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Hilma af Klint: Tree of Knowledge

Hilma af Klint: Tree of Knowledge

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Author: Hilma af KlintFormat: Hardback, 197mm x 273mm, 730g, 112 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2023"Revelatory and sublime...Her work remains conceptually open enough for viewers to draw their own conclusions,...
Kinship

Kinship

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Author: Dorothy MossFormat: Hardback, 178mm x 229mm, 540g, 120 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Recent events have pushed artists to visualize ideas of closeness in a new light. Kinship, published on...
Jason Rhoades: PeaRoeFoam

Jason Rhoades: PeaRoeFoam

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Author: David ZwirnerFormat: Hardback, 217mm x 314mm, 1010g, 112 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2016Up to his untimely death in 2006 at age 41, Jason Rhoades carried out a continuous...
Picturing People: The New State of the Art

Picturing People: The New State of the Art

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Author: Charlotte MullinsFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 275mm, 1270g, 192 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Figurative art is currently riding high. Contemporary works of figuration grace the walls of...
Tomas Esson: THE GOAT

Tomas Esson: THE GOAT

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Author: Gean MorenFormat: Hardback, 203mm x 254mm, 1400g, 296 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Tomas Esson: The GOAT is the first monograph of Afro-Cuban artist Tomas Esson. It features paintings created...
Jacoba van Heemskerck: Truly Modern

Jacoba van Heemskerck: Truly Modern

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Author: Kunsthalle BielefeldFormat: Paperback, 220mm x 260mm, 780g, 160 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2021In less than two decades, Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876-1923) created a powerful oeuvre comprising paintings, woodcuts, glass...
Modern World: The Art of Richard Hamilton

Modern World: The Art of Richard Hamilton

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Author: Michael BracewellFormat: Hardback, 200mm x 260mm, 1140g, 224 pagesPublished: Art / Books, United Kingdom, 2021Richard Hamilton was the most influential British artist of his generation. Often described as 'the...
Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa

Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa

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Format: Hardback, 225mm x 280mm, 1580g, 320 pagesPublished: Editions Flammarion, France, 1995Substantial catalogue produced to accompany the Whitechapel Gallery's 1995 exhibition, Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa. Conceived by...
Tarsila do Amaral: The Moon

Tarsila do Amaral: The Moon

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Author: Beverly AdamsFormat: Paperback, 185mm x 230mm, 200g, 48 pagesPublished: Museum of Modern Art, United States, 2022Tarsila do Amaral's painting The Moon (1928), a highly stylized, desolate nocturne, grew from...
Digital Art

Digital Art

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Author: Christiane PaulFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 210mm, 570g, 272 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Digital technology has revolutionized the way we produce and experience art. Here, Christiane Paul...
Kinship

Kinship

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Author: Dorothy MossFormat: Hardback, 178mm x 229mm, 540g, 120 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Recent events have pushed artists to visualize ideas of closeness in a new light. Kinship, published on...
Oloid: Form of the Future

Oloid: Form of the Future

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This monograph shows how the oloid, a timelessly beautiful geometric body, serves today more than ever as a source of inspiration and functional component in the visual arts and design,...
Jacoba van Heemskerck: Truly Modern

Jacoba van Heemskerck: Truly Modern

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Author: Kunsthalle BielefeldFormat: Paperback, 220mm x 260mm, 780g, 160 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2021In less than two decades, Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876-1923) created a powerful oeuvre comprising paintings, woodcuts, glass...
Architecture for Health

Architecture for Health

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Author: Christine Nickl-WellerFormat: Hardback, 1110g, 176 pagesPublished: Braun Publishing AG, Switzerland, 2021Hospital architecture reflects society in a state of flux. How do we care for our patients? What working environments...
Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow

Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow

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The twentieth century offered up countless visions of domestic life, from the aspirational to the radical. Whether it was the dream of the fully mechanised home or the notion that...
Conrad Felixmuller

