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Alice In Wonderland
G.Delahunty And C.Schulz

$49.95 – Paperback book / Tate Gallery

The stories that Lewis Carroll based around the character of Alice have proved among the most enduring literary creations of all time. For almost 150 years they have led a double life as classics of children's literature... Buy or find out more 


Whats Next 100 Years Of The Contemporary Art Society
Byatt L And Troy C

$45.00 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson

For 100 years the Contemporary Art Society has played a unique and pivotal role in the formation of the UKs art collections. To mark the CASs centenary year, the society has developed a programme of projects, events and ... Buy or find out more 



Renaissance 15 Th And 16 Th Century Italian Paintings From Theaccademia Carrara Bergamo
Radford Ron Et Al

$49.95 – Paperback book / Nat Gallery Of Aust

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Matisse Drawing Life
Chicha Castex Celine

$49.95 – Paperback book / Queensland Art Gal.

The catalogue for Matisse: Drawing Life, the most comprehensive exhibition of Henri Matisses prints and drawings ever mounted. Presented in partnership with the Bibliothque nationale de France, the exhibition includes mo... Buy or find out more 



Patricia Piccinini
Helen Mcdonald

$69.95 – Hardcover book / 37 Lower Fort Street Dawes Point Nsw 2000 Po Box 95 Annandale 2038

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Gerhard Richter Panorama
Nicholas Serota

$49.95 – Paperback book / Tate Gallery

Gerhard Richter is widely seen as one of the most important painters at work in the world today. Born in Dresden, Germany, in 1932, he left for the West in 1961, settling in Dusseldorf, where he held his first exhibition... Buy or find out more 



Skull Style Neon Camouflage Coverskulls In Contemporary Art And Design
Farameh Patrice

$199.00 – Hardcover book / Curated Collection

SKULL STYLE is a beautifully designed book presents not only one of the most ancient symbols used in the history of mankind but how it is utilized in the most surprising and modern way today. Formerly an emblem of evil a... Buy or find out more 


 

The Louvre: All The Paintings
Erich Lessing

$89.99$76.95 – Hardcover book / Black Dog & Levanthal

An historic publishing event! Endorsed by the Louvre and for the very first time ever, every painting from the world's most popular and renowned museum is available in one stunning book. All 2,954 paintings on display in... Buy or find out more 



Defining Contemporary Art: 25 Years In 200 Pivotal Artworks
Daniel Birnbaum Et Al

$89.95 – Hardcover book /

Rising from the ashes of modernism and encompassing a staggering diversity of new forms, the twenty-five-year period beginning in 1986 is one of the most vibrant episodes in the history of art. It is also one of the leas... Buy or find out more 


Vitamin P2: New Perspectives In Painting
Phaidon

$79.95 – Hardcover book /

The first volume of Vitamin P, published in 2002, inaugurated a vibrant period for painting. Since its publication, a whole new generation of painters has emerged, some inspired by the artists who appeared in that book, ... Buy or find out more 



The Art Museum
Phaidon

$225.00 – Hardcover book /

The Art Museum is the finest art collection ever assembled between two covers. This revolutionary and unprecedented virtual art museum in a book, features 1,000 oversized pages of over 2,500 works of art. It is the most ... Buy or find out more 


How Aborigines Invented The Idea Of Contemporary Art: An Anthology Of Writing On Aboriginal Art 1980-2006
Ian McLean (Ed)

$49.95 – Paperback book / Power Inst Fine Arts

This is the first anthology to chronicle the global critical reception of Aboriginal art since the early 1980s, when the art world began to understand it as contemporary art. Featuring 96 authorsincluding art critics and... Buy or find out more 



The Complete Record Cover Collection
Robert Crumb

$32.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton

Robert Crumb first began drawing record covers in 1968 when Janis Joplin, a fellow Haight Ashbury denizen, asked him to provide a cover for her album Cheap Thrills. It was an invitation the budding artist couldn't resist... Buy or find out more 


Artists Of The Western Desert
Greg Weight

$79.95 – Paperback book / Anness Publishing

This is essentially a book of portrait studies of more than 80 senior artists of the Western Desert art movement. Each stunning full-page portrait, reproduced in duotone, is accompanied on its opposite page by an example... Buy or find out more 



Contemporary Art World Currents
Terry Smith

$60.00 – Hardcover book / Laurence King

'Contemporary Art: World Currents' argues that, in recent decades, a worldwide shift from modern to contemporary art has occurred. Artists everywhere have embraced the contemporary world's teeming multiplicity, its proli... Buy or find out more 


Art In The Streets
Museum Of Contemporary Art LA

$55.00 – Paperback book / Rizzoli

The catalogue for the exhibition at MoCA LA - the first large-scale American museum exhibition to survey the colorful history of graffiti and street art movements internationally. Highlighting the connection between graf... Buy or find out more 



