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I Can Make You Feel Good
ISBN: HB: 9783791386089, Prestel Publishing, August 2020
192 pp., 29x24 cm, 120 colour illus.
Even before becoming the first African American photographer to shoot the cover of Vogue in September 2018 with an iconic portrait of Beyonce, Tyler Mitchell was making a name for himself as a photographer and video director focusing on youth culture...
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£45,00
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Hermitage Cookbook Symbols. Traditions. Recipes
ISBN: HB: 9785912083266, Prestel Publishing, Arca, July 2020
320 pp., 21.5x20.5 cm, 410 colour and black&white illus.
"The Hermitage Cookbook" is a hymn to the unity of material world seen through the prism of art, literature, ethnographic observations and historical documents. The book covers a wide range of culinary recipes – ancient, national, family and royal. A...
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£29,99
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Bernini's Michelangelo
ISBN: HB: 9780300247732, Yale University Press, June 2020
288 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 143 colour illus.
Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), like all ambitious artists, imitated eminent predecessors. What set him apart was his lifelong and multifaceted focus on Michelangelo Buonarroti – the master of the previous age. Bernini's Michelangelo is the first co...
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£50,00
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Ettore Sottsass and the Social Factory
ISBN: PB: 9783791358826, Prestel Publishing, May 2020
300 pp., 30x22 cm, 100 colour and black&white illus.
Including newely comissioned essays by curators and scholars, this book explores how Sottsass's art and philosophy presaged the dawn of PCs, the service industry, and the gig economy. Ettore Sottsass was an architect, industrial designer, painter, wr...
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£42,50
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Transmissions
ISBN: PB: 9780300246841, Yale University Press, April 2020
160 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.
Over the past decade, Nick Mauss (b. 1980) has pursued a hybrid mode of working that melds the roles of curator, artist, and scholar. This catalogue leans heavily into the scholarship side of his practice, building on his 2018 Whitney Museum exhibiti...
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£25,00
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Visual Protest The Art of Banksy
ISBN: HB: 9783791386065, Prestel Publishing, April 2020
240 pp., 29x23.5 cm, 360 colour illus.
Not for sale in Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia! Decades before he blew the lid off the high-stakes art world by shredding a work immediately following its purchase at an auction, Banksy was committing acts of artistic protest o...
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£29,99
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Horace Pippin, American Modern
ISBN: HB: 9780300243307, Yale University Press, February 2020
264 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 96 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.
Arguably the most successful African American artist of his day, Horace Pippin (1888-1946) taught himself to paint in the 1930s and quickly earned international renown for depictions of World War I, black families, and American heroes Abraham Lincoln...
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£40,00
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Think of Them as Spaces Brice Marden's Drawings
ISBN: FLEXI: 9780300233131, Yale University Press, February 2020
128 pp., 24.7x19.6 cm, 120 colour illus.
In 1979, Brice Marden (b. 1938) asked that his drawings be thought of "as spaces", reflecting the idea that drawing is a medium that is much more than its two physical dimensions. Looking closely at six series of drawings that span nearly the entiret...
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£30,00
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Manifesto of Artistic Research
ISBN: PB: 9783035802207, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2020
128 pp., 29.2x17.7 cm
Since its beginnings in the 1990s, artistic research has become established as a new format in the areas of educational and institutional policy, aesthetics, and art theory. It has now diffused into almost all artistic fields, from installation to ex...
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£17,50
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Kathe Kollwitz Prints, Process, Politics
ISBN: HB: 9781606066157, Getty Publications, January 2020
140 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
German printmaker Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945) is known for her unapologetic social and political imagery; her representations of grief, suffering, and struggle; and her equivocal ideas about artistic and political labels. This volume explores her most...
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£30,00
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