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Edward S. Curtis Events Beyond Words
ISBN: HB: 9783791357300, Prestel Publishing, June 2021
240 pp., 29x23 cm, 250 colour illus.
Featuring iconic and rarely seen images from the foremost photographer of North America's Native peoples, together with a rich selection of rare ephemera, this retrospective is an extensive and in-depth study of Edward Curtis's pioneering work. Edwa...
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£39,99
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Equivalents Photographs by Scott Mead
ISBN: HB: 9783791386553, Prestel Publishing, April 2021
128 pp., 24x24 cm, 126 colour illus.
In "Above the Clouds", Scott Mead contemplated the endless horizons outside of a plane's window. Now he turns his gaze back to earth, where the view is just as extraordinary. Inspired by William Eggleston, Mead's former teacher, this series of paired...
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£35,00
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Ai Weiwei Resetting Memories
ISBN: PB: 9788417047931, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, March 2021
264 pp., 22x16 cm, 132 colour and black&white illus.
For his exhibition at Mexico City's MUAC, Ai Weiwei (born 1957) addressed two national traumas: the destruction of cultural heritage during China's Communist Revolution and the murder of 43 students in Mexico. These are represented respectively by a...
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£22,00
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Magnetic North Imagining Canada in Painting 1910-1940
ISBN: HB: 9783791359946, Prestel Publishing, March 2021
280 pp., 27.5x23.5 cm, 140 colour illus.
The early decades of the 20th century were marked by artistic, economic, and social transformation in Canada and around the world. Starting in Toronto, a group of young modern artists, including Tom Thomson and Lawren S. Harris, and Emily Carr in Bri...
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£45,00
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Eduardo Arroyo Artist Book
ISBN: HB: 9788417048884, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, March 2021
68 pp., 32.5x24.5 cm, 41 colour and black&white illus.
On this occasion, La Fabrica's exquisite, big-format series of Artist Books presents a selection of works by the famous Spanish artist Eduardo Arroyo, a key author in Narrative Figuration, Neo-figurative art and pop art. In the early 1960s, his work...
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£31,00
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Graciela Iturbide
ISBN: HB: 9788417047696, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, March 2021
292 pp., 24.8x21.8 cm, 188 colour and black&white illus.
Graciela Iturbide (Mexico City, 1942) is the most recognized photographer in Latin America and the only in the region to hold the Hasselblad Photography Award. The succes of his visual language probably lies in a special sensibility, a great visual e...
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£48,00
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Guardians of Memory
ISBN: HB: 9788417048594, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, March 2021
196 pp., 28x22 cm, colour and black&white illus.
"Guardians of Memory" explores the tradition of the Panzudos Mercedarios, mystical creatures that every 22nd of September flood the streets of La Merced district in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas (Mexico), announcing the festivities of Our Lady...
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£31,00
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Made in Rome Residencies at the Spanish Academy in Rome, 2015-2016
ISBN: PB: 9788416248926, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, March 2021
200 pp., 24x17 cm, colour and black&white illus.
This publication, which accompanies the exhibition of the same name, curated by Manuel Blanco, brings together the projects made by the artists and researchers in residency at the Spanish Academy in Rome during the year 2015-2016. The works are expla...
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£19,50
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Marcos Kurtycz An Art of Total Action Against the State of War
ISBN: HB: 9788417047900, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, March 2021
376 pp., 28x22 cm, 635 colour and black&white illus.
This publication reproduces images of the posters, mail art, letters and artists' books that Polish-born artist Marcos Kurtycz (1934-96) made in defiance of the commodification of art Mexico, where he moved in the late 1960s.
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£42,00
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Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss: History of the Site Exhibition Guide
ISBN: PB: 9783791358352, Prestel Publishing, March 2021
192 pp., 22x12 cm, 175 colour and black&white illus.
Monastery, royal palace, museum, parade ground, Palace of the Republic, archeological site, and cultural building – a lot has happened on this spot, in the middle of Berlin, on which the Humboldt Forum is located today. Where initially only a civil b...
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£11,99
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