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  • This is GauginThis is Gaugin
    Laurence King

    This is Gaugin

    George Roddam & Slawa Harasymowicz Hardcover | 15.88 x 2.06 x 24.13 cm | 80 pp Laurence King | 2014 | 9781780671895 Paul Gauguin created some of the most advanced art in a brilliant generation of artists – all of whom struggled against the stifling conformity of...
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  • The Dialectics of ArtThe Dialectics of Art
    Haymarket Books

    The Dialectics of Art

    John Molyneux Softcover | 15.24 x 2.03 x 22.61 cm | 300 pp Haymarket Books | 2020 | 9781642591316 To the question of "what is art?", it is often simply responded that art is whatever is produced by the artist. For John Molyneux, this clearly...
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  • Max Bill Global: An Artist Building BridgesMax Bill Global: An Artist Building Bridges
    Scheidegger & Spiess

    Max Bill Global: An Artist Building Bridges

    Nina Zimmer & Fabienne Eggelhöfer Softcover | 20.96 x 2.29 x 27.94 cm | 256 pp Scheidegger & Spiess | 2022 | 9783858818775 This new monograph takes a fresh look both at Bill's remarkable achievements across his diverse fields of creative activity and at his international network, highlighting...
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  • David Smith (Phaidon Focus)David Smith (Phaidon Focus)
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    Phaidon

    David Smith (Phaidon Focus)

    Joan Pachner Hardcover | 18.42 x 1.59 x 25.4 cm | 144 pp Phaidon | 2013 | 9780714861562 One of the best-known American sculptors of the modern period, David Smith (1906–1965) was a pioneer of abstract sculpture. He revolutionised the possibilities of metal sculpture...
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  • Cameos and Intaglios: The Art of Engraved GemstonesCameos and Intaglios: The Art of Engraved Gemstones
    Editions Gallimard

    Cameos and Intaglios: The Art of Engraved Gemstones

    Philippe Malgouyres Softcover | 15.67 x 1.22 x 20.68 cm | 76 pp Editions Gallimard | 2022 | 9782072943270 Featuring over one hundred precious masterpieces from the world's greatest museums and private collections, this reference work provides an introduction to the history of glyptics...
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  • What Was Contemporary Art?What Was Contemporary Art?
    MIT Press

    What Was Contemporary Art?

    Richard Meyer Hardcover | 18.42 x 3.18 x 24.13 cm | 360 pp MIT Press | 2013 | 9780262135085 Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as if the very idea of art that is contemporary is new. Yet all works...
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  • Wilfred Avery and the Unpredictable ImageWilfred Avery and the Unpredictable Image
    Unicorn Press

    Wilfred Avery and the Unpredictable Image

    Hardcover | 63.5 x 2.29 x 177.8 cm | 160 pp Unicorn | 2023 | 9781911397618 The painter and collagist Wilfred Avery (1926-2016) tackled just two subjects in his career: landscape and the male body. A sixty-year investigation into both developed out of his...
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  • Emil Nolde: The Artist During the Third ReichEmil Nolde: The Artist During the Third Reich
    Prestel

    Emil Nolde: The Artist During the Third Reich

    Bernhard Fulda Hardcover | 23.5 x 3.66 x 30.48 cm | 320 pp Prestel | 2019 | 9783791358949 Emil Nolde created some of the most powerful works of the Expressionist movement. Despite the fact that his art was represented more prominently than anyone else's...
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  • Thinking About Drawing: An Introduction to Themes and ConceptsThinking About Drawing: An Introduction to Themes and Concepts
    Bloomsbury

    Thinking About Drawing: An Introduction to Themes and Concepts

    Simon Grennan Softcover | 13.84 x 1.4 x 21.34 cm | 176 pp Bloomsbury | 2022 | 9781350265936  This accessible book explains the significance of relationships between the body and the mark, visual imitation, drawing and writing and visual storytelling, providing a simple guide...
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  • Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965-1981Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965-1981
    MIT Press

    Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965-1981

    Klara Kemp-Welch Hardcover | 23.11 x 18.29 x 3.05 cm | 480 pp MIT Press | 2019 | 9780262038300 he story of the experimental zeitgeist in Eastern European art, seen through personal encounters, pioneering dialogues, collaborative projects, and cultural exchanges. Throughout the 1970s, a network...
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  • Reflections on Nature: Small Paintings by Arthur Dove, 1942-1943Reflections on Nature: Small Paintings by Arthur Dove, 1942-1943
    Amer Federation of Arts

