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Jaroslav Malina in Scenography and Painting
ISBN: HB: 9788024642697, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
450 pp., 26x23.4 cm, 125 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Although Czech scenographer and painter Jaroslav Malina (1937-2016) lived in turbulent times, he won international respect for his work. Spanning Malina's entire life – from his early year...
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£34,00
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JR: Chronicles
ISBN: HB: 9782954226699, DAP, Maison CF + Brooklyn Museum, November 2019
240 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 90 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Over the past two decades, French artist JR has massively expanded the impact of public art through his ambitious projects that give visibility and agency to people around the world. Showcasing the full scope of the artist'...
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£39,99
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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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Julia Feyrer & Tamara Henderson Bottles under the Influence, Consider the Belvedere, The Last Waves
ISBN: PB: 9780888653055, DAP, University of Pennsylvania, October 2019
176 pp., 21.6x14.6 cm, 171 colour illus., 55 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! This publication marks the culmination of Canadian duo Julia Feyrer and Tamara Henderson's (both born 1982) three-venue film installation, documenting the sets, writings, drawings, paintings and poems.
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£22,00
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Joe Minter: To You Through Me The Beginning of a Link of a Journey of 400 Years
ISBN: PB: 9781732848221, DAP, Institute 193, September 2019
136 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 32 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In the summer of 1989, Joe Minter had a vision from God to create art that would honor the shared experiences of African Americans in this country. From that moment, Minter began building a sprawling collection of sculpture...
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£27,00
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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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Jonathan Monk Restaurant Drawings
ISBN: HB: 9781949172218, DAP, Karma, New York, August 2019
552 pp., 23.6x19 cm, 531 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! This new book collects the English artist's (born 1969) drawings and paintings on receipts which are later sold at the price of the meal, an example of his spontaneous appropriationist gestures. On these bills, Monk recreat...
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Jan Tschichold and the New Typography Graphic Design Between the World Wars
ISBN: PB: 9780300243956, Yale University Press, April 2019
256 pp., 22.2x17.8 cm, 80 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
Richly illustrated with images from Jan Tschichold's little-known private collection of design ephemera, this important book explores a legendary figure in the history of modern graphic design through the artists, ideas, and texts from the Bauhaus th...
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£25,00
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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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