Conrad Felixmuller

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Conrad Felixmuller (1897-1977) is regarded as one of the most important representatives of the Second Generation of German Expressionism. He celebrated initial major successes with his art during the Weimar...
Marianne Heske: Works & Notes

Marianne Heske: Works & Notes

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Author: Marianne HeskeFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 195mm, 300g, 140 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2012The facsimile copy of a photographic private diary published for the first time in 1978 Usually it takes...
Humankind: Ruskin Spear: Class, culture and art in 20th-century Britain

Humankind: Ruskin Spear: Class, culture and art in 20th-century Britain

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Author: Tanya HarrodFormat: Hardback, 185mm x 245mm, 1340g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022Humankind: Ruskin Spear is the first book on the painter Ruskin Spear RA (1911-1990)...
Facing Britain: British Documentary Photography since the 1960s

Facing Britain: British Documentary Photography since the 1960s

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Author: Ralph GoertzFormat: Paperback, 220mm x 230mm, 1020g, 220 pagesPublished: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Germany, 2021Facing Britain brings together for the first time almost all important representatives* of British...
Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory

Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory

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Author: Deborah WillisFormat: Hardback, 203mm x 203mm, 660g, 176 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2022'Free as they want to be': Artists Committed to Memory is the companion publication to the FotoFocus biennial...
The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence and the Will of the People

The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence and the Will of the People

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Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet

Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet

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America Declares Independence

America Declares Independence

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The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy, or Division

The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy, or Division

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Deanna Bowen

Deanna Bowen

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Author: Crystal MowryFormat: Hardback, 248mm x 305mm, 1700g, 234 pagesPublished: Steidl Publishers, Germany, 2022This black-on-black book brings together over 20 years of Deanna Bowen's commitment to the excavation and recontextualization...
Latin American Art Since 1900

Latin American Art Since 1900

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Author: Edward Lucie-SmithFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 210mm, 500g, 240 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2020In this classic survey, now updated and with full-colour images throughout, Edward Lucie-Smith introduces...
Global Art

Global Art

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Author: Jessica LackFormat: Paperback, 138mm x 216mm, 400g, 176 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2020Jessica Lack introduces fifty pioneering modern and contemporary art movements born out of political...
Interior Design Since 1900

Interior Design Since 1900

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Author: Anne MasseyFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 210mm, 560g, 272 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2020From the 19th-century Arts and Crafts movement to the present day, and from Art...
Tense Conditions (Bilingual edition): A Presentation of the Contemporary Art Collection

Tense Conditions (Bilingual edition): A Presentation of the Contemporary Art Collection

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Author: Alessandra NappoFormat: Paperback, 210mm x 270mm, 840g, 184 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022In its new presentation of the collection, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart establishes a dialogue between works from the...
Voyaging Out: British Women Artists From Suffrage to the Sixties

Voyaging Out: British Women Artists From Suffrage to the Sixties

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Author: Carolyn TrantFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 840g, 304 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2019Consider for a moment the history of modern art in Britain; you may struggle...
Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained

Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained

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Author: Susie HodgeFormat: Paperback, 140mm x 197mm, 490g, 224 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2012In the past, estimation of an artist's stature took great account of his or...
Modern Painting: A Concise History

Modern Painting: A Concise History

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Author: Simon MorleyFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 210mm, 640g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023A new concise history of modern painting, offering an indispensable reference to the complexities...
Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art?

Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art?