Dale Chihuly: A Celebration
Rock Hushka

$35.00 – Hardcover book / Abrams

Dale Chihuly, the hugely popular artist who works in glass, celebrates his 70th birthday in 2011. Tacoma Art Museum, in his hometown, owns more than 150 examples of his work and is mounting an exhibition in his honor. Bo... Buy or find out more 


Expanded Cinema Art Performance Film
Curtis David Ed Et Al

$49.95 – Paperback book / Tate Gallery

Expanded cinema encompasses film, video, performance, and multiple-projection. While video in museums has received considerable attention, experiments beyond the exhibition space have not. Here, leading scholars trace ex... Buy or find out more 



Flowers Of The Renaissance
Celia Fisher

$60.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson

Flowers pop up everywhere in Renaissance art. Why are there pinks in a pot above a Crivelli Madonna, roses scattered across Botticelli's Primavera and columbines in the borders of many a fifteenth-century manuscript? Thi... Buy or find out more 


Ruby Otherworldliness
I Douer

$73.50 – Hardcover book / Die Gestalten Verlag

Ruby presents captivating work at the nexus of contemporary visual culture and art that is connected by the underlying theme of otherworldliness. Whether in the form of fantastically realistic photography, alluring illus... Buy or find out more 



Patricia Piccinini
Jane Messenger

$75.00 – Paperback book / Art Gallery Of South Australia

Patricia Piccinini: Once upon a time... is an exquisitely illustrated and lavish coffee-table book which surveys the career of one of Australia's pre-eminent contemporary artists. It is the first major book on Piccinini ... Buy or find out more 


Cult Of Beauty The Aesthetic Movement 1860 1900
Calloway Stephen And Orr Lynn Federle Editors

$95.00 – Hardcover book / V & A Publications

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Cutting Edges: Contemporary Collage
R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, J. Gallagher (Eds.)

$95.00 – Hardcover book / Die Gestalten Verlag

Cutting Edges documents the new heyday of collage in current art and visual culture. Todays artists, illustrators, and designers are increasingly drawn to this artistic technique by the challenges of seamlessly melding t... Buy or find out more 


Contemporary Art In Asia A Critical Reader
Chiu Melissa And Genocchio Benjamin

$46.95 – Paperback book / Mit Press

This foundationalanthology maps the emergence of a dynamic new global phenomenon: contemporaryAsian art.

“This long-awaited collection does a superb job of bringing together some of the groundbreaking essays that in the ... Buy or find out more 



Picasso Guitars 1912-1914
Anne Umland

$45.00 – Hardcover book / Museum Of Modern Art

Pablo Picasso's modest yet radical cardboard and sheet metal Guitar sculptures (1912 and 1914, respectively) bracket a truly incandescent period of structural, spatial and material experimentation for the artist. In Octo... Buy or find out more 


Human Anatomy Depicting The Body From Renaissance To Today
Rifkin Benjamin Et Al

$39.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson

Now in paperback, this lavishly illustrated book chronicles the remarkable history of anatomical illustration from the Renaissance to the digital Visible Human project of today. Its survey of five and a half centuries of... Buy or find out more 



Pre Raphaelite Drawing
Colin Cruise

$75.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson

The most comprehensive survey to date of the drawings, watercolours, prints and designs of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood – a fresh picture of the most popular and enduring group in the history of British art Buy or find out more 

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Museum Collection Of Vintage Posters

$24.95 – Pack / Alicat

Decorate your house with one easy purchase! Each of these portfolios of magnificent full-colour prints contains eight self-matted ready-to-hang art prints. Buy or find out more 



Modigliani A Life
Meryle Secrest

$48.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf

"People like us . . . have different rights, different values than do ordinary people because we have different needs which put us . . . above their moral standards." --Modigliani Amedeo ("Beloved of God") Modigliani was... Buy or find out more 


Watercolour
Alison Smith (Ed)

$49.95 – Paperback book / Tate Gallery

Watercolour has long been seen as a distinctive part of the British cultural heritage, with artists from Britain widely acknowledged to be among its greatest exponents. At the same time it is a universal medium, used aro... Buy or find out more 



Ballet Russes Art Of Costume
Bell Robert Ed

$49.95 – Paperback book / Nat Gallery Of Aust

To be published with a major exhibition of the National Gallery of Australia's renowned collection of costumes from the Ballets Russes. Integrating design, music and dance and encouraging the artistic experimentation and... Buy or find out more 


Joseph Beuys Parallel Processes
Joseph Beuys

$169.95 – Hardcover book / Schirmer Mosel

24 years after his death, artist, teacher, and activist Joseph Beuys (1921 1986) is celebrated with an all-inclusive exhibition organized in his hometown Dusseldorf. A highly controversial artist during his lifetime, for... Buy or find out more 



The Art Of Not Making: The New Artist Artisan Relationship
Michael Petry

$75.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson

Using examples from a wide range of media, Michael Petry presents the art of over 115 contemporary artists who have one thing in common: they do not make their own work. Instead, they either employ others to produce it o... Buy or find out more 


The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
Edmund De Waal

$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited... Buy or find out more 



