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by Marinella Senatore (Artist), Ilaria Bernardi (Editor)The first comprehensive monograph on an artist interrogating social and collective historiesThis is the first comprehensive survey on the career of Italian artist Marinella Senatore (born 1977), whose participatory and public artworks merge forms of protest, learning theatre, oral history, ceremony, dance and music. Number of Pages: 304 Dimensions: 1.18 x 11.18 x 9.53 IN Publication Date: May 30, 2023

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The Cold Gaze: Germany in the 1920s - Hardcover

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by Laerke Rydal Jorgensen (Editor), Kirsten Degel (Editor), Poul Erik Tøjner (Foreword by)A sweeping journey through the roaring art and culture of the Weimar RepublicAt the center of this volume are the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) artists--Otto Dix, George Grosz and Albert Renger-Patzsch--and the groundbreaking photographer August Sander, in particular his famed series People of the 20th Century, which portrayed both prominent and anonymous Germans from all parts of society in a simp...

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Damián Ortega: Expanded View - Hardcover

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by Damián Ortega (Artist), Peio Aguirre (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Vicente Todolí (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Found, deconstructed, suspended: on Ortega's dramatic and satirical airborne artBefore Mexican sculptor Damián Ortega (born 1967) rose to prominence in the contemporary art world, he was a political cartoonist. This transition was intuitive for Ortega, and his sculptures and installations maintain the piercing, satirical eye required of his former occupation. He is internationally ad...

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De' Visi Mostruosi: Caricatures from Leonardo Da Vinci to Bacon - Hardcover

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by Pietro Cesare Marani (Editor)The fabled art of Italian caricature, across centuries and mediumsCompiling nearly 100 caricature drawings, engravings, etchings, watercolors and printed books from Milan, Bologna and Venice, De' visi mostruosi documents the "Northern Italian" caricature tradition, tracing its evolution. Established by Leonardo, this regional style of caricature was further developed by his followers (Giovanni Agostino da Lodi, Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Ambrogio Figino, Giuseppe ...

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by Ivana Stenclova (Artist), Tomás Koudela (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Jitka Svobodová (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Laser cut paintings and drawings from a Czech master of portraitureCzech painter Ivana Stenclová (born 1980) has been working within the traditional medium of portraiture for the entirety of her career--more than 20 years. By exploring the subtle and universal nuances of human relationships, she constructs captivating visual narratives brimming with intimacy and existential urgen...

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by Lukas Rais (Artist)Monumental stainless steel public sculptures inspired by industrial pipesCzech artist Lukás Rais (born 1975) is known primarily for his sculptures modeled after industrial metal pipes. He is also keenly focused on the technical and collaborative processes behind the design and production of his creative projects. Number of Pages: 248 Dimensions: 1 x 11 x 9.3 IN Publication Date: March 28, 2023

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by Alexandra Kolackova (Artist), Edzo Bindels (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Jan Cervený (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Amorphous and brightly colored public sculptures that invite outside interactionCzech artist Alexandra Kolácková (born 1964) is known for her large-format public sculptures made of ceramics and concrete. Her work is characterized by the use of bold colors, simple and rounded shapes and a sense of playfulness. Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.8 x 12.2 x 9.6 IN Publication Date: M...

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Tomás Ruller: Perform Made: Resistant Moments - Hardcover

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by Tomas Ruller (Artist), Dusan Brozman (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Pavel Liska (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Surveying the four decades-long career of a Czech artist working in video and action artThis is the first comprehensive survey on the 40-year career of Czech artist Tomás Ruller (born 1957), known for his action art and video art. Alongside extensive photographic documentation of the artist's oeuvre, leading Czech and international art theorists reflect on his work. Number of Pages: 472...

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Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South - Hardcover

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by Maxwell L. Anderson (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Paul Goodwin (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Raina Lampkins-Fielder (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Discover the Black artists from America's South who created some of the most spectacular and ingenious works of the last century. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.7 x 10.3 x 7.5 IN Publication Date: May 09, 2023

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Spain and the Hispanic World: Treasures from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library - Paperback

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by Patrick Lenaghan (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A handsome new publication featuring the treasures of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, ranging from the prehistoric era to the early 20th century. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.2 x 8.2 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: March 21, 2023

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Michal Cihlár: Still-Life with Thrown Gauntlet - Paperback

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by Michal Cihlar (Artist), Marcel Fiser (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Pavel Kosatík (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Four decades of still-life linocuts from a modern pioneer of the mediumCzech artist Michal Cihlár (born 1960) is considered a pioneering figure in modern linocuts. From classical portraits and still lifes to pop art aesthetics and photorealism to recent linocuts of sex toys, Cihlár's prints reflect the unlimited creative possibilities of the medium. Number of Pages: 136 Dimensions: 0....

