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Vendor: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...- £7.50
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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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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: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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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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Fugues in Color: Sam Gilliam, Katharina Grosse, Steven Parrino, Megan Rooney, Niele Toroni
Softcover | 20.2 x 2.3 x 28 cm | 216 pp Gallimard Editions | 2022 | 9782072979910 The exhibition at Foundation Louis Vuitton brought together five contemporary artists of international stature: Sam Gilliam (United States, 1933), Katharina Grosse (Germany, 1961), Steven Parrino (United States,...- £17.50
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Vendor:Lund Humphries
Katharina Grosse (Contemporary Painters)
Gregory Volk Hardcover | 24 x 1.7 x 28 cm | 144 pp Lund Humphries | 2020 | 9781848223233 This is a rich and comprehensive monograph on the innovative abstract site related installations of German artist Katharina Grosse (b.1961). Grosse's daring move from the...- £15.00
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Vendor:Lund Humphries
Jacqueline Humphries (Contemporary Painters)
Frances Guerin Hardcover | 24 x 1.7 x 28 cm | 144 pp Lund Humphries | 2022 | 9781848224728 Over the last three decades, Jacqueline Humphries (b.1960) has, through an innovative painterly process, challenged the limits of abstraction. She has produced a body of...- £15.00
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Ding Yi (Contemporary Painters)
Tony Godfrey & Kaimei Wang Hardcover | 24 x 1.7 x 28 cm | 144 pp Lund Humphries | 2020 | 9781848223790 This is the first monograph to give an overview of the entire career to date of artist Ding Yi (b. 1962), whose...- £17.50
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Guillermo Kuitca (Contemporary Painters)
Raphael Rubenstein Hardcover | 24 x 1.7 x 28 cm | 144 pp Lund Humphries | 2020 | 9781848223738 This book presents a detailed account of Guillermo Kuitca's major bodies of work, analysing his diverse range of imagery and reflecting on his engagement with...- £15.00
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Philip Taaffe (Contemporary Painters)
Hardcover | 24.13 x 2.03 x 28.58 cm | 144 pp Lund Humphries | 2018 | 9781848222632 This book presents a comprehensive view of the work of American painter Philip Taaffe (b.1955), who has expanded the parameters of painting through his use of silkscreen,...- £20.00
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Vendor:Tate Publishing
September: A History Painting by Gerhard Richter
Robert Storr Softcover | 18.1 x 1.27 x 22.23 cm | 96 pp Tate Publishing | 2010 | 9781854379641 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....- £6.50
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Vendor:Hatje Cantz
Mondrian and Photography: Picturing the Artist and his Work
Wietse Coppes & Leo Jansen Hardcover | 24.13 x 3.81 x 27.31 cm | 368 pp Hatje Cantz | 2023 | 9783775754002 The general public’s image of Mondrian is of a serious man in a suit and tie with a reserved, rather aloof look. It...- £30.00
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Jean Dubuffet: Metamorphoses of Landscape (German Language Edition)
Softcover | 27.4 x 2.5 x 31 cm | 227 pp Hatje Cantz | 2016 | 9783775740982 Text in German With his pioneering visual language, not least inspired by children and the mentally ill, Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) succeeded in disengaging himself from traditions and...- £25.00
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Jean Dubuffet e Venezia (Collectable edition)
Hardcover | 25 x 1.5 x 22.5 cm | 72 pp 5 Continents Editions | 2019 | 9788874399093 Rare & Collectible The roots of the strong link between Jean Dubuffet and Venice lie in the past. It is no accident that the city has...- £40.00
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Piet Mondrian A-Z
Ulf Küster Hardcover | 13.34 x 1.78 x 19.69 cm | 120 pp Hatje Cantz | 2022 | 9783775752480 Pivotal in modern art’s move towards abstraction, Piet Mondrian’s oeuvre is extraordinarily versatile and complex. Not only did he paint and draw, he also wrote extensively...- £9.00
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Lygia Pape: The Skin of ALL
Softcover | 22.23 x 3.81 x 30.48 cm | 448 pp Hatje Cantz | 2022 | 9783775752251 As one of the key figures of Brazil’s Neo-Concrete movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Lygia Pape developed a specific understanding of geometric abstraction that...- £40.00
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Vendor:Hayward Gallery
Gary Hume: Flashback
Hardcover | 22.2 x 1.9 x 25.4 cm | 96 pp Hayward Gallery Publishing | 2012 | 9781853322990 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...- £7.50
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