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Hungarian Art: Confrontation and Revival in the Modern Movement - Paperback

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by Éva Forgács (Author)An engaging collection of essays and imagery tracing the development of modernism in Hungarian Art and reflecting on socio-political currents.Author BiographyDr. Éva Forgács, formerly professor of art history at the Hungarian Academy of Crafts and design, has been teaching at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California since 1994. She has a Ph. D. in Art History from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. A former curator at the Hungarian Museum of Decorative Arts ...

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The Artist, the Censor and the Nude: A Tale of Morality and Appropriation - Hardcover

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by Pamela Joseph (Artist), Glenn Harcourt (Author), Francis M. Naumann (Foreword by)This hybrid book examines the art and politics of "The Nude" in various cultural contexts, featuring books of canonical western art pirated and either digitally- or hand-censored in Iran by anonymous government workers. Author Glenn Harcourt uses several case studies brought to the fore by American painter Pamela Joseph in her recent "Censored" series. Harcourt's rigorous, culturally-measured and art historic...

Scrap Easy: Building A Collage Quilt - Paperback

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by Aisha Lumumba (Author)Scrap Easy is a fun and sassy way to create an art quilt with little measuring and no stress. The book includes a pattern. This pattern offers the quilter a chance to use saved scraps and possibly empty that scrap bag/box.Author BiographyAisha Lumumba was born in Georgia in a rural suburb of Atlanta, known as McDonough, in the mid 1950's. She now lives in Atlanta, and has a passion for many artistic mediums. Ms. Lumumba learned quilting by watching the elders make uti...

Art and Faith: mixed media art with a faith-filled message - Paperback

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by Cherie Burbach (Author)In Art and Faith, Cherie Burbach shares original mixed-media paintings that contain a positive, faith-filled message. There are times when a Bible verse you've read many times suddenly becomes clearer to you with a meaning and message you haven't realized before. Many of the paintings in Art and Faith are inspired by a particular verse that stood out for a variety of reasons. Celebrate your faith with this collection of verses and art that represent hope and encourag...

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by Sukhdev Sandhu (Author)MoMA PS1 presents the fourth iteration of Greater New York. Recurring every five years, the exhibition has traditionally showcased the work of emerging artists living and working in the New York metropolitan area. Considering the "greater" aspect of its title in terms of both geography and time, Greater New York. begins roughly with the moment when MoMA PS1 was founded in 1976 as an alternative venue that took advantage of disused real estate, reaching back to artist...

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Greater New York: Curatorial Roundtable - Paperback

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by Douglas Crimp (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Peter Eleey (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Thomas Lax (Text by (Art/Photo Books))MoMA PS1 presents the fourth iteration of Greater New York. Recurring every five years, the exhibition has traditionally showcased the work of emerging artists living and working in the New York metropolitan area. Considering the "greater" aspect of its title in terms of both geography and time, Greater New York. begins roughly with the moment when MoMA PS1 was founded ...

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Ink Brick: The Journal of Comics Poetry Vol. 10 - Paperback

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by Alexander Rothman (Editor), Alexey Sokolin (Editor), Paul K. Tunis (Editor)Comics are a powerful story-telling tool, but what else can they do? Ink Brick is an Ignatz Award-nominated anthology that mines the poetic potential of comics' visual language. Work from the series has been featured in the BEST AMERICAN COMICS Notables section and the SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS COMIC AND CARTOON ART ANNUALs. This extra-long 10th issue collects work from premier cartoonist-poets.Author BiographyALEXAND...

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The Temple of Silence: Forgotten Works & Worlds of Herbert Crowley - Hardcover

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by Justin Duerr (Author), Josh O'Neill (Editor)A monograph on the forgotten visionary artist Herbert Crowley, who exibited in the Armory Show alongside Picasso, was published in the New York Herald alongside Winsor McCay, and then mysteriously vanished.Author BiographyPhiladelphia artist, musician, and scholar Justin Duerr is best known for his research documented in the 2011 Sundance award-winning documentary Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. The term obsessive is very often ...

