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  • Great Works: Encounters with ArtGreat Works: Encounters with Art
    Prestel

    Great Works: Encounters with Art

    Michael Glover Hardcover | 17.78 x 3.81 x 24.77 cm | 224 pp Prestel | 2016 | 9783791383019 Every Saturday for the best part of a decade, thousands of people have turned to the pages of the The Independent newspaper to read Michael Glover's thoughts about...
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  • Laughing in a Foreign LanguageLaughing in a Foreign Language
    Hayward Gallery

    Laughing in a Foreign Language

    Softcover | 19.05 x 2.29 x 23.5 cm | 151 pp Hayward Gallery | 2008 | 9781853322662 Laughing in a Foreign Language explores the role of laughter and humour in contemporary art through the work of over 30 international artists working in a range...
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  • Based on Paper: The Marzona Collection - Revolution in Art 1960-1975Based on Paper: The Marzona Collection - Revolution in Art 1960-1975
    Konig

    Based on Paper: The Marzona Collection - Revolution in Art 1960-1975

    Michael Lailach & Andzeas Schalhorn Hardcover | 24.77 x 1.91 x 27.31 cm | 184 pp Konig | 2007 | 9783865602275 Egidio Marzona's intensive experience with contemporary art forms the basis for his encyclopaedic collecting activity, which started in the mid-1960s and continues to the...
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    £12.50
  • Contemporary Art in Print: The Paragon Press 2001-2006Contemporary Art in Print: The Paragon Press 2001-2006
    Booth-Clibborn Editions

    Contemporary Art in Print: The Paragon Press 2001-2006

    Hardcover | 25.4 x 3.18 x 30.16 cm | 336 pp Booth-Clibborn Editions | 2007 | 9781861543059 Includes a poster of Grayson Perry's etching Map of an Englishman (90.5 x 67.5 cm) Founded by Charles Booth-Clibborn in 1986, The Paragon Press has gained an international reputation...
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  • Magic ShowMagic Show
    Hayward Gallery

    Magic Show

    Jonathan Allen & Sally O'Reilly  Softcover | 17.78 x 0.64 x 24.13 cm | 115 pp Hayward Gallery | 2009 | 9781853322815 Published in conjunction with a 2009 Hayward Gallery exhibition, Magic Show demonstrates how visual artists adopt the perception-shifting tactics of the theatrical magician to explore...
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  • 100 Ideas that Changed Art100 Ideas that Changed Art
    Laurence King

    100 Ideas that Changed Art

    Michael Bird Softcover | 17.02 x 1.78 x 21.59 cm | 216 pp Laurence King | 2019 | 9781786273888  From the earliest cave paintings through to the internet and street art, this inspiring book chronicles the 100 most influential ideas that have shaped the world...
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  • Art in the Making: Artists and their Materials from the Studio to CrowdsourcingArt in the Making: Artists and their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing
    Thames & Hudson

    Art in the Making: Artists and their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing

    Glenn Adamson & Julia Bryan-Wilson Hardcover | 18.03 x 2.54 x 23.88 cm | 248 pp Thames & Hudson | 2016 | 9780500239339  Today’s artists have an unprecedented level of choice with regard to materials and methods available to them, yet the processes involved in making...
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  • Creation: Art Since the BeginningCreation: Art Since the Beginning
    Bloomsbury

    Creation: Art Since the Beginning

    John-Paul Stonard Hardcover | 19.43 x 4.06 x 25.17 cm | 464 pp Bloomsbury | 2021 | 9781408879689 A fully illustrated, panoramic world history of art from ancient civilisation to the present day, exploring the remarkable endurance of humankind's creative impulse.Fifty thousand years ago on an island...
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  • Disorder in the House: Vanhaerents Art CollectionDisorder in the House: Vanhaerents Art Collection
    Lannoo

    Disorder in the House: Vanhaerents Art Collection

    Hardcover | 23.83 x 1.57 x 28.22 cm | 144 pp Lannoo | 2010 | 9789020991055 Contains explicit sexual images Disorder in the House was the first presentation of the collection of contemporary art that Walter Vanhaerents has assembled across thirty years. The Vanhaerents...
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  • Social Strategies: Redefining Social RealismSocial Strategies: Redefining Social Realism
    University of Washington Press

    Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism

    Softcover | 20.96 x 0.64 x 29.21 cm | 72 pp University of Washington Press | 2003 | 9780295983257 Social Realism was first labeled as a definable art movement in the 1920s, when art and propaganda merged during the Russian Revolution. Much of today's...
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  • Rhetorical ImageRhetorical Image
    New Museum of Contemporary Art

    Rhetorical Image

    Softcover | 22.23 x 1.27 x 29.85 cm | 98 pp New Museum of Contemporary Art | 1990 | 9780915557714 Rhetorical Image examines how artists of different backgrounds and generations use their work to respond to political conditions. Guest Curator Milena Kalinvoska invited an...
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  • Look At This If You Love Great Art: A Critical Curation of 100 Essential ArtworksLook At This If You Love Great Art: A Critical Curation of 100 Essential Artworks
    Ivy Press

    Look At This If You Love Great Art: A Critical Curation of 100 Essential Artworks

    Chloë Ashby Hardcover | ‎17.15 x 2.54 x 23.11 cm | 224 pp Ivy Press | 2021 | 9780711256064 Look At This If You Love Great Art is a must read for anyone with a passion for exceptional art. Featuring 100 of the best artworks ever produced,...
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  • Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the BodyLike Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body
    Yale University Press

    Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body

    Hardcover | 20.32 x 3.18 x 30.48 cm | 312 pp Yale University Press | 2018 | 9781588396440 Seven hundred years of sculptural practice—from fourteenth-century Europe to the global present—are examined anew in this catalogue of the groundbreaking 2018 exhibition presented at The Met, New York....
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  • Demons, Yarns and Tales: Tapestries by Contemporary ArtistsDemons, Yarns and Tales: Tapestries by Contemporary Artists
    Damiani

    Demons, Yarns and Tales: Tapestries by Contemporary Artists

    Hardcover | 23.1 x 1.6 x 31.7 cm | 106 pp Damiani | 2011 | 9788862080767 Fifteen internationally renowned artists explore a medium foreign to their usual practice, experimenting within the lost world of wall-hanging tapestry. Three years in the making, the fourteen tapestries...
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    £17.50
  • Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent PaintingBeauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent Painting
    East of Borneo

    Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent Painting

    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...
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  • The American Dream: Pop to the Present (British Museum)The American Dream: Pop to the Present (British Museum)
    Thames & Hudson

    The American Dream: Pop to the Present (British Museum)

    Stephen Coppel & Catherine Daunt  Softcover | 25 x 28 cm | 332 pp Thames and Hudson | 2017 | 9780500292822 The American Dream: From Pop to Present presents an overview of the development of American printmaking since 1960, paying particular attention to key figures such as Jasper...
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  • The New CuratorThe New Curator
    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...
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  • Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art 1945–1980Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art 1945–1980
    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...
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    £35.00
    £7.50
  • Creamier: Contemporary Art in CultureCreamier: Contemporary Art in Culture
    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...
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    £15.00
  • More Real?: Art in the Age of TruthinessMore Real?: Art in the Age of Truthiness
    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...
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