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Ruth Asawa Life's Work
ISBN: HB: 9780300242690, Yale University Press, April 2019
160 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 100 colour illus.
Throughout her long and prolific career American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) developed innovative sculptures in wire, a medium she explored through increasingly complex forms using craft-based techniques she learned while traveling in Mexico in 194...
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£30,00
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Sea Star Sean Scully at the National Gallery
ISBN: PB: 9781857096453, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, April 2019
128 pp., 30.5x24.4 cm, 50 colour illus.
Sean Scully (b.1945) is an Irish-born, American-based painter and printmaker, best known for his monumental oil paintings which draw on the traditions of Abstract Expressionism. This beautiful catalogue showcases a new body of work inspired by the...
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£20,00
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Huma Bhabha They Live
ISBN: HB: 9780300244762, Yale University Press, March 2019
208 pp., 29.2x20.3 cm, 160 colour illus.
Huma Bhabha (b. 1962 in Karachi) is known for sculptures depicting the human figure fashioned from materials ranging from clay, brick, and wood to Styrofoam, bronze, found objects, and construction materials. Such works reveal her myriad influences,...
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Roni Horn When I Breathe, I Draw
ISBN: HB: 9780300233155, Yale University Press, March 2019
130 pp., 24.1x19 cm, 55 colour and black&white illus.
Describing drawing as her "primary activity", for over thirty years, Roni Horn (b. 1955) has created innovative and experimental works on paper marked by both conceptual and technical complexity. This carefully curated survey of the artist's drawings...
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£25,00
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Lucio Fontana On the Threshold
ISBN: HB: 9781588396822, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2019
236 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 156 colour illus., 74 duotone illus.
A major figure of postwar European art and a binational resident of Argentina and Italy, Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) blurred numerous boundaries in his life and art, crossing borders both literally and figuratively. This volume takes a fresh look at th...
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£35,00
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Zilia Sanchez Soy Isla
ISBN: HB: 9780300233902, Yale University Press, February 2019
200 pp., 25.4x24.1 cm, 195 colour illus.
Cuban artist Zilia Sanchez (b. 1926) often says, "Soy isla" ("I am an island"), expressing her desire for solitary, uncompromising practice. It also serves as a metaphor for her experience as an islander – connected to and disconnected from both the...
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£40,00
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John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 5: 2005-2010
ISBN: HB: 9780300243529, Yale University Press, January 2019
544 pp., 29.2x25.1 cm, 424 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.
The fifth volume of the "John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne" compiles the approximately 367 works made by the influential American conceptual artist (b. 1931) from 2005 through 2010. During these years, the artist undertook a number of series, includ...
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£150,00
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Contesting Modernity Informalism in Venezuela, 1955-1975
ISBN: HB: 9780300236897, Yale University Press, January 2019
256 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 305 colour and black&white illus.
This fascinating exploration of Venezuelan Informalism charts the movement's history from its beginnings in the mid-1950s to its last manifestations in the 1970s. Essays by an esteemed group of scholars discuss the variety, richness, and complexity o...
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£65,00
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Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonne of the Works on Paper, Volume 2: 1977-1997
ISBN: HB: 9780300214666, Yale University Press, January 2019
450 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 1060 colour illus., 12 black&white illus.
Volume 2 of this exceptional catalogue raisonn project compiles the unique works on paper that Edward Ruscha (b. 1937) made between 1977 and 1997, the artist's midcareer period, during which he achieved international renown. More than 1,000 works are...
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£150,00
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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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