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The Music Library: Revised and Expanded Edition - Hardcover

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by Damon Murray (Editor), Stephen Sorrell (Editor), Jerry Dammers (Foreword by)Aficionado and avid collector Jonny Trunk reveals the many and varied pleasures of Library Music." -GrafikThe first edition of The Music Library, published in 2005 and now out of print, brought together the designs of more than 325 record sleeves and relevant information about these rare and elusive albums. Quickly becoming known as the music library bible, The Music Library represented a valuable reference and als...

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Alcohol: Soviet Anti-Alcohol Posters - Hardcover

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by Damon Murray (Editor), Stephen Sorrell (Editor), Alexei Plutser-Sarno (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Soviet propaganda against the demon drink: the latest in Fuel's Russian pop culture seriesFrom the acclaimed authors of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedias and Soviet Space Dogs comes Alcohol, a glorious and exhaustive collection of previously unpublished Soviet anti-alcohol posters. The book includes examples from the 1960s through to the 1980s, but focuses on posters produced during Mi...

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Russian Alphabet Colouring Book - Paperback

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by Fuel (Author), Damon Murray (Editor), Stephen Sorrell (Editor)From Sputnik to Gorbachev: an intricately detailed graphic exploration of Russian history that only you can completeThis coloring book for all ages marks the first publication of the graphic works of Russian artist Amanita. His fantastical images form a unique world: they are like modern variations of illustrated manuscripts, packed full with elements of Soviet and post-Soviet cultures.The book also works as an introduction to t...

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by Niels Ackermann (Author), Damon Murray (Editor), Stephen Sorrell (Editor)The eerie beauty of Ukraine's Lenin statues, toppled in the name of decommunizationIn the process of decommunisation, Ukraine has toppled all its Lenin monuments. The authors have hunted down and photographed these banned Soviet statues, revealing their inglorious fate. As Russia celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, Ukraine struggles to achieve complete decommunization. Perhaps the most dramat...

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by Richard Falconer (Author)In 1893 a newspaper report gave details of a discovery so remarkable it stopped the breath of a nation. The most famous and prolific ghost in St Andrews is the 'White Lady. Anyone familiar with the town is more than likely aware of her, but how much does anyone really know about her? Following research spanning five decades, this is the most comprehensive investigation there has been into a fascinating St Andrews mystery involving a ghost and a chamber of corpses t...

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Broken Music: Artists' Recordworks - Paperback

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by Ursula Block (Editor), Michael Glasmeier (Editor), René Block (Preface by)Facsimile edition of the definitive guide to records by artistsBroken Music is an essential guide and discography for recordings and audio works by visual artists, originally published in 1989 and edited by Ursula Block (founder of Gelbe Musik in Berlin) and Michael Glasmeier. Records chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: record covers created as original work by visual artists; record or sound pr...

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Doomed and Famous: Selected Obituaries - Hardcover

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by Adrian Dannatt (Author), Hugo Guinness (Illustrator)An obituarist opens his archive to celebrate the obscure and the eccentric.In Doomed and Famous, an obituarist opens his archive in celebration of the most marginal and improbable characters, creating a meta-fiction of extinction and obscurity. For many decades Adrian Dannatt tracked and dredged the dead, with a macabre disregard for the etiquette of mortality. His specialty, much in demand among even the most mainstream publications, was...

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We Go to the Gallery: Dung Beetle Reading Scheme 1a - Hardcover

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by Miriam Elia (Author) "Whether interpreted as a scathing criticism of modern art, a primordial expression of the futility of life, or a hilarious twist on sanitized children's literature, We Go to the Gallery is unforgettable." -Midwest Book ReviewHave you taken children to a gallery recently? Did you struggle to explain the work to them in plain, simple English? With this new Dung Beetle book by artist Miriam Elia--a tribute to and a parody of the much-loved British Ladybird early learning...

