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Jorn + Munch
ISBN: HB: 9780300226584, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2016
240 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
"Jorn + Munch" is the first publication to examine the enduring impact Edvard Munch (1863-1944) had on Asger Jorn (1914-1973). In Munch's later works, Danish artist Jorn discovered an artist with a direct, spontaneous, and raw form of expression. Alr...
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£40,00
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Album Picabia
ISBN: PB: 9780300225563, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, September 2016
224 pp., 29.8x22.9 cm, 220 colour and black&white illus.
Album Picabia is an inspiring, artistic chronicle of Francis Picabia's life (1879-1953) as seen through the eyes of his last wife and creative protegee, Olga Mohler Picabia. Begun in 1936, four years before their marriage, and left unfinished in 1951...
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£30,00
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Theo van Doesburg A New Expression of Life, Art, and Technology
ISBN: HB: 9780300222432, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, August 2016
272 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 150 colour illus.
This handsome catalogue presents the Dutch artist Theo Van Doesburg (1883-1931) as a nomadic propagandist on a quest for a new aesthetic that, in conjunction with contemporary science and technology, sought to reform the world. Van Doesburg was a cen...
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£45,00
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Baule Monkeys
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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£50,00
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Work / Travail / Arbeid Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
ISBN: PB: 9780300220087, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, July 2016
288 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 50 colour illus., 65 black&white illus.
This publication accompanies a newly commissioned project by the legendary Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960), which reimagines her stage piece Vortex Temporum for the exhibition space as a nine-week-long endeavor in technical...
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£35,00
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Vigeland + Munch Behind the Myths
ISBN: HB: 9780300220032, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, July 2016
304 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 275 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
"Vigeland + Munch" is the first publication to thoroughly outline the parallels between two monumental figures of Norwegian art, painter and printmaker Edvard Munch (1863-1944) and sculptor Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943). With only a six year difference...
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£35,00
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Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman Catalogue Raisonne
ISBN: HB: 9780300220148, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, May 2016
500 pp., 32.4x24.1 cm, 350 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
Compiled by members of the Bosch Research and Conservation Project and published on the 500th anniversary of Hieronymus Bosch's death, this is the definitive new catalogue of all of Bosch's extant paintings and drawings. His mastery and genius have b...
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£100,00
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Japanomania in the Nordic Countries, 1875-1918
ISBN: HB: 9780300220117, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, May 2016
256 pp., 29.2x23.5 cm, 170 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
This extensive publication, complete with hundreds of illustrations by such renowned artists as Carl Larsson, Edvard Munch, Vilhelm Hammershoi, Pekka Halonen, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Gerhard Munthe, Pietro Krohn, Helene Schjerfbeck, and Frida Hansen,...
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£50,00
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Mapplethorpe + Munch
ISBN: HB: 9780300220100, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2016
256 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 150 colour illus.
This revelatory catalogue delves into the many affinities shared between two widely renowned and discussed artists, Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) and Edvard Munch (1863-1944), whose intensely studied work has, until now, never been considered in re...
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£35,00
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Hieronymus Bosch Visions of Genius
ISBN: PB: 9780300220131, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2016
192 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 140 colour illus.
Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) lived and worked in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, where he created enigmatic paintings and drawings full of bizarre creatures, phantasmagoric monsters, and terrifying nightmares. He also depicted detailed landscap...
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£20,00
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