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(H/B) JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
Over seventy works from museums and private collections trace out the meteoric career of Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), "enfant terrible" of the art world who quickly became the symbol of the New York multiethnic culture of the Eighties. With essays by Achille Bonito Oliva, Henry Geldzahler, Richard D. Marshall, Jeffrey Hoffeld, Bruno Bischofberger, and Luciano Caprile, a catalogue of Basquiat's works (edited by Luca Marenzi) and his biography (by Gaia Regazzoni), the monograph accompanying the Lugano exhibition retraces the entire art...
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(P/B) KAKEMONO
A comprehensive survey of the art of the kakemono, classic Japanese paintings on vertical scrolls. Once displayed for the tea ceremony and in the alcove (tokonoma) of traditional houses, the kakemono or kakejiku is a 'painted hanging scroll,' which, in the variety of its themes, describes changing beauty and the flow of time. Subjects are in fact selected to satisfy the taste of the visitors, and harmony with seasons and events. As with Japanese writing, it should be read from right to left. Verisimilitude being of subordinate importance, ...
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(H/B) YOKAI
The long Pax Tokugawa was founded on the blood of 40,000 severed enemy heads. Indeed, 1600 marked the end of the period of wars that saw the defeat of the troops opposed to General Ieyasu Tokugawa. The absence of wars, banishing the memories and horrors of past massacres, favoured the development of epic tales that gave rise to dark and terrifying atmospheres, such as the game of the hundred candles, a test of courage in which a handful of warriors meet on a summer night to tell each other scary stories populated by monsters from the natio...
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(H/B) BOB DYLAN
"Seeing many of my works years after I completed them is a fascinating experience. I don't really associate them with any particular time or place or state of mind, but view them as part of a long arc; a continuing of the way we go forth in the world and the way our perceptions are shaped and altered by life. One can be as profoundly influenced by events in Morretes, Brazil as the y can be by the man who sells them El Pa?s in Madrid." -Bob Dylan, 2021 Spanning six decades, Retrospectrum showcases the development and range of Dylan's visua...
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(H/B) RICHARD AVEDON
Photographer Richard Avedon, with a more than six-decade-long career, produced innovative and delightful work in fashion, as well as incisive and captivating portraits. Over the course of his lifetime he worked with a number of models and a wide range of portrait subjects, creating a powerful body of pictures that allow his viewers to study the likenesses of actors, ballet dancers, celebrities, civil rights activists, heads of state, inventors, musicians, visual artists and writers. Avedon offers viewers the opportunity to study faces wit...
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(H/B) DIANA AL-HADID
The original sculpture by the renowned Syrian-American artist. This book marks the occasion of Diana AI-Hadid's first solo exhibition in the Arab world, where she is well known and appreciated, and presents her monumental sculpture Phantom Limb (2014). Al-Hadid's work stands apart from much contemporary art via its explicit engagement with art history and architecture, particularly that of Renaissance and Classical periods, a fact that this book explores in depth. Diana Al-Hadid (b. 1981) is a Syrian-American artist who lives and works in ...
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(H/B) GHADA AMER
Ghada Amer (born in 1963 in Cairo) is an Egyptian painter and embroiderer. She studied at the Villa Arson in Nice and at the Institut des hautes ?tudes en arts plastiques in Paris. The increasing oppression of women in Egypt and the exclusionary experience of sexism at art school in France inspired in Amer a resolute rebellion against patriarchy that would motivate and propel her artistic strategy for decades to come. With a background in painting, influenced in particular by abstract expressionism, she then decided turn to embroidery as a...
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(H/B) ALFRED HITCHCOCK
120th anniversary of his birth, the life and masterpieces by Alfred Hitchcock, a British filmmaker, master of suspense and cinema genius. "If you make a bomb go off, the audience has a shock that lasts 10 seconds, but if you simply tell them there's a bomb, the suspense is dragged out and the audience is kept on pins and needles for five minutes" (Alfred Hitchcock). The supreme representative of the "seventh art", director of masterpieces, milestone of world cinema, during his long career Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) made over 50 films, fr...
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(H/B) KUNIYOSHI
Recognized as one of the most interesting and vibrant artists from the Edo period, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) is a major exponent of ukiyo-e in the early 1800s and trained under the master Utagawa Toyokuni. His fame is tied to the series of polychrome xylographs that illustrate the 108 heroes from the novel Suikoden (Brigands) , which became a bestseller in China and Japan in the late 1700s, promoting the imagery of a band of brigands who defend the people suppressed by injustice and government corruption. Violent, powerful, armed peopl...