100 Artists' Manifestos: From The Futurists To The Stuckists
Alex Danchev

$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony of voices of such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Feminism, Communism, Destructivism, Vorti... Buy or find out more 


Of What One Cannot Speak Doris Salcedos Political Art
Mieke Bal

$62.00 – Hardcover book / Univ Chicago Pr

Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines o... Buy or find out more 



Undercurrents Experimental Ecosystems In Recent Art
Fournier Anik Et Al

$29.95 – Paperback book / Yale Univ Pr

This timely and thought-provoking book features the works of thirteen contemporary artists who explore the concept of ethical cohabitation - negotiating differences within a shared environmentand the effects of ecologica... Buy or find out more 


Berthe Morisot
Rey Jean Dominique And Patry Sylvie

$75.00 – Hardcover book / Flammarion

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On Line Drawing Through The Twentieth Century
Butler Cornelia And De Zegher Catherine

$68.00 – Hardcover book / Museum Of Modern Art

On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century explores the radical evolution of drawing that took place during the last century and through to the present day, as numerous artists subjected the traditional concepts of t... Buy or find out more 


Walter Crane The Arts And Crafts Painting And Politics 1875 1890
O Neill Morna

$90.00 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr

Walter Crane (1845-1915) was one of the most important, versatile, and radical artists of the 19th century: a painter, decorator, designer, book illustrator, poet, author, teacher, art theorist, and socialist. Crane's as... Buy or find out more 



Lithos 2007 2009
David Lynch

$99.00 – Hardcover book / Hatje Cantz

The workshop of Item Editions is sequestered in a back courtyard off the Rue du Montparnasse in Paris, where artists from all around the world have lithographs made on Solnhofener stones. Here, with the help of the histo... Buy or find out more 


Pop Revolution
Marquis Alice G

$120.00 – Hardcover book /

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Absence Of Work Marcel Broodthaers 1964 1976
Rachel Haidu

$54.95 – Hardcover book / Mit Press

In 1964, at age forty, Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) proclaimed that his years of writing poetry, of being "good for nothing," in his words, were over, and a brief but dazzling artistic career began. Considered a foundi... Buy or find out more 


Discrepancies
Alex Gross

$54.99 – Hardcover book / Gingko Press

Frederick Douglass, a Centaur, serpents, Christ, and an assortment of mythical beasts are just some of the characters that appear within the world of Alex Gross's lush, incongruous paintings in Discrepancies. Historical ... Buy or find out more 



Nobodys Fool
Yoshitomo Nara

$75.00 – Hardcover book / Abrams

Created in partnership with Asia Society Museum in conjunction with a major retrospective, this is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of art superstar Yoshitomo Nara. It assembles 20 years worth of paintings, ... Buy or find out more 


Gauguin Maker Of Myth
Thomson Belinda And Garb Tamar Editors

$65.00 – Paperback book / Tate Gallery

French painter, sculptor and printmaker Paul Gauguin was born in Paris in 1848 and died in French Polynesia in 1903. The vivid, unnaturalistic colors and bold outlines of his paintings and the strong, semi-abstract quali... Buy or find out more 



Monet
Baillo Joseph Et Al

$100.00 – Hardcover book / Abrams

Claude Monet is one of the most beloved painters in the history of art. His work appeals both to the broad general public and to artists, who are moved and challenged by his achievement over a working life that spanned s... Buy or find out more 


Abstract Expressionism At The Museum Of Modern Art
Ann Temkin

$49.95 – Hardcover book / Museum Of Modern Art

More than 60 years have passed since Robert Coates, writing in the New Yorker in 1946, first used the term "Abstract Expressionism" to describe the richly colored canvases of Hans Hofmann. The name stuck, and over the ye... Buy or find out more 



Snow Yak Show Mark Ryden
Mark Ryden

$41.95 – Hardcover book / Last Gasp

Readers traverse Mark Ryden's vast wintry landscapes into the frigid domain of the majestic Snow Yak, gracefully depicted within this deluxe large-format hardcover from Ryden's acclaimed Japanese Snow Yak Show. The works... Buy or find out more 


Théodore Géricault
Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer

$95.00 – Hardcover book /

A new monograph exploring the life and works of Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), an artist whose life, imagination and legacy continue to enthrall audiences, artists and critics alike.