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Judith Lauand: Concrete Detour - Hardcover

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by Judith Lauand (Artist), Matheus de Andrade (Editor), Aliza Edelman (Editor)A long-overdue introduction to the Brazilian Concrete art protagonist and Grupo Ruptura memberBrazilian painter and printmaker Judith Lauand (born 1922) is regarded as a key figure of Concrete art. Lauand is the only woman to have participated in Grupo Ruptura, a collective of artists that pioneered Concretism in Brazil, which counted such luminaries as Waldemar Cordeiro, Luiz Sacilotto, Geraldo de Barros, Lotar Cha...

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Cinthia Marcelle: By Means of Doubt - Hardcover

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by Cinthia Marcelle (Artist), Isabella Rjeille (Editor), Ana Raylander Mártis Dos Anjos (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Performative interventions in everyday lifeThis is the first major monograph for Brazilian conceptual artist Cinthia Marcelle (born 1974), accompanying her solo show at MASP. Through photographs, videos, installations and interventions that make use of everyday elements, Marcelle performs displacements and operations that momentarily destabilize the order of things. Number of Pag...

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Dalton Paula: Brazilian Portraits - Hardcover

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by Dalton Paula (Artist), Glaucea Helena de Britto (Editor), Adriano Pedrosa (Editor)"Paula's beautiful, ambitious project illuminates forgotten histories, honoring the overlooked." -Andrea K. Scott, The New YorkerThe Brazilian artist Dalton Paula (born 1982) works across painting, installation, photography and sculpture. Drawing on rigorous visual research, he seeks to critically interpret historical events, particularly as they have affected Black people in Brazil--a country that, after Nig...

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Bollywood Superstars: A Short Story of Indian Cinema - Paperback

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by Julien Rousseau (Editor), Hélène Kessous (Editor), Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak (Foreword by)An innovative visual history of Indian cinema's history, actors, directors, influences and graphic styleIn India, the power of an icon or a holy person is often conveyed by way of sight: one must "behold" the entity in question. This particular import of sight has undoubtedly contributed to cinema's elevated position within Indian culture; the release of a film and the hero-worship of actors in India...

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Monumental Shadows: On Museums, Memory and the Making of History - Hardcover

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by Nora Razian (Editor), Haytham El Wardany (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Jumana Manna (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A critical investigation into the material heritage and entangled histories of Western encyclopedic museumsThis volume gathers commissioned essays, interviews and visual contributions from artists and writers exploring the terrain of material heritage, colonial heritage, reparation and museology. Bringing together a multiplicity of voices and formats, the timely publication conside...

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Only Too Much Is Enough: Francis Bacon in His Own Words - Paperback

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by Michael Peppiatt (Author), Francis Bacon (Author)Francis Bacon and Michael Peppiatt were close friends for over thirty years. As Peppiatt, the editor of this volume, tells us in his illuminating Introduction, the two would regularly embark on night-time "odysseys around London and Paris", "ordering extravagant vintages, raising toasts to all and sundry, talking and laughing immoderately." Francis Bacon's conversation was witty, provocative, and profound. In this volume, his long-time frien...

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On Depiction: Selected Writings on Art - Paperback

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Avigdor Arikha was one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. He was born in Romania to German-speaking Romanian Jewish parents and spent most of his life in Paris. A talented child, he started drawing early on. During the Second World War, he was deported to a concentration camp in the Ukraine, where he drew the horrors he witnessed. These drawings saved his life. During the 1950s, he established himself in Paris and was enjoying a successful career as an abstract painter. I...

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Sue Fuller: Into the Composition - Hardcover

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by Sue Fuller (Artist), Alex J. Taylor (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Christina Weyl (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The first monograph on the overlooked American modernist whose delicate geometric abstractions made brilliant and innovative use of stringBalance, motion, suspension and tension form the guiding principles of the work of Sue Fuller (1914-2006), one of the most innovative artists in the field of geometric abstraction in the postwar United States. Initially a prominent figure in Stanley...

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Cecily Brown: The Triumph of Death - Hardcover

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by Cecily Brown (Artist), Gavin Delahunty (Editor), Sylvain Bellenger (Introduction by)Lavishly-illustrated exhibition catalogue focusing on Cecily Brown's The Triumph of Death (2019), a gigantic, multi-panel work. Text in English and Italian. Number of Pages: 104 Dimensions: 0.6 x 11.3 x 9.9 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: March 21, 2023

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by Simon Moretti (Artist), Chloe Aridjis (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Craig Burnett (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Presented as a non-chronological visual essay, this publication surveys 10 years of collage works by Simon Moretti. Number of Pages: 154 Dimensions: 0.5 x 10.5 x 8.1 IN Publication Date: March 21, 2023

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The Offbeat Sari: Indian Fashion Unravelled - Paperback

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by Priya Khanchandani (Editor), Pragya Agarwal (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Sonia Faleiro (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The new sari--from subcultural trends to innovative and experimental designs using cutting-edge materialsIn recent years, the sari has been reinvented. Urban youth who previously associated the sari with formal attire can now be found wearing saris and sneakers on their commutes to work. Designers are experimenting with hybrid forms such as sari gowns and dresses, pre-draped sa...

