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Bound by Creativity How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged
ISBN: PB: 9780226784694, ISBN: HB: 9780226784557, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
While our traditional view of creative work might lead us to think of artists as solitary visionaries, the creative process is in fact deeply social. From those trying to land their first solo show to those with dozens of museum exhibitions, artists...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Bisa Butler Portraits
ISBN: HB: 9780300254310, Yale University Press, November 2020
104 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, 39 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
Bisa Butler (b. 1975) is an American artist who creates arresting and psychologically nuanced portraits composed entirely of vibrantly colored and patterned fabrics that she cuts, layers, and stitches together. Often depicting scenes from African Ame...
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£25,00
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Lin May Saeed Arrival of the Animals
ISBN: PB: 9780300250862, Yale University Press, November 2020
144 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 50 colour illus.
German artist Lin May Saeed (b. 1973) grapples with the complex entanglements of humans and animals. Her work centers on the nonhuman animal and revisits, revises, or outright invents stories of animal subjugation, liberation, and harmonious cohabita...
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£25,00
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Gerhard Richter Abstraction
ISBN: PB: 9783791359922, Prestel Publishing, September 2020
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 174 colour illus.
This book focuses solely on the abstract strategies and processes contained in Gerhard Richter's body of work. In the early 1960s, the artist began to call painting into question, an exploration that continues to occupy him to this day. In the 1970s,...
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£27,50
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Gerhard Richter Painting After All
ISBN: HB: 9781588396853, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2020
280 pp., 26.6x24.1 cm, 230 colour illus.
Over the course of his acclaimed 60-year career, Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) has employed both representation and abstraction as a means of reckoning with the legacy, collective memory, and national sensibility of post–Second World War Germany, in both...
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£35,00
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Unnatural History Museum
ISBN: HB: 9783791385198, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
200 pp., 28x24 cm, 160 illus. 
For over a decade, from a tiny storefront in east London, the artist Viktor Wynd has been reinventing the cabinet of curiosities for the 21st century. The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History is now one of the city's most t...
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£35,00
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original bauhaus
ISBN: HB: 9783791359045, Prestel Publishing, November 2019
224 pp., 30x24 cm, 155 colour illus., 76 black&white illus.
The Bauhaus existed for only 14 years in Germany, but for the past 100 years its ideas have been passed on and its products relaunched, imitated and further developed. Using 14 famous, familiar, or forgotten objects, this book offers 14 case studies....
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£45,00
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Julia Feyrer & Tamara Henderson Bottles under the Influence, Consider the Belvedere, The Last Waves
ISBN: PB: 9780888653055, DAP, University of Pennsylvania, October 2019
176 pp., 21.6x14.6 cm, 171 colour illus., 55 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! This publication marks the culmination of Canadian duo Julia Feyrer and Tamara Henderson's (both born 1982) three-venue film installation, documenting the sets, writings, drawings, paintings and poems.
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£22,00
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A is for Archive Warhol's World from A to Z
ISBN: HB: 9780300233445, Yale University Press, August 2019
320 pp., 27.9x26 cm, 420 colour illus.
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) remains an icon of the 20th century and a leading figure in the Pop Art movement. He also was an obsessive collector of things large and small, ordinary and quirky. Since 1994, The Andy Warhol Museum has studied and safeguarde...
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£30,00
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Cy Twombly, Treatise on the Veil, 1970
ISBN: HB: 9780300244571, Yale University Press, May 2019
80 pp., 35.6x27.9 cm, 42 colour illus.
One of the most important American postwar artists, Cy Twombly (1928-2011) engaged with mythological and poetic source material, setting him apart from other artists of his generation. In 1970, Twombly revisited his 1968 painting Treatise on the Veil...
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£35,00
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