    Reflections on Nature: Small Paintings by Arthur Dove, 1942-1943

    Hardcover | 21.59 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm | 80 pp Amer Federation of Arts | 1997 | 9781885444059 Arthur Dove’s pursuit of an original language of expression made him a pioneer of American abstraction and a source for later painters. Reflections on Nature...
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  • Philip Hoare: Albert & the WhalePhilip Hoare: Albert & the Whale
    Fourth Estate

    Philip Hoare: Albert & the Whale

    Philip Hoare Softcover | 12.9 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm | 304 pp Fourth Estate | 2021 | 9780008323295  An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of Leviathan. Albrecht Dürer changed the way we saw nature...
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  • Lowry at Home: Clive ArrowsmithLowry at Home: Clive Arrowsmith
    ACC

    Lowry at Home: Clive Arrowsmith

    Hardcover | 20.02 x 1.5 x 23.65 cm | 80pp ACC | 2017 | 9781851498659 On two cold grey days in 1966, LS Lowry was joined by a young photographer on one of his first assignments for Nova Magazine. Clive Arrowsmith had been commissioned to photograph Lowry...
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  • David Hockney: 20 PhotographsDavid Hockney: 20 Photographs
    David Hockney Studio

    David Hockney: 20 Photographs

    Softcover | 28 x 0.4 x 21.6 cm | 28 pp David Hockney Studio | 1996 Limited edition of 5,000 Rare & Collectable This rarity from almost thirty years ago was self-published, without an ISBN, by David Hockney Studio. These photographic works pointed to...
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  • Bauhaus Goes West: Modern Art and Design in Britain and AmericaBauhaus Goes West: Modern Art and Design in Britain and America
    Thames & Hudson

    Bauhaus Goes West: Modern Art and Design in Britain and America

    Alan Powers Hardcover | 16.51 x 3.56 x 24.13 cm | 304 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500519929  Bauhaus Goes West is a story of cultural exchange – between the Bauhaus émigrés in the years following the school’s closure in 1933 and the countries...
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  • Gainsborough PopGainsborough Pop
    Paul Holberton Publishing

    Gainsborough Pop

    Hugh Belsey & Christopher Wright Softcover | 17 x 0.3 x 24.4 | 40 pp Paul Holberton Publishing | 2002 | 9781903470084 Gainsborough's pictures through the popular imagination as manifest in objects and consumer products - ceramics and cigarette cards to fiction, film and...
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  • Martin Ramirez: Reframing ConfinementMartin Ramirez: Reframing Confinement
    Prestel

    Martin Ramirez: Reframing Confinement

    Lynne Cooke Hardcover | 22.86 x 2.54 x 28.58 cm | 208 pp Prestel | 2010 |  9783791350486 Martin Ramirez (1895-1963) was a self-taught artist who created nearly 450 drawings of remarkable visual clarity and expressive power while confined in a California mental institution...
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  • It Speaks to Me: Art that Inspires ArtistsIt Speaks to Me: Art that Inspires Artists
    Prestel

    It Speaks to Me: Art that Inspires Artists

    Jori Finkel Hardcover | 20.14 x 2.08 x 24.92 cm | 160 pp Prestel | 2019 | 9783791356594 Imagine your favourite artist leading you through a museum to the very work of art they can't stop thinking about. That's the experience at the heart of...
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  • Josef Albers: Life and WorkJosef Albers: Life and Work
    Thames & Hudson

    Josef Albers: Life and Work

    Charles Darwent Hardcover | 17.27 x 3.81 x 24.89 cm | 352 pp Thames & Hudson | 2018 | 9780500519103 While Josef Albers’ Bauhaus colleagues Klee and Kandinsky are household names, Albers himself has remained inscrutable. He is best known as the painter of the Homages...
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  • Lee and Me: An Intimate Portrait of Lee KrasnerLee and Me: An Intimate Portrait of Lee Krasner
    Officina Libraria

    Lee and Me: An Intimate Portrait of Lee Krasner

    Ruth Appelhof Hardcover | 17 x 2.62 x 24 cm | 192 pp Officina Libraria | 2019 | 9788833670164 Angry, outrageous, defiant, and courageous are some of the words that describe the American Abstract Expressionist artist Lee Krasner (1908-1984) – the subject of this...
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