artists who paved the way for ceramics to be considered fine art. "Clay's Tectonic Shift" focuses on artists John Mason (b. 1927), Kenneth Price (b. 1935), and Peter Voulkos (1924-2002) and their radical...
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£40,00
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Collecting Modern Design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Since 1876
ISBN: HB: 9780300122190, Yale University Press, May 2011
272 pp., 30.7x27.2 cm, 48 black&white illus., 251 colour illus.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art was founded in 1876, after its home city hosted the Centennial, with the primary goal of acquiring important examples of contemporary design and decorative arts. "Collecting Modern" explores for the first time the devel...
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Caca Grande
ISBN: PB: 9788492480647, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, March 2011
66 pp., 29.8x21 cm, colour illus.
This great universe consists of a circular journey in which the totality of things are the cause and effect of themselves. The work to date of Carlos Amorales (Mexico City, 1970) has been an interesting convergence of formal and conceptual tropes and...
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Christian Marclay Festival
ISBN: HB: 9780300169003, Yale University Press, February 2011
200 pp., 28.2x21.1 cm, 250 illus.
Christian Marclay (born 1955) explores the fusion of fine art and audio cultures, transforming sounds and music into a visible, physical form through performance, collage, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Published in a 3-volume magaz...
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