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Ann Hamilton habitus
ISBN: HB: 9783791357096, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
192 pp., 32x23 cm, 100 colour illus.
"Held by cloth's hand, we are swaddled at birth, covered in sleep, and wound in death", muses artist Ann Hamilton. Rather than documenting the experience of her enormous immersive 2016-17 installation in Philadelphia, Hamilton offers here a document...
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£39,99
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Julia Jacquette Unrequited and Acts of Play
ISBN: HB: 9783791356723, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
120 pp., 35.6x27 cm, 93 colour illus.
Through her richly detailed paintings featuring imagery drawn from advertisements, New York–based artist Julia Jacquette addresses the challenges of navigating the contemporary media landscape that so directly influences our sense of personal identit...
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£39,99
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Michael Rakowitz Backstroke of the West
ISBN: PB: 9783791357478, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
144 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 119 colour illus., 109 black&white illus.
This first monograph of the acclaimed Iraqi-American artist, Michael Rakowitz, takes a historical, scholarly, and in-depth look at his politically charged work. Iraqi-American Michael Rakowitz's provocative multimedia projects confront popular polit...
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£19,99
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Design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985 Found in Translation
ISBN: HB: 9783791356709, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
360 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 325 colour illus.
The histories of Mexico and the United States have been intertwined since the 18th century, when both were colonies of European empires. America's fascination with Mexican culture emerged in the 19th century and continues to this day. In turn, Mexico...
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£49,99
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Frida Kahlo The Story of Her Life
ISBN: HB: 9783791383880, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
160 pp., 27x21 cm
The perfect subject for a graphic novel, Frida Kahlo's brief life was dramatic and romantic, tragic and painful. In this illustrated "biography", Vanna Vinci captures the spirit of Kahlo's world in boldly colored, minutely detailed illustrations. Ble...
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£19,99
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Frederic Amat_Zootrop
ISBN: PB: 9788417047016, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, August 2017
200 pp., 30x20 cm, black&white photos
Amat's open conception of art has led him to incorporate a range of disciplines into his practice: painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, book illustration, audiovisual media, set design, and interventions into architectural spaces....
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£32,00
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Teresita Fernandez Wayfinding
ISBN: HB: 9783791356822, Prestel Publishing, August 2017
256 pp., 29.5x24 cm, 480 colour illus.
Teresita Fernandez creates elaborate installations that pull viewers into other worlds and environments, playing with scale, material and how we understand and navigate the landscape. The idea of wayfinding – moving from place to place or even gettin...
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£45,00
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Anna Maria Maiolino
ISBN: HB: 9783791356860, Prestel Publishing, August 2017
192 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 135 colour illus., 97 black&white illus.
Born in Calabria, Italy, in 1942, Anna Maria Maiolino is one of the leading artists of her generation. Her work reflects the major cultural and political realities of postwar Europe and South America as well as issues of patriarchy, feminism, and imm...
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£45,00
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Seeing Slowly
ISBN: HB: 9783791383835, Prestel Publishing, August 2017
248 pp., 24x18 cm, 60 colour illus.
When it comes to viewing art, living in the information age is not necessarily a benefit. So argues Michael Findlay in this book that encourages a new way of looking at art. Much of this thinking involves stripping away what we have been taught and i...
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£22,50
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Huun Art / Thought from Mexico
ISBN: PB: 9788416282968, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, July 2017
208 pp., 24.1x19.7 cm, illus.
HUUN is a new annual magazine-book that offers a space for artistic expression.Contributors include poets, critics, fiction writers, composers, and artists such as Vivian Abenshunshan, Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Luigi Amara, Edga...
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£19,50
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