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Looking At Art (With Your Eyes Closed) contains Michael Atavar's teaching from his three courses at Tate. The book helps you to build a relationship with contemporary art, using the gallery as a conduit to feeling and includes 52 exercises (with plenty of tips...

The catalogue of the first comprehensive exhibition on the printmaking of the great French artist Henri Matisse.  The exhibition featured 63 prints from the collection of the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, with artworks bequeathed by Henri Matisse to his younger son Pierre (1900–1989), an...

What started as a personal project, photographing a few artists whose work he admired,developed into a major undertaking when Dennis Toff realised that no single painting or series of images had been produced which attempted to include all of a current membership or group...

This is Dennis Toff's second book of portraits of the members of the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Academicians. Together with the first book, The Painter RAs, it completed his project to produce a record of the membership in 2008. At the time there...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a NON-MINT clearance item as all copies in stock display a weakness in the glue that adheres the cover to the spine. There is a risk of covers coming loose. Deacon's sculptures employ curvilinear forms made from a wide range...

Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential artists of the second half of the twentieth century and is still at the forefront of painting today. His painting September is a response to the bombing of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001,...

This beautifully illustrated book documents Pickett’s Charge, an ambitious and timely project by renowned artist Mark Bradford. Eight new paintings extended nearly four hundred feet to form a 360-degree experience encircling an entire floor of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. Bradford’s monumental installation is...

Offering historical, social, and artistic context for some of the most influential artists and filmmakers from the 1960s to the present day, this timely book looks at three filmic techniques―appropriation, documentary film, and montage―and how they confront the viewer with pieces of reality within...

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 high-key colour, obsessive layering of surface imagery, repeated patterns, stylised motifs and a tension between melancholy and the sublime. Featured artists: Jose...

This generously illustrated volume surveys a new chapter in the history of environmental art, one in which space, geopolitics, human relations, urbanism, and utopian dreamwork play as important a role as, if not more than, raw earth. Discussed are nine case studies by seven...

Rare & Collectible When Jim Holl moved to New York's SoHo district in the mid-1970s, he found himself in the epicentre of the city's booming art scene. Immersing himself in all the city had to offer, Holl began an artistic dialogue with numerous art...

Text in English and German Robin Minard (b.1953) is a Canadian composer and installation artist belonging to the first generation of sound artists. With his permanent and temporary installations, he transforms public spaces, museums and galleries all over the world. Although working with high-tech...

Rare edition This books looks at how Gainsborough's pictures have been disseminated throughout popular culture as manifest in consumer products from the 1700s through to the late twentieth century. It includes not only physical objects such as ceramics and cigarette cards but also fiction,...

Fighting History is the first book to engage with the story of British history painting and its survival into contemporary practice today. Beautifully illustrated with works from the Tate collection, as well as a number of paintings from other institutions and from practicing artists,...

For more than 35 years, Coracle has produced artists' books, critical works, editions and ephemera. Printed in Norfolk tells the story of this contemporary small press in all its manifestations as printer, publisher, bookshop and gallery. The emphasis here is on the years 1989-2012, when,...

British artist Gary Hume first found international fame in the early 1990s, with his series of bold, abstract door paintings. As one of the YBAs, his work was featured in Freeze (1988) and Charles Saatchi's Sensation (1997) exhibition and he has exhibited internationally since,...

The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition has become a British institution, bringing the work of hundreds of artists to the public in the largest event of its kind in the world. The academy's archivist has compiled this collection of more than 70 posters designed to...

This exceptional work is at once an astonishing journey across countries and continents, an immersive examination of a great artist’s work, and a moving and intimate memoir. At the age of 42, his father not long dead and his young sons growing fast, Toby...

‘Any fool can paint, but drawing is the thing and drawing is the test. If you are a good draughtsman you are ipso facto a good painter’ Walter Sickert The drawings included in this publication reveal the working practice of Walter Sickert (1860–1942), an...

The rise of digital photography is perhaps the most manifest legacy of the digital revolution in art. Through the use of sophisticated software and scanners, artists are able to enhance photographs, saturate them with colour, and create mesmerising effects. Focusing exclusively on digital photography...