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Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
'H ow rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, Sunday Times 'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between...
Hang-Ups: A Collection of Essays on Art
Award-winning author and art historian, Simon Schama has been writing essays on art for The New Yorker for many years. This is the first time the articles have been collected...
The Vast Extent: On Seeing and Not Seeing Further
From the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, The Vast Extent is an ingenious constellation of "exploded essays" about light and image, seeing and the unseen. Each is a record of...
The Artist's Way Toolkit: How to Use the Creative Practices
Hailed as the Queen of Creativity, Julia Cameron is the authority on artistic life and has brought her wisdom to millions around the world. The four essential, accessible tools she...
What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory
Why do we need art? What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us....
Intersection: Art & Life
Art can seem very separate from our daily lives today, and, as our society careens its way through change and conflict, it may seem increasingly irrelevant. Art advocate Kevin Wallace,...
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters
A charming and highly personal introduction to the artists of the Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order...
Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention since the 1980s
Corporate sponsorship and business involvement in the visual arts have become increasingly common features of our cultural lives. From Absolut Vodka's sponsorship of art shows to ABN-AMRO Bank's branding of...
Chromorama: How Colour Changed Our Way of Seeing
The Italian colour bible- a gorgeously illustrated exploration of colour and the modern gaze, from an award-winning designer Have you ever wondered why so many pencils are yellow? Why black...
Lucid Knowledge: The Currency of the Photographic Image
Using the theme of Currency to invite reflection on the contemporary power of the photograph to relay and relate meaning across distance, the Triennial of Photography Hamburg explores the value...
Art and Fear
Art and Fear is compulsory reading for anyone still wondering where art has gone and where science is taking us. Paul Virilio traces the twin development of art and science...
Tense Conditions (Bilingual edition): A Presentation of the
In its new presentation of the collection, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart establishes a dialogue between works from the private Scharpff-Striebich collection and works from its own stocks. Contemporary positions and works...
Like This (Bilingual edition): Natural Intelligence As Seen by Art
LIKE THIS. Natural Intelligence As Seen by Art brings together a series of specific commissions by ten internationally renowned artists for der TANK, the exhibition space of the Institute Art...
Tomaso da Modena
This is the definitive study of one of the greatest artists of the fourteenth century, Tomaso de Modena. His work was remarkable for its vivid expression and its varied imagery,...
Where Colour Plays a Distinctive Role: Sikkens Award
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The book titled Where Colour Plays a Distinctive Role: Sikkens Award by the author Petra Timmer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Colourscape
With this invaluable handbook. Michael Lancaster seeks to clarify the place and meaning of colour in our surroundings. The complex subject matter is explored thoroughly - from the biological nature...
Victorian Taste
The book titled Victorian Taste by the author John Steegman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Oxford Companion to Western Art
This work replaces Harold Osborne's Oxford Companion to Art (1970), which has been continuously in print for thirty years. Though originally commissioned as a new edition of Osborne's book, it...
Contemporary Australian Printmaking
The book titled Contemporary Australian Printmaking by the author Sasha Grishin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Image and the Eye: Further Studies in the Psychology of Pictorial
The book titled The Image and the Eye: Further Studies in the Psychology of Pictorial by the author Ernst H. Gombrich. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
The Intimate Philosophy of Art
There is no access to art except in private - in looking, thinking and feeling in the presence of an individual work. In this book, the author describes the resources...
Colour Consulting: Colourists in the Design and Fine Arts
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Bringing together contributions from architecture, interior and graphic design and fine art, this volume is a international survey of colourists' work. The book explores the achievements of colourists in such...
Amitie et creativites collectives (French edition)
A characteristic of 20th- and 21st-century artistic production is that casual acquaintances and close intimates, friends, lovers, or sometimes even rivals come together to work collaboratively on the realization of...
Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow
Database Aesthetics examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art. The essays in this collection look at how...
Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be
Grayson Perry's irreverent, acclaimed look at the art world, now published in paperback Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that...
Jari Silomaki: Atlas of Emotions
Jari Silomaki's Atlas of Emotions is the result of an elaborate research process. For this, the artist-who is primarily known as a photographer-studied the stories of people who actively participate...
A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books \"All art,\" Oscar Wilde once announced, \"is quite useless.\" Selected here are some of his finest prose works on the subject...
Open 11: Public Agency in Hybrid Space
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Laptops in the park, Bluetooth alerts at the bar, microchips under the dog's skin: wireless technologies like WiFi, GPS, and RFID are changing public space. The world is increasingly traversed...
The Value of Art: Money. Power. Beauty. (New, Expanded Edition)
On the tenth anniversary of its publication, this upated edition of a work ARTNews hailed as "one of the best books ever published on the art world" features new material...
What Now?: The Politics of Listening
What Now? The Politics of Listening reflects on the 2015 symposium of the same title, organized by Art in General in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and...
Private & Public: Finding the Modern British Garden
This catalogue examines the ways in which Modern British artists of the interwar period engaged with private and public spaces. The publication begins by exploring the private realms of artists,...
Tell Me About Yesterday Tomorrow: About the Future of the Past
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters
A charming and highly personal introduction to the artists of the Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order...
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. 'Destined to become a new classic' Chris Kraus A...
Ways of Seeing
Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series...
Ornament and Crime
Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture 'But art has nothing to do with forgery, with lies. The paths of...
The Futurist Cookbook
One of 'the best artistic jokes of the century', this is both madcap cookbook and Futurist manifesto Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work...
What is Art?
Tolstoy's controversial treatise on the purpose of Art During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues...
Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
'Funny, lively and convivial... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, SUNDAY TIMES'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous...
Skin in the Game: Conversations on Risk and Contention
No Going BackSkin in the Game follows on from the acclaimed fieldwork diary, The Metabolic Museum. In this new book written in a conversational style, Clementine Deliss expands on how...
Types and Shadows: Diaries 2004-2015
'Roy Strong's diaries are a treasure . . . magnificently readable' THE TIMES'Essential reading' TATLER'When it comes to viperish high-society gossip, Roy Strong is in a class of his own'...
Paper Revolutions: An Invisible Avant-Garde
The experimental practices of a group of artists in the former East Germany upends assumptions underpinning Western art's postwar histories. The experimental practices of a group of artists in the...
Eduardo Terrazas (Spanish Edition): Cosmos
Author: Marcus Du SautoyFormat: Hardback, 280mm x 280mm, 2340g, 336 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022"Cosmos" offers new approaches on the stunning art works of Eduardo Terrazas (* 1936). Four well...
Majalah Lumbung (Bilingual edition): A Magazine on Harvesting and Sharing
Author: ruangrupaFormat: Paperback, 200mm x 260mm, 620g, 320 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022As part of documenta fifteen, ruangrupa publishes two issues of a magazine, "majalah," in Indonesia exploring the exhibition's...
Living the Artist's Way: An Intuitive Path to Creativity
Author: Julia Cameron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'Without The Artist's Way, there would be no Eat, Pray, Love' - ELIZABETH GILBERT WATKINS TOP 100 MOST SPIRITUALLY INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE...
Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
Author: Claire Dederer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Funny, lively and convivial... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN...