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Vendor:National Gallery
George Shaw: My Back to Nature (Rare edition)
Georg Shaw & Colin Wiggins Hardcover | 25.4 x 1.91 x 26.67 cm | 104 pp National Gallery | 2016 | 9781857096033 Rare & Collectible In 2014, the contemporary painter George Shaw (b. 1966) began a two-year post as associate artist in the National...- £12.50
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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...- £7.50
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Vendor:Thames & Hudson
Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters
Martin Gayford Hardcover | 16.51 x 4.06 x 24.13 cm | 352 pp Thames & Hudson | 2018 | 9780500239773 Modernists & Mavericks presents a masterfully narrated account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated throughout with documentary photographs...- £17.50
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Vendor:Tate Publishing
Terry Frost (Tate British Artists Series)
Chris Stephens Hardcover | 19.05 x 1.27 x 24.77 cm | 96 pp Tate Publishing | 2015 | 9781849763646 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,...- £10.00
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Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting (Rare edition)
Catherine Lampert Hardcover | 16.2 x 2.5 x 23.5 cm | 240 pp Thames and Hudson | 2015 | 9780500239254 Rare & Collectible orn in Berlin in 1931 to Jewish parents, the eight-year-old Auerbach was sent to England in 1939 to escape the Nazi regime....- £20.00
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Vendor:Unicorn Press
Chris Orr: Seeing Ways
Chris Orr & Richard Davey Hardcover | 27 x 3 x 26 cm | 160 pp Unicorn Press | 2025 | 9781916846647 Chris Orr, the well known British painter and printmaker, takes us on a tour of his prodigious and penetrating vision of the world...- £20.00
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Vendor:Yale University Press
Mark Bradford: Pickett's Charge
Stéphane Aquin & Evelyn Hankins Hardcover | 28.58 x 1.27 x 18.42 cm | 96 pp Yale University Press | 2018 | 9780300230772 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...- £10.00
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Vendor:D Giles
Imperfections by Chance: Paul Feeley Retrospective, 1954-1966
Douglas Dreishpoon Hardcover | 25.4 x 2.5 x 30.5 cm | 256 pp D Giles | 2015 | 9781907804786 Paul Feeley (1910-1966) is a towering figure in postwar American modernism. His legendary tenure as head of the art department at Bennington College and resulting associations with...- £10.00
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Vendor:MIT Press
Interplay: Neo-Geo Neoconceptual Art of the 1980s
Amy Brandt Hardcover | 21.29 x 2.03 x 23.65 cm | 240 pp MIT Press | 2014 | 9780262027533 The first in-depth study of a group of artists known for their irony, their theoretical impulses, and their market success in the 1980s. Emerging from New...- £12.50
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Vendor:Prestel
Nicolas Krushenick: Electric Soup
Ian Berry & Harry Cooper Hardcover | 24.61 x 3.02 x 30 cm | 280 pp Prestel | 2017 | 9783791356181 Nicholas Krushenick (b.1929) is a key figure in the history of late 20th-century American art. Juxtaposing broad black lines with bold, flat colours, Krushenick created hard-edged abstractions...- £12.50
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Vendor:Unicorn Press
Wilfred Avery and the Unpredictable Image
Hardcover | 23.19 x 0.86 x 27.41 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 fascination...- £20.00
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Mick Rooney: Touching Mexico
Mick Rooney & Paul Theroux Hardcover | 22.54 x 1.78 x 26.99 cm | 112 pp Unicorn Press | 2024 | 9781916846180 This book paints the story of a Western artist’s discovery of authentic Mexico, encapsulating a journey away from narrow observations of the country’s...- £15.00
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Vendor:Yale University Press
Back to the Drawing Board: Ed Ruscha, Art, and Design in the 1960s
Jennifer Quick Hardcover | 18.42 x 2.54 x 26.04 cm | 208 pp Yale University Press | 2022 | 9780300256925 Back to the Drawing Board is the first book to consider the importance of commercial art and design for Ed Ruscha’s work. Ruscha (b. 1937) emerged...- £12.50
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Vendor:Hatje Cantz
Mark Wallinger (Rare edition)
Hardcover | 20.96 x 1.52 x 27.94 cm | 128 pp Hatje Cantz | 2022 | 9783775753043 Rare & Collectible Accompanying the first exhibition of British artist Mark Wallinger's paintings in Switzerland (Museum Langmatt ) this catalogue focuses on his large-scale Action Paintings, complemented...- £25.00
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Vendor:Unicorn Press
The Art of Michael Fell
Andrew Wilton Hardcover | 25.2 x 1.5 x 30.4 cm | 160 pp Unicorn Press | 2024 | 9781739164058 From the human truths, brutalist architecture and packed tube trains of 1970s London to the vineyards, Renaissance châteaux and riotous festivals of Gascon France, Michael Fell...- £20.00
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Vendor: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...- £15.00
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Vendor:Ludion
Understanding Painting: From Giotto to Warhol
Patrick de Rynck & Jon Thompson Hardcover | 17.78 x 3.49 x 24.45 cm | 512 pp Ludion | 2018 | 9781419730887 Great paintings, filled with complex themes and symbols, can be intimidating. Here, Patrick De Rynck and Jon Thompson explore more than 300 famous works...- £17.50
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Vendor:Unicorn Press
Accidental Alchemy: Oliver Simon, Signature Magazine, and the rise of British Neo-Romantic Art
Neil Wells Hardcover | 19.69 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm | 208 pp Unicorn Press | 2022 | 9781914414343 The significant influence of the periodical Signature on fine art has long been overlooked. While few people nowadays will have read it, no journal has greater...- £15.00
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Vendor:Cameron & Hollis
Merlyn Evans
Mel Gooding Hardcover | 27.1 x 2.4 x 29.3 cm | 192 pp Cameron Books | 2010 | 9780906506264 This is the first full-scale monograph of the life and work of the remarkable British artist Merlyn Evans (1910-73). Deeply affected by the poverty and...- £15.00
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Vendor:TMG Fine Arts
Tom Glynn: Paintings Sculptures Assemblages
James Fox & James Nicholls Hardcover | 27.5 x 1.4 x 22.5 cm | 118 pp TMG Fine Arts | 2022 | 9781399933513 A monograph on British artist Tom Glynn featuring an essay by art historian and broadcaster Dr. James Fox. Tom Glynn’s painting and sculpture explore...- £28.00
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