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The Aporia of Unnamed Things: Poems, Drawings and illustrations: Poems, Drawings and illustrations - Paperback

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by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka (Author)Aporia of Unnamed Things is a collection of poem fragments, drawings, and illustrations. As the title presupposes, there are not titles in this collection of both the drawings and poetry, and also the poetry that accompanies the artwork is never meant to describe what the drawings are about, but acts as inspiration the drawings give the poet. Here the poet and the artists converse, not to find any agreement but just to highlight viewpoints. I believe that's wha...

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Stinkhorn: How Nature's Most Foul-Smelling Mushroom Can Change the Way We Listen - Hardcover

$36.00

by Sion Parkinson (Author)A meditation on sound, inviting us to listen through the nose and open the mind to the musical potential in unpleasant odors. The stinkhorn mushroom is one of the weirdest wonders of the fungal world, certainly the smelliest. Ever since it was described by a Dutch doctor in a sixteenth-century pamphlet, the stinkhorn has been reported to emit odors resembling damp earth, dung, rotting cheese, decaying flesh, and even semen. It also happens to look like a phallus, bur...

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Art Class: Anatomy for the Artist: A Complete Guide to Drawing the Human Form - Paperback

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by Barrington Barber (Author)Written by internationally best-selling practical art author, Barrington Barber, Anatomy for the Artist is a complete guide to drawing the human body from first principles, with anatomical drawings and practical examples throughout.Understanding human anatomy is the key to master the art of figure drawing. In this practical reference guide, artists will be guided through various parts of the skeletal and muscular system. They can learn how the limbs articulate, ho...

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Rediscovered & Reunited: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Frames and Paintings - Hardcover

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by Katharina Beisiegel (Editor), Rajka Knipper (Editor), Werner Murrer (Editor)The hidden world of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's unique art frames! Ernst Ludwig Kirchner regarded the picture and its frame as a unit. Contrary to Kirchner's intention that they each belong together, some paintings were separated from their original frames over the years. In Rediscovered & Reunited, they are reunited in a remarkable exhibition, allowing us to rediscover a chapter of modernism that has often been o...

We Are Here: Street Art Enters the Museum - Hardcover

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by Mehdi Ben Cheikh (Author)- The book of a major Parisian event that made history - An international exhibition featuring the greatest street artists, free of charge, during the Olympic Games from June 2024 to January 2025 - Shepard Fairey, Invader, D*FACE, Swoon - All the biggest international street art stars The exhibition We Are Here (June 2024 - January 2025) adorned the Petit Palais in the colors of street art for the first time ever. Sixty leading artists of the movement, such as ...

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by Tom Cherry (Author)In his second book, Tom shows great insight into the sexual fantasies of his muses. The spectrum of his porn-art photographs ranges from the playful and innocent to the submissive and provocative. Tom Cherry lives and works in Prague and Los Angeles, where a large part of the work published here was produced. So, if you want to have more detailed information on this secret star, I'm afraid we're sworn to secrecy! Just enjoy these hot sessions of our under cover top pho...

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by Idris Khan (Artist), Idris Khan (Editor), Marcelle Polednik (Editor)A two-decade survey of the artist evoking the "essence of an image" through various layering techniquesThe London-based artist Idris Khan (born 1978) is internationally recognized for a densely layered, poetic body of work imbued with echoes and reverberations. Across painting, photographic prints, watercolors, works on paper, sculpture and video, his art consistently engages with repetition and ritual. To that end, Khan d...

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We Will Go Right Up to the Sun: Female Pioneers of Geometric Abstraction - Hardcover

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by Astrid Ihle (Editor), Julia Nebenf?hr (Editor), Ren? Zechlin (Editor)See the global south between 1914 and the 1970s through the perspective of women pioneers and their new artistic development: geometric abstraction. Artists like Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Sonia Delaunay played an essential part in the development of geometric abstraction, a form of non-representational art. We Will Go Right Up to the Sun presents an overview of the evolution of geometric abstract art and takes into account,...

