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London Prints and Drawings before 1800
ISBN: HB: 9781851244126, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2017
232 pp., 23.8x27.8 cm, 123 colour illus.
By the end of the eighteenth century London was the second largest city in the world, its relentless growth fuelled by Britain's expanding empire. Before the age of photography, the most widely used means of creating a visual record of the changing c...
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£30,00
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Louise Giovanelli: In Conversation
ISBN: PB: 9781910221136, Casemate, Anomie Publishing, March 2017
78 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 35 illus.
Louise Giovanelli (b. 1993, London) is one of Britain's most promising young painters. This, the artist's first monograph, documents her first three solo exhibitions, staged in 2016-17 at The International 3, Salford, the Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpoo...
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£18,00
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Points of Convergence Alternative Views on Performance
ISBN: PB: 9788364177385, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, March 2017
240 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 40 colour plates, 20 halftones
Not for sale in Poland! Thanks to its very nature, performance enters into natural dialogue with art, new media, politics, and the social sphere as a whole. Always happening in the here and now, and with a unique freedom and openness to the unknown...
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£22,00
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Romanesque – Picasso
ISBN: PB: 9788480432870, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
257 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 170 colour plates, 20 halftones
This beautifully illustrated book, the catalog for an exhibition on view at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia in Barcelona and coorganized with the Picasso Museum in Paris, explores important affinities between Picasso and Romanesque art. Using...
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£29,50
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Dianna Frid + Richard Rezac Split Complementary
ISBN: HB: 9780985096021, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
76 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 56 colour plates
Dianna Frid's sculptures, installations, artist's books, and mixed media work explore the intersection of text and textile, matter and subject matter. Richard Rezac has created thought-provoking abstract object-sculptures since the 1980s. This book,...
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£30,00
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Ex Voto Votive Giving Across Cultures
ISBN: HB: 9781941792056, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, March 2017
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 colour plates
Derived from Latin ex voto suscepto "in pursuance of a vow", an ex voto embodies the hopes, dreams, and anxieties of the person who deposits it. Almost anything, regardless of size, weight, form, or original function, can become a votive object. Ulti...
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£49,00
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Afterimages Photography and U.S. Foreign Policy
ISBN: HB: 9780226337265, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones
In 2005, photographer Chris Hondros captured a striking image of a young Iraqi girl in the aftermath of the killing of her parents by American soldiers. The shot stunned the world and has since become iconic – comparable to the infamous photo by Nick...
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£36,00
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Albino
ISBN: HB: 9788494423413, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
108 pp., 27.9x31.1 cm, 82 colour plates
In "Albino", photojournalist Ana Palacios takes us inside a shelter for people with albinism and reveals what daily life is like for those living with the genetic condition in Tanzania. As Palacios documents, widespread ignorance of the causes of alb...
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£24,00
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Sensitive Geometries Brazil 1950s-1980s
ISBN: HB: 9783952363034, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, March 2017
44 pp., 20.3x20.3 cm, 14 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Sensitive Geometries" explores the legacy of artistic movements at one of the most pivotal moments in Brazilian history. Designed as a facsimile of the 1959 exhibition catalog for the first Neo-Concrete exhibition at the M...
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£20,00
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Willem de Kooning / Zao Wou-Ki
ISBN: HB: 9781944379124, DAP, Dominique Levy, March 2017
192 pp., 33.7x25.3 cm, 30 colour illus., 15 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! This volume explores the parallel careers of two celebrated postwar painters: Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) and Zao Wou-Ki (1921-2013). Published in conjunction with Dominique Levy's exhibition pairing the artists' abstract...
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£53,00
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