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by Asa Simon Mittman (Author)From the battles over Jerusalem to the emergence of the "Holy Land," from legally mandated ghettos to the Edict of Expulsion, geography has long been a component of Christian-Jewish relations. Attending to world maps drawn by medieval Christian mapmakers, Cartographies of Exclusion brings us to the literal drawing board of "Christendom" and shows the creation, in real time, of a mythic state intended to dehumanize the non-Christian people it ultimately sought to d...
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by Gabriel Orozco (Artist), Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A singular look at Orozco's itinerant studio practice, from the materials he collects on his travels to the finished works pulled from gallery storagePublished in a dos-?-dos format, Spacetime/Working Tables simultaneously focuses on two different but related projects by Gabriel Orozco (born 1962). Orozco's practice is grounded in his encounters with nature and the matter of everyday life. He keeps no permanent stud...
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by Reza Aramesh (Artist), Serubiri Moses (Editor), Bjorn Stern (Contribution by)Decontextualized scenes of violence explore art historical notions of iconography and representationWorking across a wide range of materials, Reza Aramesh (born 1970) examines simultaneously the history of Western European art and contemporary commentary on the politics and history of global conflict zones, merging a unique visual language to address the contemporary conditions of violence and its precarious relat...
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by Beau Kozer (Author), Sara Kelly (Editor), A. Kearste (Illustrator)When humanity is altered, will its spirit prevail?Waking up from a night out with friends, Lyla doesn't recognize her surroundings. The dim moonlight and cheery conversation have been replaced with vinyl flooring and the hum of fluorescent lights.What's worse is that the figure in the mirror isn't her. As she soon comes to discover, she and a fraction of the human population have been metamorphosized into human-animal hybrid...
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by Sharifa V. Meytung (Author)Said The Tiger To The RabbitA BOOK OF HAIKU TEXTS AND EXPRESSIONISTIC PAINTINGS FROM SR. SHARIFA VERNICE MEYTUNG-MAThe poems and paintings collected in this book are works created by Sr. Sharifa during the Tibetan Year of the Water Hare and the Year of the Water Tiger. The works signify the transformative nature of hope and change. The English poems are translated into German, as an ode and as a thank-you to the country that was the author's "Zweites Zuhause" (se...
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by Walton Ford (Author)It was 1830 when an English scientist named Henry De la Beche painted the first piece of paleoart, a dazzling, deliciously macabre vision of prehistoric reptiles battling underwater. Since then, artists the world over have conjured up visions of dinosaurs, woolly mammoths, cavemen, and other creatures, shaping our understanding of the primeval past through their exhilarating images.In this unprecedented new book, writer Zo Lescaze and artist Walton Ford present the ast...
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by Maxine Trump (Author)The Documentary Filmmaker's Roadmap is a concise and practical guide to making a feature-length documentary film-from funding to production to distribution, exhibition and marketing. Using her award-winning film Musicwood-a New York Times Critics' Pick-as a case study, director Maxine Trump guides the reader through the complex lifecycle of the documentary Film. Her interviews with lawyers, funders, distributors, TV executives and festival programmers provide a behind-...
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by Janice Leoshko (Author)The story of how one scholar's experiences in Sri Lanka shaped the contours of the Buddhist visual canon. An early interpreter of Buddhist art to the West, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy laid the foundation of what would become the South Asian visual canon, particularly through his efforts to understand how Buddhist art emerged and developed. In Making a Canon, Janice Leoshko examines how Coomaraswamy's experience as the director of a mineralogical survey in Sri Lanka ...
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by Robert Craig Bunch (Author) Robert Craig Bunch has interviewed sixty current Texas artists, focusing on painters, printmakers, sculptors, and others whose work, broadly speaking, is inspired by dreams, visions, myths, and imagined worlds. Working in the tradition of predecessors such as Bror Utter, Ben Culwell, Maudee Carron, Kelly Fearing, Jim Harter, Valton Tyler, Harry Geffert, and even more distant antecedents such as Hieronymus Bosch, Hildegard of Bingen, and the prehistoric rock arti...
