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Jose Manuel Ballester Abstraction in Reality
ISBN: HB: 9788415303329, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, October 2012
116 pp., 29.8x22.9 cm, black&white photos
This is a magnificently illustrated look at the most recent work of award-winning Spanish photographer Jose Manuel Ballester. The photography of Jose Manuel Ballester reveals the ephemeral and instantaneous in a way that seems a-temporal, even before...
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£9,00
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Jindrich Heisler Surrealism Under Pressure, 1938-1953
ISBN: HB: 9780300179699, Yale University Press, A+D Series, April 2012
144 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 80 colour illus.
Czech poet and photographer Jindrich Heisler (1914-1953) joined the Czech Surrealist Group in 1938, just as Nazi occupation of the country was driving the movement and Czech artists underground. Heisler published his first book of poetry a year later...
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£35,00
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John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 1: 1956-1974
ISBN: HB: 9780300174489, Yale University Press, March 2012
550 pp., 29.2x25.1 cm, 500 colour illus.
The pioneering conceptual artist John Baldessari (b. 1931) began his career as a painter in the 1950s, but in the subsequent decades he expanded his practice in a new and groundbreaking direction by juxtaposing texts with found photography or appropr...
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£150,00
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Jewelry and Metalwork of Marie Zimmermann
ISBN: HB: 9780300181142, Yale University Press, January 2012
400 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 517 colour images, 28 black&white illus.
A true eclectic in her personal life, her professional pursuits, and her creative expression, Marie Zimmermann has proven an elusive character for historians. But her skill as a designer and prodigious output of extraordinary jewellery and metalwork...
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£60,00
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Jim Denevan Lake Baikal
ISBN: HB: 9781934435434, DAP, Radius Books, November 2011
176 pp., 31.1x24.1 cm, 90 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In March of 2010, land artist Jim Denevan (born 1961) and his crew journeyed to the world's largest lake – Lake Baikal in southwestern Siberia – where they created the world's largest artwork on the frozen surface of the wa...
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£57,00
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Jean Paul Riopelle The Artist's Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781606060865, Getty Publications, October 2011
96 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 28 colour illus., 6 black&white illus., 4 line drawings
This is the first full-length English language study of one of the most important Canadian artists of the 20th century. Jean Paul Riopelle (1923-2002) was one of the most important Canadian artists of the 20th century. He began his career in Montreal...
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£30,00
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Johan Zoffany Society Observed
ISBN: HB: 9780300176049, Yale University Press, October 2011
320 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 225 colour images, 5 black&white illus.
The 18th-century painter Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) was an astute observer of the many social circles in which he functioned as an artist over the course of his long career. This catalogue investigates his sharp wit, shrewd political appraisal, and pe...
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£60,00
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Joys of Collecting
ISBN: PB: 9781606060872, Getty Publications, September 2011
80 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 15 black&white illus.
This title offers an insightful and revealing personal account of one man's consuming passion for collecting. In 1965, shortly after founding his namesake museum in Malibu, California, J. Paul Getty penned reminiscence about "the romance and zest – t...
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Julius Schulman's Los Angeles
ISBN: PB: 9781606060797, Getty Publications, September 2011
72 pp., 16.6x13.5 cm, 60 duotone photos
This title presents a pictorial history of the "City of the Future" throughout the 20th century. The celebrated architectural photographer Julius Shulman (1910-2009) is one of the few image makers to have documented, as well as witnessed, nearly an e...
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Jan Koblasa Intaglio Prints
ISBN: PB: 9788024618111, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2011
264 pp., 28x23 cm, 473 halftones, 40 colour illus.
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jan Koblasa has ranked among the leading figures of Czech and European art since the1960s. His sculptures have been integrated into many European cities, sacred spaces, and sculptors' park...
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£30,00
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