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Author: Kyung AnFormat: Hardback, 148mm x 196mm, 320g, 136 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2020What is contemporary art? What makes it 'contemporary'? What is it for? And why...
Humankind: Ruskin Spear: Class, culture and art in 20th-century Britain

Humankind: Ruskin Spear: Class, culture and art in 20th-century Britain

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Author: Tanya HarrodFormat: Hardback, 185mm x 245mm, 1340g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022Humankind: Ruskin Spear is the first book on the painter Ruskin Spear RA (1911-1990)...
Make Your Mark: The New Urban Artists

Make Your Mark: The New Urban Artists

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Author: Tristan MancoFormat: Paperback, 260mm x 310mm, 1550g, 256 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016Make your Mark introduces the work of 45 artists who are extraordinarily diverse but...
Miquel Barcelo: Terra Mare

Miquel Barcelo: Terra Mare

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Format: Hardback, 220mm x 280mm, 1980g, 372 pagesPublished: Actes Sud, France, 2010Published to accompany the exhibition showing in Avignon in 2010, this book presents an ensemble of recent works by...
Marcel Broodthaers

Marcel Broodthaers

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Author: Marie-Puck BroodthaersFormat: Hardback, 256mm x 307mm, 2400g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013Marcel Broodthaers filled his twelve-year artistic career with more ideas and works than most...
Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit

Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit

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Author: Nadine BarthFormat: Hardback, 265mm x 265mm, 1630g, 240 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2021Ruth Orkin is a legend of street photography - her atmospheric pictures taken in cities such as...
Close Up (German edition): Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton

Close Up (German edition): Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton

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Author: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/BaselFormat: Paperback, 190mm x 260mm, 1180g, 344 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2021The portrait offers the possibility of observation and introspection, and is at the same time one...
The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology

The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology

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Author: William A. EwingFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 275mm, 1780g, 288 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2017In 1943 the American inventor and scientist Edwin H. Land was asked by...
Gerhard Richter - Brigid Polk: Koenigsklasse III

Gerhard Richter - Brigid Polk: Koenigsklasse III

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Author: Sabine KnustFormat: Paperback, 197mm x 260mm, 450g, 96 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2015In 1970 in Munich Gerhard Richter met Brigid Berlin alias Brigid Polk, Andy Warhol's legendary muse and...
Pants Wear Skirts: The Erfurt Women Artist's Group 1984-1994

Pants Wear Skirts: The Erfurt Women Artist's Group 1984-1994

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Author: Susanne AltmannFormat: Paperback, 195mm x 265mm, 780g, 256 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023Founded in 1984 by women around Gabriele Stoetzer, the Erfurt Women Artists' Group pursued a radically creative...
Madam and Eve: Women Portraying Women

Madam and Eve: Women Portraying Women

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Author: Liz RidealFormat: Hardback, 210mm x 292mm, 240 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2018Madam and Eve is a rich, varied and exciting overview of how women artists have depicted...
Nebula

Nebula

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Format: Hardback, 244mm x 300mm, 1190g, 128 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2016Jacqueline Roberts makes portraits on glass and aluminum plates using a 150-year-old technique called wet plate collodion. The long exposures...
Margrit Linck (Bilingual edition): Bird Women and Vase Bodies

Margrit Linck (Bilingual edition): Bird Women and Vase Bodies

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Author: Beat WismerFormat: Hardback, 205mm x 275mm, 1380g, 264 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Margrit Linck is one of the twentieth century's most prominent ceramics artists. Over the course of her...
Boris Lurie and Wolf Vostell (Bilingual edition): Art after the Shoah / Kunst nach der Shoah

Boris Lurie and Wolf Vostell (Bilingual edition): Art after the Shoah / Kunst nach der Shoah

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Author: Daniel KoepFormat: Paperback, 240mm x 280mm, 1620g, 336 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022The art of Boris Lurie (* 1924, Leningrad) and Wolf Vostell (* 1932, Leverkusen) is determined by...
Bill Viola

Bill Viola

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Author: John G. HanhardtFormat: Hardback, 260mm x 285mm, 2130g, 296 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Bill Viola began experimenting with video art in the early 1970s; today, he...
Tomi Ungerer (Bilingual edition): It's All About Freedom

Tomi Ungerer (Bilingual edition): It's All About Freedom

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Author: Harald FalckenbergFormat: Paperback, 225mm x 285mm, 1400g, 264 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022It's All About Freedom presents a comprehensive cross-section through nine decades of Tomi Ungerer's artistic work for...