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by Pam Evelyn (Artist), Yuval Etgar (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Matthew Higgs (Contribution by)Scraped and reshaped over several months, Evelyn's vigorous canvases fuse the physicality of action painting with a contemporary gestural languageThe expansive, abstract canvases of London-based painter Pam Evelyn (born 1996) are richly textured meditations on nature, the body and materiality. Her intuitive use of oil paints--carefully layered, scraped and rearticulated over several months--recalls...

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Niko Pirosmanashvili: A Study of His Life and Art - Hardcover

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by Arkady Troyanker (Author), Orhan Pamuk (Foreword by)Niko Pirosmanashvili comprehensively tells the story of the life and work of elusive Georgian painter Niko Pirosmanashvili (c.1866-1918), popularly known as Pirosmani, during one of the most interesting epochs in the history of Georgia. Key essays, both recollections by those who knew him and contemporary scholarship, explore his life as an impoverished artist living in Tbilisi. Charting his influence on the Georgian and Russian avant-gar...

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Peter Gregory: Publisher and Patron of Modern British Artists - Hardcover

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by Valerie Holman (Author)Peter Gregory (1887-1959), Director and then Chairman of Lund Humphries, was at the heart of the avant-garde British art world for nearly thirty years of major change in society, politics, and culture. A pioneering art publisher who produced scholarly and richly illustrated monographs on living artists, he was also a discerning patron and collector, the founder of new arts organisations, and a loyal supporter of young artists.Valerie Holman's new book is the first to...

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Kazen Cecco Bonanotte Museum - Hardcover

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by Alessandra Maria Bonanotte (Photographer)An Italian artist designs his own museum for his sculptures in TokyoFew artists have the opportunity to design a museum to house their own work, but Italian artist Cecco Bonanotte (born 1942) created a home for his art in Japan. His large-scale bronze sculptures incorporate Renaissance-inspired expressive figures combined with the modernist simplicity of Giacometti or Fontana. Number of Pages: 268 Dimensions: 0.87 x 11.18 x 9.69 IN Publication Date:...

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Valeria Luiselli, Ricardo Giraldo & Leo Heiblum: Echoes from the Borderlands: Study, Hours 1-12 - Paperback

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by Valeria Luiselli (Artist), Kamilah N. Foreman (Introduction by), Humberto Moro (Introduction by)A publication chronicling a new sound art project led by the bestselling author of Lost Children Archive and The Story of My Teeth, Valeria Luiselli, with Ricardo Giraldo and Leo HeiblumEchoes from the Borderlands is a timely, poignant exploration of the US-Mexico border, its flora, fauna and mix of urban and natural landscapes. In this series of sound studies, Valeria Luiselli, Ricardo Giraldo ...

Thinking Through Data: How Outliers, Aggregates, and Patterns Shape Perception - Hardcover

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by Maja Bak Herrie (Author)We encounter digital data processing on a range of platforms and in a multitude of contexts today: in the predictive algorithms of the financial sector, in drones, insurance, and risk management, in smart cities, biometrics, medicine, and more. This fascinating book explores the historical context of the current data-driven paradigm and explains how elusive yet crucial statistical concepts such as outliers, aggregates, and patterns form how we sense and make sense o...

Busy Bee, Busy Bee, Where Did You Go? - Hardcover

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by Casie West (Author)Do you love Bill Martin Jr and Eric Carle's Brown Bear Series Books? Then this is the book for you!Inspired by these fun family books, "Busy Bee, Busy Bee, Where did you go?" follows Busy Bee as she travels to various colored flowers then finally back to her hive. It has a fun patterned predictive text as well as reviews flower colors! Each character and flower has been handcrafted using a paper collage technique.BEE sure to read all the way to the end for information on...