Géricault's small but varied oeu... Buy or find out more 



Designing Place An Archaeology Of The Western District
Edited by Lisa Byrne, Harriet Edquist and Laurene Vaughan

$39.95 – Paperback book / Melbourne Books

Designing Place is a beautifully produced book that brings together some of Australia’s foremost artists and intellectuals in a project that investigates the meaning of ‘place’ by focusing on the Western District of Vict... Buy or find out more 


Man With A Blue Scarf: On Sitting For A Portrait By Lucien Freud
Martin Gayford

$37.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson

Lucian Freud, perhaps the worlds leading portrait painter, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. Gayford describes the process chronologically, from the day he arrived for the first sit... Buy or find out more 



Impressionism
Taschen

$85.00 – Hardcover book / Taschen

This monograph covers the full scope of Impressionist painting. It outlines the history of Impressionism in France, addressing not only the work of the acknowledged masters, but also that of such unjustly neglected artis... Buy or find out more 


Henri Rousseau
Hohler Franz Editor

$99.00 – Hardcover book / Hatje Cantz

With 80 colour illustrations, this book commemorates the hundredth anniversary of the artist's death, placing at its core Rousseau's fascination with the frictions between a domesticated West and an untamed imaginary nat... Buy or find out more 



Caravaggio: A Life Sacred And Profane
Andrew Graham-Dixon

$59.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan, Rome and Naples through which Caravaggio moved and which Andrew Graham-Dixon describes brilli... Buy or find out more 


Basquiat
Dieter Burchhart

$99.00 – Hardcover book / Hatje Cantz

The American painter and draftsman Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) ranks among the most compelling personalities of recent art history. A self-taught artist from the New York underground, he at first made a living by se... Buy or find out more 



Stickwork
Patrick Dougherty

$52.50 – Paperback book / Princeton Architectural Press

Using minimal tools and a simple technique of bending, interweaving, and fastening together sticks, artist Patrick Dougherty creates works of art inseparable with nature and the landscape. With a dazzling variety of form... Buy or find out more 


Birth Of Impressionism Masterpieces From The Musee D Orsay
Guegan Stephane Et Al

$110.00 – Hardcover book / Delmonico Books

This book tells the story of the beloved Impressionist movement, focusing on the tumultuous period of the 1860's and 1870's and the emergence of the "New Painting" out of the Paris Salon. Lavish reproductions of masterpi... Buy or find out more 



Picasso Looks At Degas
Cowling Elizabeth And Kendall Richard

$95.00 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr

The great Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) exhibited a lifelong fascination - some might say 'obsession' - with the work and personality of French artist Edgar Degas (1834-1917). In this groundbreak... Buy or find out more 


Life
Chuck Close

$75.00 – Hardcover book / Prestel

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Artist Of Exceptional Talent 1943 2007
Alan Peascod

$90.00 – Hardcover book /

One of the most influential contributors to the understanding of ceramics in Australia, Alan Peascod was able to balance a rigorous research program with teaching and studio work. The form, decoration and colour of Peasc... Buy or find out more 


Matisse: Radical Invention 1913-1917
Stephanie D Alessandro and John Elderfield

$110.00 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr

The works that Henri Matisse (1869-1954) executed between late 1913 and 1917 are among his most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic. Often sharply composed, heavily reworked, and dominated by the colors black and gray... Buy or find out more 



Frederic Lord Leighton: A Princely Painter Of The Victorian Age
Buhrs Brandlhuber Newall Et Al

$80.00 – Hardcover book / Prestel

Painter and sculptor Frederic, Lord Leighton is one of the foremost artists of the Victorian classical school. His masterpieces featuring mythological subjects are thought to be the inspiration behind the nineteenth-cent... Buy or find out more 


Frantisek Kupka
Pierre Brulle

$85.00 – Paperback book /

The exhibition and the catalog will show for the first time in Spain a selection of around 80 paintings and drawings by the Czech artist, all from the Centre Georges Pompidou, and documents from the collection of Pierre ... Buy or find out more 



Henry Moore
Stephens Chris Editor

$49.95 – Paperback book / Tate Gallery

Henry Spencer Moore (1898-1986) was arguably the most influential British sculptor of the twentieth century. Brought up in Castleford in Yorkshire, Moore ended his life extremely successful, completing commissions for la... Buy or find out more 


Javanese Antique Furniture And Folk Art
Carpenter Bruce And Smith David B

$135.00 – Hardcover book / Didier Millet Pte Editions

Quirky, enigmatic and uniquely beautiful, the art and furnishings of Central and East Java's villages and palaces are little known to the art historians, museum curators and collectors of the world. Armed with many charm... Buy or find out more 



Commedia Dell Arte Couture Edition
Bohm Florian Editor

$259.95 – Hardcover book / Birkhauser

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Marina Abramovic The Future Of Performance Art
Paula Orrell

$110.00 – Hardcover book / Prestel

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Art and Text
Aimee Selby

$75.00 – Hardcover book / Black Dog Publishing

The use of both word and image in artistic practice has become a defining feature of contemporary art. From typographers to easel painters to video artists, text has become a larger part of artistic practice ever since M... Buy or find out more 


Alice Neel: Painted Truths
Barry Walker et al

$92.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr

Widely regarded as one of the most important American painters of the 20th century, Alice Neel is internationally recognized for her contributions to Abstract Expressionism, especially her perceptive portraiture. Neel (1... Buy or find out more 



From Style Writing To Art
Magda Danysz

$69.95 – Hardcover book /

From Style Writing to Art, is the first Street Art anthology ever published. This book's goal is to explore the reasons why style writing as some call it, graffiti, or street art is turning out to be the major art moveme... Buy or find out more 


Artists Studios
Long M J

$75.00 – Hardcover book / Black Dog Publishing

Architect MJ Long has worked with a remarkable list of artists, designing both their living and working space. Artists Studios explores some of these key projects, providing a personal insight into the creative mind behi... Buy or find out more 



Basquiat
Marc Mayer

$39.99 – Paperback book / Merrel Publishers

The smaller format edition of the landmark publication celebrating the astonishing work of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), whose meteoric and often controversial career lasted for only eight years until his deat... Buy or find out more 


Drawing Autism
Jill Mullin

$65.00 – Hardcover book / Mark Batty Publisher

Over the last decade autism has become an international topic of conversation. Knowing no racial, ethnic or social barriers, today autism is diagnosed in 1 in every 150 children.

