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Making Art in Africa
What does it mean to make art in Africa? In Making Art in Africa, 60 of the continent's leading artists give very different answers to this question through a series of extraordinary first-hand commentaries relating to specific works.
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Eduardo Paolozzi
Artist Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) was a unique cultural figure. His varied yet instantly recognisable work chronicles the significant changes in British art from the austere 1950s to the post-post-modern late 1990s. This highly illustrated and visually exciting book provides the first comprehen...
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Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) was a pivotal figure in Abstract Expressionism and stands as one of the most important characters of post-war American art. This ground-breaking catalogue raisonne of paintings, which has been painstakingly researched over sixteen years.
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C.R.W. Nevinson
C.R.W. Nevinson (1889-1946) is regarded as one of the finest British printmakers of the first half of the twentieth century - admired by contemporaries and modern-day viewers in equal measure. Drawing on original archival research and including a catalogue raisonne of Nevinson's prints.
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Edward Seago
This is the definitive account of the life and work of Edward Seago (1910-1974), the highly popular, versatile and talented British painter whose work was inspired by John Sell Cotman, John Constable and Alfred Munnings.
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Lynn Chadwick Sculptor
Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) was one of the leading British sculptors of his generation. This essential illustrated catalogue raisonne of his sculpture is published in a new, fourth edition to coincide with Chadwick's centenary in 2014 and incorporates a new illustrated listing of his lithographs a...
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Visual Arts and the Law
This essential handbook offers art professionals and collectors an accessible legal analysis of important principles in art law, as well as a practical guide to legal rights when creating, buying, selling and collecting art in a global market.
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Ori Gersht
Ori Gersht's artistic practice bridges a history that is full of traumas, whether it is the scars left on the sunlit yet war-torn buildings in Sarajevo, the white noise of his train journey to Auschwitz, or the clearing of trees in a forest that once stood witness to mass murder in the Ukraine.
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Edward Burra
Edward Burra (1905-76) was an English painter who is best known for his paintings of the seedy underworld of urban life. Yet, as this fascinating new monograph on his work reveals, his interests were much broader, incorporating landscape and still-life paintings, stage designs, book illustration...
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The Drawings of Henry Moore
Henry Moore's Shelter Drawings are universally recognised as a key element of his oeuvre. However, these drawings should not be seen in isolation. This title presents an account of the development of Moore's work as a draughtsman, providing a discussion of this significant aspect of his artistic ...
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The Bronzes of Rodin
This is a catalogue raisonné of Rodin's bronzes. There are 455 entries with over a thousand pictures in 2 volumes. Each work lists the inventory number, the technique and a bibliography. Information about provenance and historical context along with comparison to other works is also included. The...
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The Prints of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Provides an account of the printmaking career of British artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004), with reference to the technical innovations that she pioneered. This work incorporates an illustrated catalogue of the artist's known work in etching, linocut, lithography, screenprinting and mono...
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Klimt, Schiele, Moser, Kokoschka
Exploring the paintings of the key artists of the Secessionist Movement within the context of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, this book, which comprises over 200 colour images, pays attention for the first time to the contribution made by Koloman Moser.
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Studio Potters
This book celebrates and catalogues the Bell Collection of British studio pottery and is an important resource for all those interested in 20th-century ceramics. The collection is centred on the pioneering work of Bernard Leach and his followers.
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NextGen Collectors and the Art Market
An incisive survey from bestselling art-market commentator Georgina Adam of the changing landscape of art collecting as a younger generation of collectors disrupts the status quo. Drawing on new interviews with collectors and art-market specialists internationally, Adam examines how changes in co...
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Lessons from Liverpool
This book traces the Liverpool School of Architecture’s new building from educational brief to completion, highlighting the competition process, the winning design by O’Donnell + Tuomey, and learning through its construction. It situates the project within its historic context as well as broader ...
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Real Rooms
The book explores why people are drawn to house museums and recreated domestic spaces, showing how they evoke nostalgia, curiosity and empathy. Through diverse case studies, it examines how homes are preserved and reimagined to convey the meaning of lived experience.
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Biennials
Biennials: The Exhibitions we Love to Hate offers a critical assessment of the current discussions around the subject of contemporary biennials and how these might be used to illuminate potential new approaches in this area of study.
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Moholy-Nagy in Britain
This highly visual book weaves together rarely seen images, documents and narrative to create a fascinating picture of Moholy-Nagy during this critical and highly productive phase of his life.
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Leonora Carrington
A survey of the life and work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (born 1917). It provides an overview of this intriguing artist's rich body of work and considers Carrington's preoccupation with alchemy and the occult.
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: A Studio Life
British artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) played a key role in the development of modern abstract art in Britain. This new paperback edition of Lynne Green's classic monograph completes the story of the artist's life and work with a new Coda covering Barns-Graham's final years.
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Provenance Research Today
This indispensable handbook, co-published with the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR), covers all major aspects of provenance research and guides the reader through the theoretical and practical complexities of this challenging subject.
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Kurt Jackson Sketchbooks
The paintings executed by Kurt Jackson (b.1961) do not reveal his day-to-day working practice. Behind his finished canvases are hundreds of sketchbooks borne out of his continual routine of making drawings, marks, notes, poems and scribbles. This book, newly available in paperback, examines the i...
