ledochowicz.com

Contemporary Art

Making a Home Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York

Shiner Eric C., Tomii Reiko

ISBN: HB: 9780300126341, Yale University Press, November 2007
250 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

Since the 1950s, many Japanese artists have made their homes and careers in New York, some for enhanced exposure to the international art world or to challenge themselves to take their artwork in new directions, and others to escape restrictions face...

HB:

£40,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Other Criteria Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art

Steinberg Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226771854, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
448 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 295 halftones

Leo Steinberg's classic "Other Criteria" comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from "Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public" and the "flatbed picture plane" to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and...

PB:

£43,50

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Life and Work Art and Biography

Salas Charles G.

ISBN: HB: 9780892368235, Getty Publications, August 2007
200 pp., 26.7x19 cm, 31 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.

It is often assumed that reading about the lives of artists enhances our understanding of their work – and that their work will reveal to us something about them – but the relationship between biography and art is rarely that simple. "The Life and th...

HB:

£35,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Contemporary Art

John Sloan's New York

Schiller Joyce K., Campbell Coyle Heather, Hutton Molly S., Fillin-Yeh Susan, Manthorne Katherine Emma, Boylan Alexis L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300126198, Yale University Press, August 2007
224 pp., 30.5x25.1 cm, 128 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

John Sloan (1871-1951) began his career as a commercial newspaper artist in Philadelphia where he studied with Robert Henri. Following Henri to New York, Sloan joined a small circle of eight talented artists whose dissatisfaction with the dominating...

HB:

£45,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Language of Objects in the Art of the Americas

Sullivan Edward J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300111064, Yale University Press, August 2007
296 pp., 28x23 cm, 147 colour illus., 52 black&white illus.

In this wide-ranging book, a distinguished scholar of Latin American art explores the meanings of created and depicted objects from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking regions of the New World. Edward Sullivan begins with objects exchanged during en...

HB:

£65,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Artist Grows Old The Aging of Art and Artists in Early Modern Italy

Sohm Philip

ISBN: HB: 9780300121230, Yale University Press, May 2007
224 pp., 24.6x17 cm, 25 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

How does the artist's self-conception change in old age? How does old age affect artistic practice? In this intriguing study, art historian Philip Sohm considers some of the greatest artists of Renaissance and Baroque Italy and their experiences of a...

HB:

£50,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

5 Year Diary Black Cover

Shopsin Tamara

ISBN: HB: 9780977648139, DAP, March 2007
376 pp., 16.8x10.2 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! Brought to you by The Ice Plant in collaboration with Shopsin's General Store, this charming, pint-sized and extremely well-designed diary, inspired by a 2006 story in The New York Times, lets you keep track of your life wi...

HB:

£22,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Fashion

Ralph Rucci The Art of Weightlessness

Steele Valerie, Mears Patricia, Sauro Clare

ISBN: HB: 9780300122787, Yale University Press, February 2007
128 pp., 32.5x22.8 cm, 80 colour illus.

Working quietly and without much public attention for more than 20 years, American fashion designer Ralph Rucci suddenly became a headline topic in 2002, when he was invited to show his collection at the haute couture in Paris – the first American to...

HB:

£40,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Making Memory Matter Strategies of Remembrance in Contemporary Art

Saltzman Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226734088, ISBN: HB: 9780226734071, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
128 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 23 halftones

In an ancient account of painting's origins, a woman traces the shadow of her departing lover on the wall in an act that anticipates future grief and commemoration. Lisa Saltzman shows here that nearly two thousand years after this story was first to...

PB:

£23,50

QTY:

HB:

£52,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Photography

Collectible Moment Photographs in the Norton Simon Museum

Sander Gloria Williams, Mulligan Therese, Baltz Lewis, Barrow Thomas, Bunnell Peter C., Rice Leland, Sobieszek Robert A., Traub Charles, Wilson William

ISBN: HB: 9780300121001, Yale University Press, September 2006
384 pp., 30x25.8 cm, 600 colour illus.

Before the late 1960s, few museums or collectors acquired photographs or considered the medium as an art form. The moment arrived, however, when photography's profile ascended and the medium began to gain widespread acceptance in the art world as an...

HB:

£40,00

QTY:

add books to the list