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(H/B) CREAMIER
The latest in the Cream series which brings together 100 of the most exciting contemporary artists emerging today, each chosen by prominent international curators. Each artist spread includes a newly commissioned text written by the curator who selected the artist, as well as full-colour images illustrating the most recent works by the artists, from exhibitions all over the world. Follows the award-winning Cream (1998), Fresh Cream (2000), Cream 3 (2003) and Ice Cream (2007). Additionally, each curator chooses a key creative work for the S...
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(P/B) THE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT
A selection of outstanding examples from the British Library's world-renowned collection of illuminated manuscripts. Covers more than 800 years of medieval book production. Begins with the Lindisfarne Gospels and continues with a representative cross-section that reveals the remarkable variety of medieval manuscripts. Full-colour reproductions represent both superb examples of early book illustration and a revealing commentary on medieval life and attitudes. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) ARTE POVERA
In 1967 the Italian art critic Germano Celant coined the term Arte Povera to describe the work of a generation of young Italian artists who used a simple 'poverty' of gestures and materials to explore the relation between art and life. The work of the Arte Povera artists - Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini and Gilberto Zorio - continues to be a major influence on contemporary...
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(H/B) ART AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA

(P/B) MONA HATOUM
- Born in Lebanon to Palestinian parents, Mona Hatoum (b.1952) was exiled to London in the 1970s, where she studied art and was later nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize in 1995 - Through performance, video, sculpture and installation, she immerses her audiences in emotional states - as they journey through all the orifices of the artist's body or watch her 'drowning' in mud in a glass box - Often exquisitely beautiful, Hatoum's works are nonetheless powerful evocations of statelessness, denial and otherness...
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(P/B) AI WEIWEI
- The first comprehensive monograph on this key figure in China's burgeoning art scene - Often working with ancient materials - beams from destroyed temples, Han dynasty urns - Ai Weiwei (b.1957) creates ingenious sculptures that break new artistic ground while commenting on the rapid transformation of contemporary China - Ai Weiwei's work is consistently innovative and unmistakably original, ranging from his sculptures and photographs to his numerous architectural commissions, and recalls the work of his artistic forebears Marcel Duchamp,...
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(P/B) MEDITATIONS ON A HOBBY HORSE
Prompted by modern critical discussions, the 14 papers, lectures and articles assembled in this volume revolve around key issues raised by twentieth-century art and theory. Taking abstraction and expression as his main themes, this eclectic assortment of Professor Gombrich's monumental essays encompass the whole of the history of art, and includes major articles on the social history of art, visual metaphor, tradition and expression, and psychoanalysis. Characteristic of his thought-provoking use of diverse sources for inspiration and expl...
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(H/B) 100 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS
This special two-volume edition compiles the 100 most exciting artists from the seminal Taschen title "Art at the Turn of the Millenium" as well as the renowned "Art Now" series, condensing them to a comprehensive compendium of contemporary art at the beginning of the 21st century. Our selection features a wide variety of works by pioneering artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Marlene Dumas, Damien Hirst, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Albert Oehlen, Richard Prince, Charles Ray, Cindy Sherman, and Christopher Wool alongside outstanding artists...
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(P/B) CUBISM
Cubism was one of the most influential movements in Western art in the twentieth century. Beginning with the revolutionary experiments of Picasso and Braque in Paris between 1906 and 1908, Cubism gathered momentum and soon spread to the rest of Europe and America. The movement's rejection of illusionistic representation in favour of an autonomous pictorial language opened the way to abstraction. The Cubists also invented papier colle and collage and pioneered a new approach to sculpture, innovations that are still being explored today. Thi...
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(H/B) CHROMAPHILIA
This vibrant and compelling book uses 240 artworks as case studies to tell the story of ten individual colours or colour groups. It explores the history and meaning of each colour in art, highlighting fascinating tales of discovery and artistic passion, and offering easily accessible explanations of the science and theory behind specific colours. From Isaac Newton's optics to impressionist theory, from the dynamics of Josef Albers to the contemporary metaphysics of Olafur Eliasson, this book shows how colour paints our world. (From the pub...
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(P/B) ART IN MODERN CULTURE
The traditional discipline of art history has been expanded and challenged by new insights and alternative perspectives, resulting in a series of wide-ranging debates on the status of art and its role in culture and history. This reader for the Open University's course, 'Modern Art: Practices and Debates', presents a radical selection of key texts reflecting the intense debates on art and its social role influenced by feminism, Marxism, social and literary theory, linguistics and anthropology. This anthology introduces the reader to these ...
