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Sea Star Sean Scully at the National Gallery
ISBN: PB: 9781857096453, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, April 2019
128 pp., 30.5x24.4 cm, 50 colour illus.
Sean Scully (b.1945) is an Irish-born, American-based painter and printmaker, best known for his monumental oil paintings which draw on the traditions of Abstract Expressionism. This beautiful catalogue showcases a new body of work inspired by the...
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£20,00
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Sadie Benning Shared Eye
ISBN: PB: 9780941548700, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, March 2019
184 pp., 25.4x19.6 cm, 72 colour plates
This richly illustrated volume offers an in-depth look into artist Sadie Benning's exhibition "Shared Eye", presented at the Renaissance Society and the Kunsthalle Basel. The forty mixed-media panels in "Shared Eye" defy easy categorization: they inc...
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£27,00
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Some Kind of Duty
ISBN: PB: 9780996235006, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, March 2019
100 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 40 colour plates
"Some Kind of Duty" features all new handmade weavings by Chicago-based artist Karolina Gnatowski, known as kg. In monumental and small-scale tapestries, kg, anAmerican artist who was born in Poland incorporates references ranging from Polish immigra...
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£30,00
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Sam Francis The Artist's Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781606065839, Getty Publications, February 2019
140 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, illus.
American artist Sam Francis (1923-1994) brought vivid colour and emotional intensity to Abstract Expressionism. He was described as the "most sensuous and sensitive painter of his generation" by former Guggenheim Museum director James Johnson Sweeney...
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£30,00
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Source and Stimulus Polke, Lichtenstein, Laing
ISBN: HB: 9781944379223, DAP, Levy Gorvy, February 2019
136 pp., 33x25.4 cm, 22 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! United in their desire to create images "absolutely of the moment", Polke, Lichtenstein and Laing – three artists on separate but interrelated artistic journeys – turned their attention in the early 1960s toward the Ben-Day...
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£53,00
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Spielraum
ISBN: HB: 9783954762545, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, December 2018
352 pp., 21.5x20 cm, 200 colour illus., language: English
The Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic (b. Ljubljana, 1979; lives and works in London) exemplifies a young generation of creative minds born in the former Yugoslavia whose works address social, political, and historical themes. In 2013, she represented h...
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£32,50
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Sonic Flux Sound, Art, and Metaphysics
ISBN: PB: 9780226543178, ISBN: HB: 9780226543031, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones
From Edison's invention of the phonograph through contemporary field recording and sound installation, artists have become attracted to those domains against which music has always defined itself: noise, silence, and environmental sound. Christoph Co...
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£23,00
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£75,00
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Sophie Podolski Le pays ou tout est permis / The Country Where Everything Is Permitted
ISBN: PB: 9780300241266, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2018
144 pp., 27x18.7 cm, 129 colour illus., 9 black&white illus.
This bilingual publication offers an unprecedented exploration of the work of Belgian poet and artist Sophie Podolski (1953-1974), who has lingered in obscurity since her untimely death at the age of 21. Podolski's work is emblematic of a time marked...
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£22,00
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Shizuko Yoshikawa
ISBN: HB: 9783037785676, Lars Muller Publishers, July 2018
248 pp., 28x25 cm, 236 illus., language: English / Japanese
This publication is the first monograph on the Japanese-born, constructive-concrete artist Shizuko Yoshikawa. Her work combines the rational concepts of European modern art with the poetry and ease of the intuitional Japanese Zen tradition. As a memb...
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£45,00
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Sophie Taeuber-Arp and the Avant-Garde A Biography
ISBN: HB: 9780226311210, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 colour plates, 38 halftones
Sophie Taeuber-Arp was a quiet innovator whose fame has too often been yoked to that of her husband, Jean Arp. Over time, however, she has slowly come to be seen as one of the foremost abstract artists and designers of the twentieth century. The Swis...
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£41,50
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