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Picturing People: The New State of the Art
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...
The Little Theater of Vincent Darre
Author: Vincent DarreFormat: Hardback, 275mm x 320mm, 2100g, 216 pagesPublished: Editions Flammarion, France, 2022This handsome volume is a scrapbook bursting with creativity that presents twenty recent projects, inspiring encounters, and...
Nicola and Giovanni Pisano: Father and Son
Author: Max SeidelFormat: Hardback, 5060g, 850 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2012Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, father and son, are the most important makers of Italian Gothic sculpture. Their pulpits (1260 ?1311)...
Memoria: Tales of a different History
Author: Nadine HounkpatinFormat: Paperback, 212mm x 246mm, 440g, 112 pagesPublished: Actes Sud, France, 2021Memoria: stories from another History is the idea of a collective memory made up of a myriad...
Marianne Heske: Works & Notes
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...
Jean-Michel Wilmotte: Product Design
Author: Anne BonyFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 310mm, 3500g, 560 pagesPublished: Editions Skira Paris, France, 2023Jean-Michel Wilmotte's unique adventure took off in the mid-1970s and continues today, with undisputed relevance. The...
Vittoria Martini: Thomas Hirschhorn: The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival, The Ambassador's Diary
Author: Claire BishopFormat: Paperback, 140mm x 210mm, 280g, 184 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival is an artwork, a sculpture, created by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn in a peripheral...
Lines of Vision: Irish Writers on Art
Author: Janet McLeanFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 720g, 232 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014'The paintings were windows through which I could see snippets of other people's past...
Impressionism
Author: Ralph SkeaFormat: Paperback, 138mm x 216mm, 400g, 176 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2019It is often forgotten just how provocative Impressionist canvases seemed when they were first...
The Art Museum in Modern Times
Author: Charles Saumarez SmithFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 770g, 272 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021The National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy all saw...
Nero: the man behind the myth
Author: Thorsten OpperFormat: Paperback, 250mm x 280mm, 1660g, 304 pagesPublished: British Museum Press, United Kingdom, 2021One of the best known figures from Roman history, Nero (r. AD 54-68) is most...
Nitsch: Spaces of Colour
Author: Klaus Albrecht SchroederFormat: Hardback, 245mm x 285mm, 1520g, 230 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2019Hermann Nitsch produced his first "poured" paintings around 1960. In this form of action painting, the...
Humankind: Ruskin Spear: Class, culture and art in 20th-century Britain
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
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...
Picasso - El Greco
Author: Carmen GimenezFormat: Hardback, 227mm x 290mm, 1220g, 192 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Some 40 carefully chosen juxtapositions of masterpieces by both artists trace a dialogue that ranks among the...
Miquel Barcelo: Terra Mare
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...
Glasstress 2017
Author: Adriano BerengoFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 280mm, 2050g, 304 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2018Glasstress 2017 is the catalogue of the contemporary art and glass exhibition at the Venice Art Biennale in...
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
Author: Alexandra HarrisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 450g, 416 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the...
Dirk Boll (German edition): Was ist diesmal anders? Wirtschaftskrisen und die neuen Kunstmarkte
Author: Dirk BollFormat: Paperback, 120mm x 190mm, 280g, 160 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2021To see, hear, and feel art is one thing-to know how art is distributed, traded, and appreciated...
A whale off the coast of Norway and other encounters by Alexander Voitsekhovsky
Author: Alexander VoitsekhovskyFormat: Hardback, 245mm x 325mm, 1200g, 120 pagesPublished: Fontanka, United Kingdom, 2016Alexander Voitsekhovsky was originally a doctor who drew in his spare time. In 1994 Alexander's friends, without...
Immortal Thoughts: Late Style in a Time of Plague
A remarkable, heartfelt, beautifully written analysis of the late work of 19 major artists that Max Porter describes as 'completely and utterly marvellous'. 'Painting ... exists and exults in immortal...
This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists
Author: Michael BirdFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 980g, 352 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022A compelling and lively history that examines the lives of British artists from the...
Vogue The Shoe
Author: The Conde Nast Publications Ltd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Shoes fascinate women of all ages and have the power to crystallise a moment in fashion. In VOGUE:...