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The Art of Joy: Easy Daily Rituals and Practices for a Wonder-Filled Life - Paperback

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by Jen Sievers (Author)Where does your joy come from? Are you waiting for it to arrive on your doorstep, or do you delight in taking small steps towards finding it while on your own delicious path? Jen Sievers is a New Zealand artist, lover of color and painter of joy. Her book The Art of Joy is a beautiful, inspiring companion for anyone wanting to live a juicier, more wonder-filled life. Inside this calming yet energy-filled book, you'll find ways of inviting joy into your home and your h...

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Cecco Bonanotte: The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Hardcover

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by Cecco Bonanotte (Artist), Micol Forti (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Anna Maria Petrioli Tofani (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The Inferno of the Divine Comedy illustrated with plates by contemporary artist Cecco BonanotteThis volume presents the full text of the Inferno of the Divine Comedy as beautifully illustrated by Cecco Bonanotte's (born 1942) plates, created in a sophisticated mixed technique that simultaneously exploits the tools of printing and those of drawing. The extraordinary illus...

Glyphs of Love: Poetry and Paintings - Paperback

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by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka (Author)I always work around an idea, and create a group of works around the idea at a time. For this year I have tried to focus more on art and poetry, the combination of these in an interactive multidisciplinary style. This is the third book this year that combines visual art and poetry. I have since published, of poets, gods, ghosts, irritants and storytellers: diagramatologically Unleashed (which combined poetry, paintings, photography and some vignette essays) and...

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Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media - Paperback

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by Juan Llamas-Rodriguez (Editor)Media Travels: Toward An Atlas of Global Media fills a significant gap in global media scholarship by offering short, readable articles covering different types of media from around the world. Through careful and informed analysis, these eleven accessibly written chapters illustrate the particularities of different media practices and situate them within social, historical, and geographical contexts. Examples range from South African video games to Korean TV s...

Pretty Pretorialicious: A photographic book - Paperback

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by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka (Author)During the protests Rhodes Must Fall and the follow up Fees Must Fall, statues of colonial and apartheid figures were targeted and defaced or broken down so the government decided to fence these off. This becomes the leitmotiv of this collection of photographs, the ongoing battle between the former rulers and present rulers, black and white, past and present, for space on Pretoria's arteries and veins, and as well in the minds of the people of South Africa. And...

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Martha Jungwirth: Heart of Darkness - Hardcover

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by Martha Jungwirth (Artist), Patricia Neusser (Editor), Hella Pohl (Editor)Controlled compositions filled with energetic brushstrokes evoke the violent, primal urges realized in Conrad's classic novelIn her most recent set of paintings, Austrian artist Martha Jungwirth (born 1940) takes as her inspiration Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella Heart of Darkness, a harrowing examination of European colonialism. Her forceful yet restrained compositions evoke both the brutality of bygone empires and the ...

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by Anselm Kiefer (Artist), Arne Ehmann (Editor), Patricia Neusser (Editor)Kiefer returns to his childhood inspiration, the Rhine, in a poignant retrospective of his workThe works in Anselm Kiefer's (born 1945) exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg are inspired by and pay homage to the Rhine River and its surrounding woodlands, where the artist grew up. Touchingly, it includes Kiefer's childhood drawings of this landscape, demonstrating its profound influence on his psyche. Number of Pages: 7...

A Quentin Tarantino Dictionary: An A-Z of the Iconic Director and His Work, from Ak-47 to Zed - Hardcover

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by Helen O'Hara (Author)Explore an A-Z of everything you need to know about the masterful movies of Quentin Tarantino, from AK-47 to "Zed's dead, baby" and everything in between. With hundreds of entries covering every facet of Tarantino's work - from inspiration and influences to his most frequent collaborators and little-known cameos - A Quentin Tarantino Dictionary is a stylish guide to the wonderful world of this visionary filmmaker. Written by author and film critic Helen O'Hara (Empire,...

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by Susie Hodge (Author)This lavishly illustrated full-color hardback explores the life and work of Renaissance master Michelangelo, alongside a selection of his best work. Michelangelo (1475-1564) was the ultimate Renaissance man: not just a painter, but a sculptor, architect and poet besides. He began his career as a sculptor, creating his famous works Pieta and David in his twenties. A master of the human figure, his understanding of its expressive possibilities remains striking, perhaps un...