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Marie Lund: The Falling: Photographs by Frederik Worm - Paperback

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by Marie Lund (Artist)An exhibition in book form staging a unique encounter between sculpture and photographyBorn out of a close collaboration between Danish artists Marie Lund (born 1976) and Frederik Worm (born 1991), this artist's book expands the physical experience of the exhibition The Falling--staged at Kunstmuseum St.Gallen along with the work of Cally Spooner (born 1983) and Hans Josephsohn (1920-2012)--in print form. Lund invited Worm to document the exhibition, which he did through...

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What Time Is It?: Stories about Painting, Shadows and the Sun - Hardcover

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by Frank Leibovici (Author)A witty, ingenious, alternative history of art as a record of time"What is the purpose of the shadow in a painting, if not to indicate the time?" David Hockney once proposed. In this revelatory volume, poet and artist Franck Leibovici invites us to a journey into six centuries of Western painting history through a simple question: "what time is it?" Relying on everyday knowledge, ancestral gestures and tools accessible to all (Google street view, suncalc.org) as wel...

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Faced with waning state support, declining revenue, and forced entrepreneurialism, museums have become a threatened public space. Simultaneously they have assumed the role of institutional arbiter in issues of social justice and accountability. The canon of Institutional Critique has responded to the social embeddedness of art institutions by looking at their inner workings. In After Institutions, Karen Archey addresses contemporary art's sociopolitical entanglements by expanding the definiti...

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by Jim Dine (Artist), Anne-Claudie Coric (Text by (Art/Photo Books))New mixed-media works between sculpture and painting from the ever-inventive Pop maestroWith its fairy-tale yet matter-of-fact title, Grace and Beauty reveals Jim Dine's (born 1935) unquenchable enthusiasm for reimagining his iconic personal motifs--here, the classical torso, hearts and tools--in experimental combinations of mediums. The book contains his most recent works, all from 2022: mixed-media assemblages, and monument...

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Henry Leutwyler: International Red Cross & Red Crescent Museum - Hardcover

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by Henry Leutwyler (Photographer), Yves Daccord (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Nathalie Herschdorfer (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A moving photographic inventory of objects from the Red Cross' museumThis book is Henry Leutwyler's (born 1961) meticulous photographic record of the treasures of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva. In his trademark style, Leutwyler does not merely document objects but creates portraits of them, conjuring their past lives and imbuing the inan...

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Art and Autonomy: A Critical Reader - Paperback

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by Sven Lutticken (Author)A brilliant and refreshing plea for the enduring relevance of a modernist idealThe idea of the autonomy of the art object seems to have disappeared into the annals of modernism. Today our primary concern is to show how art and its institutions are socially determined, that art no longer operates in a separate sphere of its own. Sven Lütticken's ambitious study seeks to test such assumptions, arguing that the concept of autonomy retains its conceptual and political pu...

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Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz: Stages - Hardcover

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by Pauline Boudry (Artist), Renate Lorenz (Artist), Övül Durmusoglu (Editor)Ten years of multimedia installations and performances from a Berlin-based duoBerlin-based artist duo Pauline Boudry (born 1972) and Renate Lorenz (born 1963) work across film, installation, sculpture and dance to create their politically charged performance pieces. This book gathers their most acclaimed exhibitions from the past decade. Number of Pages: 332 Dimensions: 1.1 x 10.79 x 8.58 IN Publication Date: May 30, ...

Following Shtisel: Season 3 and Autonomies - Paperback

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by Maurice Yacowar (Author)The author of the authoritative analysis of the first two seasons of Shtisel, the remarkable television drama from Israel, here provides a similarly close reading of the third season. In addition he analyzes the authors' intervening TV drama, Autonomies. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.13 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: April 02, 2021

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The Third Life of Agnès Varda - Hardcover

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by Agnes Varda (Editor), Dominique Bluher (Editor), Julia Fabry (Editor)On the iconic filmmaker's final phase as an acclaimed creator of genre-bending installationsAgnès Varda (1928-2019) explored various mediums throughout her lifetime, moving from photography to film to multimedia installation. Despite Varda's highly revered status globally, her third creative period is not widely known. The Third Life of Agnès Varda, published in conjunction with an exhibition at Silent Green in Berlin, pa...

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Heads Together: Weed and the Underground Press Syndicate, 1965-1973 - Paperback

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by David Jacob Kramer (Editor), Rembert Browne (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Melania Gazzotti (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A glorious design herbarium of marijuana ads from the great underground magazines of the 1960s and '70sThe youth uprising now simply known as the Sixties was fed by one of the greatest booms in publishing history. The Underground Press Syndicate (UPS) began as a loose confederation of five papers in 1966, and within a few years swelled to over 500 across the world, including...