First complete survey of an artist who has worked in painting, sculpture, animation, billboards, and album covers. Tate Modern Artists Series.

I am simply using that which is available to describe that which is experienced

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Author: Mary Horlock, English, Monograph.

Specifications: Paperback, 128 Pages, 100 Colour Illustrations, 270 x 210 mm
, ISBN: 1 85437 470 2 .

Price (ZA) R295.00

Gilbert and George are the pre-eminent artists of their generation. Exhibited worldwide since the early 1970s, their art has attracted both enormous acclaim and fierce controversy. At last, on the eve of a massive retrospective that will tour six venues across the globe, a book is published that does justice to the scale, depth and ambition of their artitic achievement.

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Author: Rudi Fuchs, English, Monograph.

Specifications: Hardback with dustjacket in a unique carrying case 2 volumes, 260 x 300 mm, 1200pp, 1500 full colour llustrations
, ISBN: 978 1 85437 681 7 .

Price (ZA) R1200.00

From the 1970s to the early-1990s, the discourse surrounding aesthetics largely disappeared from the study of art history, theory and cultural studies. Claims for the aesthetic value of art-works were thought of as elitist and politically regressive. The 1990s witnessed a return to aesthetics, but one that stressed the independent claims of beauty, in reaction [...]

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Author: Edited by Diarmuid Costello and Dominic Willsdon, English, Art General.

Specifications: softcover, 256 pages, 234 x 156 mm, 40 black and white illustrations
, ISBN: 978 1854376589 .

Price (ZA) R300.00

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), Man Ray (1890 -1977) and Francis Picabia (1879-1953) each made a huge contribution to the development of early modernism, pioneering new ideas about art and art-making that continue to reverberate today. Although involved successively with Cubisim, Dada and Surrealism they remain individual figures, despite their intermittent friendships and occasional collaborations with one [...]

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Author: Edited by Jennifer Mundy, English, Art General.

Specifications: softcover, 248 pages, 290 x 215 mm, illustrations
, ISBN: 978 1854377319 .

Price (ZA) R500.00

Edited by Katharine Stout with Lizzie Carey-Thomas
Foreword by Nicholas Serota
Since the mid 1980s the visual arts scene in Britain has changed beyond recognition and the Turner Prize lies at the heart of an ever-increasing fascination with contemporary culture in the UK. Established in 1984 to draw greater public attention to contemporary art ‘in much the [...]

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Author: Edited by Katharine Stout, Lizzie Carey - Thomas, English, Art General.

Specifications: softcover, 112 pages, 216 x 138 mm, 45 black and white illustrations
, ISBN: 978 1854377425 .

Price (ZA) R260.00

‘Fanelli’s originality has brought a breath of fresh air to the world of picture books . . . with an off-beat humour and an inventive approach to everything from page design and typography to choice of materials’ – Guardian
Sara Fanelli and Tate Publishing were awarded the 2008 Design & Art Direction award for outstanding achievement [...]

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Author: Sara Fanelli, English, Art General.

Specifications: softcover, 176 pages plus 16 pages and 8 pages book inserts, 268 x 210 mm, 200 colour illustrations
, ISBN: 978 1854377289 .

Price (ZA) R400.00

Widely regarded as one of the leading sculptors of the last twenty years, Juan Munoz came to prominence in the mid-1980s, when he was at the vanguard of a return to the human form. Munoz’s figures, however, are not the usual stuff of classical sculpture. Located in architectural settings, they may be seated on benches, [...]

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Author: Edited by Sheena Wagstaff, English, Art General.

Specifications: softcover, 176 pages, 297 x 200 mm, 120 colour illustrations
, ISBN: 978 1854377326 .

Price (ZA) R500.00

This book explores Beuy’s activities in Scotland, england and Ireland, including his first spectacular entrance as one of the participants in the 1970 Strategy: Get Ats exhibition in Edinburgh, the proposal to establish the Free International University in Dublin and his final shows in the autumn of 1985, shortly before his death. This rich history [...]

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Arshile Gorky was an unabashedly ambitious artist, “apprenticing” himself to a series of masters-most notably Cézanne and Picasso- in order to become, at last, the master of his own original style. His transformation of traditions into an utterly untraditional approach in turn inspired the Abtract Expressinists, who achieved a fame that Gorky died to young to enjoy.

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Author: Melvin P. Lader, English, .

Specifications: Soft Cover,220.5x290,ISBN 9781558592490,128 PG,Illustrated
, ISBN: 9781558592490 .

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Sculpture conservators now have to work with such diverse materials as plastics, video and tapioca, as well as traditional stone and bronze. This publication focuses on a number of works that have recently received conservation treatment at Tate, challenging common assumptions about the durability of works of art.

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Author: Jackie Heuman, English, Anthology.

Specifications: Soft cover, 277x219mm, 128pp
, ISBN: 978 1854 372888 .

Price (ZA) R160.00