Psyche Relics: An Exhibition Journal - Hardcover

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by Kimberly Rose Free (Author), Cole Ankney (Photographer)Psyche Relics was an exhibition of works on paper by artist Kimberly Rose Free, combining 2D and 3D objects expressing her experience of psychiatric treatment over the last three decades. Drawings express a lived experience of serious mental illness over thirty years, revealing and documenting its ever-present invisibility through conceptual drawings and sculptures using found paper and objects. Through vulnerable yet playful introspec...

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by Hisham Matar (Author), Xavier F. Salomon (Author)New volume in the Frick Diptych series features an illuminating essay by Frick deputy director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon paired with a text by award-winning author Hisham Matar.Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is among the most important Spanish artists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A late masterpiece, his Forge derives from the mythological theme of the forge of Vulcan, the metalworker of the ...

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Book Lover's Embroidered Journal - Hardcover

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by Insight Editions (Author)Capture your thoughts, ideas, or notes about the books you're reading in this beautifully embroidered journal designed for the book lover. A must-have for any bibliophile, this beautifully embroidered journal contains 192 pages of high-quality ruled paper for all your journaling needs. CONVENIENT SIZE: This 5.75 x 8.25-inch journal is a comfortable size to journal anywhere and easy to pack in a tote bag or backpack alongside your current read. QUALITY CONSTRUCTION:...

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by An Hodge (Author)This beautifully illustrated hardback is a full-color guide to the life and work of Gustav Klimt, featuring a spectacular selection of his artwork throughout. Klimt is one of the most influential artists of the Art Nouveau movement, first achieving fame as a decorative painter before turning to portraiture and erotic art. The decorative style persisted in his work, leading to abstract compositions with flattened, glowing surfaces embellished with gold and silver leaf. This...

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Engadin - Hardcover

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by Jean-Michel Basquiat (Artist), Bruno Bischofberger (Foreword by), Iwan Wirth (Foreword by)Inside Basquiat's Swiss-inspired works and his many productive, collaborative trips to the Engadin regionInextricably associated with New York City, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) nonetheless had several creative connections to cities across the world. Jean-Michel Basquiat: Engadin traces the renowned artist's relationship with Switzerland, which began in 1982 after his first exhibition with Bruno Bis...

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by Jessalyn Bazzle (Author), Jamie Cain (Illustrator)Breezy The Cloud is the Cool Cloud Club creates cool shapes above Seagull Beach and Breezy the Cloud is the club's newest member! Breezy is excited to create shapes just like his fellow members, but there's just one thing: he doesn't know how! Join Breezy as he embarks on an imaginative and heartfelt journey that encourages readers to celebrate what makes them unique. Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.25 x 10 x 8 IN Publication Date: March ...

A Wes Anderson Dictionary: An A-Z of the Iconic Director and His Work, from Asteroid City to Steve Zissou - Hardcover

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by Sophie Monks Kaufman (Author)Explore an A-Z of everything you need to know about the iconic films of Wes Anderson, from Asteroid City to Steve Zissou and everything in between. With hundreds of entries covering every facet of Anderson's work - from inspiration and influences to his most frequent collaborators and little-known quirks - A Wes Anderson Dictionary is a stylish guide to the wonderful world of this iconic, unique filmmaker. Written by author and journalist Sophie Monks Kaufman (...

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Judithe Hernández: Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for My Arrival - Hardcover

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by Judithe Hernandez (Artist), Charlene Villaseñor Black (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), María Esther Fernández (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Chicana painter Judithe Hernández's subversive female archetypes offer her perspective on the historical and contemporary roles of womenAs the fifth and only female member of the art collective Los Four, Judithe Hernández (born 1948) was a figurehead of Chicano/a art in California. She began her artistic career as a muralist in the 1970s, executing commission...