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Egon Schiele Portraits
ISBN: HB: 9783791354194, Prestel Publishing, October 2014
296 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 227 colour illus., 72 black&white illus.
This book accompanies a major exhibition devoted to portraits created by Austrian artist Egon Schiele, whose figurative work exhibits intense emotion and technical brilliance. Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth...
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£49,99
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How to Read Islamic Carpets
ISBN: PB: 9780300208092, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2014
176 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 175 colour illus.
Carpets made in the "Rug Belt" – an area that includes Morocco, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and northern India – have been a source of fascination and collecting since the 13th century. This engaging and accessible book explores the...
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£18,99
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it was always there, it's just grown stronger
ISBN: HB: 9783037784556, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2014
144 pp., 16.5x24 cm, 100 illus.
Over the now more than forty-five years that he has been studying and exploring photography, Christian Vogt has discovered new visual vocabularies again and again. In his new work, consisting almost exclusively of contrasting pairs of pictures, he co...
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£22,00
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Premonition Ukranian Art Now
ISBN: PB: 9781861543691, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, October 2014
144 pp., 28x20.5 cm, full-colour illus.
While it is by no means exhaustive, Premonition – aims to provide a broad introduction to the highly diverse and energetic nature of Ukraine's art-scene while exploring movements and trends over the last decade or so. Some of the artists have establi...
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£19,00
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Malevich Writes A Theory of Creativity Cubism to Suprematism
ISBN: HB: 9780946311088, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, October 2014
704 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 115 black&white illus.
Collection of 30 texts, 1915-1928 and 3 facsimiles, some in first English translation, plus Nina Kogan on Cubism and Ilya Chashnik on Suprematism. Chronological sections trace Malevich's analyses of Cubism and Futurism, the Supremus Society of Artist...
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£40,00
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Immersive Life Practices
ISBN: PB: 9780982879849, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones
Much ink has been spilled on how art intersects with the experiences of everyday life. But what about art grappling with how to live differently? Artists occupy an exceptional space where their livelihood permeates all aspects of life, eroding bounda...
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£15,00
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Picture This! Painting the Women's Movement
ISBN: HB: 9789381017685, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
200 pp., 21.5x27.9 cm, 200 colour plates
From her home in a small village in the Kutch district of Gujarat, Dalit artist Radhaben Garwa has documented the rural women's movement in Western India and beyond through her drawings. Her images – more than two hundred of them gathered here – tell...
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£37,50
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Woman's Eye, Woman's Hand Making Art and Architecture in Modern India
ISBN: HB: 9789381017142, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 78 halftones
Post-independence, a generation of Indian women entered career fields such as architecture and design that had previously been closed to them. These educated professionals emerged as a pronounced political force – becoming important patrons of art, a...
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£30,00
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Support Networks
ISBN: PB: 9780982879856, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones
When artists break boundaries of traditional forms and work outside of institutionalized systems, they often must create new infrastructures to sustain their practices".Support Networks" looks to Chicago's deeply layered history of artists, scholars,...
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£15,00
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Jan Koblasa Grafika Prints
ISBN: PB: 9788024625218, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2014
328 pp., 28.4x23.3 cm, Illustrated in colour throughout
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A key personality in Czech modern art, Jan Koblasa works in diverse media, including sculpture, painting, drawing, and printmaking, and he also makes costumes for the stage and screen, wri...
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£32,00
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