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Jan Hendrix Landfall
ISBN: PB: 9788417047948, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, November 2019
288 pp., 22x16 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.
Since Dutch artist Jan Hendrix (born 1949) moved to Mexico in 1975, he has been a key figure in that country's art scene, building a bridge between Mexican and Dutch traditions of thinking about nature. This first retrospective covers Hendrix's two-...
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£22,00
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Julie Mehretu
ISBN: HB: 9783791358741, Prestel Publishing, November 2019
320 pp., 26.9x25 cm, 455 colour and black&white illus.
Over the past twenty-five years Julie Mehretu has emerged as a major force in American art. Known mostly for her enormous abstract paintings, she also produces exquisite drawings, often created as studies for larger works. This sumptuous volume accom...
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£49,99
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James Tissot
ISBN: HB: 9783791359199, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
320 pp., 30.5x24 cm, 275 colour and black&white illus.
James Tissot is best known for his paintings of fashionable women and society life in the late 19th century. Born in Nantes, France, he trained at the ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he befriended James McNeill Whistler and Edgar Degas. Tissot's...
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£55,00
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Jose Guerrero Trabajos / Works 02-20
ISBN: HB: 9788417975104, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, October 2019
320 pp., 26x21 cm, 160 photos
This monographic volume offers a selection of Jose Guerrero's finest series in chronological order, from the beginning of his career in 2002 to the year 2020: Thames, La Mancha, Sierra Nevada, New York – Night Lights, Carrara, and others. His work d...
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£25,00
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John Beasley Greene
ISBN: HB: 9783791358468, Prestel Publishing, August 2019
176 pp., 26x24.8 cm, 130 colour illus.
Few figures in 19th-century photography remain as elusive and intriguing as John Beasley Greene (1832-1856). Over the course of an exceptionally brief career he created a body of photographs that were publicly admired by his peers and continue to cap...
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£45,00
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Jonathas de Andrade
ISBN: PB: 9783791358390, Prestel Publishing, April 2019
144 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour illus.
Themes of memory, love, economic inequality, and political upheaval are threaded throughout de Andrade's work, which is often situated in Recife, his hometown in the northeast corner of Brazil. This includes the artist's most recent works, The Fish,...
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£19,99
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Journey Beyond the Arrow Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber
ISBN: PB: 9783791358505, Prestel Publishing, January 2019
270 pp., 24x17 cm, 100 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
This book accompanies Journey Beyond the Arrow, one of the three sections of Sharjah Biennial 14. It brings together commissions from artists, academics, thinkers, and poets who explore the nature and occurrence of human mobility from the Global Sout...
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£19,99
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Jitish Kallat
ISBN: HB: 9783791384757, Prestel Publishing, October 2018
368 pp., 27x20.5 cm, 130 colour illus.
This illustrated monograph looks at the multimedia work of Jitish Kallat, one of India's most prominent and irreverent young artists. One of South Asia's most compelling artists, Jitish Kallat has built an immersive practice, ranging from ideas of t...
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£39,99
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Jeffrey Gibson This is the Day
ISBN: HB: 9783791357652, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
224 pp., 35x26 cm, 205 colour illus.
This generously illustrated book explores new developments in Jeffrey Gibson's recent work. Through painting, sculpture, installation, and film, Jeffrey Gibson brings together overlapping and conflicting cultures, histories, and aesthetics. Most rec...
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£45,00
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Jeffrey Gibson Like a Hammer
ISBN: HB: 9783791357331, Prestel Publishing, May 2018
144 pp., 28x23 cm, 85 colour illus.
Featuring work from the past decade by Jeffrey Gibson, one of America's most prominent contemporary artists, this monograph shows how he blends American Indian and Western cultural influences and explores issues of identity, alternative sub-cultures,...
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£29,99
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