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Portable Art A Project by Celia Forner
ISBN: PB: 9783906915012, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, November 2017
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 77 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Hauser & Wirth's "Portable Art Project", organized by Spanish model Celia Forner, collects a group of commissioned, wearable objects made in collaboration with 15 artists. The project began with an invitation to Louise Bour...
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£45,00
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Photographic The Life of Graciela Iturbide
ISBN: HB: 9781947440005, Getty Publications, October 2017
96 pp., 23.6x17.9 cm, 25 duotone photos, 67 black&white illus.
Graciela Iturbide was born in Mexico City in 1942, the oldest of thirteen children. When tragedy strikes Iturbide as a young mother, she turns to photography for solace and understanding. From then on Iturbide embarks on a photographic journey that t...
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£14,99
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Parties The Human Clay
ISBN: HB: 9780300221787, Yale University Press, September 2017
182 pp., 24.5x27.9 cm, 172 duotone illus.
Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) is known for his candid portraits of people in their everyday environments. This volume in his "Human Clay" series of books highlights a lively collection of Friedlander's photographs of celebrations – both public and privat...
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£50,00
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Photography in Argentina Contradiction and Continuity
ISBN: HB: 9781606065327, Getty Publications, September 2017
332 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
From its independence in 1810 until the economic crisis of 2001, Argentina has been seen, in the national and international collective imaginary, as a modern country with a powerful economic system, a massive European immigrant population, an especia...
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£45,00
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Pollock's Modernism
ISBN: HB: 9780300223262, Yale University Press, September 2017
344 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 45 colour illus.
"Pollock's Modernism" provides a new interpretation of the art of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), one that is based on a phenomenological investigation of the pictorial effects of particular paintings. Focusing on major works that span the artist's care...
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£40,00
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Poster Collection 29 Jorg Hamburger – Georg Stahelin
ISBN: PB: 9783037785362, Lars Muller Publishers, August 2017
96 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 101 illus.
"Jorg Hamburger – Georg Staehelin", the 29th edition of the "Poster Collection" series, is the first comprehensive tribute to the same-named Swiss designers. Connected by a passion for precision and detail, the two graduates of Allgemeine Gewerbeschu...
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£19,00
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Prometheus 2017 Four Artists from Mexico Revisit Orozco
ISBN: HB: 9781606065440, Getty Publications, August 2017
244 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Jose Clemente Orozco's 1930 mural, Prometheus, created for the Pomona College campus, is a dramatic and gripping examination of heroism. This thoughtful exhibition catalogue examines the multiple ways Orozco's vision resonates with four artists worki...
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£35,00
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Practical Discourses on the Most Noble Art of Painting
ISBN: PB: 9781606065280, Getty Publications, July 2017
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 13 black&white illus.
Jusepe Martinez's "Practical Discourses on the Most Noble Art of Painting" (ca. 1673-1675), though little known today, was highly influential on art, artists, and artistic practice and theory in Spain long after its publication. This volume is the fi...
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Playing with Fire Paintings by Carlos Almaraz
ISBN: HB: 9783791356853, Prestel Publishing, July 2017
148 pp., 27x23.2 cm, 103 colour illus.
"Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz" is the first full-length monograph devoted to an artist known for both his politically engaged cultural production as well as his vibrant, highly sought-after studio art, particularly his scenes of car...
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Perspective in Action Creative Exercises for Depicting Spatial Representation from the Renaissance to the Digital Age
ISBN: PB: 9781607749462, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, July 2017
176 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, illus.
Not for sale in selected countries! From the author of the best-selling Perspective! For Comic Book Artists, a fully-illustrated, graphic novel guide to the principles of perspective for artists, using multimedia projects to teach the fundamentals....
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£18,99
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