ledochowicz.com

Contemporary Art

Unnatural History Museum

Wynd Viktor

ISBN: HB: 9783791385198, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
200 pp., 28x24 cm, 160 illus.

For over a decade, from a tiny storefront in east London, the artist Viktor Wynd has been reinventing the cabinet of curiosities for the 21st century. The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History is now one of the city's most t...

HB:

£35,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Unthought Environments

Lund Karsten

ISBN: PB: 9780941548755, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2020
215 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 94 colour plates, 7 halftones

"Unthought Environments" brings together art influenced by the forces that are integral to our daily lives, yet are easily forgotten or overlooked, such as the ancient elements of air, fire, water, and earth; weather systems; geopolitics; and the hid...

PB:

£30,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Unto This Last Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin

Barringer Tim, Contractor Tara, Hepburn Victoria, Stapleton Judith, Skipton Long Courtney

ISBN: HB: 9780300246414, Yale University Press, September 2019
332 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 280 colour illus.

This book presents an innovative portrait of John Ruskin (1819-1900) as artist, art critic, social theorist, educator, and ecological campaigner. Ruskin's juvenilia reveal an early embrace of his lifelong interests in geology and botany, art, poetry,...

HB:

£40,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Ursula: Issue 3

Kennedy Randy

ISBN: PB: 9780578485065, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, August 2019
120 pp., 30.2x23.1 cm, 60 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The third issue of "Ursula" is full of time capsules. The cover commemorates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. Don Eyles, the pioneering software engineer who wrote the code that conveyed the lunar module safely to...

PB:

£16,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Urs Fischer Sculptures 2013-2018

Bhatnagar Priya

ISBN: HB: 9780996413046, DAP, Kiito-San, May 2019
450 pp., 31.1x25.4 cm, 358 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Featuring over 100 works and documentation of forty exhibitions and installations both public and private, New York-based artist Urs Fischer (born 1973) presents six years of work in this substantial volume. Arranged chron...

HB:

£53,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Unpacking The Marciano Collection

Kaiser Philipp

ISBN: HB: 9783791356204, Prestel Publishing, February 2017
336 pp., 24x24 cm, 242 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.

This first book from the Marciano Art Foundation offers an in-depth look at one of the world's premier private collections of contemporary art and celebrates its dynamic new public home in Los Angeles. The Maurice and Paul Marciano Art Foundation is...

HB:

£39,99

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Unfinished Business Paintings from the '70s and '80s by Ross Bleckerner, Eric Fischl and David Salle

Pagel David

ISBN: HB: 9783791355153, Prestel Publishing, July 2016
108 pp., 27x25 cm, 15 black&white illus.

From Los Angeles to Long Island, the creative journeys of painters, colleagues and friends Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, and David Salle are the focus of this book that charts their careers and reflects on what is to come. Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl,...

HB:

£29,99

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Unorthodox

Hoffmann Jens

ISBN: PB: 9780300219340, Yale University Press, March 2016
184 pp., 28x21.9 cm, 55 colour illus.

This wide-ranging and thought-provoking compilation explores the idea of nonconformity in art, religion, and philosophy. The book features 55 contemporary artists who work outside the norms of current practice, alongside both newly commissioned and p...

PB:

£15,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Anthropology

Upside Down Arctic Realities

Bahnson Anne, Bronshtein Mikhail, Dnepovsky Kirill, Carpenter Edmund, Fienup-Riordan Ann, McGhee Robert, Sutherland Patricia

ISBN: HB: 9780300169386, Yale University Press, April 2011
224 pp., 26.6x24.8 cm, 62 black&white illus., 132 colour illus.

Based on groundbreaking new scholarship, "Upside Down: Arctic Realities" brings together ancient and modern works from the Arctic region, including major sites in Russia and Alaska. The featured pieces dramatically illustrate the continuing influence...

HB:

£35,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Under Destruction

Jetzer Gianni, Basel Chris

ISBN: HB: 9783942405171, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, January 2011
136 pp., 28x24 cm, 100 colour illus., language: English / German

In 1960, the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely was asked to build a sculpture to be installed in the Sculpture Garden of New York's Museum of Modern Art. In collaboration with other artists and engineers, he constructed the self-destructive machine Homage t...

HB:

£32,50

QTY:

add books to the list