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Classical Painting Atelier
Students of art hailed Classical Drawing Atelier, Juliette Aristides’s first book, as a dynamic return to the atelier educational model. Ateliers, popular in the nineteenth century, teach emerging artists by pairing them with a master artist over a period of years. The educational process begins as students copy masterworks, then gradually progress to painting as [...]
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Michael Fried: Why Photography Matters As Never Before
From the late 1970s onward, serious art photography began to be made at large scale and for the wall. Michael Fried argues that this immediately compelled photographers to grapple with issues centering on the relationship between the photograph and the viewer standing before it that until then had been the province only of painting. Fried [...]
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the World? And 100 Other Great Cultural Lists
Can you name… Newton’s 3 laws of motion? The 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse? The 5 pillars of Islam? The 6 wives of Henry VIII? The 7 kinds of plane triangles? The 8 Beatitudes? If you’re not sure about the answers to the above, this is the book for you. A compendium of 101 culturally [...]
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Martin Kippenberger : The Problem Perspective
Martin Kippenberger: the problem perspective constitutes a comprehensive and scholarly examination of the artist’s career. This book, which accompanies the first major U.S. retrospective exhibition of Kippenberger’s work, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, documents Kippenberger’s extraordinary twenty-year career with works in many media-paintings, sculptures, works on paper, installations, photographs, collaborations with other [...]
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Hanne Darboven: Cultural History 1880-1983
Hanne Darboven’s Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 (Cultural History 1880-1983) is an overwhelming and encyclopedic installation consisting of 1,590 works on paper and 19 sculptural objects. The work weaves together cultural, social, and historical references with autobiographical documents, postcards, pinups of film and rock stars, documentary references to the first and second world wars, geometric diagrams for textile [...]
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Roy Lichtenstein
The most comprehensive collection on Lichtenstein, from the earliest reviews to recent reassessments, including several hard-to-find and previously unpublished pieces.
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New Typographic Design
As printing and design technologies have evolved over the past decade, so too have designers’ approaches to type design and typography. Today’s innovative designers have overturned established rules about type, turning letters into images and using typefaces in increasingly experimental ways. New Typographic Design covers a wide variety of applications from design for print–ranging from [...] |
The Family of Man
Hailed as the most successful exhibition of photography ever assembled, The Family of Man opened at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in January 1955. This book, the permanent embodiment of Edward Steichen’s monumental exhibition, reproduces all of the 503 images that Steichen described as “a mirror of the essential oneness of mankind [...]
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Car Girls
Dutch artist Jacqueline Hassink has received critical acclaim for her books and exhibitions that deal conceptually with issues of power and social relations. Car Girls is a body of work that Hassink has created over five years, photographing major car shows in seven different cities on three continents. As she describes it, she has used [...]
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Daughters of India – Art and Identity
Although one in every six women lives in India, most of the western world knows little about them. In Daughters of India, Stephen Huyler has collected the stories of twenty Indian women and their many forms of artistic expression, deliberately choosing aspects of their lives that give a portrait of the broad range of characteristics [...]
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