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by Alexander Kluge (Artist)The figurehead of New German Cinema meditates on the next leap forward in visual aestheticsIn The Dragonfly's Eye, author and filmmaker Alexander Kluge (born 1932) tests out the cooperative capacities of the Stable Diffusion model, which uses AI to process images. As a filmmaker, he has years of experience dealing with the camera and its ways of seeing. As a result, he is particularly curious about the different images that AI can generate. Here, Kluge reflects on t...
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by Adam Welch (Author)An avid supporter of the Vancouver School of conceptual photography, prodigious contemporary art collector Phil Lind (1943-2023) was drawn to artworks that shone a light on social and political histories. Steeped in conceptual art, Phil Lind's collecting impulses drew him to photographs, paintings, and sculptural work by artists whose work probed the social force of imagery. Featuring an essay by curator Adam Welch and 90 reproductions of works, Light Years both illumina...
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by Angelica Comia Candido (Author)What if the path to healing a broken heart lies in the stories we create and the art we craft?In Interconnectedness, the journey of healing unfolds through poetry, storytelling, and art, weaving together the profound experiences of heartbreak, loss, and the search for wholeness. This book invites readers into the raw depths of human emotion- exploring grief, love, and the beauty of finding comfort in the present. By blending spiritual insights with everyday m...
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by Contemporary Art Station (Author)Dive into a breathtaking homage to one of history's most iconic artists with Vincent Van Gogh Tribute. This extraordinary book showcases the creative responses of over 200 talented artists from around the globe, each inspired by Van Gogh's life, legacy, and unmistakable style.Inside, you'll find a diverse and vibrant collection of artwork, ranging from oil paintings and digital art to mixed media and sculpture, all echoing the brilliance and emotion that de...
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by Robert Crumb (Illustrator), Dian Hanson (Editor)"Silly Fool Comics" fills the final page in this final volume, with a devilish creature telling the anguished Crumb, "YOU Will Soon Be DEAD!" He was a mere 67, but in his self-absorbed Crumbish way was obsessing about death, when not making intimate and loving portraits of his wife Aline and all the other women who'd tormented his libido since boyhood. Most impressive in this book are his historic tableau, some single page, others multi-page ...
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by Hans Ulrich Obrist (Author), Karen Marta (Editor), Gabriela Rangel (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Roberto Matta, Cecilia Vicuña, Alfredo Jaar, Paz Errázuriz and others offer insight into Chilean art and politicsThis volume looks closely at the Chilean experimental art scene, in which practitioners have mastered avant-garde strategies and encouraged cultural dissidence. Over the past five years Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed three generations of Chilean artists, performers and writers, many of ...
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by Robert Crumb (Illustrator), Dian Hanson (Editor)The first three volumes of this series were met with fervent acclaim from our readers, most of whom have been lying in wait for an affordable trade edition since the $ 1,000 boxed sets appeared. They laud these 440-page editions for their quality hardcover, elegant matte paper, and impeccable reproduction as the best of the best--the perfect tribute to the world's favorite dirty old man.Expect this book to be no different. Combining volumes 7...
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by Terry Winters (Artist), Richard H. Axsom (Author), Leah Kolb (Author)An eye-popping collection of Winters' print works from the past four decadesWith more than 800 images, this lavishly produced book provides a comprehensive documentation of the boundary-pushing printmaking work of American artist Terry Winters (born 1949). It contains eight foldout sections that contextualize the artist's work in print with his work in painting and drawing.
Number of Pages: 448
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by Egidio Marzona (Editor), Przemyslaw Strozek (Editor), Rudolf Fischer (Editor)The subconscious as catalyst for Surrealist and avant-garde practices across decades and continentsMarking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bureau of Surrealist Research in Paris in 1924, Archive of Dreams is dedicated to the Surrealist movement as well as the networks it engendered and the artistic stimuli it provided in the 20th century.
Number of Pages: 328
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by Gary Wiener (Compiled by)Since new types of artificial intelligence like ChatGPT and other large language models have been introduced, many people have expressed excitement and concern about their generative potential. Could AI be used to write a book, make a movie, or create a picture that's just as good as--or maybe even better than--those created by humans? But with these questions come other legal and ethical questions. Data is used to "train" ChatGPT and other forms of AI, but where i...