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by Brian Clarke (Artist), Robert Storr (Interviewer)A stunning collection of 267 drawings and paintings depicting nocturnal orchidsMost nights between about 7pm and midnight Brian Clarke draws and paints on paper at his home in West London. The subjects of these works change over time but are made obsessively over periods that usually last about two to three years. Between December 2013 and August 2015 the subject was Night Orchids. The series began on a visit to Thailand and continued in Fra...

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Tommy Kane: All My Photographs Are Made with Pens - Hardcover

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by Tommy Kane (Artist)"My drawings and paintings are really just the photographs I would have taken if I were not obsessed with sketchbooks." --Tommy KaneTommy Kane has worked as a creative director in advertising for over 30 years, during which time he has kept sketchbooks, documenting his surroundings with his humble weapon of choice--the Uni-ball Vision Fine Point--in a style he has described as a cross between Robert Crumb and James Jean with a large dose of MAD magazine thrown in.An urba...

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Iggy Pop Life Class: A Project by Jeremy Deller - Paperback

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by Jeremy Deller (Artist), Anne Pasternak (Foreword by), Sharon Matt Atkins (Preface by)On Sunday February 21, 2016, 21 artists from all walks of life gathered at the New York Academy of Art for a special life drawing class with a guest model: American rock legend Iggy Pop. The class was organized by the Brooklyn Museum and conceived by artist Jeremy Deller. In stark contrast to his kinetic stage persona, Pop methodically posed nude on a different kind of stage, whilst the participating artis...

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Conor Harrington: Watch Your Palace Fall - Hardcover

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by Conor Harrington (Artist), Jane Neal (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Jj O'Donoghue (Interviewer)This monograph, now available in an updated edition, is the first to chart the career of Irish artist Conor Harrington (born 1980), from the graffiti of his teenage years to his internationally recognized paintings that marry Baroque opulence with the stark immediacy of graffiti. Number of Pages: 368 Dimensions: 1.4 x 12.2 x 9.3 IN Publication Date: March 31, 2017

EQUINOX, A Colouring Book: International Edition - Paperback

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by Stephen Barnwell (Illustrator), Stephen Barnwell (Author)Bronze Medal winner in the 2016 Living Now Book Awards. "This coloring book is spectacular It is everything that a great coloring book should be." -- The Coloring ClubEQUINOX is a coloring book that takes you on a journey into a storybook fantasyland filled with wonder and mystery.Equinox is a word that means a balance of opposites: day and night, sun and moon, waking and dreaming. This coloring book is a journey through an annual c...

Herbert Read: Art and Idealism - Paperback

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by Michael Paraskos (Author)Herbert Read was one of the most influential art and literary theorists of modernism active in the first half of the twentieth century. He is frequently credited with bringing modern art and modernism to a wide public and was dubbed by friends and foes alike as the 'Pope of Modern Art.' As a broadcaster on the BBC and a prolific writer Read was a well known public figure, but his understanding of art, literature and society was built on sometimes recondite forms of...

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Interviews on Art: By Robert Storr - Hardcover

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by Robert Storr (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Francesca Pietropaolo (Editor), Francesca Pietropaolo (Contribution by)Over the past three decades, Robert Storr has set the critical and curatorial standard for American artAs a museum curator, academic, editor and writer, Robert Storr has come into contact with the most important artists of our era. Over the years he has amassed a major body of interviews, collected here for the first time in a single volume. Interviews on Art includes over 60 fu...

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by Sabine Moritz (Artist), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Adam Zagajewski (Contribution by)Memory as a dynamic process has been the underlying theme of Sabine Moritz's drawings and paintings since the early 1990s. In her work the Cologne-based artist has captured remembered images from her childhood in the GDR; drawn flower compositions; and in recent years has engaged with the motif of war. This publication presents Moritz's latest work: a collection of drawings and painting...

