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by Ellen Gallagher (Artist), Edgar Cleijne (Artist), Manthia Diawara (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Recent solo and collaborative works from an artist known for her collage aestheticNew York-based artist Ellen Gallagher (born 1965) makes collage-like works that use repetition and revision, drawing from the world of pop culture. Spanning her two-decade-long career, this volume explores race, identity and transformation, with references to marine biology, and includes three collaborations with Dutc...
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by Elif Saydam (Artist), Annette Hans (Editor), Adam Fearon (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The playful and symbol-laden works of an artist known for their collage aesthetic and use of gold leafBerlin-based Canadian artist Elif Saydam (born 1985) makes highly textured paintings and assemblages using materials ranging from fabric to dried fruit and pasta, candy wrappers and 23k gold leaf. This volume explores their recent body of work, which addresses the relationship between social categories and ...
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by Isabelle Andriessen (Artist), Becket Flannery (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Nikola Lamburov (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A material and sculptural exploration of the organic, accompanied by a short story from sci-fi writer Mark Von SchlegellDutch artist Isabelle Andriessen (born 1986) makes sculptures and installations that evoke organic forms but are crafted from synthetic materials. Accompanying her latest exhibition, this volume includes a short story from sci-fi writer Mark Von Schlegell ...
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by Jonathas de Andrade (Artist), Jacopo Crivelli Visconti (Editor), Clarissa Diniz (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Presents the work of Jonathas de Andrade for the Brazilian pavilion at the 59th Biennale di Venezia (2022). Text in English and Portuguese.
Number of Pages: 136
Dimensions: 0.5 x 11 x 9.5 IN
Publication Date: November 15, 2022
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by Marco Brunetti (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A sweeping visual history of the fascinating vault inside Emperor Nero's Domus AureaThe Volta Dorata is a vault in Rome's Domus Aurea, built by Emperor Nero in AD 64-68. This volume provides a critical analysis of all graphic works--including drawings, watercolors and engravings--depicting the Volta Dorata since its discovery by early Renaissance artists and antiquarians in the 1470s.
Number of Pages: 400
Dimensions: 1.4 x 11.1 x 8.6 IN
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by Alex Da Corte (Artist), Lærke Rydal Jørgensen (Editor), William Pym (Editor)"A great and unlikely success story, Da Corte creates funny and therapeutic works in the hope of easing the 'exquisite pain' of modern life." -New York TimesThis comprehensive monograph celebrates the acclaimed Philadelphia-based installation artist Alex Da Corte (born 1980), famed for his show-stopping 2021 Roof Garden Commission for the Met, As Long as the Sun Lasts. Da Corte's Day-Glo works are distinctly rooted...
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by Jordan Amari Hutchinson (Author), Tiffany Wiggins (Author)As children grow up, they can often be met with personal challenges ( such as as self-esteem issues). I wrote this book, with the help of my son Jordan, to help little black kids develop (early-on) a strong sense of authentic self love and to feel proud of the skin they're in. This book helps instill in children positive self-image, love, appreciation, and self-confidence through the use of positive affirmations, while simultaneousl...
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by Lourdes Grobet (Photographer), Delia Rendón Novelo (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Rodolfo Stavenhagen (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A visual history of an indigenous Mexican theater collective, with photography from a famed lucha libra documentarianOperating across Mexico since 1983, The Laboratorio de Teatro Campesino e Indígena is a mass, communitarian, indigenous and rural theatre collective. This volume traces the group's history through critical essays alongside photos by Lourdes Grobet (1...
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by Abdo Shanan (Photographer), Salah Badis (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Mustapha Benfodil (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Documenting the last three years of political protests in AlgeriaAlgerian photographer Abdo Shanan (born 1982) has been documenting the Hirak, a movement of weekly peaceful protests taking place across Algeria since 2019 in opposition to political corruption and the current president, now on his fifth term in office.
Number of Pages: 136
Dimensions: 0.5 x 7.9 x 4 IN
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by Tina Modotti (Photographer), Christiane Barckhausen-Canale (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Nieves Rodríguez Méndez (Text by (Art/Photo Books))An affordable primer on the brief but influential career of an early 20th-century avant-garde photographer and revolutionaryItalian-born photographer, model, actor and political activist Tina Modotti is the subject of the first installment of La Fabrica's Essentials, a new series of monographs dedicated to the most fundamental names in photography. Modo...
