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Julia Jacquette Unrequited and Acts of Play
ISBN: HB: 9783791356723, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
120 pp., 35.6x27 cm, 93 colour illus.
Through her richly detailed paintings featuring imagery drawn from advertisements, New York–based artist Julia Jacquette addresses the challenges of navigating the contemporary media landscape that so directly influences our sense of personal identit...
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£39,99
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Joan Fontcuberta PHotoBolsillo
ISBN: PB: 9788416248988, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, July 2017
96 pp., 18x13 cm, black&white photos
Joan Fontcuberta s work conveys a critic to conceiving photography as evidence of reality. He aims to question the veracity attributed to photographs, by means of image and story manipulation as well as intense interaction with viewers. La Fabrica pr...
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John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 4: 1994-2004
ISBN: HB: 9780300225051, Yale University Press, June 2017
480 pp., 29.2x25.1 cm, 420 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
The fourth volume of the "John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne" comprises approximately 370 works that represent the activity of this iconic conceptual artist between 1994 and 2004. Here, John Baldessari (b. 1931) continues to interrogate the possibili...
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John Graham Maverick Modernist
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791356082, Prestel Publishing, May 2017
176 pp., 29x24 cm, 130 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
This monograph explores how John Graham became an influential figure in American painting and discusses the development of his distinctly American approach to art-making. John Graham was an American Modernist and figurative painter. He was a mentor...
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£29,99
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Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonne of Painting and Sculpture
ISBN: HB: 9780300227420, Yale University Press, March 2017
1500 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 1317 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.
The essential five-volume resource on the painting and sculpture of one of the world's foremost contemporary artists. For more than 60 years, Jasper Johns (b. 1930) has remained a singular figure in contemporary art. His most widely influential work...
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£575,00
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Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting
ISBN: PB: 9781606065129, Getty Publications, February 2017
80 pp., 25x15 cm
Zen art poses a conundrum. On the one hand, Zen Buddhism emphasizes the concept of emptiness, which among other things asserts that form is empty, that all phenomena in the world are illusory. On the other hand, a prodigious amount of artwork has bee...
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£11,99
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J. Lockwood Kipling Bombay, the Punjab, South Kensington
ISBN: HB: 9780300221596, Yale University Press, January 2017
602 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 700 colour illus., 37 black&white illus.
John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911) started his career as an architectural sculptor at the South Kensington Museum (today the Victoria and Albert Museum). Much of his life, however, was spent in British India, where his son Rudyard was born. He taught...
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£50,00
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Japanese Graphics
ISBN: HB: 9789887757214, Bookport, SendPoints, December 2016
224 pp., 28.8x22.5 cm, 572 colour illus.
For sale in Balkans only! Japanese graphic design enjoys a unique reputation in the design world, with a distinct aesthetic that makes it instantly recognizable to experts and amateur designers alike. This book explores this unmistakable discipline...
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£19,95
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Jorn + Munch
ISBN: HB: 9780300226584, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2016
240 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
"Jorn + Munch" is the first publication to examine the enduring impact Edvard Munch (1863-1944) had on Asger Jorn (1914-1973). In Munch's later works, Danish artist Jorn discovered an artist with a direct, spontaneous, and raw form of expression. Alr...
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John McLaughlin Paintings Total Abstraction
ISBN: HB: 9783791355603, Prestel Publishing, November 2016
144 pp., 27x21.6 cm, 92 colour illus.
For decades before his death in 1976, John McLaughlin steadily produced some of the most fascinating paintings coming out of Southern California. Minimal geometric abstractions characterized by clean lines, bold colors, and flat, intersecting forms,...
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