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Alan Davie and David Hockney
This publication accompanies the first exhibition to explore the remarkable early work of two greats of post-war painting, Alan Davie (1920-2014) and David Hockney (b.1937).
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Mary Fedden
Mary Fedden (1915-2012) is one of Britain's most popular artists. The focus of this acclaimed book, newly available in paperback in celebration of her life's achievement, is the artist's creative process in various different media - oil, gouache, pencil and collage. In an engaging text.
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Surrealism in Britain
A comprehensive study of the British surrealist movement and its achievements. The illustrated text provides a year-by-year narrative of the development of surrealism among artists, writers, critics and theorists in Britain.
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Sandra Blow
Sandra Blow is one of the most important British artists of the last 50 years, committed to abstract painting and with a large and diverse body of work. Yet, despite this, little has previously been published about her. This is the first full-length study of Blow's life and art.
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The St Ives Artists: New Edition
New in paperback: Michael Bird's bestselling chronicle of the St Ives artists, illustrated in colour throughout.
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Underground Cities
Underground City explores how new ideas and technologies are transforming the ways we build and inhabit underground space and how these innovations can help to make our increasingly dense, climate-stressed cities both more resilient and more of a pleasure to live in.
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Ruskin's Venice: The Stones Revisited New Edition
In Ruskin’s Venice: The Stones Revisited, newly published in a revised, extended edition, photographer Sarah Quill has selected passages from Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice and has linked them to her own photographs of Venetian architecture, so creating a fascinating guide that fuses Ruskin's visi...
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Ivon Hitchens
Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) is widely regarded as the outstanding English landscape painter of the 20th century. Immediately recognisable by its daring yet subtle use of colour and brushmark to evoke the spirit of place, his work is to be found in public and private collections throughout the world.
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London Transport Posters
Celebrates a century of outstanding graphic design commissioned by the Underground, London Transport, and its successor, Transport for London. This book explores the organisation's pioneering role as Britain's greatest patron of poster art.
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A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language
This is a revised second edition of A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language first published in 1962. It is based on and replaces Thatcher's Arabic Grammar and has a vocabulary of over 4,000 words, almost twice as many as in the old Thatcher, while the number of chapters has been increased fr...
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Key to a New Arabic Grammar
This book is the valuable Key to A New Arabic Grammar, the bestselling introduction to the Arabic language for over thirty years. Although A New Arabic Grammar is intended primarily as a teaching grammar not as a 'teach yourself' work, it has become clear that it is being used as a means of lear...
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The Front Room
The Front Room: Diaspora Migrant Aesthetics in the Home, originally published in 2009, has become a beloved and much-praised source, providing fascinating revelations into the post-war British experience of immigrants, the decoration of their living spaces and their position in society in relatio...
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Eric Ravilious
More popular than ever, the work of Eric Ravilious (1903-42) is rooted in the landscape of mid-20th-century England. Now available in paperback, this best-selling book by Alan Powers, the established authority on Ravilious, is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of his art in all media.
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Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters
Celebrating the generous gift of Barbara Hepworth's plasters to The Hepworth Wakefield by the Hepworth Estate, this publication combines a fully illustrated catalogue of the sculptor's surviving prototypes in plaster with a detailed analysis of her working methods and a comprehensive history of h...
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Dark Side of the Boom
A sharp-eyed assessment of the negative impact of the excesses at the top of the contemporary-art market in the 21st century, covering forgery, fraud, money-laundering, over-production and tax evasion, and drawing on a series of revealing interviews with artists, lawyers, dealers, law-enforcement...
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New Art, New Markets
This fully revised second edition updates the reader on rapidly evolving markets. As well as surveying emerging art markets throughout the world, the book is concerned with how value in non-Western contemporary art is constructed largely by external political events and economic factors rather th...
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The Culture Factory
The Culture Factory: Architecture and the Contemporary Art Museum examines museum design using international examples from Western Europe, China, Brazil and the USA. Written accessibly, it argues that the development of the art museum since the mid-1970s has involved the deliberate blurring of bo...
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Enid Marx
Enid Marx (1902–1998) was a leading artist and designer, collector and writer, who played an important role in British cultural life in the mid-20th century. Now available in paperback, Alan Powers’ definitive account of her career makes a welcome return to print after its original publication in...
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The IBM Poster Program
Featuring 111 award-winning poster designs, the book tells the story of the development of the visual language of one of the 20th century's most important corporations.
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The Art Collector's Handbook
This new edition of Mary Rozell's definitive handbook is required reading for new and experienced collectors alike, as well as for anyone aspiring to a professional career within today's art market.
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
In May 1949, the Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) visited the Grindelwald Glacier in Switzerland. It was a trip which would have a profound and lasting impact on her work. Charting the journey, the beautiful work it stimulated and wider questions around glacial landscapes, then...
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The Museum Curator’s Guide
The Museum Curator's Guide is a reference book for professionals starting out in the arts and museum sector, drawing on the author's curatorial and academic expertise.
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The Ends of Art Criticism
An engaging critical discussion of the aims and status of contemporary art criticism written by a highly respected art critic of many years' standing.
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Karl Weschke and Cornwall's Lost Modernism
In re-examining the paintings of Karl Weschke (1925-2005), this first in-depth scholarly account of the artist's remarkable life unlocks much that has been over-looked, hidden, misunderstood or misrepresented about the art produced in and around St Ives. Matt Retallick discusses the multiple infl...
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