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by Rolf Fehlbaum (Editor), Fifo Stricker (Editor)Collectible "kinetic sculptures" from bygone visions of the future, in a new compact editionThis compact volume explores the 172 space-themed toys in the R.F. Robot Collection held by the Vitra Design Museum. Largely produced in Japan between 1937 and 1973, these figures of robots (and the occasional astronaut) have been carefully researched and compiled over the years by Rolf Fehlbaum, former Chairman of Vitra and founder of the Vitra Design M...
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by Fabienne Eggelhöfer (Editor), Rita Kersting (Editor), Florence Ostende (Editor)Now available in paperback, this definitive book explores the multidisciplinary career of one of the most experimental and pioneering artists of the 20th century. Encompassing the entirety of Isamu Noguchi's work in sculpture, ceramics, photography, architecture, design, as well as the artist's playscapes, gardens and stage sets for modern dance and theatre performance, this survey explores Noguchi's creative pr...
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by Jack Whitten (Artist), Richard Shiff (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Sixty years of topographical abstractions from the late virtuoso of material experimentationThis comprehensive monograph surveys the work of Black American artist Jack Whitten, known for his swirling, mosaic-like abstractions and his innovative material experimentations, especially with acrylic paint. Resembling topographical maps, Whitten's works rely heavily on the use of geometry and rhythmic, gestural structures to induce ...
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by Florian Heine (Author)This generously illustrated volume traces the achievements of the Impressionist movement in a compact, highly attractive format. Arguably the most important movement in the history of modern art, Impressionism changed the way audiences perceived painting. This elegant and portable book overflows with images and information about the movement's leading figures, tracing its development as different artists took up the challenge of redefining light and space in two dimen...
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by Amy Sherald (Artist), Kevin Quashie (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Jenni Sorkin (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The long-awaited first major monograph on the iconic portraitist of Black AmericansThis is the first comprehensive monograph on acclaimed painter Amy Sherald, whose distinctive style of simplified realist portraiture features African American subjects rendered against colorful monochrome backdrops or in everyday settings. Sherald rose to fame after being chosen by former first lady Mich...
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by Sonia Delaunay (Artist), Norman Barreau-Gély (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Katia Baudin (Text by (Art/Photo Books))How Sonia Delaunay expanded the colorful vocabulary of modernist abstraction into the realms of textiles and industrial designThis volume presents sketches and textile designs by the great Russian French modernist artist Sonia Delaunay alongside her paintings and interior and fashion designs. It demonstrates how she transferred her color philosophy of "Simultanism," which she d...
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by Hatje Cantz (Compiled by)Envisioning a future planet free from ecological destructionThe theme of the 2022 Ars Electronica Festival was "Welcome to Planet B - A different life is possible! But how?" This year's programming envisions what life might look like if we had already conquered the challenges of the 21st century.
Number of Pages: 430
Dimensions: 1.1 x 9.4 x 6.5 IN
Publication Date: November 29, 2022
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by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Juan Ledezma (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A massive survey of contemporary Latin American abstract artHighlighting work from 280 artists, this lavishly illustrated volume explores different manifestations of post 90s Latin American abstraction, underlining its relationship to modern abstraction, and examining how it may reflect issues such as gender, interculturality, contextual specificity, popular culture and the everyday.
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by Brandon Lipchik (Artist), Amely Deiss (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Oliver Koerner Von Gustorf (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Selections from an exciting new oeuvre of VR-inspired paintingsAmerican-born, Berlin-based artist Brandon Lipchik (born 1993) makes fantastical paintings, installations and poems that are darkly humorous and bursting with homoerotic references. Accompanying his first institutional solo show, this volume surveys his oeuvre to date.
Number of Pages: 160
Dimensions: 0.8 x 1...
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by Annabel Ruckdeschel (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Henrike Hans (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Udo Kittelmann (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The first substantial publication on the self-taught French painters whose works tell an alternate story of modernismBy day, they were customs officers, gardeners or carnival wrestlers; by night, they were self-taught painters, working independently, who created their own fantastic worlds of imagery. Sometimes characterized as "naïve" or "outsider" artists, H...
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by Ulrike Ottinger (Artist)Constructing the artistic universe of a groundbreaking voice in New German CinemaLegendary German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger (born 1942) is a pioneer of queer and feminist discourse in film and photography. This catalog accompanies a retrospective at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden exploring all aspects of her life and career.
Number of Pages: 276
Dimensions: 1 x 12.2 x 8.8 IN
Publication Date: November 29, 2022
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by Ann Mandelbaum (Photographer), Heloise Conesa (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Ulrich Pohlmann (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Sumptuous photograms and more investigating the formal properties of the natural worldThis fourth monograph on the New York- and Costa Rica-based photographer, sculptor and video artist Ann Mandelbaum (born 1945) presents both analog black-and-white work from 1990 to 2000 and also digital color images from 2007 to the present. None of the 100 works published here have been ...