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by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk (Editor), Eva Burgering (Editor), Zo?nie Liwen Deng (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Tactics for art world members to advance systemic and just climate solutionsHow can art, science and institutional practices counteract the negative consequences of climate and ecological breakdown? Worlding Ecologies serves as both an anthology of case studies and a field guide. 18 scientists, artists, philosophers, activists, theorists and curators rigorously approach urgent ecolo...
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by Achim Freyer (Artist), Johannes Odenthal (Editor)Unmasking the paintings of the German theater director and prodigy of Bertolt BrechtAs a student of Bertolt Brecht, Achim Freyer (born 1934) has gained an international reputation for his theater productions. However, he has always considered himself a painter. This monograph is the first to focus on his complete artistic oeuvre, placing his abstract visual works in the context of his background in performing arts.
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by Ian Carr-Harris (Author), Dan Adler (Introduction by)The essays of artist Ian Carr-Harris, which span decades of critical thought and engagement. An artist, curator, critic, and teacher, Ian Carr-Harris has been a central figure in Toronto's art scene since the 1970s. By collecting his impressive output of essays, critical experiments, and reviews into a single volume, Tracings documents the growth of conceptual art and postmodernism in Canadian art, as well as the expansion of mediums an...
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by Pino Pascali (Artist), Miuccia Prada (Introduction by), Michele D'Aurizio (Text by (Art/Photo Books))From fuzzy spiders to toy machine guns, Pascali's playfulness is on full display in this expansive two-volume survey of his short careerArte Povera artist Pino Pascali (1935-68) created "fake sculptures" that played with perceptions of reality. This two-volume exhibition catalog-cum-reader juxtaposes 49 of his works with nine pieces by other postwar artists, and includes both an exhibition ...
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by Halima Taha (Author), Adrienne L. Childs (Author)A dynamic, personal, and poignant collection of over 90 works from Eric Key's extensive collection of art by American artists of African descent, spanning the Harlem Renaissance to the twenty-first century.Since he started collecting in the 1990s, Eric Key's intent has always been to help preserve America's Black experience in the arts, and to benefit the many communities of which he has been a part--opening gateways for artists, African Ame...
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by Giorgio Morandi (Artist), Karen Wilkin (Editor), Peppino Mangravite (Interviewee)The essential Morandi, in pictures and wordsGiorgio Morandi's (1890-1964) steady pursuit of a poetic vision in still-life and landscape painting (as well as engravings and etchings) has secured him a singular and revered position in the history of modern art. While drawing on the achievements of Giotto, Cézanne, the metaphysical painters and the Cubists, Morandi's work finally resembles no one else's, and quie...
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by Gary Wiener (Compiled by)Since new types of artificial intelligence like ChatGPT and other large language models have been introduced, many people have expressed excitement and concern about their generative potential. Could AI be used to write a book, make a movie, or create a picture that's just as good as--or maybe even better than--those created by humans? But with these questions come other legal and ethical questions. Data is used to "train" ChatGPT and other forms of AI, but where i...
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by Helen Frankenthaler (Artist), Douglas Dreishpoon (Editor)A sweeping overview of poetic compositions from the beloved American postwar painter known for her groundbreaking and inventive approach to abstractionCelebrated among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters, Helen Frankenthaler played a pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting. Active for more than six decades, Frankenthaler emerged on the American art scene with a no-rul...
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by Rachel Ruysch (Artist), Anna C. Knaap (Editor), Bernd Ebert (Editor)The first monograph in over 70 years on the celebrated female protagonist of Dutch floral paintingAt the end of the 17th century and beginning of the 18th, Rachel Ruysch was celebrated across Europe for her sumptuous floral still lifes, admired both for their artistry and for their accurate depictions of flowers, fruit and insects. Often placed on stone ledges and against dark backgrounds, her sumptuous bouquets seem to sp...
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by Emma Acker (Author), Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Producer)Compiled by museum curator Emma Acker, Artistic California is a collection of visual art, including works from many luminaries, that celebrates California's landscapes and culture. From the sweeping panoramas of the nineteenth-century American West to works that reflect the concerns of artists living and working in California today, the paintings, drawings, and prints featured here from the permanent collection of the Fine ...
