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Performing Moving Images: Access, Archive and Affects presents institutions, individuals and networks who have ensured experimental films and Expanded Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s are not consigned to oblivion. Through a comparison of recent...

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...

An overview and insight into the unique collection of the Norwegian art collector Erling Neby. Erling Neby is the owner of one of the most important and precious private collections of constructivist and concrete art in Europe, and even worldwide. Over a...

Richly illustrated with more than 160 full-color plates, Masterworks from the Indiana University Art Museum presents a selection of the finest works from one of the best university art museums in the world. Included are examples from the full range of...

F.C. Gundlach, one of the most important German fashion photographers of the post-war period, has created a remarkable collection of photographs and multimedia art by famous contemporary artists. This publication provides the first opportunity to...

The Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship integrates theory and practice to offer guidelines for information professionals working in art and design environments who need to support and anticipate the information needs of artists, designers,...

Adeliza McHugh helped put the whimsical, funky, and irreverent aesthetic of California's Central Valley on the art-historical map at her legendary Candy Store Gallery. Published on what would be the 60th anniversary of the gallery's founding, this...

As differentiated as art history is today, a major chapter has been largely neglected: the craft of the interior decorator. And this, even though the delicate aesthetic sensibilities, the sense of color, and the eye for composition required to decorate...

A Small Radius of Light maps the territory artist G. Daniel Massad has explored for almost four decades. After earning degrees in English at Princeton and the University of Chicago and working for a time as a psychotherapist, Massad made the decision to...

This lavishly illustrated volume focusesattention on the seven important qin zithersin the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M.SacklerGallery. The instruments date fromthe period between the late Middle Ages andmodern times. The current assessment...

Sárospatak, a peaceful little town in north-eastern Hungary, holds legendary status within the country's cultural landscape. Its school, the Reformed Church College of Sárospatak, has trained several important writers, artists and politicians across...

"Pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever he says it does." - Margo McCAaffery, 1968. The catalogue Beyond the Pain, published for the exhibition of the same name at Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, addresses approaches to...

A Symbiotic Partnership reveals the driver of the courtship that led to an unusual marriage between a commercial furniture manufacturer and a not-for-profit educational institution: a corner cupboard. The 1903 Syracuse, New York, Arts and Crafts...

Felix Nussbaum (1904-44) was a German painter of Jewish descent, murdered in Auschwitz by the Nazis. After more than four decades in oblivion, his native city Osnabruck in northern Germany brought this distinguished artist to light again by opening a...

For over a year, the coronavirus has been holding us in its grip. Live events and brand experiences are either not possible at all or only with significant restrictions. The consequences and problems for the industry are enormous. But alongside this, it...

42nd Ars Electronica Festival - for the second time in hybrid format. Themes of the festival: How can an artistic-scientific research make interfaces of technology, art and society visible?Book InformationISBN 9783775751407Author Markus JandlFormat...

Men in stately black, women with huge ruffs, children with golden rattles, old women with wizened faces, and self-satisfied artists... These are the main players in just about every portrait ever painted in the Southern Netherlands. From the15th to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753302607Author Jimmie DurhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911155379Author Lucy MounfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Ikon Gallery LtdPublisher Ikon Gallery Ltd

The Record is the full-color catalog accompanying the groundbreaking exhibition The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University from September 2, 2010 through February 6, 2011. The first exhibition to explore the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999627775Author Hamed KhosraviFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Architectural Association PublicationsPublisher Architectural Association Publications

The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most prestigious prizes in media art, since 1987. The jury of experts includes Computer/Film/VFX, Digital Musics & Sound Art or Artificial Intelligence & Life Art.Book InformationISBN 9783775751414Author Gerfried...

The art of Boris Lurie (* 1924, Leningrad) and Wolf Vostell (* 1932, Leverkusen) is determined by the break in civilization in Germany in 1933, which made the German genocide of German and European Jews (the Shoah) possible. Both artists make the Shoah...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857239453Author Salima HashmiFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 910g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960988977Author Konstantin AkinshaFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

Following on from the success of the exhibition Before Time Began, Fondation Opale is taking on a new challenge with a show that juxtaposes contemporary Aboriginal art with prominent examples of contemporary art created in a Western and Asian...

The Museum of Drawers is the world's smallest museum of twentieth-century art. This unique piece has been conceived and put together by the Swiss-born artist Herbert Distel in 1970-77. It consists of an old cabinet made to hold reels of sewing silk whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911155294Author Jonathan WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ikon Gallery LtdPublisher Ikon Gallery LtdDimensions(mm) 260mm * 215mm * 15mm

This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally.The edited volume builds on recent research and offers a wider lens through which to examine and challenge women's collecting histories...

The pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art and architecture to graphics and design to the material culture. One hundred years ago, "The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism," proclaimed that "the world's magnificence has been enriched by a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633451353Author Beverly AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 200g

This catalogue accompanies an international exhibition, "First Kings of Europe," and another volume also published by the Cotsen Institute, First Kings of Europe: From Farmers to Rulers in Prehistoric Southeastern Europe, that examine the artifacts and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262029025Author Sarah J. MontrossFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Important artists of Hungarian Classical Modernism lived and worked temporarily on the Spree and were present in the Berlin avant-garde. The publication presents a brilliant overview of the close links between the culture of the Weimar Republic and the...

The first publication on the Yoruba master sculptor Moshood Olusomo BamigboyeBamigboye: A Master Sculptor of the Yoruba Tradition is the first monograph dedicated to the 50-year career of the Nigerian artist Moshood Olusomo Bamigboye (ca. 1885-1975). One...

This catalogue accompanies an exhibition at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts that will shine a spotlight on Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564 - 1637/38), an artist who was hugely successful in his lifetime but whose later reputation has been...

This limited gift box edition includes two exclusive signed and numbered prints. Shaun Tan fans get to see his extraordinary talent applied to sculpture in this award-winning, lavishly presented collection of art based on fairy tales told by the Brothers...

Against the Grain Since its beginnings in Paris in the mid-19th century, the idea of bohemia, an urban community of artists and intellectuals living outside bourgeois norms, has been a potent trope of artistic identity. It was here that the notion of an...

Insightful and interdisciplinary, this book considers the movement of people around the world and how contemporary artists contribute to our understanding of it In this timely volume, artists and thinkers join in conversation around the topic of global...

A discovery: Polish Symbolism between decadence and a new beginning The turn of the century was a golden age for Polish art. The publication shows about 130 masterpieces of painting from this era between decadence and a new beginning and describes its...