New Visual Arts
Alice In Wonderland
$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
$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
$49.95 – Paperback book / Nat Gallery Of Aust
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Matisse Drawing Life
$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
$69.95 – Hardcover book / 37 Lower Fort Street Dawes Point Nsw 2000 Po Box 95 Annandale 2038
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Gerhard Richter Panorama
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$95.00 – Hardcover book / V & A Publications
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Cutting Edges: Contemporary Collage
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$75.00 – Hardcover book / Flammarion
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On Line Drawing Through The Twentieth Century
$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
$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
$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
$120.00 – Hardcover book /
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Absence Of Work Marcel Broodthaers 1964 1976
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$75.00 – Hardcover book / Prestel
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Artist Of Exceptional Talent 1943 2007
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$259.95 – Hardcover book / Birkhauser
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Marina Abramovic The Future Of Performance Art
$110.00 – Hardcover book / Prestel
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Art and Text
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$100.00 – Hardcover book / Royal Academy Of Arts
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Alias Man Ray
$89.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
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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... Buy or find out more →
Cy Twombly States Of Mind
$189.95 – Hardcover book /
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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... Buy or find out more →
Caravaggio The Complete Work
$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
$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
$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
$45.00 – Paperback book / Chronicle Books
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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... Buy or find out more →
I Blame Duchamp
$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
$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
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Abrams
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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... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life
$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
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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... Buy or find out more →
Unfolded: Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry
$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
$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
$32.95 – Paperback book / Mit Press
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Master Of Flemalle And Rogier Van Der Weyden Art To Hear
$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
$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)
$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
$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
$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
$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
$49.95 – Paperback book /
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
$69.95 – Paperback book /
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
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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
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
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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, ... Buy or find out more →
Cy Twombly The Natural World Selected Work 2000 2007
$69.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
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Your Bright Future 12 Contemporary Artists From Korea
$110.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
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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... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
Michelangelo And The Sistine Chapel
$24.99 – Paperback book / Phoenix House
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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... Buy or find out more →
Ed Ruscha
$45.00 – Paperback book / Tate Gallery
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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 ... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
Future Of The Image
$23.00 – Paperback book / Verso
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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... Buy or find out more →
Giorgio Morandi 1890 1964
$80.00 – Hardcover book / Skira
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Mosaics Of Mirrors
$108.00 – Paperback book / Nazar
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Youll Like This Film Because Youre In It
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$65.00 – Hardcover book / Skira
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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 ... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
Becoming Art: Exploring Cross Cultural Categories
$44.95 – Paperback book / Nsw Press
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Art And Today
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Life Of Picasso: The Cubist Rebel 1907-1916
$48.95 – Paperback book / Alfred A Knopf
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In Another Light: Danish Painting In The 19th Century
$115.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
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Francis Bacon
$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
$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
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Street Art And The War On Terror
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Korero Books
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Mirror Of The World
$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
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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
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Murakami
$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
$90.00 – Hardcover book / Rizzoli
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Uncommissioned Art: The A Z Of Australian Graffiti
$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
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Cross Currents: Focus On Contemporary Australian Art
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Rick Amor
$120.00 – Hardcover book / The Beagle Press
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Lace Contemporary Textiles
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Louise Bourgeois
$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
$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 →