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Figuring History Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas
ISBN: HB: 9780300233896, Yale University Press, February 2018
96 pp., 22.9x30.5 cm, 59 colour illus.
Contemporary artists Robert Colescott (1925-2009), Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955), and Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971) are distinguished by their attention to a history of representation, which they re-visit and revise to reflect on individual and collect...
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£25,00
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From Lascaux to Brooklyn
ISBN: HB: 9780300230925, Yale University Press, October 2017
200 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 60 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
Hailed upon its publication as "discriminating, erudite, and eclectic", From Lascaux to Brooklyn is now available to readers once again. First published in 1996, the year of Paul Rand's death, the volume embarks on a wonderful journey from the time b...
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From Anselm to Zilla The Peter and Elisabeth Bosshard Collection of the Stiftung Kunst(Zeug)Haus
ISBN: PB: 9783037785478, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2017
320 pp., 30x24 cm, 390 illus.
This catalogue presents one of the largest collections of Swiss contemporary art in print for the first time. In the early 1970s, Peter and Elisabeth Bosshard, collectors and patrons of the arts, began to bring together works by Swiss artists. Over t...
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£35,00
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Frida Kahlo The Story of Her Life
ISBN: HB: 9783791383880, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
160 pp., 27x21 cm
The perfect subject for a graphic novel, Frida Kahlo's brief life was dramatic and romantic, tragic and painful. In this illustrated "biography", Vanna Vinci captures the spirit of Kahlo's world in boldly colored, minutely detailed illustrations. Ble...
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£19,99
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Frederic Amat_Zootrop
ISBN: PB: 9788417047016, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, August 2017
200 pp., 30x20 cm, black&white photos
Amat's open conception of art has led him to incorporate a range of disciplines into his practice: painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, book illustration, audiovisual media, set design, and interventions into architectural spaces....
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£32,00
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Frank Bowling Mappa Mundi
ISBN: HB: 9783791356587, Prestel Publishing, June 2017
256 pp., 28.9x23 cm, 110 colour illus.
When they were first exhibited in the late 1960s, Frank Bowling's immense "map paintings" were widely celebrated for their vibrant color and subtle modulation of the painted surface. These works, like many in Bowling's oeuvre, draw on the principle o...
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£45,00
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From Lens to Eye to Hand Photorealism 1969 to Today
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791356075, Prestel Publishing, June 2017
128 pp., 28x24 cm, 77 colour illus.
Photorealism reintroduced straightforward representation into an art world dominated by Pop Art, Minimalism, Land Art, and Performance Art. Often misunderstood as being overtly traditional, artists at the vanguard of this important movement were trai...
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£29,99
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From Kandinsky to Pollock The Art of the Guggenheim Collections
ISBN: PB: 9788831723824, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
352 pp., 28.9x24.1 cm, 215 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! A reconstruction of the artistic milieu surrounding Peggy Guggenheim. The catalog contains more than 100 masterpieces of European and American art ranging from the 1920s to the 1960s, reconstructing relationships on both si...
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£38,99
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Futurist Painting Sculpture (Plastic Dynamism)
ISBN: PB: 9781606064757, Getty Publications, June 2016
112 pp., 25x15 cm, 36 black&white illus., 28 colour illus.
This fiery and influential book, available for the first time in English, presents an Italian Futurist's radical ideas about art and architecture "Futurist Painting Sculpture (Plastic Dynamism)", a truly radical book by Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916),...
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Fact Has No Appearance Art Beyond the Object
ISBN: PB: 9789810984335, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, April 2016
100 pp., 27.9x20.1 cm
The exhibition "A Fact Has No Appearance" explores the impact of new ideas on art in Southeast Asia during the 1970s through the case studies of three artists: Johnny Manahan, Redza Piyadasa, and Tan Teng-Kee, all of whom have been recognised for bre...
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£14,00
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