Drawing Autism celebrates the artistry an... Buy or find out more 



Mark Ryden Tree Show
Mark Ryden

$54.95 – Hardcover book / Distributed Art Pub

Absorbing Roman poet Ovid's tales of transformation in "Metamorphoses "and adding his own dash of art-historical figuration and contemporary pop culture, Mark Ryden broaches new terrain with "The Tree Show," Arcadian Got... Buy or find out more 


Fred Tomaselli
Jacobson Heidi Zucherman

$85.00 – Hardcover book / Prestel

Fred Tomaselli s surreal, hallucinatory, and highly detailed paintings are gorgeously reproduced in this companion volume to the artist s retrospective exhibition. Complex explosions of colour and line, swirling patterns... Buy or find out more 



On Vision And Colors Color Sphere
Schopenhauer Arthur And Runge Philipp Otto

$43.50 – Paperback book / Princeton Architectural Press

During the first two decades of the nineteenth century, two of the most significant theoretical works on color since Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della Pittura were written and published in Germany: Arthur Schopenhauer's... Buy or find out more 


Psychedelic: Optical And Visionary Art Since The 1960s
David S Rubin

$44.95 – Hardcover book / Mit Press

Although the term "psychedelic" was coined to describe hallucinatory experiences produced by drugs used psychotherapeutically, the story these images tell is about the influence of psychedelic culture on the art worldnot... Buy or find out more 



Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19
Alexandra Gerstein

$90.00 – Hardcover book /

With the opening of the Omega Workshops in 1913 as a 'laboratory' of radical design ideas, Roger Fry signalled a break with mainstream Edwardian culture and aesthetics. Inspired by contemporary ary in Europe, the Worksho... Buy or find out more 


Kuniyoshi
Timothy Clarke

$100.00 – Hardcover book / Royal Academy Of Arts

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Alias Man Ray
Mason Klein

$89.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr

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Tim Rollins And K.O.S.: A History
Ian Berry

$59.95 – Hardcover book / Mit Press

In August 1981, artist and activist Tim Rollins was recruited by the principal of Intermediate School 52 in the South Bronx to develop a curriculum that combined art-making with lessons in reading and writing for student... Buy or find out more 



Cy Twombly States Of Mind

$189.95 – Hardcover book /

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A Terrible Beauty
Francis Bacon

$49.95 – Paperback book / Steidl

No artist's studio rivals Francis Bacon's in terms of sheer iconic pungency. The artist's furious hurricanes of creativity were writ large upon its walls, scattered across its floors in a sea of paint pots, brushes, disc... Buy or find out more 



Caravaggio The Complete Work
Taschen

$209.95 – Hardcover book / Taschen

The complete uvre of the dark genius who revolutionized European painting and remains as controversial 400 years after his death Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (15711610), was a legend e... Buy or find out more 


Painting Today
Tony Godfrey

$120.00 – Hardcover book /

Photo-realism, abstraction, portraiture, installation painting, neo-expressionism and the Leipzig School are just some of the areas of this thriving medium explored in Painting Today. This comprehensive survey of contemp... Buy or find out more 



Contemporary Ceramics
Emmanuel Cooper

$65.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson

A worldwide survey of innovative work, ranging from makers of functional ceramic objects such as teapots and tableware to those who explore the possibilities of clay as an artistic medium. Over the last decade the narrow... Buy or find out more 


Rest Is Up To You A Collaboration Between The Artists And A Boy Named Cohen Morano
Morano Cohen And Aye Jay

$45.00 – Paperback book / Chronicle Books

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Looking At Paintings: A Private View
Richard Cottrell

$69.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books

This book draws together an eclectic and highly personal mix of painters: from Picasso to Carpaccio, from Cranach to Nolan. The connecting thread between these diverse works, which span six centuries, is international th... Buy or find out more 


 

I Blame Duchamp
Edmund Capon

$49.95$33.95 – Hardcover book / Lantern Books

'My musings on art could be described as a benign diatribe; one inspired by a genuine if watchful passion.'

