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Josef Albers Interaction
ISBN: HB: 9780300240832, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 140 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
"Only appearances are not deceiving" – Josef Albers Josef Albers (1888-1976) was one of the leading pioneers of 20th-century modernism: he was an extraordinary teacher, writer, painter, and color theorist, who is best known for the "Homages to the S...
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£30,00
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Ed Ruscha Course of Empire
ISBN: HB: 9781857096323, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, July 2018
48 pp., 31.1x24.8 cm, 30 colour illus.
Over the span of his six-decade career, Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) has created a distinctively stylized vision of the modern American landscape of gas stations, highways, and industrial buildings. Incorporating text, stark typography, and commercial logos,...
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£20,00
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Lee Lozano Not Working
ISBN: HB: 9780300223279, Yale University Press, July 2018
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 108 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
An illuminating study of an overlooked artist from the 1960s whose work has recently returned to the limelight This is the first in-depth study of the idiosyncratic ten-year career of Lee Lozano (1930-1999), assuring this important artist a key place...
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£35,00
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Huma Bhabha: We Come in Peace The Roof Garden Commission
ISBN: PB: 9781588396464, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 40 colour illus.
Often described as "post apocalyptic", the work of Pakistani sculptor Huma Bhabha (b. 1962) responds to the violence and turmoil in the world around her through depictions of anthropomorphic figures that often appear to be dismembered, melted, or dis...
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£6,95
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Adel Abdessemed Otchi Tchiornie / L'Antidote
ISBN: PB: 9780300236880, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, June 2018
256 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 85 colour illus.
The Algerian-born French artist Adel Abdessemed (b. 1971) works in a wide variety of media including animation, installation, performance, sculpture, and video; through his art he addresses contemporary themes and he reflects the bleak picture of the...
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£35,00
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Tomma Abts
ISBN: HB: 9780300233872, Yale University Press, June 2018
204 pp., 34.3x22.9 cm, 100 colour illus.
With a rigorous approach and self-imposed limitations to both scale and composition, Tomma Abts (b. 1967) has reinvigorated painterly abstraction and its relevance within contemporary art. Using a fixed canvas size and a vertical format, Abts deploys...
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Manuel Neri The Human Figure in Plaster and on Paper
ISBN: HB: 9780300233025, Yale University Press, June 2018
124 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 87 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.
This engaging publication examines the prodigious body of work of American sculptor Manuel Neri (b. 1930) through the unique perspective of one of Neri's former students. A near-contemporary of other notable California-based artists Richard Diebenkor...
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Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300233650, Yale University Press, June 2018
312 pp., 29.2x23.5 cm, 150 colour illus.
The spiritual is everywhere evident in contemporary art, and this publication fulfills a long-awaited need. "Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art" addresses the subject in depth for the first time in over three decades. It significantly bro...
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£55,00
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Nicolas Schoffer Space, Light, Time
ISBN: HB: 9780300233247, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, April 2018
240 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
Hungarian-born French artist Nicolas Schoffer (1912-1992), though relatively unknown today, was during his lifetime a significant presence in the art world. His 1956 piece CYSP 1 is considered the first cybernetic sculpture, making use of motors, mic...
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£40,00
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Like Life Sculpture, Color, and the Body
ISBN: HB: 9781588396440, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2018
312 pp., 29.2x20.3 cm, 284 colour illus.
Since the earliest myths of the sculptor Pygmalion bringing a statue to life through desire, artists have explored the boundaries between sculpture and the physical materiality of the body. This groundbreaking volume examines key sculptural works fro...
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