Museum & Gallery Publications

This catalogue accompanied the artist's solo exhibition commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 2013. It includes colour plates of art works, an interview with the artist by Ian Alteveer and Navina Najat Haidar, the artist's biography, and bibliography.Extending and challenging...

The artist Dan Graham (b. 1942) has a wide-ranging practice that encompasses writing, performance art, installation, video, photography, and architecture. Throughout his career, Graham has examined the symbiosis between architectural environments and their inhabitants, particularly in his pavilions made of glass and mirrors. His...

Celebrated Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas is known for his site-specific sculptural installations. For The Theater of Disappearance, the artist mines The Met's collection, drawing on the five thousand years of world history within its galleries, to create an elaborate ahistorical work. Set atop...

The work of Mexican artist Héctor Zamora engages with urban or built environments, both disrupting and re-articulating the viewer’s interaction with the site. Lattice Detour is fabricated from terracotta bricks produced in Mexico and transported to New York. This compact volume, the first book...

In Look Again: Fashion, esteemed academic and broadcaster Shahidha Bari guides us through the surprising insights that come of these questions - and reveals that thinking about dress can take us into the heart of society, culture, and politics. How we dress can be...

Punctuated by works in Britain's national collection of art, Look Again: Complicity is an insightful meditation on how art can help us reckon with a dark history and an uncertain future. Bookended by visits to Henry Tate's mausoleum and the tomb of Lord Mayor...

This handbook of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s collection, highlights the museum’s extraordinary holdings and its fascinating history. Featuring iconic pieces by artists such as Calder, Hopper, Johns, O’Keeffe, and Warhol―as well as numerous works by under-recognised individuals―this is not only a guide...

Since its introduction by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in 1932, the Whitney Biennial has charted new developments in art and brought emerging artists to light. The first to be held in the Whitney’s critically acclaimed new building in Manhattan’s meatpacking district, the 2017 Biennial was...

Since its inauguration in 1932, the Whitney Biennial has showcased contemporary artistic innovation, becoming a highly anticipated event in the art world. The 2010 Biennial was curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari and featured works by approximately 55 artists working in a variety...

100 Pioneering Women presents a selection of images of remarkable women, who have defied the expectations of their gender and made extraordinary contributions to British life over the past four centuries. This book features some of the National Portrait Gallery’s most famous sitters –...

100 Fashion Icons showcases fashion portraits held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. The sitters include historic and contemporary fashion icons, fashion muses and influential designers, including portraits by notable fashion photographers, with key works accompanied by detailed captions. This concise publication...

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...

The consistently original painter, sculptor and video artist Mark Wallinger has created some of the most subtly intelligent and irreverent work from the UK in the last twenty-five years. Studying in London at the Chelsea School of Art (1978 81) and Goldsmiths College (1983-5),...

American artist Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) is a master of creating art that is at once playful and profound. Ruscha’s inimitable work frequently involves the setting of a single word or phrase against a stained background or monumental landscape. His paintings, prints, drawings, photographs,...

Ever since he made his debut on the international scene in the early 1990s, the originality of Olafur Eliasson's visual language has been clear. Viewers play a major role in his art, and each work is made in relation to them. Drawing on a...

Terry Frost was one of Britain's great abstract painters. His career spanned seven decades, starting with his introduction to art in a prisoner of war camp, and stretching into the twenty-first century. He drew inspiration from a wide range of sources, but most especially...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was one of the most influential artists of the twentieth-century, working in an unprecedented variety of styles. A Spanish painter, sculptor, etcher, lithographer, ceramist and designer who spent most of his adult life in France, he is known for co-founding the...

Susan Hiller was born in the United States in 1940, and studied and worked as an anthropologist before becoming an artist and settling in London in the early 1970s. Hiller's startlingly original works are inspired by overlooked and unnoticed aspects of our culture, including...

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,...

Rare & Collectible This survey of the history and legacy of CONTROL Magazine was published on the occasion of the exhibition CONTROL at Tate Liverpool, 2018. Founded in 1965 by Stephen Willats, CONTROL remains one of the few artists' publications from the 1960s thriving to...