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Alex Katz: Claire, Grass & Water - Hardcover

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by Alex Katz (Artist), Oona Doyle (Editor), Luca Massimo Barbero (Contribution by)Katz's wellspring of inspirations spouts anew in his expressive yet controlled paintings of land, sea and postwar fashionFresh from his blockbuster Guggenheim exhibition, Gathering, American painter Alex Katz (born 1927) emerges on the other side of the Atlantic in another favorite location of the Guggenheim family: Venice. Here, in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Katz debuts t...

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by White Star (Author)This adult coloring book is an opportunity to unwind and dive into a world of magnetic eyes and curious creatures. Cats have been part of human families for hundreds of years. Consider that, today, there are more than 600 million domestic cats worldwide. Playful or haughty, lazy or lively, independent or cuddly, they are fascinating and celebrated. In this book you'll find cats doing all the things they love. Choose your favorite shades for each one and bring them to li...

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Artists and Radicalism in Germany, 1890-1933: Reform, Politics and the Paradoxes of the Avant-Garde - Hardcover

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by Nikos Pegioudis (Author)Tracing the evolution of the German applied arts movement from 1890 through the interwar period, Artists and Radicalism in Germany, 1890-1933 reveals how reforms in artistic and vocational education intersected with the professional politics of radical artists and the nature of intellectual labour. Challenging conventional views, Pegioudis reinterprets the conflict between modern art's advocates and opponents, arguing that professional politics--not merely political...

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Rembrandt's Amsterdam: Golden Times? - Paperback

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by Jochen Sander (Editor), Kambis Zahedi (Contribution by)Rembrandt's outstanding portraits of his hometown, Amsterdam, reflect the city's light and shadow. During the seventeenth century, Amsterdam became one of the leading economic centers in Europe. The city and its population grew rapidly as trade and art also flourished. The influential bourgeoisie shaped the fortunes of the city and confidently celebrated itself in magnificent group portraits by the city's leading artists, most notably...

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Hot Bare-Naked Beauties: Photography Without Limits - Hardcover

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by Steven Andres (Photographer) Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.97 x 8.52 x 5.84 IN Publication Date: February 01, 2025

Eteri Chkadua In conversation with Charles Moore - Paperback

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by Charles Moore (Author), Eteri Chkadua (Author)Eteri Chkadua: In Conversation with Charles MooreDive into the captivating world of Eteri Chkadua through an intimate dialogue with celebrated art critic and curator Charles Moore. In this richly textured book, Chkadua opens up about her journey from the mountains of Georgia to the bustling art scenes of New York and beyond. A painter of profound narratives, her works traverse themes of cultural identity, political resistance, and personal defi...

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I Am the First Consciousness of Chaos: The Black Album - Paperback

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by Odilon Redon (Author)I AM THE FIRST CONSCIOUSNESS OF CHAOS collects the key "noirs" -- lithographs, etchings and charcoals -- of Odilon Redon, perhaps the most enigmatic and esoteric figure in the artistic lineage that leads directly from Symbolism to Surrealism. Never previously available in a single trade volume, the majority of Redon's noirs -- over 250 illustrations -- are finally collated here, along with illuminating excerpts from the decadent texts which inspired their creation. Aut...

Grabbing the Muse by the Throat - Paperback

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by Wendy Barrett (Author)With a landmark birthday fast approaching, Wendy realised she'd need to get a move on if she wanted to fulfil her lifelong dream of making a living from her art and writing. Foremost was her desire to paint again after many fallow years. New Year's resolutions hadn't worked and neither had vague promises to herself, so with no thumbscrews close to hand she threw down the gauntlet in the form of a ten day painting challenge. This morphed into a whole year of creative c...

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Abdullah ARC: Diriyah Art Futures - Hardcover

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by Abdullah Rashed Alsahli (Artist), Ahmed Hassan (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Arthur Steiner (Text by (Art/Photo Books))This is the first monograph for Saudi artist Abdullah Rashed AlSahli (ARC), who makes whimsical digital artworks reflecting on his rare progressive disease. He is also the founder of Art Without Limits (AWL), an art studio focusing on empowering artists with disabilities. Number of Pages: 120 Dimensions: 0.8 x 11.6 x 10 IN Publication Date: June 11, 2024

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...

Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy - Hardcover

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by Hallie Franks (Author)This book examines the reception of Graeco-Roman sculptures of Venus and their role in the construction of the body aesthetics of the "fit" American woman in the decades around the turn of the 20th century.In this historical moment, 19th-century anthropometric methods, the anti-corset dress reform movement and early fitness culture were united in their goal of identifying and producing healthy, procreative female bodies. These discourses presented ancient statues of V...

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

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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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The Marble Statuettes of the Roman Period - Hardcover

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by Brian Martens (Author)The excavations of the Athenian Agora have played a major role in bringing to light the rich sculptural legacy of ancient Athens. The project's storerooms boast one of the most important bodies of sculpture from classical antiquity, covering the complete range and history of output in a storied center of artistic production. This volume presents, for the first time, the marble statuettes and statuette fragments, carved between the 1st century BCE and the 4th century C...

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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...

Theatre and the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Identity, Resistance and Contested Narratives - Hardcover

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by Azza Harras (Author)This book delves into the complex narratives surrounding the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian dispute through the unique lens of theatre. This ground-breaking exploration employs postcolonial theory to analyze a diverse array of theatrical works by Israeli, Palestinian, and Western playwrights. By juxtaposing portrayals of significant events such as the Nakba or the Israeli War of Independence, the Intifadas, and the experiences of diaspora and exile, Harras provides a nuanc...

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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...

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Egon Schiele & Adrian Ghenie: Shadow Paintings - Hardcover

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by Egon Schiele (Artist), Adrian Ciprian Barsan (Editor), Klaus Albrecht Schr?der (Editor)The lost works of an Expressionist master recovered and reimagined by one of the most celebrated painters of his generationIn Shadow Paintings, the acclaimed Romanian painter Adrian Ghenie (born 1977) brings lost works of the great Egon Schiele (1890-1918) back to life. About a quarter of Schiele's paintings remain missing or were destroyed, existing only as shadowy black-and-white photographs. Ghenie's ...

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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Dan Flavin: Dedications in Lights - Hardcover

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by Dan Flavin (Artist), Josef Helfenstein (Editor), Olga Osadtschy (Editor)Flavin's "gaseous images" illuminate the landscape of the Kunstmuseum BaselLegendary minimalist artist Dan Flavin (1933-96) began working with fluorescent light tubes in the early 1960s. Arranged in "situations," he would then further develop them into series and large-scale installations. His pieces often included dedications, making reference in their titles to concrete events, such as wartime atrocities or police vi...

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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...

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Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking, 1400-1850 - Paperback

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by Edina Adam (Author), Jamie Gabbarelli (Author)The first volume to chart the rich and reciprocal relationship between drawing and printmaking from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries. While often viewed and studied separately, drawings and prints have always been closely intertwined. They facilitated and generated the production of one another, and in some instances, clear distinctions between the two dissolved. Many artists created drawings specifically intended for translation into pri...

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...