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Rome, 1630
ISBN: HB: 9780857425966, Seagull Books, March 2021
392 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates
Velazquez. Poussin. Carvaggio. Bernini. Despite their disparate backgrounds, these greats of European Baroque art converged at one remarkable place in time: Rome, 1630. In response to the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church turned to these ma...
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£30,00
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That Which Is Not Drawn William Kentridge and Rosalind C. Morris in Conversation
ISBN: PB: 9780857424457, ISBN: HB: 9780857421753, Seagull Books, February 2017
304 pp., 19.5x14 cm
For more than three decades, artist William Kentridge has explored in his work the nature of subjectivity, the possibilities of revolution, the Enlightenment's legacy in Africa, and the nature of time itself. At the same time, his creative work has s...
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£16,99
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£26,50
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Pilgrim's Bowl Giorgio Morandi
ISBN: HB: 9780857422286, Seagull Books, March 2015
64 pp., 19.5x13.9 cm, 10 colour plates
In "The Pilgrim's Bowl", Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet meditates on the work of Italian artist Giorgio Morandi and its power to evoke a complexity of emotions and astonishment. Jaccottet examines Morandi's ascetic still lifes, contrasting his artisti...
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£16,00
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My Concept of Art
ISBN: PB: 9788170463429, Seagull Books, February 2015
72 pp., 17.8x17.8 cm, illustrated thoughout
One of India's foremost artists of the twentieth-century, Somnath Hore had a long and storied career that overlapped the boundaries between art and activism. "My Concept of Art" is a quasi-autobiographical essay that leads the reader through differen...
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£16,00
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Tea-Garden Journal
ISBN: PB: 9788170463412, Seagull Books, February 2015
108 pp., 31.7x19 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Famous for their Darjeeling tea, the tea gardens of Bengal were the birthplace of a worker's union movement in the 1930s, while India was under British colonial rule. Protesting oppression by owners and managers, the workers formed unions, organized...
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£34,00
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Sexual Night
ISBN: HB: 9780857422064, Seagull Books, December 2014
124 pp., 25x15 cm, 48 colour plates
In "The Sexual Night", renowned French writer and critic Pascal Quignard meditates on a remarkable collection of illustrations of sexual imagery. He moves from the annals of global art to ancient and modern, from Bosch and Durer to Rembrandt and Tint...
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£30,00
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Nymphs
ISBN: HB: 9780857420947, Seagull Books, September 2013
72 pp., 25x15 cm
In 1900, Dutch art historians Andre Jolles and Aby Warburg constructed an experimental dialogue in which Jolles supposed he had fallen in love with the figure of a young woman in a painting: "A fantastic figure – shall I call her a servant girl, or r...
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£15,00
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Limits of Art Two Essays
ISBN: HB: 9781906497620, Seagull Books, December 2010
96 pp., 25x15 cm
Tzvetan Todorov, one of Europe's leading intellectuals, explores the complex relations between art, politics, and ethics in the essays that make up "The Limits of Art". In one essay, "Artists and Dictators", Todorov traces the intimate relationship b...
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£11,50
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