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(H/B) ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
The book features over 230 works, including several masterpieces. This catalogue of the most important retrospective of the work of the sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti in recent years references all the artist's periods and media: sculptures (plaster, bronze), paintings, drawings, prints... It will allow a comprehensive view of Alberto Giacometti's production, from early works to the surrealist period, from the return to figuration to his work from models, and to the invention of the great postwar icons. Giacometti's works are divi...
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(H/B) ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Aleksandr Rodchenko was one of the main generators of creative ideas during the extraordinary time of the Russian avant-garde movements, and he perfectly reflected its spiritual atmosphere. In 1924, photography was "invaded" by Aleksandr Rodchenko. The result of this invasion was a fundamental rethinking on the nature of photography and the role of the photographer. With the introduction of conceptual thought, the photograph changed from being a mere reflection of reality to a means of visually representing dynamic intellectual constructio...
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(H/B) BEAT PAINTING
The book features eighty paintings and drawings, most of which unpublished, which shed a completely new light on the artistic activities of the father of the Beat Generation. A special focus is given to analysing his labyrinthic creative process and his relationships with traditional American visual culture, and with other Beat movement authors, from Allen Ginsberg to William Burroughs and the masters of Art Informel and the New York School with whom Kerouac started hanging out in the latter half of the 1950s. The book also explores Keroua...
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(H/B) ANTONELLO DA MESSINA
Antonello da Messina (ca. 1430-1479) was one of the most groundbreaking and influential painters of the Quattrocento. No other Italian artist of the fifteenth-century responded in such a direct fashion to the great masters of Bruges and Brussels (including use of their oil technique), to the brilliant Provencal painters, and to the established giants of Italian art, such as Piero della Francesca and Mantegna. In so doing he created unique images with a harmonious and geometrical clarity, yet included exquisite descriptive passages. Althoug...
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(H/B) FERNANDO BOTERO
A new monograph dedicated to the great Latin American artist, gathering all his paintings made in the last thirty years. I'm a painter of the old guard. I love painting, brushes, colors and palettes, and the smell of turpentine. I do my works using my hands. Artists, today, don't really know what they are missing. Fernando Botero Botero has gained international fame, capturing the whimsy of life by painting corpulent and sometimes comical figures. The dilation of his subjects gives the figures an abstract, unreal, and even grotesque dimen...
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(Η/Β) ROBERTO MATTA AND THE FOURTH DIMENSION
The works of Roberto Matta on the occasion of the first exhibition in Russia devoted to one of the last Surrealist masters. Published for the first exhibition in Russia, the volume features over 60 works showing Roberto Matta's unique understanding of space and the evolution of the artist who was able to find his own vison of the world through the fourth dimension and project it on canvas. Courage, thirst for knowledge, being open to new trends in art, deep psychological insight and keen interest in technical progress made Roberto Matta an...
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(H/B) HOKUSAI
The undisputed master of ukiyo-e, Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is celebrated not only for his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji but also for his great versatility expressed in his treatment of all types of subjects: from landscapes to nature, portraits of kabuki actors, beautiful women, warriors and even ghosts and spirits, semilegendary beings and animals. Hokusai is also associated with restless change: of residence, of name (more than 30!) and of style. He had dozens of followers, and each of them represents an aspect of the maste...
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(H/B) MAN RAY
An exciting monograph dedicated to an extraordinary figure and one of last century's most famous and influential artists. Man Ray (1890-1976) was a photographer, painter, and creator of objects, experimental films, and images which were at times enigmatic. This catalog, which presents more than 200 works and compares and contrasts images with biographical details, is divided into three main sections: Man Ray's formative years spent between New York and an artists' colony in Ridgefield, New Jersey; the Paris period; and the period spent bet...
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(H/B) RENE MAGRITTE
The book presents about seventy paintings, gouaches and drawings by Rene Magritte and includes interesting studies by international researchers such as Julie Waseige and Xavier Canonne both on the artist's poetic and art evolution. The volume's starting point is Magritte's lecture at the Royal Musee des Beaux-Arts in Antwerp held on 20 November 1938, today known as 'La Ligne de vie'. It was through a series of examples (that) on that occasion Magritte outlined the genesis of his art, endeavoring to define the thirteen years of surrealist p...
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(H/B) MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
A challenge between twelve competitors on eight different topics, to declare the best photographer in Europe: best not only for his/her talent, but also for the ability to express him/herself in many fields of photography. This volume covers the talent show of Sky Arts through the most important snapshots of episodes, backstage happenings, and show images plus essays by the judges explaining the reasons for their choices in declaring the winner. Across each episode, this book discusses each single artist, including their background, view o...
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(P/B) CHE GUEVARA
Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I’m on the road with my shield on my arm. [...] Give a thought once in a while to this little soldier of fortune of the twentieth century. Ernesto Che Guevara letter to his parents, 1 April 1965 (From the publisher)...
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