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Visual Protest The Art of Banksy
ISBN: HB: 9783791386065, Prestel Publishing, April 2020
240 pp., 29x23.5 cm, 360 colour illus.
Not for sale in Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia! Decades before he blew the lid off the high-stakes art world by shredding a work immediately following its purchase at an auction, Banksy was committing acts of artistic protest o...
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£29,99
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Vera Lutter Museum in the Camera
ISBN: HB: 9783791358277, Prestel Publishing, March 2020
136 pp., 27x24 cm, 100 illus.
Vera Lutter's work has taken her and her pinhole camera all over the world, most recently to LACMA as its artist in residence. Stationing a mobile camera obscura outside the museum, Lutter captured the exterior of the campus buildings in images that...
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£39,99
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Vida Americana Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945
ISBN: HB: 9780300246698, Yale University Press, February 2020
264 pp., 30.4x24.7 cm, 139 colour illus., 57 black&white illus., including 2 gatefolds
The first half of the 20th century saw prolific cultural exchange between the United States and Mexico, as artists and intellectuals traversed the countries' shared border in both directions. For U.S. artists, Mexico's monumental public murals portra...
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£50,00
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Value of Critique Exploring the Interrelations of Value, Critique, and Artistic Labour
ISBN: PB: 9783593510101, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
"The Value of Critique" casts its gaze on the two dominant modes of passing judgment in art – critique and value (or evaluation). The act of critique has long held sway in the world of art theory but has recently been increasingly abandoned in favor...
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£36,00
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Virgil Abloh Figures of Speech (Special Edition)
ISBN: HB: 9783791359007, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
496 pp., 30.5x23 cm, 1935 colour and black&white illus.
For Abloh, the museum catalogue is another opportunity to "question everything". This special-edition monograph, produced in close collaboration with the artist himself, explores his creative output in a three-books-in-one format. The catalogue secti...
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£115,00
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Vija Celmins To Fix the Image in Memory
ISBN: HB: 9780300234213, Yale University Press, November 2018
272 pp., 29.5x24.1 cm, 230 colour illus.
Best known for her striking drawings of ocean surfaces, begun in 1968 and revisited over many years both in drawings and paintings, Vija Celmins (b. 1938) has been creating exquisitely detailed renderings of natural imagery for more than five decades...
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£45,00
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Vivan Sundaram Disjunctures
ISBN: HB: 9783791357751, Prestel Publishing, July 2018
200 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 115 colour illus.
This generously illustrated survey of the acclaimed Indian artist Vivan Sundaram offers a comprehensive and wide ranging examination of his multi-media practice extending over a period of five decades. Vivan Sundaram's eclecticism is a distinctive f...
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£45,00
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Vija Celmins
ISBN: HB: 9781944929138, DAP, Matthew Marks Gallery, March 2018
144 pp., 26x22.8 cm, 70 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The Latvian-born, New York-based artist has been rendering nature imagery from black-and-white photographic sources since the 1960s, exploring the same subjects repeatedly in paintings, drawings and prints. Here, she focuse...
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£53,00
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Vincent Sardon The Stampographer
ISBN: HB: 9781938221163, DAP, Siglio, November 2017
108 pp., 26.7x19.7 cm, 200 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Using rubber stamps he designs and manufactures himself, Sardon commandeers a medium often associated with petty and idiotic displays of bureaucratic power, then uses those stamps not to assert authority, but to refuse it....
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£28,50
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Vertigo Au rendez-vous des amis
ISBN: PB: 9788831726412, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2017
176 pp., 26.9x20.8 cm, 147 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! A poignant, new artistic enquiry. "Vertigo: Au Rendez-Vous des Amis" presents the works of three extraordinary contemporary Italian artists, Francesco Candeloro, Riccardo De Marchi, and Arcangelo Sassolino. In this meeting...
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£35,00
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