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  • Desperately Young: Artists Who Died in Their TwentiesDesperately Young: Artists Who Died in Their Twenties
    ACC Art Books

    Desperately Young: Artists Who Died in Their Twenties

    Angela S. Jones & Vern G. Swanson  Hardcover | 24.97 x 2.72 x 29.26 cm | 256 pp ACC Art Books | 2020 | 9781788840842 Desperately Young introduces the masterpieces left behind by some of the greatest rising stars in fine art - all of whom died before...
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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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  • Young Rembrandt: A BiographyYoung Rembrandt: A Biography
    W.W.Norton

    Young Rembrandt: A Biography

    Onno Blom Hardcover | 16.26 x 2.54 x 24.38 cm | 288 pp W. W. Norton | 2020 | 9780393531794 Like Shakespeare, Rembrandt van Rijn left us a world rich with his work but with few clues about his enigmatic life. How did a...
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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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  • Graham Coxon: Verse, Chorus, Monster! (Signed Limited Edition)Graham Coxon: Verse, Chorus, Monster! (Signed Limited Edition)
    Faber & Faber

    Graham Coxon: Verse, Chorus, Monster! (Signed Limited Edition)

    Hardcover in slipcase | 16.51 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm | 320 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571376681 Signed Limited Edition A long-awaited memoir of Blur co-founder, guitar legend and artist Graham Coxon. Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era,...
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  • The Lives of Lucian Freud (2-volume set)The Lives of Lucian Freud (2-volume set)
    Knopf

    The Lives of Lucian Freud (2-volume set)

    William Feaver Hardcover | 1238 pp | 2 volumes Knopf | 2019 | 9780525657521 & 9780525657668 Illustrations: 17 colour and 41 b/w Volume I: The Restless Years (1922-1968)  Volume II: Fame (1968-2011) has eight pages of colour images. PLEASE NOTE: This title has been remainder marked by...
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  • Calder (2-volume set)Calder (2-volume set)
    Knopf

    Calder (2-volume set)

    Jed Perl Hardcover | 1356 pp | 2 volumes Knopf | 2017 | 9780307272720 & 9780451494115 Volume I: The Conquest of Time - The Early Years (1898-1940)  Volume II: The Conquest of Space - The Later Years (1940-1976)  Over 350 illustrations, including little-known works and many archival photographs...
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  • Kim Fowley: Lord of Garbage
    Kicks Books

    Kim Fowley: Lord of Garbage

    Softcover | 11 x 1.1 x 18.5 cm | 150 pp Kicks Books | 2012 | 9780965977760 The autobiography of legendary music producer Kim Fowley told in his own poetry and prose. Kim Vincent Fowley (1939-2015) was an American record producer, songwriter and musician who...
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  • Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement GreenbergArt Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg
    MFA Publications

    Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg

    Alice Goldfarb Marquis Hardcover | 15.04 x 3.02 x 21.69 cm | 336 pp MFA Publications | 2006 | 9780878467013 In the years of his greatest dominance, Clement Greenberg almost single-handedly established Jackson Pollock and the New York School at the centre of the American...
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  • Spellbound by Marcel: Duchamp, Love, and ArtSpellbound by Marcel: Duchamp, Love, and Art
    Pegasus

    Spellbound by Marcel: Duchamp, Love, and Art

    Ruth Brandon Hardcover | 13.97 x 2.79 x 20.96 cm | 352 pp Pegasus | 2022 | 9781643138619  In 1913 Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase exploded through the American art world.  This is the story of how he followed the painting to New York two...
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  • Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through TimeSybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time
    Faber & Faber

    Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time

    Jenny Uglow Softcover | 12.9 x 2.6 x 19.8 cm | 398 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571354160 In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years....
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  • Wendy, Janey, Joanne and Madge: Inspirational Professors of Fashion at the Royal College of Art 1948–2014Wendy, Janey, Joanne and Madge: Inspirational Professors of Fashion at the Royal College of Art 1948–2014
    Unicorn Press

    Wendy, Janey, Joanne and Madge: Inspirational Professors of Fashion at the Royal College of Art 1948–2014

    Henrietta Goodden Hardcover | 20.96 x 2.54 x 26.04 cm | 224 pp Unicorn Press | 2020 | 9781916495777  This is the first biographical study of the women who made the Royal College of Art's School of Fashion a household name. Madge Garland, Janey Ironside,...
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  • Renoir: An Intimate BiographyRenoir: An Intimate Biography
    Thames & Hudson

    Renoir: An Intimate Biography

    Barbara Ehrlich White Hardcover | 17.78 x 4.06 x 24.89 cm | 432 pp Thames & Hudson | 2017 | 9780500239575  The joy that permeates Renoir’s paintings was created by a complicated person. Even close friends and family members were often baffled by the multi-faceted...
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  • The Possible Life of Christian BoltanskiThe Possible Life of Christian Boltanski
    MFA Publications

    The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski

    Christian Boltanski & Catherine Grenier Hardcover | 14.7 x 2.2 x 21 cm | 242 pp MFA Publications | 2009 | 9780878467464 Christian Boltanski's votive installations, archives and objects, revolving around the fragile polarities of memory and amnesia, identity and anonymity, have made him...
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  • David Hockney (Lives of the Artists)David Hockney (Lives of the Artists)
    Laurence King

    David Hockney (Lives of the Artists)

    James Cahill Hardcover | 12.7 x 1.91 x 18.67 cm | 160 pp Laurence King | 2021 | 9781913947422  David Hockney is the most famous living British artist. And he is arguably one of the more famous American artists as well. Emerging from the north...
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  • Judith Kerr’s Creatures: A Celebration of Her Life and WorkJudith Kerr’s Creatures: A Celebration of Her Life and Work
    Harper Collins

    Judith Kerr’s Creatures: A Celebration of Her Life and Work

    Hardcover | 22.6 x 2.2 x 28.6 cm | 176 pp Harper Collins | 2023 | 9780007513215 A lavishly illustrated retrospective in celebration of 100 years since Judith Kerr’s birth, author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and many other iconic books. Judith...
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  • Glen Matlock: Triggers - A Life in Music
    Nine Eight Books

    Glen Matlock: Triggers - A Life in Music

    Hardcover | 16.3 x 3 x 24.4 cm | 336 pp Nine Eight Books | 2023 | 9781788709446 charts the life and career of Sex Pistols legend Glen Matlock through the lens of his most formative songs - from the ones that influenced him...
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  • Johnny Cash: The Life in LyricsJohnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics
    White Rabbit

    Johnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics

    John Carter Cash  Hardcover | 25 x 3.2 x 32 cm | 384 pp White Rabbit | 2023 | 9781399618786 The life of the Man in Black is revealed through his lyrics and by rare photographs and ephemera, in this beautifully illustrated official hardback edition,...
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  • Hanne Darboven: BoundlessHanne Darboven: Boundless
    Hatje Cantz

    Hanne Darboven: Boundless

    Hardcover | 17.78 x 2.03 x 21.84 cm | 262 pp Hatje Cantz | 2015 | 9783775740197 Compiling columns of numbers on typewriter paper, Hanne Darboven (1941-2009) catalogued time. Probably the most important German Conceptual artist, Darboven added, cross-totaled, wrote down, recorded. In her...
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  • Why Karen Carpenter Matters
    Faber & Faber

    Why Karen Carpenter Matters

    Karen Tongson Softcover | 12.9 x 1.1 x 19.8 cm | 138 pp Faber & Faber | 2021 | 9780571369003 In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix...
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