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Jennifer Packer Tenderheaded
ISBN: HB: 9780941548717, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, September 2018
96 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 38 colour plates
In her solo exhibition at the Renaissance Society in 2017, "Tenderheaded", Jennifer Packer established herself as one of the most compelling painters of her generation. The exhibition, a selection of portraits and paintings of funerary bouquets, base...
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£27,00
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Lumia Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light
ISBN: PB: 9780300215182, Yale University Press, August 2017
172 pp., 27.3x23.5 cm, 161 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.
A long-overdue publication that restores Wilfred to the art-historical canon "Lumia" presents a long-overdue reevaluation of the groundbreaking artist Thomas Wilfred (1889-1968), whose unprecedented works prefigured light art in America. As early as...
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£35,00
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European Art A Neuroarthistory
ISBN: HB: 9780300212792, Yale University Press, October 2016
320 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus., 170 black&white illus.
A bold revision of the history of European art, told through the lens of neuroscience Ambitious and much anticipated, this book celebrates the value of recent neuroscientific discoveries as tools for art-historical analysis. Case studies ranging acro...
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Enrico Castellani
ISBN: HB: 9781944379032, DAP, Dominique Levy, July 2016
126 pp., 29.7x23.4 cm, 53 colour illus., 20 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! Showcasing the paintings of influential Italian artist Enrico Castellani (born 1930), this publication presents his first solo exhibition in London. Castellani's large-scale relief canvases are placed in dialogue with his m...
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£45,00
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Modern British Art
ISBN: HB: 9780993078668, Casemate, Osborne Samuel Gallery, June 2016
86 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, colour illus.
Created to accompany the 2016 exhibition at Osborne Samuel Gallery, "Modern British Art" includes notable new acquisitions: a fine early Ben Nicholson; a collection of important etchings by Lucian Freud; early works by Henry Moore and Lyn Chadwick (s...
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£15,00
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Vik Muniz
ISBN: HB: 9783791355191, Prestel Publishing, January 2016
192 pp., 30.4x24.8 cm, 150 colour illus.
This exhilarating overview of the acclaimed artist Vik Muniz traces the development of his work from the very beginning of his career to his most recent astonishing large-scale works. Vik Muniz is celebrated for his joyful, quirky, dark, and occasio...
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£45,00
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Art Deco – 50 Works of Art You Should Know New Edition
ISBN: PB: 9783791381688, Prestel Publishing, September 2015
128 pp., 24x19.3 cm, 80 colour illus.
This highly accessible overview of Art Deco, embraces nearly every artistic medium – offering paintings and photography to furnishings and film – through fifty superb examples of Art Deco style that reveal the period's richness and range. This new a...
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£14,99
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Strange Eggs
ISBN: HB: 9780300197853, Yale University Press, February 2015
56 pp., 35.6x27.9 cm, 18 black&white illus.
In 1957-1958, after he moved to New York's Lower East Side, Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) began making collages he has described as "mostly done in an uncontrolled and intuitive dream mode". Made from found, printed photographic imagery, the "Strange Egg...
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£30,00
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Varda Caivano The Density of the Actions
ISBN: HB: 9780941548656, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2015
112 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm
This catalogue was published on the occasion of Varda Caivano's exhibition The Density of the Actions, February 22 – April 19, 2015 at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. The book features texts by Barry Schwabsky, Paula van den B...
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£32,00
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Jennifer Bartlett: History of the Universe Works 1970-2011
ISBN: PB: 9780300197358, Yale University Press, June 2013
104 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 50 colour images, 110 black&white illus.
A critical and commercial success since the 1970s, Jennifer Bartlett (b. 1941) has become one of the most visionary and influential artists of our time. In the words of New York Times critic John Russell, Bartlett's art "enlarges our notion of time,...
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