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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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Alicja Kwade: ParaPivot The Roof Garden Commission
ISBN: PB: 9781588396679, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2019
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 58 colour illus.
Contemporary artist Alicja Kwade (b. 1979) has received international acclaim for her minimalist, large-scale sculptures and installations intended to parse, but not resolve, various scientific and metaphysical conundrums. Kwade's site-specific insta...
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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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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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£50,00
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Edvard Munch Between the Clock and the Bed
ISBN: HB: 9781588396235, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2017
256 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 120 colour illus.
A penetrating reassessment of Munch's memorable painting and profound artistic legacy. This engaging book offers a fresh look at the exceptional works of Edvard Munch (1863-1944) by examining them in the light of his precarious mental state. Followi...
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Cornelia Parker The Roof Garden Commission
ISBN: PB: 9781588395931, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2016
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 55 colour illus.
Turner Prize-nominated British artist Cornelia Parker (b. 1956) is well known for her large-scale, site-specific installations. Her work has been featured in many solo exhibitions and is included in collections around the world. Often composed of ord...
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Dan Graham The Roof Garden Commission
ISBN: MIX MEDIA: 9780300208757, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2014
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 60 colour illus.
The artist Dan Graham (b. 1942) has a wide-ranging practice that encompasses writing, performance art, installation, video, photography and architecture. Throughout his career, Graham has examined the symbiosis between architectural environments and...
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Imran Qureshi
ISBN: PB: 9780300197754, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2013
65 pp., 22.9x20.3 cm, 50 colour illus.
Named the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year for 2013, Imran Qureshi combines traditional motifs and techniques of Islamic art with contemporary reflections on the relationship between Islam and the West. His investigations into ornamentation reference...
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