In this sweeping collection of essays, Edmund Capon describes his lifelong fascination with art and the artists ... Buy or find out more 



The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
Katharine Harmon

$78.50 – Hardcover book / Princeton Archit. Pr

Maps can be simple tools, comfortable in their familiar form. Or they can lead to different destinations: places turned upside down or inside out, territories riddled with marks understood only by their maker, realms con... Buy or find out more 


Japan Season By Season
Sandrine Bailly

$59.95 – Hardcover book / Abrams

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Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide To The Decorative Arts Of The 1920s And 1930s
Alistair Duncan

$150.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson

Straddling two World Wars and the Great Depression, ushering in the Jazz Age and the era of the automobile and skyscraper, fomenting in the great cities of Europe and America and shaping everything from the Golden Gate B... Buy or find out more 


George Barbier: The Birth Of Art Deco
Barbara Martorelli (Ed)

$89.95 – Hardcover book / Rizzoli

The first singular study of one of the key artists of the Art Deco movement, George Barbier (1882-1932) was a fashion illustrator to the leading stylists (Poiret, Lanvin, Paquin, Vionnet) of his time, as well as a set an... Buy or find out more 



 

Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life
Todd Oldham (Ed)

$95.00$39.95 – Hardcover book / Ammo

AMMO Books is honored to present this beautiful large format title as the definitive monograph of artist Charley Harper’s six decade long career. Renowned New York based designer Todd Oldham rediscovered Charley’s work i... Buy or find out more 


Elixir: The Video Organism Of Pipilotti Rist
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen

$35.00 – Paperback book /

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Beyond Architecture
Klanten & Feiress

$125.00 – Hardcover book / Die Gestalten Verlag

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Eric Fischl: Beach Paintings
Eric Fischl

$130.00 – Hardcover book / Rizzoli

This beautifully designed volume of 200 of Eric Fischl’s beach-inspired works is a celebration of life at the beach by one of the most significant American painters of nudes and figurative works today. This collection of... Buy or find out more 



Unfolded: Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry
Petra Schmidt and Nicola Stattmann

$127.50 – Hardcover book / Birkhauser

In Unfolded – Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry paper conquers the third dimension and demonstrates the undreamed-of possibilities it holds today for lightweight construction, product design, fashion and ... Buy or find out more 


Heavy Metal: On The Inexplicable Lightness Of A Material
David Luckow

$99.00 – Hardcover book / Hatje Cantz

Whether iron, steel, aluminum, lead, bronze, silver or gold, metal can be worked and shaped in a wide variety of ways, affording artists considerable scope for expression. Featuring work by Jasper Johns, Constantin Branc... Buy or find out more 



October Files Gerhard Richter
Buchloh B Ed

$32.95 – Paperback book / Mit Press

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Master Of Flemalle And Rogier Van Der Weyden Art To Hear
Campin Robert Et Al

$44.99 – Hardcover book / Hatje Cantz

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Artist Exhibition More Than Art Shows

$87.50 – Hardcover book / All Rights Reserved

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Inside The Painter's Studio
Joe Fig

$62.00 – Paperback book / Princeton Archit. Pr

Inside an art gallery, it is easy to forget that the paintings there are the end products of a process involving not only creative inspiration, but also plenty of physical and logistical details. It is these "cruder," mo... Buy or find out more 



Legend Hous Sin And Punishment

$43.00 – Paperback book / Garden City

Born in Liuchiao Township, Tiawan, Legend Hou often signs Hou of Liuchiao Township' on his artworks. This survey brings together the artist's woodblock prints produced under this pseudonym and realised between 1992 and 2... Buy or find out more 


Art School (Propositions For The 21st Century)
Steven Henry Madoff (Ed)

$46.95 – Hardcover book / Mit Press

The last explosive change in art education came nearly a century ago, when the German Bauhaus was formed. Today, dramatic changes in the art world—its increasing professionalization, the pervasive power of the art market... Buy or find out more 



Byzantium: 330 to 1453
Robin Cormack

$165.00 – Hardcover book / Royal Academy Of Arts

In this magnificent book exploring the artistic and cultural riches of Byzantium, eminent scholars lead a thrilling visual tour of the history and cultural developments of more than a thousand years of Byzantine art, rev... Buy or find out more 


Vincent van Gogh: Between Earth and Heaven
Carel Blotkamp, Gottfried Boehm, Walker Feilchenfeldt, Bernhard Mendes Bürgi

$99.00 – Hardcover book / Hatje Cantz

Vincent van Gogh was an artist wholly saturated in the colors and contours of the landscapes in which he lived and painted. More than Manet or Gauguin, nature itself was his muse and teacher: "it is not the language of p... Buy or find out more 



James Ensor
Anna Swinbourne and Susan Marie Canning

$120.00 – Hardcover book / Museum Of Modern Art

James Ensor's painting of 1887, "The Temptation of St. Anthony," now in The Museum of Modern Art's collection, established the artist as one of the boldest painters of all his contemporaries. Ensor (1860-1949) was a majo... Buy or find out more 


Marriage Of Reason And Squalor
Jake Chapman

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Featuring twenty exclusive colour prints by Jake Chapman, this, his first work of fiction, reshapes the world of Mills and Boon in his own inimitable way, slashing the romantic novel down to bare bone and building his ow... Buy or find out more 



