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El Anatsui Art and Life (Revised and Expanded)
ISBN: HB: 9783791358253, Prestel Publishing, March 2021
320 pp., 30x25 cm, 190 colour illus.
An African artist who has garnered worldwide recognition while based permanently in Nigeria and whose work is in the permanent collections of many of the world's great museums, El Anatsui is best known for sumptuous tapestries made from used bottle t...
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£45,00
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Principles of Neo-Plastic Art Bauhausbucher 6
ISBN: HB: 9783037786291, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2020
68 pp., 23x18 cm, illus.
Theo van Doesburg was a jack of all trades: painter, writer, architect, typographer, and art theorist. In this volume of the Bauhausbucher, he attempts to make elementary concepts in the visual arts generally comprehensible. He was addressing the "mo...
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£25,00
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How to Secure a Country
ISBN: HB: 9783037785973, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2020
220 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, illus.
Switzerland is well-known as one of the safest countries on earth and as a prime example of efficiency and efficacy. One of the central reasons that such a country exists is the development of a culture based on protection, which is supported by the...
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£30,00
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Pop-up Workshop for Kids Fold, Cut, Paint and Glue
ISBN: PB: 9788417656225, Hoaki, September 2020
144 pp., 26x23.5 cm, fully illustrated in colour
It is difficult not to surrender to the magic of pop-up books. Whether we're little or grown up, we cannot fail to be amazed every time we turn a page and suddenly find something that has been built in three dimensions before our eyes. "It must be so...
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£16,99
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S.M.A.K. Highlights for a Future The Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780300248012, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, February 2020
304 pp., 26.4x22.2 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
The Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (translated as the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art and commonly abbreviated as S.M.A.K.), located in Ghent, Belgium, has quickly established a reputation for both a superlative permanent collection and pro...
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£35,00
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Peggy Guggenheim The Last Dogaressa
ISBN: HB: 9788829701292, DAP, Marsilio Editori, November 2019
224 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! This book offers a thorough visual biography of the life of Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) as collector, through a selection of works from the world-renowned collection she established primarily between 1938 and 1946, and to w...
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£53,00
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Hito Steyerl
ISBN: HB: 9783791359274, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
160 pp., 26x26 cm, 100 colour and black&white illus.
Artist, filmmaker, and writer Hito Steyerl is an acute observer and interpreter of globalized and digital cultures. This book examines three of Steyerl's large-scale works – Hell Yeah We Fuck Die (2016), ExtraSpaceCraft (2016), and Liquidity Inc. (20...
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£29,99
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Guillermo Kuitca
ISBN: HB: 9783906915432, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, September 2019
176 pp., 29.7x23.4 cm, 100 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! This book debuts two new painting series by Argentinian artist Guillermo Kuitca (born 1961) that feature the artist's distinctive melding of abstraction and figuration – "The Family Idiot" and "Missing Pages". Evoking the c...
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£45,00
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Shinto Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300237016, Yale University Press, May 2019
400 pp., 25.4x30.2 cm, 195 colour illus.
A central feature of Japanese culture for many centuries, the veneration of kami deities – a practice often referred to as Shinto – has been a driving force behind a broad swath of visual art. Focusing on the Heian period (795-1185) through the Edo p...
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£55,00
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30 Americans Rubell Family Collection (Fourth Edition)
ISBN: HB: 9780971634121, DAP, Rubell Museum, May 2019
224 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 269 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Nationally celebrated as one of the most important exhibitions of contemporary art in the United States within the last decade, 30 Americans showcases an influential group of prominent African American artists who have emer...
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£40,00
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