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Artist Fabian Gatermann uses light as the key material for his installations, objects, and multiples. He disengages from the classic scientific engineering system of testing; his works are unconventional experiments. Text in English and German.

Selected criticism, essays and lectures by Sir Alan Bowness, critic, art historian and former director of the Tate Gallery. With a foreword by Dawn Ades.

Marthe Donas, Alexander Archipenko and La Section d’Or explores Donas’s groundbreaking role in the international avant-garde, her cubist collaborations, and her visionary artistic legacy.

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Everything Flows: A tribute to water’s ceaseless movement, shaping stories in stone. Laura Veschi’s photographs capture this flow, echoing the creative process of sculptor Filippo Tincolini. Tradition meets innovation, as ancient skills merge with...

This lavish monograph retraces the 60-year career of one of the leading artists of contemporary painting.

An important monograph dedicated to one of the most important protagonists of German Renaissance painting, Mathis Grünewald (c. 1480-1528), in the light of significant archival and iconographic novelties.

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Sandra Mujinga's work might offer an indication of the impact of the events of past and present on the future. Although disturbing, this power to 'sess', however speculative it might be, should be be treasured as a route to greater insight into the here...

Discover an example of striking and spiritual graphic art that takes its cue from messages from the hereafter to produce unique creations. Text in English and French.

Anna Ancher (1859 – 1935) - one of the most innovative artists in Danish art history - explores her life, career and artistic influences. Accompanies the first major exhibition in the UK dedicated to the artist at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London...

This volume explores Slavko Kopac' smultifaceted work across various media, highlighting his essential role in defining and promoting these movements. Published to accompany an exhibition at Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Florence, September–November...

This is the first book to be entirely dedicated to the artwork of Jivya Soma Mashe. Through the quality of his work, Jivya Soma Mashe stands comparison with other outstanding enigmatic artists, such as Bill Traylor or Frederic Bruly Bouabre, who broaden...

The art of Jackie Giles is a bridge between Aboriginal cosmology and the modern world. His paintings reveal the profundity of Dreamtime and the wisdom possessed by traditional healers. Text in English and French.

Shortly before his death, the artist Koken Nomura, who was born in Japan in 1948 and died in Cologne in 2021, planned a publication of selected works. This book follows the artist's original wish in its selection of works and texts. His use of different...

Overview of the work of leading Dutch art duo Atelier Les Deux Garçons. An intriguing mix of taxidermy, art, and found objects.

Lois Dodd’s Framing the Ephemeral highlights her seven-decade observational painting career, capturing fleeting scenes, challenging gender norms, and solidifying her art historical significance.

Artist Daphne Wright is fascinated with the collections of the Ashmolean Museum and the history of seeing they present. Her latest project grows out of a lifetime's engagement with this theme. Much of Wright's existing body of work is steeped in a deep...

Angels from Infinity: The Sculptures of Chi Wing Lo explores and interprets Chi Wing Lo's sculpture art. His works remind us that art is, among other things, an invitation to change the rhythms of our lives, to sense another order of temporality-slower,...

A selection from the memoir of Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, the renowned eighteenth-century French portraitist and one of the most important women painters in art historyIn her memoir, Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun offers a candid and thoroughly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887059301Author Elaine W NgFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint ArtasiapacificPublisher ArtasiapacificWeight(grams) 454g

In conjunction with the first monographic exhibition of this Irish artist in forty years-and the first ever in the United States-this catalogue charts Walter Osborne's career from his student days in Dublin to his mature works made following his...

The newest volume in the beloved ekphrasis series focuses on dance and poetry through the eyes of one of the twentieth century’s greatest critics “I am interested at the moment in recalling to you how it looks when one sees dancing as non-professionals...

George Bellows (1882-1925) was a painter, illustrator, and printmaker. His career established, in late 1915 he turned to lithography. Over the next nine years he almost single-handedly elevated lithography in America to a fine art. The inherent...