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Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 1 (1898-1914)
ISBN: HB: 9780300208283, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2014
504 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 425 colour images, 50 black&white illus.
This publication is the first of four volumes in the catalogue raisonne of Francis Picabia, one of the most significant, challenging artists of the 20th century. The works in Volume I range from Picabia's early pieces as an Impressionist in 1898 to h...
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£135,00
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Impressions of a Lost World A Century of Chinese Photography, 1860-1950
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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£45,00
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Ravaged Art and Culture in Times of Conflict
ISBN: HB: 9780300204476, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, April 2014
352 pp., 25.4x30.5 cm, 230 colour illus.
The year 2014 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and the beginning of the conflict that would become known as World War I. In addition to the devastating loss of human life, the Great War...
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£55,00
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Tony Oursler/Vox Vernacular
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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£45,00
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