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Vendor:Frances Lincoln
ArtQuake: The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art
Susie Hodge Softcover | 15.88 x 2.22 x 20.64 cm | 208 pp Frances Lincoln | 2021 | 9780711254763 Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when artists take tradition and rip it up....- £8.00
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Vendor:Phaidon
Creamier: Contemporary Art in Culture
Softcover | 30.16 x 1.59 x 42.55 cm | 300 pp Phaidon | 2010 | 9780714856834 Part of Phaidon's popular Cream series, Creamier is an exhibition-in-a-book both for those in the art world and for those who are new to the subject.Ten international curators...- £15.00
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Vendor:Laurence King
The New Curator
Softcover | 22.2 x 3.2 x 29.2 cm | 240 pp Laurence King | 2016 | 9781780677477 This book presents a snapshot of the most interesting curatorial practices in the art world today. There is an emphasis on the now : the introduction sketches in the...- £5.00
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Vendor:Tate Publishing
DesignArt
Alex Coles Softcover | 20.96 x 1.27 x 26.99 cm | 144 pp Tate Publishing | 2005 | 9781854375209 For well over a hundred years certain artists have blurred the distinction between 'art' and 'design', creating works for which Alex Coles has coined the term...- £7.00
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Vendor:Prestel
Time, Forward!
Softcover | 17.48 x 1.68 x 26.04 cm | 272 pp Prestel | 2019 | 9783791359083 Time, Forward! questions the notion and function of time and how it relates to the way we create and interact with art in the 21st century. Featuring newly commissioned...- £7.50
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Vendor:Prestel
More Real?: Art in the Age of Truthiness
Hardcover | 16.5 x 2.7 x 24 cm | 320 pp Prestel | 2012 | 9783791352350 Published to accompany the exhibition at Minneapolis Institute of Arts featuring work by 28 international artists including Thomas Demand, Ai Weiwei, Mark Dion, Sharon Lockhart, Jonathan Monk, Trevor Paglen, Mary Temple...- £10.00
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Vendor:East of Borneo
Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent Painting (Non-mint)
Stephen Westfall, Lilly Wei & Rene Paul Barilleaux Hardcover | 21.84 x 2.03 x 30.23 cm | 144 pp East of Borneo | 2014 | 9780615864518 Beauty Reigns focuses on exoticism, exuberance and optimism in contemporary painting through the work of 13 emerging and mid-career abstract painters. Common characteristics include...- £15.00
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Vendor:Unicorn Press
Everything That Happened: Manchester International Festival
Softcover | 29.4 x 2.6 x 22.7 cm | 240 pp Unicorn Press | 2023 | 9781911397656 Manchester International Festival (MIF) has invited some of the world's greatest living artists to delight and often challenge crowds in spaces of all shapes and sizes; from...- £15.00
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Vendor:Hatje Cantz
Group Dynamics: Collectives of the Modernist Period
Softcover | 20.32 x 4.19 x 27.31 cm | 448 pp Hatje Cantz | 2022 | 9783775750400 Buenos Aires, Casablanca, Beijing, Khartoum, Lahore, Tokyo: all over the world, artists joined forces in collectives throughout the twentieth century. While the tendency to form groups was...- £40.00
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Vendor:Yale University Press
Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television
Maurice Berger & Lynn Spigel Hardcover | 26.67 x 19.81 x 2.03 cm | 172 pp Yale University Press | 2015 | 9780300207934 An engaging exploration of the relationship between avant-garde art and American network television from the 1940s through the 1970s. The aesthetics and concepts of modern...- £15.00
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Vendor:Prestel
documenta: Politics and Art
Softcover | 17.15 x 2.69 x 24.13 cm | 304 pp Prestel | 2021 | 9783791379203 Every few years since 1955, the creators of documenta set themselves the task of providing an insight into current trends in art and of capturing the zeitgeist of...- £10.00
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Whitney Biennial 2010
A FURTHER 10% OFF WHEN YOU BUY TWO WHITNEY BIENNIAL CATALOGUES View more Whitney Biennial Catalogues Softcover | 19.69 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm | 256 pp Whitney Museum of American Art | 2010 | 9780300162424 Since its inauguration in 1932, the Whitney Biennial...- £10.00
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Whitney Biennial 2017
A FURTHER 10% OFF WHEN YOU BUY TWO WHITNEY BIENNIAL CATALOGUES View more Whitney Biennial Catalogues Softcover | 23.88 x 17.02 x 2.29 cm | 220 pp Whitney Museum of American Art | 2017 | 9780300223095 Since its introduction by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in...- £10.00
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Vendor:Prestel
Revelations: Art from the African American South
Timothy Anglin Burgard Hardcover | 22.56 x 1.91 x 26.67 cm | 184 pp Prestel | 2018 | 9783791357171 While the self-taught artists featured in this groundbreaking catalogue were born in the Jim Crow period of institutionalised racism, their works embody the promise and attainment...- £25.00
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Vendor:Laurence King
Artists on Art: How They See, Think & Create
Holly Black Softcover | 14.48 x 2.41 x 19.94 cm | 128 pp Laurence King | 2022 | 9781786278852 Through a carefully curated selection of quotations, images and interviews, Artists on Art reveals what matters most to fifty major artists. This neat pocket-book surveys how the giants of...- £7.50
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Come Together: The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design
Francesco Spampinato Softcover | 21 x 2.5 x 26 cm | 256 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2014 | 9781616892685 The past twenty years have seen a resurgence of artists working together in small groups and larger collectives to explore new avenues of art, design, performance...- £15.00
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Vendor:Getty Publications
Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art 1945–1980
Hardcover | 22.86 x 3.81 x 29.21 cm | 352 pp Getty Publications | 2011 | 9781606060728 This comprehensive, richly illustrated book explores postwar American art from a new perspective: Southern California. The analysis of the L.A. art scene from the end of World...- £5.00
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Vendor:Thames & Hudson
Three Centuries of American Prints: From the National Gallery of Art
Hardcover | 25.4 x 4.06 x 30.23 cm | 360 pp Thames & Hudson | 2016 | 9780500239520 Three Centuries of American Prints from the National Gallery of Art highlights the three major movements in American art and print history in nearly 200 masterful prints...- £30.00
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Vendor:MFA Publications
Common Wealth: Art by African Americans in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Lowery Stokes Sims Hardcover | 24.89 x 3.05 x 28.7 cm | 224 pp MFA Publications | 2015 | 9780878468157 The story of African Americans in the visual arts has closely paralleled their social, political and economic aspirations over the last four hundred years.From...- £20.00
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Vendor:Tate Publishing
The American Art Tapes: Voices of Twentieth-Century Art
Nicolette Jones & John Jones Hardcover | 16.51 x 3.05 x 24.13 cm | 352 pp Tate Publishing | 2021 | 9781849767576 In 1965, British artist John Jones left the UK with his young family to live in the USA. There they settled in Greenwich...- £11.00
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