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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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Data from Nature Nature, Digitisation and Design
ISBN: PB: 9788832080025, Bookport, ListLab, July 2019
224 pp., 23x16 cm, colour illus.
A fascinating exploration of exquisite images captured from natural materials, and of their applications in fashion, environmental design, and apps that anticipate a new era of digitally-driven individual creativity. "Data From Nature" begins with th...
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£45,00
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Women of Atelier 17 Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York
ISBN: HB: 9780300238501, Yale University Press, June 2019
296 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 76 colour illus., 63 black&white illus.
In this important book Christina Weyl takes us into the experimental New York print studio Atelier 17 and highlights the women whose work there advanced both modernism and feminism in the 1940s and 1950s. Weyl focuses on eight artists – Louise Bourge...
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£50,00
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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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Picasso: The Late Work From the Collection of Jacqueline Picasso
ISBN: HB: 9783791358116, Prestel Publishing, April 2019
248 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 colour illus.
In his late years, Picasso embraced painting, drawing, and sculpture with renewed vigor. His obsession with the female form grew more intense as he portrayed Jacqueline Picasso, his second wife, in hundreds of works, more than any of his other muses....
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£39,99
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Alphabeatz Graffiti Alphabets from A to Z
ISBN: HB: 9788417412029, Hoaki, April 2019
240 pp., 26.3x21.6 cm, fully illustrated in colour
Graffiti writing was born in the streets of Philadelphia in the late 1960s. But it was in New York in the early 1970s that it became a full-fledged urban art, gradually taking over the landscape of the city, from its walls to its subway cars. In thes...
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£28,00
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Paul McCarthy Caribbean Pirates
ISBN: HB: 9783906915272, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, April 2019
616 pp., 41.3x29.8 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! This abundantly illustrated two-volume publication presents the photographic documentation of Frigate and Houseboat, two pirate-themed works by Paul McCarthy and his son Damon McCarthy, alongside a new text by John C. Welch...
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£138,00
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Weaving Modernism Postwar Tapestry Between Paris and New York
ISBN: HB: 9780300232592, Yale University Press, March 2019
280 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 59 colour illus., 45 black&white illus.
With a revelatory analysis of how the postwar French tapestry revival provided a medium for modern art and a model for its discourse and marketing on both sides of the Atlantic, "Weaving Modernism" presents a fascinating reexamination of modernism's...
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£50,00
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Roni Horn When I Breathe, I Draw
ISBN: HB: 9780300233155, Yale University Press, March 2019
130 pp., 24.1x19 cm, 55 colour and black&white illus.
Describing drawing as her "primary activity", for over thirty years, Roni Horn (b. 1955) has created innovative and experimental works on paper marked by both conceptual and technical complexity. This carefully curated survey of the artist's drawings...
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£25,00
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Frame Work Honour and Ornament in Italian Renaissance Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300238846, Yale University Press, March 2019
352 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 220 colour illus.
"My husband Jan finished me on 17 June 1439... My age was 33 years". So speaks Margaret van Eyck from the frame of her portrait. This painted inscription honors its maker Jan van Eyck, even as it blurs the distinction between living subject and paint...
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£55,00
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