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Matthew Connors & Lucy Ives: The Poetics
ISBN: PB: 9780996735186, DAP, Image Text Ithaca Press, November 2019
188 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm, 130 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In July of 2017, photographer Matthew Connors (born 1976) and novelist and critic Lucy Ives (born 1980) embarked on a strange project: to remove and catalog all the contents of Connors's car, a 1992 Volvo 240 station wagon....
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£30,00
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Ikemura und Nolde
ISBN: HB: 9783954762002, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, July 2017
112 pp., 31x23 cm, 90 colour illus., language: English / German
Leiko Ikemura (b. 1951 Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan; lives and works in Berlin and Cologne) has carefully studied various positions in classic European modernism, including the art of Odilon Redon and Emil Nolde. She has long been fascinated by Nolde's...
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£37,50
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Terry Adkins Recital
ISBN: HB: 9783791352756, Prestel Publishing, March 2017
224 pp., 28.5x21 cm, 100 colour illus.
This first career-spanning volume of dynamic artist/musician Terry Adkins surveys three decades of multimedia installations and performances. Born in 1953 in Washington, DC, Terry Adkins grew up deeply invested in visual art, music, and language. Hi...
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£39,99
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Solid Objectives... Order, Edge, Aura
ISBN: PB: 9783037785010, Lars Muller Publishers, February 2017
484 pp., 23x17 cm, 365 illus.
This book introduces an attitude towards the design and realization of architecture in a time of increased instability. It is illustrated with rarely seen images and punctuated with essays on the work of the ?rm SO-IL. Rather than a catalog of works,...
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£35,00
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Photography, Trace, and Trauma
ISBN: PB: 9780226370163, ISBN: HB: 9780226370026, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
184 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 17 colour plates, 29 halftones
Photography is often associated with the psychic effects of trauma: the automatic nature of the process, wide-open camera lens, and light-sensitive film record chance details unnoticed by the photographer – similar to what happens when a traumatic ev...
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£26,50
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£80,00
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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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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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Ceramic Sculpture Making Faces
ISBN: PB: 9781454707769, GMC Group, Lark, September 2014
128 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, colour illus.
Sculpting the human face presents a unique artistic challenge, but this richly illustrated guide thoroughly demystifies the process. Instructor Alex Irvine goes step-by-step, explaining everything from creating basic, rough outlines to surface refine...
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£21,99
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Memories of Baku
ISBN: HB: 9780988227514, DAP, Marquand Books, September 2013
152 pp., 24.1x22.9 cm, 143 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Memories of Baku is the visual retelling of the rich history of the capital of Azerbaijan and the country's rise to power as one of the largest oil producing nations in the world. This publication showcases the unique socio...
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£27,00
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Nuvuk, the Northernmost Altered Land, Altered Lives in Barrow, Alaska
ISBN: HB: 9781602231955, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2013
80 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 76 colour illus.
For years, tour guide Daniel Lum has brought visitors as well as his children out to the remote corners of Barrow, Alaska, one of the northernmost cities in the world, to witness polar bears and walrus on the dark, sandy beaches. Over time, snapping...
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£19,00
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