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(P/B) CO-ART
Twenty-five leading artist duos and collectives give insight into how and why to work collaboratively Art history is traditionally presented as the individual's struggle for self-expression, yet over the past fifty years, the number of artists working collaboratively has grown exponentially. Co-Art: Artists on Creative Collaboration explores this phenomenon through conversations with twenty-five leading art-world pairs and groups, who offer insight that is relevant beyond the art world, making this book vital for all who seek to work creat...
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(P/B) ZHANG HUAN
ZHANG HUAN has emerged as one of the most important artists of his time, a fearless explorer of the limits of the human body and a key figure in the flourishing Chinese art scene. His earliest performances, including "12m2", "65KG" and "To Raise the Water Level in a Fishpond", subjected his body to grueling tests of endurance while addressing the relationship between physical endurance and spiritual tranquility. Zhang's move to New York in 1998 contributed to his emergence as one of the most widely recognized figures in international conte...
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(H/B) ART IN TIME
Beginning with the most recent artistic developments of the twenty-first century and tracing the thread of art history back in time, Art in Time offers a new perspective on the styles and movements of art. Tracked on a timeline of historical and art historical events that provides social and political context, each style or movement is defined by representative artworks, and its place in the history of art illuminated by concise and engaging texts written by specialists in each period. This unique presentation of the 150 most important art...
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(P/B) ART AND TODAY
Art & Today is an innovative and extensive survey of international contemporary art from the 1980s to the present. Over four hundred of the most significant contemporary artists from around the world are represented in this comprehensive overview--some emerging, some mid-career, and others long established. Each of the book's sixteen chapters address recurring and relevant themes as diverse as "Art & Popular Culture," "Art & Its Institutions," and "Art & Globalism," rather than follow a strict chronological, geographical, or stylistic stru...
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(P/B) THE STORY OF ART
The Story of Art, one of the most famous and popular books on art ever written, has been a world bestseller for over half a century. Attracted by the simplicity and clarity of his writing, readers of all ages and backgrounds have found in Professor Gombrich a true master, who combines knowledge and wisdom with a unique gift for communicating his deep love of the subject. For this new, compact edition The Story of Art has been completely redesigned, giving a fresh perspective to Gombrich’s well-loved text. The illustrations, collected toget...
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(H/B) ART NOUVEAU
Art Nouveau was deliberately nouveau. With a spirit of willful reform, this "New Art" style between the 1880s and the First World War inflected architecture, design, painting, graphic work, applied arts, and illustration with a radical rejection of imitative historicism and a new undulating aesthetic of flowing lines and organic forms, ripe with linear freedom and a liberation from artistic tradition and expectation. Within this repertoire of sensual contours and natural motifs, Art Nouveau also followed the example of the English Arts and...
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(P/B) DORIS SALCEDO
With work in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Tate, London, Colombian artist Doris Salcedo (b.1958) is one of today's most internationally respected South American sculptors. Inspired as much by poetry and philosophy as by the affecting material qualities of sculpture, Salcedo subtly and painstakingly transforms everyday household objects and garments - symbols of a vanished existence and of the human tragedies that are its cause. In Atrabiliaros (1991-6) abandoned shoes of 'disappeared' Colombian people, half-co...
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MANET
Edouard Manet (1832-1883) was one of the greatest, as well as one of the most interesting of nineteenth century French painters. Acute observation, an extraordinary skilful handling of paint and feeling for exquisite harmonies of colour make his work both vivid and enchanting. It is also of great significance in the history of European painting, since Manet, a pioneer in depicting modern life in a modern style, was a formative influence of the whole Impressionist movement. «Olympia» and «The picnic» are among the key works of the nineteent...
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(P/B) RENOIR
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was one of the founders of Impressionism and a friend of Monet, Pissarro and Sisley. He worked side-by-side with Monet on the banks of the Seine, sharing his concern with light and colour, but landscape painting never displaced his enduring love of figure painting. A natural heir to the delicacy of Boucher, Watteau and Fragonard. Delighting in the ample curves of the nudes he painted increasingly frequently in his later years, Renoir was also a master at capturing the spirit of Parisian life. His art is fi...
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