Art To Hear Masks Metamorphoses Of The Face

$44.99 – Hardcover book / Hatje Cantz

As long as humankind has needed ritual, theater and dialogue, it has fashioned and deployed masks. Modern art's relationship with masks underwent a transformation in the late nineteenth century, as Japanese and African m... Buy or find out more 


Zhang Huan

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One of the most important and innovative artists in contemporary China, Zhang Huan (b.1965) brought the burgeoning Chinese art scene to international attention in the 1990s with a series of taboo-breaking performances. H... Buy or find out more 



Ai Weiwei
Smith Karen Et Al

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The first comprehensive monograph on this key figure in Chinas burgeoning art scene. Often working with ancient materials - beams from destroyed temples, Han dynasty urns - Ai Weiwei (b.1957) creates ingenious sculptures... Buy or find out more 


Munich 1900 Its Golden Age Of Art & Culture 1890 1920
Rainer Metzger

$49.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson

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Treasures Of Andy Warhol
Matt Wrbican and Geralyn Huxley

$75.00 – Hardcover book / Carlton Books

One of the world's best-known artists, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) still exerts influence on contemporary art and culture. Packed with information about Warhol's prolific creativity, as well as his other cultural interests, ... Buy or find out more 


Cy Twombly The Natural World Selected Work 2000 2007
James Rondeau

$69.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr

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Your Bright Future 12 Contemporary Artists From Korea
Zelevansky & Starkman

$110.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr

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Rodchenko And Popova
Christina Kiaer

$75.00 – Hardcover book / Tate Gallery

Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956) and Lyubov Popova (1889-1924) were figureheads of the Russian avant-garde during its most exciting period following the Russian Revolution, a heady period when they and other artists dedic... Buy or find out more 



Van Dyck In Britain
Karen Hearn

$90.00 – Paperback book / Tate Gallery

Together with Holbein, Anthony van Dyck (1599 -1641) is widely regarded as the most important name in pre-eighteenth-century British art. Born in Antwerp he was a precocious talent, rising swiftly to become the chief ass... Buy or find out more 


Michelangelo And The Sistine Chapel
Graham Dixon Andrew

$24.99 – Paperback book / Phoenix House

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Claude Glass Use And Meaning Of The Black Mirror In Western Art
Arnaud Maillet

$45.95 – Paperback book / Mit Press

In this first full-length study of a largely forgotten optical device from the eighteenth century, Arnaud Maillet reconfigures our historical understanding of visual experience and meaning in relation to notions of opaci... Buy or find out more 


Ed Ruscha
Mary Richards

$45.00 – Paperback book / Tate Gallery

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Out Of Now The Lifeworks Of Tehching Hsieh
Adrian Heathfield

$96.00 – Hardcover book / Mit Press

In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh made an exceptional series of artworks. Hsieh realized five separate one-year-long performances ... Buy or find out more 


Hell Bound New Gothic Art
Francesca Gavin

$45.00 – Paperback book / Laurence King Publishing

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Morteza Momayez

$25.50 – Paperback book / Nazar

Pocket- sized edition providing an introduction to the work of this respected Iranian graphic designer. The selection covers works produced between 1958 and 2001 and includes designs for book covers, corporate logos, pos... Buy or find out more 


Future Of The Image
Jacques Ranciere

$23.00 – Paperback book / Verso

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Ten Thousand Years Of Art

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Damaged Romanticism
Terrie Sultan

$85.00 – Paperback book / Giles

Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion features 15 internationally recognized contemporary artists whose work, in painting, sculpture, installations, and photography based media, embodies an essentially idealist... Buy or find out more 



Giorgio Morandi 1890 1964
Bandera M C

$80.00 – Hardcover book / Skira

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Mosaics Of Mirrors
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian

$108.00 – Paperback book / Nazar

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Youll Like This Film Because Youre In It
Michel Gondry

$41.95 – Paperback book / Picture Box

Michel Gondry's debut book is a functional memoir of his quest to put the tools of filmmaking into the hands of as many people as possible. At New York's Deitch Projects in 2008, Gondry emulated the heroic example of his... Buy or find out more 


Heartaches
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfamaian

$33.00 – Paperback book / Nazar

The ‘Heartaches' series – sculptural boxes made of mixed collages and arrangements of photographs, prints and various objects was made by Monir Shahroudy Farmanfamaian in New York in the Nineties. These twenty-five intim... Buy or find out more 



Giorgio De Chirico: Metaphysics and Adventure

$159.00 – Hardcover book / Ivam, Valencia

Sizeable and thoroughly illustrated exhibition catalogue which offers an exploration of the role of architecture in this key twentieth century artist. Three distinct chapters examine respectively: the presence of stylist... Buy or find out more 


Marlene Dumas
Mark Lisa Gabrielle

$70.00 – Hardcover book / Distributed Art Pub

In her expressionistic drawings and paintings of the last three decades, acclaimed South African artist Marlene Dumas has focused on the human figure, probing themes of love, despair, desire and confusion in order to cri... Buy or find out more 



