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Inventing Marcel Duchamp
Goodyear Anne Collins Mcmanus James

$99.00 – Hardcover book / Mit Press

One of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was a master of self-invention who carefully regulated the image he projected through self-portraiture and through his collaboratio... Buy or find out more 



Posthuman Dada Guide
Andrei Codrescu

$32.95 – Paperback book / Princeton Univ Press

The Posthuman Dada Guide is an impractical handbook for practical living in our posthuman world--all by way of examining the imagined 1916 chess game between Tristan Tzara, the daddy of Dada, and V. I. Lenin, the daddy o... 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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Dada Zurich Berlin Hanover Cologne New York Paris
Lelah Dickerman

$59.95 – Hardcover book / Distributed Art Pub

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Andy Warhol Giant Size

$55.00 – Hardcover book /

Tracing Warhol's origins as the sickly child of Ruthenian immigrants in working-class Pittsburgh to his transformation into New York's dark prince of Pop and finally into the world's most successful 'business artist', "A... Buy or find out more 



Black History Of A Color
Michel Pastoureau

$54.95 – Hardcover book / Princeton Univ Press

Black - favourite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists - has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, ... Buy or find out more 


Hell Bound New Gothic Art
Francesca Gavin

$45.00 – Paperback book / Laurence King Publishing

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The Tate Guide To Modern Art Terms
Wilson Simon And Lack Jessica

$19.95 – Paperback book / Tate Gallery

How many times have you read the caption next to a work of art or a review of a contemporary art exhibition and found youself none the wiser? For many, the language in which modern art is described can be as mystifying a... Buy or find out more 


Hammershoi
Kramer Felix Et Al

$105.00 – Hardcover book / Royal Academy Of Arts

This comprehensive survey is published to coincide with an exhibition of the art of the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1916). Hammershoi's subject-matter centred on haunting interiors. Dispensing with anecdotal ... Buy or find out more 



Peacocks Among The Ruins
Beasties Timorous

$81.00 – Hardcover book /

Well conceived catalogue accompanying an unusual and somewhat eclectic exhibition that focuses on the prevalence of plant and animal motifs in interior design. Co-curated by the design company Timorous Beasties, the show... Buy or find out more 


Sonora: Magic Market Mexico City
Kurt Hollander

$49.00 – Flexi / Actar

A visual and graphic tour through the infamous magic market of Mexico City. Powders, soaps & invocations from 'dominating your man', 'shut your mouth', 'powerful garlic', 'come to me', 'diabolical invocation of satan... Buy or find out more 



Pearls
Simryn Gill

$0.00 – Hardcover book / Actar

Pearls is a photographic record of Simryn Gill's ongoing bead-making project, that was begun in 1999, in which she makes books into bead necklaces. This book brings together over sixty sets of beads, each one unique and ... Buy or find out more 


Seven Days In The Art World
Sarah Thornton

$35.00 – Trade paperback / Granta

From London to China to New York, art sales are booming like never before, and the art world receives the sort of breathless media attention once reserved for celebrities and royals. In Seven Days in the Art World, Sarah... Buy or find out more 



Dansk Design
Thomas Dickson

$39.95 – Hardcover book / Pier 9

Dansk Design is a history book, a reference book and a snapshot of where Danish design is right now. To a great degree design is about the esthetical, about beauty. But when you look closely at the individual examples, i... Buy or find out more 


50 Years Of The Lego Brick
Christian Humberg

$75.00 – Hardcover book / Heel Verlag

The LEGO Group is one of the largest toy manufacturers and LEGO products are sold all over the globe. This book features 10 pieces of removable facsimile items retrieved from the LEGO archives in Billund, Denmark. It als... Buy or find out more 



Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture Painting Drawings
Angela Schneider

$44.95 – Paperback book / Prestel

While best-known for his spindly, attenuated figures, Giacometti also created brilliant work in two dimensions. This book offers a scholarly assessment of his entire oeuvre and underscores the continuity between the two ... Buy or find out more 


Alexander Calder Sculptures
Alexander Calder and Ugo Mulas

$44.95 – Paperback book / Officina Libraria

A photographic album of Calder and his work by close friend, Italian photographer Ugo Mulas. Buy or find out more 



Femme Fatale: The Female Criminal
Nerida Campbell

$19.95 – Hardcover book / Hist Houses Trst Nsw

Femme fatale the female criminal highlights the way y in which society has interpreted and contained the criminality of women. The pictorial content starkly contrasts the glamour of film noir seductresses and pulp fictio... Buy or find out more 


Edgar Degas: Erotic Sketchbook
Norbert Wolf

$39.95 – Hardcover book / Prestel

If Paris was the "bank, boulevard, and brothel" of Europe, then Degas was its most affectionate documentarian. He moved easily between the elegant sidewalks of the Champs-Elysees and the city's glamorous salons to its wo... Buy or find out more 



Berlin Street Art 2
Sven Zimmermann

$35.00 – Hardcover book / Prestel

Over the past few years there has been a resurgence of interest in street art as a genre of artistic expression. Photographer Sven Zimmerman has been at the forefront of this renaissance, surveying the streets, sidewalks... Buy or find out more 


Joan Miro: Snail Woman Flower Star
Sylvia Martin

$160.00 – Hardcover book / Prestel

Tracing Miró's career, this book begins in the 1920s with the artist's introduction to surrealism, cubism, and dadaism, and the flowering of his friendships with Picasso, Braque and other influential artists and poets. I... Buy or find out more 



 

Great Painters Of The Italian Renaissance
Eberhard Konig

$125.00$69.95 – Hardcover book / H F Ullmann

This comprehensive, two-volume work presents the extraordinary panorama of Italian painting spanning the period from 1300 to 1610, including all the great masters and their most famous works. The first volume is devoted ... Buy or find out more 


Printmaking: Techniques And New Approaches
Craig Blanche

$55.95 – Paperback book / Black Dog Publishing

Printmaking introduces a number of different printmaking techniques, such as monoprinting, linocut and screenprinting through to etching and lithography. Demonstrating how anyone can customise clothing and accessories or... Buy or find out more 



Brighton Graffiti
Stuart Bagshaw

$59.95 – Paperback book / Prestel

The art of graffiti is alive and well in this English city by the sea, where the city and artists are working together to turn what was considered a public nuisance into a legitimate and treasured part of the Brighton ex... Buy or find out more 


Fantastic Plastic
Susan Mossman

$75.00 – Paperback book / Black Dog Publishing

Plastic is the defining material of the twentieth century. From the first man-made plastics exhibited in the 1862 Great International Exhibition in London and the patenting of Celluloid in 1870, plastics originally provi... Buy or find out more 



A Year In Art: A Masterpiece A Day

$54.95 – Hardcover book / Prestel

Imagine 365 masterpieces of art from around the world at your fingertips. That's what readers will find as they turn the pages day after day to discover a full-page exquisitely reproduced painting, artifact, photograph, ... Buy or find out more 


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 



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