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by Gerhard Richter (Artist), Dieter Schwarz (Text by (Art/Photo Books))There are few contemporary artists with the international recognition and reputation of Gerhard Richter. November presents Richter's series of the same name, comprised of ink drawings that he created throughout the month of November 2008. The series began by accident: Richter dripped ink onto a sheet of highly absorbent paper, then quickly realized that the spill formed two images, different but related, on the front and t...

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by Sabine Moritz (Artist), Joe Hage (Foreword by)Sabine Moritz: Sea King is published in conjunction with the book launch of German artist Sabine Moritz's Helicopter at Serpentine Galleries and as a catalogue to a companion exhibition of the Sea King series. Originally derived from a simple black and white sketch, reproduced and painted over, the series comprises 41 individual works focussing on the global presence of the Sea King anti-submarine warfare helicopter, giving the series its name....

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Groovy Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Fraser - Paperback

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by Harriet Vyner (Author)Acclaimed on first publication, Harriet Vyner's Groovy Bob is the cult biography of hedonistic gallery owner Robert Fraser and a dazzling evocation of 1960s culture and counter-culture. Taste-maker, heroin addict and promiscuous homosexual, Fraser astonished London with the artists he introduced: Andy Warhol, Peter Blake, Claes Oldenburg, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Told through the voices of those who knew him best--Paul McCartney, Richard Hamilton, Mick J...

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Dare to Create: The Joys and Tortures of Learning to Paint - Hardcover

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by Monroe Katz (Author)Monroe Katz cuts right to the heart of it: "The artist must find his own way to say what he has to say in paint, pencil or clay, but he has to be in a proper frame of mind, as a passionate artist, playing, experimenting, agonizing over subject matter, daring, failing, cutting free, trusting his or her inner voice, being in the ring rather than in the grandstand." Yes, the artist must "dare to create." From there, Dr. Katz takes us deep inside the high arts of painting a...

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Grounds for Possible Music: On Gender, Voice, Language, and Identity - Paperback

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by Julia Eckhardt (Editor), Julia Eckhardt (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Antye Greie (Contribution by)Exploring gender, voice, language and identity as four important bases for musical creationHow do we get to imagine the music we make? Where and how is it grounded? What is the relationship between the art and its maker, and what and who does music represent? Gender, voice, language and identity are four important notions for musical creation, for the shaping of a canon, and for the interactio...

Color Me Creative: An Adult Coloring Book for the Creative Muse In Everyone - Paperback

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by Judith Allison (Illustrator), Ihnatovich Maryia (Illustrator), Maya Sheppard (Author)Writers face many challenges when creating, writing or getting started with their short stories and novels. By combining adult coloring, which is a meditative process, with writing prompts, jump starter writing exercises, inspirational quotes and much more, this writer's activity book is a great resource to beat writer's block, get new ideas and use adult coloring as a method to feed your creative Muse. Ho...

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by Nancy Graves (Artist), Robert Storr (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Published on the occasion of an exhibition of works by sculptor, painter and printmaker Nancy Graves (1939-95), Mapping focuses on her paintings and works on paper dealing with maps. Graves investigated the subject of mapmaking throughout her career, and the collection of pieces selected here from the early- to mid-1970s offers a representative survey of her concern with maps of natural phenomena, specifically the newly availab...

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Moyra Davey: Les Goddesses/Hemlock Forest - Paperback

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by Moyra Davey (Artist), Karen Kelley (Editor), Barbara Schroeder (Editor)Initially known for her work in photography--which she has been making over the last three decades--New York-based artist Moyra Davey (born 1958) is also an esteemed writer, editor and, most recently, filmmaker, whose works layer personal narratives with explorations of other authors, filmmakers and artists. This book is based on two related projects that take form as text, photography and film. Les Goddesses (2011) col...