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Ever since winning a travel grant as a 17-year-old to travel from the Netherlands through Belgium and Paris to Arles in Van Gogh's footsteps, the contemporary master painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer has been inspired by the Dutchman's art. Van Gogh has...

Driven by an existential quest, Thierry Barbier-Mueller (1960–2022), a Geneva-based real estate entrepreneur and patron of the arts, assembled an impressive collection of works by major Swiss and international artists, such as Marina Abramović, Silvia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783412525644Author Ewa BerardFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bohlau VerlagPublisher Bohlau VerlagWeight(grams) 1251gDimensions(mm) 285mm * 225mm * 20mm

This book represents the first study dedicated to Twentieth Century German Art, the 1938 London exhibition that was the largest international response to the cultural policies of National Socialist Germany and the infamous Munich exhibition Degenerate...

Fair Women was the Victorian equivalent of a 'blockbuster' exhibition. Organised by a committee of women, it opened to great fanfare in the Grafton Galleries in London, and was comprised of both historical and contemporary portraits of women as well as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887470748Author Rupprecht MayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint The University of Hong Kong. University Museum and Art GalleryPublisher The...

Expanding on ideas explored by the artworks in the exhibition SAM Contemporaries: Residues & Remixes, this book contextualises the exhibition's curatorial approach and the featured artistic practices through documentation, field-notes, scholarly essays,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798330439515Author Michael Andrew LambertFormat HardbackPage Count 792Imprint 3ichael 7ambertPublisher 3ichael 7ambertWeight(grams) 2812g

The first survey volume to provide a historical perspective and analysis of artistic involvement in care work on a global scale, spanning from the 1960s to the present day.Since the 1960s, artists such as Margaret Raspe, Gabriele Voss, Tomaso Binga, Anna...

The nature of art is-also-a dialectical one. This statement usually tends to apply to the conversation between the work and its viewer. Lipp & Leuthold, however, do not leave it at that but explode the boundaries between painting and sculpture with...

The title seems to announce a comprehensive encyclopedia: from A to Z, each and every object or material has the potential to become an element in one of Alexandra Bircken's charged objects and installations. Whether it's packaging materials, machine...

A comprehensive guide to the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw's collection. This collection guide offers an in-depth exploration of the emerging Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, showcasing one hundred and fifty key artworks alongside insightful descriptions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607857600Author Heidi KumaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Maize BooksPublisher Maize BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 200mm * 12mm

This book examines British collectors of so-called Persian art (a broad umbrella term then covering a large portion of Islamic art) in the late 19th century, including ceramics, metalwork, carpets, textiles and woodwork.Based on a foundational event, the...

The cosmos of Hanne Darboven The publication concludes Julia Gaisbacher's longtime exploration of Hanne Darboven's Ku nstlerinnenhaus and at the same time continues her own work on "dream houses." The Viennese artist's photographs provide sensitive...

A pioneer of textile postmodernismSheila Hicks has made wool, linen, and silk her central media, pushing the boundaries of traditional textile art. Her works combine color, form, and material in novel ways and explore architectural dimensions. As a...

This book reveals the rich tapestry of sacred art around Mexico and southwest USA (New Spain) from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

The Secret Museum is a unique treasure trove of the most intriguing artifacts hidden away in museum archives from all over the world - curated, brought to light, and brought to life by Molly Oldfield in a beautifully illustrated collection. ...

Rather than a monograph, a drawing of one, Alia Ali presents with this book a multi-graph, a drawing of many.Ali deconstructs artificial binaries to examine inherited political narratives-diaspora, identity, borders-through the lens of photography,...

Between reality and fictionThis publication documents the exhibitions Phantoms and Other Illusions, Bodies, Grids and Ecstasy, and Frozen Mirrors at at KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION in Dusseldorf, each of which dealt with facets of the topic of "illusion"...

Curating Transcultural Spaces asks what a museum which enables the presentation of multiple perspectives might look like. Can identity be global and local at the same time? How may one curate dual identity? More broadly, what is the link between the arts...

The dramatic events of the troubled life of Caravaggio, one of the most formidable painters in the history of art of all time, are retraced in this volume, updated in light of the latest discoveries, and published on the occasion of the 450th anniversary...

New Ecologies: Art and Climate is the title of an ambitious public art project organised by the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. The open-air exhibition aims to examine perspectives on ecological sustainability, raise awareness of climate policy issues, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781477331026Author Jill DawseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Texas PressPublisher University of Texas PressWeight(grams) 454g

Light into Life encompasses monumental sculptures in the Kew landscape alongside a gallery exhibition that examines our complex and often challenging relationship with the natural world. It includes newly conceived artworks inspired by Kew's archives,...

Explores Wayne Thiebaud's career as a self-described "thief" who appropriated and reinterpreted old and new European and American artworks. Although artist Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021) earned acclaim for his poetic renderings of the prosaic particulars of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854883233Author Dominique WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel Gallery

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741741735Author Ruby Arrowsmith-ToddFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Art Gallery of New South WalesPublisher Art Gallery of New South Wales

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786156595539Author Reka KrasznaiFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Museum of Fine Art, BudapestPublisher Museum of Fine Art, Budapest / Hungarian National...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741741728Author Nicholas ChambersFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Art Gallery of New South WalesPublisher Art Gallery of New South Wales

Germaine Richier, the first woman to have an exhibition of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris (1956), is a remarkable figure in the world of modern sculpture, whose works are present in the world's most prestigious museums, including the...

This reprint brings the previously unavailable original 1975 documentation of Fabio Mauri's 'Oscuramento' back into print, offering privileged insight into the renowned Italian artist's three-part performance.Released on the occasion of Fabio Mauri's...

In 2015, Dieter Mammel witnessed the arrival of the first Syrian refugees on the Greek island of Kos. In the years that followed, the Berlin-based painter explored the story of his own family's flight, the sense of displacement that came with it, and the...

The shared medium of Katharina Hinsberg and Monika Gryzmala is drawing. The exploration of the line is central to the work of both artists. Many of these artworks transcend the traditional boundaries of the genre and, in their dynamic reach, take on an...

A photograph of Marcel Duchamp, taken in Munich in 1912, serves more than a hundred years later as the starting point for seventeen drawings. Commissioned by the conceptual artist Rudolf Herz, Parisian street painters appropriated Duchamp's radically...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789461618900Author Ria CooremanFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Snoeck PublishersPublisher Snoeck PublishersWeight(grams) 919gDimensions(mm) 280mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934351222Author Leo G. MazowFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Virginia Museum of Fine ArtsPublisher Virginia Museum of Fine ArtsWeight(grams)...

Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606-1684) was one of the best still-life painters of the 17th century. His work, which is enchanting to the eye, has always enjoyed international fame. Throughout his painting career of nearly 60 years, de Heem continued to search...

"Elegant vandalism"In 2024, the Musee d'art et d'histoire de Geneve (MAH) awarded a Carte Blanche for the fourth time: to the Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. The museum's collection and archives are presented alongside Delvoye's installations and sculptures,...

Artistic perspectives on the connections between water and nation, sovereignty and ecology Neither the metaphorical birth of a nation nor its actual violent formation is a one-time event. It is a process. A process of erasing, naming, and unnaming...