New Visual Arts
Cy Twombly States Of Mind
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Alias Man Ray
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Mark Ryden Tree Show
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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... More »
Tim Rollins And K.O.S.: A History
$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... More »
A Terrible Beauty
$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... More »
Caravaggio The Complete Work
$255.00 (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... More »
Painting Abstraction: New Elements In Abstract Painting
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The definitive survey of contemporary abstract painting, featuring eighty of the most innovative painters from around the world.
Painting is more popular than ever. Collectors and museumgoers can't seem to get enough, wi... More »
Painting Today
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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... More »
Contemporary Ceramics
$75.00 (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... More »
The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
$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... More »
Rest Is Up To You A Collaboration Between The Artists And A Boy Named Cohen Morano
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Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19
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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... More »
Looking At Paintings: A Private View
$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... More »
I Blame Duchamp
$49.95 (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 ... More »
Japan Season By Season
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Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide To The Decorative Arts Of The 1920s And 1930s
$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... More »
George Barbier: The Birth Of Art Deco
$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... More »
Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life
$95.00 (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... More »
Elixir: The Video Organism Of Pipilotti Rist
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Art School (Propositions For The 21st Century)
$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... More »
Beyond Architecture
$125.00 (Hardcover book / Die Gestalten Verlag )
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Eric Fischl: Beach Paintings
$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... More »
Unfolded: Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry
$125.00 (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 ... More »
Inside The Painter's Studio
$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... More »
Heavy Metal: On The Inexplicable Lightness Of A Material
$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... More »
October Files Gerhard Richter
$32.95 (Paperback book / Mit Press )
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Master Of Flemalle And Rogier Van Der Weyden Art To Hear
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Artist Exhibition More Than Art Shows
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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... More »
Byzantium: 330 to 1453
$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... More »
Vincent van Gogh: Between Earth and Heaven
$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... More »
James Ensor
$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... More »
Marriage Of Reason And Squalor
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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... 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... 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... More »
Munich 1900 Its Golden Age Of Art & Culture 1890 1920
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Treasures Of Andy Warhol
$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, ... More »
Cy Twombly The Natural World Selected Work 2000 2007
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Your Bright Future 12 Contemporary Artists From Korea
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Rodchenko And Popova
$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... More »
Van Dyck In Britain
$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... More »
Michelangelo And The Sistine Chapel
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Claude Glass Use And Meaning Of The Black Mirror In Western Art
$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... More »
Out Of Now The Lifeworks Of Tehching Hsieh
$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 ... More »
Hell Bound New Gothic Art
$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... More »
Future Of The Image
$29.95 (Paperback book / Verso )
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Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009
$59.95 (Paperback book / Tate Gallery )
Few books introduce a word into the language; this is an example of one that does. The term ‘Altermodern’ is an entirely new one, coined by leading critical theorist and curator Nicolas Bourriaud as the title for Tate’s ... More »
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Ten Thousand Years Of Art
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Damaged Romanticism
$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... More »
Giorgio Morandi 1890 1964
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Mosaics Of Mirrors
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Youll Like This Film Because Youre In It
$39.00 (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... More »
Heartaches
$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... 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... More »
The Art Of Two Germanys
$120.00 (Hardcover book / Abrams )
In a divided Germany after World War II, artists in both East and West reacted to the war's political legacies by reviving pre-war artistic traditions. Newly energized, these traditions - including expressionism, abstrac... More »
Marlene Dumas
$75.00 (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... More »
Francis Bacon
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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 ... More »
Merchants Princes And Painters
$165.00 (Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr )
Covering a period that witnessed the flowering of the Renaissance and the major expansion of the Italian silk industry, this volume examines the Italian silk fabrics depicted in paintings from Italy, England and the Neth... More »
Wanderlust Excursions In Contemporary Sculpture
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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 ... More »
Cildo Meireles
$49.95 (Paperback book / Tate Gallery )
Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles (b 1948) has made some of the most philosophically brilliant, politically telling and aesthetically seductive works in recent art. An important theme in the Brazilian post-war avant-garde,... More »
Joseph Cornell: Navigating The Imagination
$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... More »
Hiroshige: One Hundred Views Of Edo
$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... More »
Becoming Art: Exploring Cross Cultural Categories
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Life Of Picasso: The Cubist Rebel 1907-1916
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In Another Light: Danish Painting In The 19th Century
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Peter Doig
$49.95 (Paperback book / Tate Gallery )
Peter Doig's highly distinctive paintings have been exhibited in major museums and galleries worldwide to international acclaim. In each work, Doig seeks to create an atmosphere that will draw the viewer into an intense ... More »
Francis Bacon In The 1950s
$99.95 (Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr )
From the screaming heads and snarling chimpanzees of the late 1940s to the anonymous figures trapped in tortured isolation some ten years later, British artist Francis Bacon during one crucial decade created many of the ... More »
William Kentridge Tapestries
$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... More »
Money For Visual Artists 2007 2009
$35.00 (Paperback book / Nat Ass Visual Arts )
Money For Visual Artists is NAVA's essential guide to awards, prizes and professional development opportunities for Australian visual artists, craftspeople and designers. More »
Cubist Picasso
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Tao Of Seduction
$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... More »
Uncommissioned Art: The A Z Of Australian Graffiti
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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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Art Museum From Boullee To Bilbao
$62.95 (Paperback book / Univ California Pr )
Art museums, oases of beauty and calm in a fast-paced world, have emerged in recent decades as the most vibrant and popular of all cultural institutions. But as they have become more popular, their direction and values h... More »
Street Art And The War On Terror
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Mirror Of The World
$75.00 (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... More »
Eva Hesse: Visible and Invisible Intentions
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Gordon Bennett
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Tokyo Art And Design
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30,000 Years Of Art
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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... More »
Findings On Ice
$70.00 (Paperback book / Lars Muller )
The Pars Foundation was founded from the conviction that art and science are both essentially creative processes. Artists begin with an idea that is ultimately expressed in the form of music, images, or words. Scientists... More »
Cross Currents: Focus On Contemporary Australian Art
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Lace Contemporary Textiles
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Isamu Noguchi
$72.00 (Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr )
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Lepidoptera
$55.00 (Paperback book / Idea Books )
Beautiful. More than 700 objects, ranging from tennis balls and Tupperware, to shoes and plastic spoons, have been collected by this Amsterdam based artist over the last two years. Out of each object a butterfly has been... More »
Louise Bourgeois
$75.00 (Trade paperback / Tate Gallery )
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Society Portrait
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