Female Creatives

Suzi Gablik Softcover | 15.75 x 1.27 x 23.62 cm | 168 pp Thames & Hudson | 2004 | 9780500284841 In 1984, Suzi Gablik's Has Modernism Failed? was one of the first books to confront the social situation of contemporary art. In describing a world whose central...

Simon Cutts & Erica Van Horn Hardcover | 14.5 x 18.5 cm | 48 pp Coracle | 2023 | 9780906630679 Edition of 300 Coracle has been producing books and other printed artefacts displaced from the page, often leading to installations for walls and other...

Hardcover | 18.5 x 14.5 cm | 64pp  Coracle | 2021 | 9780906630631 Edition of 250 Made at the time of the epidemic lockdown in all of Europe, but where life in our valley was much as it usually is, but with no visitors....

Susie Hodge & Sarah Papworth Hardcover | 14.73 x 2.16 x 20.7 cm | 192 pp Frances Lincoln | 2021 | 9780711255869 Artistic Circles introduces some of the most inspirational stories of friendship, love, creativity and shared passions in the world of art. Whether through teaching, as...

Juliet Bingham Softcover | 20.96 x 2.22 x 26.99 cm | 224 pp Tate Publishing | 2017 | 9781849764650 Russian-born conceptual artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov are among the most celebrated artists of their generation. Known for their pioneering large-scale environments and installations, their...

Hardcover | 27.94 x 1.91 x 10.16 cm | 124 pp Sei Swann | 2009 | 9780615280127 Best known for her controversial 2005 postmortem portrait series The Travellers, which The New York Times called "a peek... at the vibrant, living face beneath the mask...

Hardcover | 18 x 20 cm | 112 pp Schlit Publishing | 2021 | 9789053309476 "Load right, aim sharp, and shoot well. The satisfaction of good pictures will be your reward." – Brownie Hawkeye Instruction Manual, 1959David Pace was given a Brownie Hawkeye on his...

Softcover | 16.51 x 1.91 x 24.13 cm | 176 pp Yale University Press | 2014 | 9780300195866 This important volume explores three unique performance art practices of the 1970s and early 1980s: 'Object Theater' (in which artists engage directly with the objects in...

Hardcover | 15 x 14 cm | 144 pp Coracle | 2019 | 978906630624 Gertrude Stein’s sentences Descriptions of Literature were originally written by hand, then later typeset for printing and publication. Here they are handwritten again by Erica Van Horn.  Writing someone else’s...

Nancy Kuhl Hardcover | 12.5 x 21.5 cm | 128 pp Coracle | 2010 | 9780906630419 In the work of Erica Van Horn, books collect and transform remnants, remembrances, remainders and reminders. From fragments that might otherwise be forgotten, she makes new inventories and series...

Softcover | 12.8 x 0.7 x 18 cm | 48 pp Coracle | 1980 Numbered edition of 750 Rare & Collectable Published in 1980, this artist’s book collects together a series of black and white photographs of an outdoor garden documenting the transformations taking...

Softcover | 11 x 0.3 x 15 cm | 16 pp Coracle | 2006 When having guests staying for few days, Erica Van Horn asks them to fold their napkins in a particular way so they will remember which one is theirs. Sometimes they...

Jenny Uglow Softcover | 12.9 x 2.6 x 19.8 cm | 398 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571354160 In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years....

Softcover | 19.05 x 1.27 x 24.77 cm | 144 Yale University Press | 2020 | 9780300250862 German artist Lin May Saeed (b. 1973) grapples with the complex entanglements of humans and animals. Her work centres on the nonhuman animal and revisits, revises, or...

Softcover | 13.97 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm | 148 pp Onestar | 2014 | 9782915359442 Operating from a small, single-room structure installed at Documenta 13, art historian and "60 wrd/min art critic" Lori Waxman offered free reviews to any artist who wanted one....

Hardcover | 22.86 x 1.27 x 31.12 cm | 64 pp Hatje Cantz | 2008 | 9783775719681 Fides Becker (b. 1962) lures us into a world of dreams in which princesses seem to stroll through pleasure palaces and spacious park meadows. Becker uses her...

Hardcover |  24.77 x 1.91 x 33.5 cm | 224 pp Prestel | 2016 |  9783791355283 A lavishly illustrated book on the acclaimed visual artist, videographer, and filmmaker Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, whose exceptionally diverse body of work explores her haunting visions of the past, present...

Karen Tongson Softcover | 12.9 x 1.1 x 19.8 cm | 138 pp Faber & Faber | 2021 | 9780571369003 In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix...

Cameron Russell Hardcover | 13.5 x 2.1 x 21.6 cm | 224 pp Oneworld Publications | 2024 | 9780861547869 The realities of the fashion industry is exposed in this devastating account of the life of a successful supermodel. Scouted by a modelling agent when she...

Glenn Phillips Hardcover | 24.13 x 3.81 x 29.85 cm | 328 pp Getty Publications | 2008 | 9780892369225 Published to accompany a landmark exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 2008, California Video presents the first comprehensive survey of the history of video...