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Discover the best-selling art books and insightful artist biographies at our online bookstore, featuring a curated selection of must-read books about art and artwork. Explore our collection to find the best books to read, from captivating artist biographies to beautifully illustrated artwork books.
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Andrea Fraser: Collected Interviews, 1990-2018This substantial archive offers an ideal point of entry into the work and reception of Los Angeles-based performance artist and writer Andrea Fraser (born 1965). The interview format provides particular insight into Fraser's self-positioning as a central aspect of her practice. By presenting the...
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Egon Schiele: Masterpieces from the Leopold MuseumFeaturing over 140 masterpieces, this new book draws on the unsurpassed Schiele collection of Vienna's Leopold MuseumThis volume gathers some 140 paintings, watercolors and drawings by Egon Schiele from the Leopold Museum in Vienna, which famously possesses the world's most comprehensive and eminent collection...
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QueervilleThis book presents very libertine contents in a "Tim-&-Struppi" style as sweet as can be - that's Tom Bouden's speciality. After the reprint of the celebrated comic IN BED WITH DAVID & JONATHAN now comes the unofficial sequel to the Belgian happy-go-lucky tales with...
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Seduction: Erotic Illustrations by Robert W RichardsNew York-based multi-talent Robert W. Richards has made a career out of seducing people. Since his earliest homo-erotic illustrations in publications like THE ADVOCATE and MANDATE, Richards' unique style has become highly recognizable for its high-end simplicity and sexy idiosyncratic style. SEDUCTION: EROTIC ILLUSTRATIONS...
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Gordon Parks: The New Tide: Early Work 1940-1950The emergence of a social conscience in rarely seen images from Parks' formative yearsFocusing on new research and access to forgotten pictures, The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950 documents the importance of these years in shaping Gordon Parks' passionate vision. The book brings together...
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30 Years after Les Immatériaux: Art, Science, and TheoryIn 1985, the French philosopher Jean-Fran ois Lyotard curated a groundbreaking exhibition called Les Immat riaux at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The exhibition showed how telecommunication technologies were beginning to impact every aspect of life. At the same time, it was a material...
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Heba Y. Amin: The General's StorkDocumenting the development of a multidimensional and ongoing work.Heba Y. Amin's The General's Stork explores historical accounts of biblical prophecies, colonial narratives, and the politics of technological warfare from a bird's eye view. Focusing on how military technologies were developed in the specific context...
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Swamps and the New Imagination: On the Future of Cohabitation in Art, Architecture, and PhilosophyContributors consider the vital urgency of human cohabitation with other forms of life, beginning a dialogue with possible futures.It is not easy to define a swamp, even in biology. The term is frequently used to characterize marshes, bogs, mires, wetlands, meadows, and other grey...
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Sundry Modernism: Materials for a Study of Palestinian ModernismWith Sundry Modernism, Oraib Toukan presents an informal register of modernist Palestinian architecture--an assemblage of images and stories collected from 2013 to 2015 in the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jericho. Using her photographs as conversation prompts with various residents, historians, and...
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Death of an Art Critic / Tod Einer Kritikerin"The idea behind Donnerstag was to insist on the difference between good art and bad art. I am aware of how anachronistic that sounds and how quickly it evokes the image of an old critic-pontiff wagging his authoritarian pointer finger. But even that image...
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MosaicFor thousands of years and in many cultures people have been inspired by mosaics. Whether the stylistically reduced pebble mosaics of the Greeks or the golden splendor of the Byzantine churches--their stylistic diversity is just as great as the diversity of the materials used....
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Elfenbeinkunst Im Grunen Gewolbe Zu Dresden: Geschichte Einer Sammlung. Wissenschaftlicher Bestandskatalog - Statuetten, Figurengruppen, Reliefs, GefaDas Grune Gewolbe zu Dresden verwahrt eine der umfangreichsten, kunsthistorisch hochst bedeutsamen Elfenbeinsammlungen der Welt. Nach Jahren intensiver Forschung kann erstmalig der Bestand an aus Elfen-bein geschnittenen Statuetten, Figurengruppen, Reliefs und in Silber gefassten Prunkgefaaen in diesem opulent illustrierten wissenschaftlichen Katalogwerk zusammenfassend vorgestellt werden....
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Hinter Dem Horizont ... / Beyond the Horizon ...: Kunst Der Ddr Aus Den Sammlungen Des Staatlichen Museums Schwerin / Art of the Gdr in the CollectionThe catalog to the exhibition Beyond the Horizon shows a selection of GDR artworks from the Schwerin State Museum's collections, covering a wide range of artistic positions. The paintings, sculptures, drawings and graphics presented here open up new perspectives focus on the gentle, yet...
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Paul Thek & Luc TuymansThe American sculptor and painter Paul Thek (19331988) created objects that made him a legend. In the mid1960s, he first exhibited his Meat Pieces, relics made of wax and latex and enclosed in plexiglass boxes that were meant to recall human flesh. He also...
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Small Scale, Big World: The Culture of Mini CraftsThe dozens of artists and craftspeople featured in this volume create miniature representations of real-world scenes--everything from housewares, such as a thumb-sized rice cooker, to storefronts and cliffside dwellings suspended in test tubes, all the way up to entire multi-story buildings, with every detail...
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Edward Hopper: Western Motel: Edward Hopper and Contemporary ArtAmerican painter Edward Hopper once said, Maybe I am not very human--what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. Indeed, Hopper's canvases delineate a new physics of Modern public space, in which the zones between people are...
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ZebsterZebster is a graffiti writer, music producer (ZEB.ROC.SKI), historian and organizer of international Hip Hop projects. Zebster is well-known in the Hip Hop community for his efforts to spread the culture around the world. He began breaking and writing graffiti in the early 80s...
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Arte Povera Seen by Ingvild GoetzThis publication celebrates the well-known German collector and gallerist Ingvild Goetz's longstanding passion for art. An extensive chronology provides an in-depth view of Goetz's history with the Arte Povera movement as a gallerist in the 1970s and '80s, and as a collector from the...
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Susi Wyss: Guess Who Is the Happiest Girl in TownA revelatory and richly illustrated memoir by Swiss-German party girl Susi WyssJudging from old photographs, you'd think Susi Wyss (b. 1938) was an angel in satin, but the look in her dark-ringed eyes tells a different story. Susi's richly illustrated memoirs, Guess Who Is...
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David Weiss: Die WandlungenFollowing up on Nine Books 1973 - 1979 Edition Patrick Frey and Edition Weiss now proudly present an exclusive new publication of another important body of work by the late, internationally acclaimed Swiss artist David Weiss (1946-2012). DIE WANDLUNGEN (The Metamorphoses) for the first...
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