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Contemporary Art

Berend Strik Deciphering the Artist's Mind

Bloem Marja

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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History of Art

Emma and Edvard Looking Sideways Loneliness and the Cinematic

Bal Mieke

ISBN: PB: 9780300229110, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2017
304 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 115 colour illus.

In this compelling publication, two masters come face-to-face when the works of Edvard Munch are juxtaposed against Gustave Flaubert's groundbreaking novel "Madame Bovary". Munch's art is presented in stills taken from an elaborate video installation...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

History of Art

Baule Monkeys

Bruno Claessens, Jean-Louis Danis, Vogel Susan M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222449, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, August 2016
192 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 113 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.

The Baule people of the Ivory Coast are renowned for their refined sculptural work of masks and figures. This book is the first to focus exclusively on an antithetic aspect of Baule culture-rough zoomorphic sculptures representing monkeys. These awe-...

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Contemporary Art

Jan Fabre Troubleyn/Laboratorium

Bousset Sigrid, Bruyneel Katrien, Peeters Frank, Synghel Koen van, Dekeyser Jan, Sels Nadia, Van Den Dries Luc

ISBN: HB: 9780300220124, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2016
224 pp., 24.8x19 cm, 130 colour illus.

This handsome book peers into Troubleyn/Laboratorium, the workspace, collective art space, and creative incubator of Belgian multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre (b. 1958), whose performances, staged since the 1980s, have brought him international accl...

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History of Art

Glory of Saint George Man, Dragon, and Death

Busine Laurent, Sellink Manfred

ISBN: HB: 9780300215755, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2015
304 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 250 colour illus.

This book offers the first-ever survey of artistic depictions of the legend of Saint George defeating the dragon. The earliest existing references to this episode in the hagiography of Saint George date from the 11th century, and the mythical conflic...

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Performing Arts

Time We Share Reflecting on and through Performing Arts - One Introduction, Three Acts, and Two Intermezzos

Blanga-Gubbay Daniel, Kwakkenbos Lars, Bel Jerome, Castellucci Romeo, Lepecki Andre, Mouffe Chantal, Siegmund Gerald, Stengers Isabelle

ISBN: PB: 9780300211771, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, June 2015
400 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Marking the 20th anniversary of Belgium's Kunstenfestivaldesarts – a major international arts festival – this ambitious book examines a wide range of critical perspectives on two decades of performing arts. The authors look closely at performing arts...

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Photography

Impressions of a Lost World A Century of Chinese Photography, 1860-1950

Bertholet Ferdinand M., Van der Aalsvoort Lambert, Thiriez Regine

ISBN: HB: 9780300196566, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, April 2014
240 pp., 25.4x29.8 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.

The flourishing of photography as a medium in the mid-19th century coincided with a rise in curiosity about China on the part of the Western world. As the number of foreigners living and travelling in China increased, early photographs of China were...

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Contemporary Art

Tony Oursler/Vox Vernacular

Busine Laurent, Gielen Denis, Oursler Tony

ISBN: HB: 9780300204483, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2014
256 pp., 22.2x29.2 cm, 190 colour images, 10 black&white illus.

American artist Tony Oursler (b. 1957) gathers inspiration from the way people's desires are extended through interaction with mass media, specifically cinema, television and the internet, and creates fascinating video installations that combine word...

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