Art of the Extreme 1905-1914
Author: Philip Hook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The decade leading up to the First World War was the most exciting, frenzied and revolutionary in the history of art....
Superman Ruled Pocket Journal
Author: Daniel Wallace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Featuring fourteen pages of in-world content and original illustrations before giving way to blank ruled pages, this pocket-size notebook lets readers...
Painting with Monet
Author: Harmon SiegelFormat: Hardback, 178mm x 254mm, 312 pagesPublished: Princeton University Press, United States, 2024A major reassessment of the methods and meaning of impressionism.At pivotal moments in his career, Claude...
Artemisia Gentileschi
Author: Jonathan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the Baroque age. In Artemisia Gentileschi, critic and historian Jonathan Jones discovers how...
The Renaissance: All That Matters
Author: Michael Halvorson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Was the Renaissance just a period of extraordinary art and architecture? The Renaissance: All That Matters examines the major developments of...
Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal
Author: John Beck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avant garde, abandoned places and things - decommissioned military sites, postindustrial spaces, contested...
Salvator Rosa: Paint and Performance
Author: Helen Langdon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Painter, poet and actor Salvator Rosa was one of the most engaging and charismatic personalities of seventeenth-century Italy. Although a gifted...
A Feast for the Eyes: Edible Art from Apple to Zucchini
Author: Carolyn Tillie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Savour a taste of the edible alphabet, from A to Z. Throughout history, visual and performance artists of all stripes and...
Giorgione's Ambiguity
Author: Tom Nichols Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Venetian painter known as Giorgione or 'big George' died at a young age in the dreadful plague of 1510, possibly...
Transforming Type: New Directions in Kinetic Typography
Author: Barbara Brownie (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Transforming Type examines kinetic or moving type in a range of fields including film credits, television idents,...
Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings
Author: Matt Lodder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on, 'has made...
Talk Art: Everything you wanted to know about contemporary art but were afraid to ask
Author: Russell Tovey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 *** 'An indispensable volume' Vogue 'As rabid admirers and collectors of contemporary art and photography we wholeheartedly recommend this passionate and...
National Treasures: Saving The Nation's Art in World War II
Author: Caroline Shenton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'Geeks triumph over the forces of darkness: nothing could have given me greater pleasure. Combining an exciting story with scrupulous research,...
Talk Art: Everything you wanted to know about contemporary art but were afraid to ask
Author: Russell Tovey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 *** 'An indispensable volume' Vogue 'As rabid admirers and collectors of contemporary art and photography we wholeheartedly recommend this passionate and...
Art Rules: How great artists think, create and work
Author: Cassie Packard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The best thing about rules is that you can break them: here are over 100 mantras for anyone interested in creating...
Photorealistic Colored Pencil Drawing Techniques: Step-by-Step Lessons for Vibrant, Realistic Drawings! (With Over 700 illustrations)
Author: Cocomaru Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Learn how to create photorealistic colored pencil drawings that are convincing enough to fool the eye! This book shows you how to...
The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare
Author: Paul Strathern Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy. However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place...
Sketchbook
Author: Daniel Arsham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 300 Featuring never-before-seen drawings by the renowned contemporary artist, a beautiful facsimile edition that reveals the working process of an extraordinary creative...
Paola Pivi
Author: Paola Pivi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The first complete survey of the work of the much-loved and collected contemporary Italian multimedia artist Paola Pivi - with more...
How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity
Author: Jill Burke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced to the 16th century? As the Renaissance visual world became populated...
Constable: A Portrait
Author: James Hamilton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure'...
Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming China
Author: Craig Clunas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 Screen of Kings is the first book in any language to examine the cultural role of the regional aristocracy - relatives...
Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt
Author: Aude Semet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 180 A fresh look at the British Museum's celebrated and extensive ancient Egyptian collection from across three thousand years Pharaoh: King of...
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme
Author: Charlie English Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill. In...
Prime: Art's Next Generation
Author: Phaidon Editors Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The most exciting rising stars in contemporary art - who's who and what's next - featuring 107 artists born since 1980,...