Rothko
Hume Borchardt

$75.00 – Paperback book / Tate Gallery

Mark Rothko (1903-70) is widely seen as one of the greatest painters of the 20th century and was a leading figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement. In the late 1960s, he donated nine large-scale paintings to Tate o... Buy or find out more 


Kandinsky
Hoberg Friedel

$330.00 – Hardcover book / Prestel

This sumptuously produced volume displays Kandinsky s brilliant use of color, shape, and composition through more than 250 full-color details or full-page illustrations. Essays by the world s leading Kandinsky experts fo... Buy or find out more 



Rothko
Oliver Wick

$65.00 – Hardcover book / Skira

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Wanderlust Excursions In Contemporary Sculpture
Fundament

$101.00 – Hardcover book /

In the summer of 2000 the Fundament Foundation organised the inaugural Lustwarande/Pleasure-garden exhibition at the Baroque woodland pleasure-garden De Oude Warande in Tilburg, the Netherlands. A second exhibition took ... Buy or find out more 



Joseph Cornell: Navigating The Imagination
Lynda Roscoe Hartigan

$164.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr

Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) was a self-taught yet highly sophisticated artist who is celebrated for his pioneering achievement in collage, assemblage, and film. Cornell’s lyrical compositions combine found materials in wa... Buy or find out more 


Hiroshige: One Hundred Views Of Edo
Melanie Trede

$315.00 – Hardcover book / Taschen

Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Though he captured a variety of subjects, his greatest talent was in creating landscapes of his native Edo (modern-day Tokyo) and his fina... Buy or find out more 



Becoming Art: Exploring Cross Cultural Categories
Howard Morphy

$44.95 – Paperback book / Nsw Press

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Art And Today
Eleanor Heartney

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Life Of Picasso: The Cubist Rebel 1907-1916
John Richardson

$48.95 – Paperback book / Alfred A Knopf

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In Another Light: Danish Painting In The 19th Century
Patricia Berman

$115.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson

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Francis Bacon
Gale Mathew & Stephens Chris

$90.00 – Paperback book / Tate Gallery

Along with JMW Turner, Francis Bacon (1909-92) is regarded internationally as Britain's greatest painter. Drawing on low-art sources, including photographs torn from magazines and imagery from films, coupled with a keen ... Buy or find out more 


Tao Of Seduction
Yi Lin Liao

$65.00 – Hardcover book / Abrams

Discovered in tombs dating from the Han Dynasty (206 BC - 8 AD) were 4 bamboo scrolls, on which were some of the oldest existing treatises written on the subject of sexuality. All contain recurring themes of Taoism: What... Buy or find out more 



Cubist Picasso
Karmel Daix Baldassari

$0.00 – Hardcover book / Flammarion

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Street Art And The War On Terror
Xavier Tapies

$49.95 – Hardcover book / Korero Books

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Mirror Of The World
Julian Bell

$79.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson

What is art and where did it begin? Why do we make it and why does it change? These are some of the many questions that Julian Bell considers in this new story of art for the 21st century.From humans' first impulses to c... Buy or find out more 


30,000 Years Of Art
Editors Of Phaidon

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30,000 Years of Art presents 1000 great works of art from all periods and regions in the world, arranged in chronological order for a general readership. Breaking through the usual geographical and cultural boundaries of... Buy or find out more 



Eva Hesse: Visible and Invisible Intentions
Naomi Spector

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Murakami
Paul Schimmel

$95.00 – Hardcover book / Rizzoli

Takashi Murakami is one of contemporary art’s most innovative and important figures. Drawing from street culture, high art, and traditional Japanese painting, Murakami takes the contemporary art trend of mixing high and ... Buy or find out more 



Tokyo Art And Design
Ian Luna

$90.00 – Hardcover book / Rizzoli

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Uncommissioned Art: The A Z Of Australian Graffiti
Christine Dew

$39.95$24.95 – Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press

This is an expertly designed and packaged title on a somewhat controversial topic – that of graffiti. The photographs are from all over Australia from Alice Springs to Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

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Isamu Noguchi
Greene Alison De Lima

$0.00 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr

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Cross Currents: Focus On Contemporary Australian Art
Museum Of Contemporary Art

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Rick Amor
Gavin Fry

$120.00 – Hardcover book / The Beagle Press

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Lace Contemporary Textiles
Heffer Cecilia Ed

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Louise Bourgeois
Francis Morris

$75.00 – Trade paperback / Tate Gallery

Louise Bourgeois is among the most prominent contemporary sculptors. Strongly influenced by surrealism, abstract expressionism, and minimalism, her work focuses on the exploration of her psyche. A recurring theme is her ... Buy or find out more 


William Kentridge Tapestries
Okwui Enwezor

$59.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr

South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) has produced an outstanding body of work in multiple mediumsdrawings, animations, sculptures, theater and stage designall of which trace the fraught political and cultural... Buy or find out more 



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