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by Michael Auping (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Lucy Bradnock (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Robin Clark (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The life and legacy of the influential Californian art movement, from James Turrell and Helen Pashgian to recent artists such as Anish Kapoor and Olafur EliassonThis volume pays homage to Southern California's pioneering Light and Space movement, providing insight into the atmosphere of the 1960s and '70s LA art scene, highlighting female protagonists and exploring ...
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by Leo Bersani (Author), Hanna Quinlan (Artist), Rosie Hastings (Artist)Bersani's prescient and long unavailable polemic against gay assimilation, a plea for "antimonogamous promiscuity," illustrated with artistic interventionsIn 1997, during a symposium at Centre Pompidou, pioneering queer theorist Leo Bersani presented a prescient critique of the assimilative tendencies that made "gays melt into the very culture they like to think of themselves as undermining." For Bersani, queer activism, ...
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by Nana Adusei-Poku (Editor)A critical anthology on the mediation of Blackness through pivotal historical art exhibitionsThe 13th volume of Afterall Books' Exhibition Histories series explores Black identity through key historical moments that have created ruptures in the framing of Blackness, emphasizing how Black artists have been viewed and African diasporic art histories have been formed. Through a selection of landmark examples, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 1969 Harlem on My Min...
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by Stan Douglas (Artist), Reid Shier (Editor), Ma'an Abu Taleb Erika Balsom (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Reflecting on the language of protest, revolution and the global uprisings of 2011Canadian artist Stan Douglas (born 1960) is known for his film and photo installations exploring sociocultural and political shifts. This catalog accompanies his exhibition for the Venice Biennale consisting of four large-scale photographs of re-staged protests and a video of rappers exchanging subversive lyric...
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by David Medalla (Artist), Steven Cairns (Editor), Fatima Hellberg (Editor)The plan for this book is to bring together previous unpublished writings of, and interviews with, artist David Medalla, alongside contributions by writers and academics including the Purissima Benitez-Johannot, Eva Bentheva, Gavin Jantjets, David Morris, Rasheed Araeen, amongst others. This will accompany visual material from the Medalla archives, the archive of art historian Guy Brett and the exhibition 'David Medall...
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by Scott Magoon (Author), Scott Magoon (Illustrator), Scott Magoon A kid-friendly tale of two ends of the same pencil learning to get along! Linus and his eraser, Ernie, don't always see eye to eye. But with the family art show drawing near, these two will have to sharpen their collaboration to make something neither one could do on their own! This cheerful ode to art points out the power of sharing the creative process and sticking with it.Author BiographyScott Magoon is also the author and ...
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by Disney Books (Author)Part of the Art of Coloring series, which has sold over 2 million copies across the U.S.Descendants fans of all ages will enjoy these wicked pen-and-ink illustrations of elaborate patterns and memorable characters from Disney Channel's hit movie Descendants 2. Includes:
a convenient "lay flat" paperback book
perforated pages throughout
100 images to inspire creativity and relaxation
Collect the entire Art of Coloring series!
Art of Coloring: Mickey & Minnie
Art ...
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by Jeff Kurtti (Author)This deluxe book features a center-opening cover and twelve removable holiday cards--each exclusively designed with rare Disney art!"One of the nicest things about the holiday season is exchanging greetings with our many friends, for these messages from all over the world represent the true spirit of Christmas in many different ways."--Walt Disney Imagine how special that greeting might be if sent by none other than Walt Disney! Early in the history of the Walt Disney S...
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by Jeff Kurtti (Author)Practically Poppins in Every Way is a magical carpetbag containing countless wonders and "a bit o' magic" that will captivate, inform, and entertain readers of all ages.Ever since 1934, when Mary Poppins descended from the skies over London into Cherry Tree Lane in the beloved book by P. L. Travers, the world has adored the enchanting adventures and peculiar wisdom of this magical nanny.For more than eight decades, Travers's staunch but charming heroine has been beloved...
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by Rielle Navitski (Editor), Leslie Marsh (Editor)Over the past two decades, the Latinx population has grown faster in the South than any other region of the United States, and Georgia now ranks among the top ten US states in terms of the size of its Latinx community. Responding to our region's changing demographic profile, this open-access textbook delves into the vibrant phenomenon of film, television, and digital media by and about the Latinx community, introducing readers to the core conc...
