Crossing Over Art and Science at Caltech, 1920-2020
ISBN: PB: 9781606069424, Getty Publications, December 2024
352 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 250 colour illus.
Science is as much a visual practice as a textual or quantitative one. For centuries, scientists have used microscopes, telescopes, painting, illustration, printing, and photography to perceive nature and communicate what they see in it, often in col...
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55.00 GBP
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Swedish Ecstacy Hilma af Klint, August Strindberg and Other Visionaries
ISBN: PB: 9780300273052, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, September 2024
208 pp., 27,0x21,0 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
This book explores the works of one of Sweden's most esteemed artists, Hilma af Klint, alongside others in her artistic circle – and examines their inspirational influence on contemporary artists working today. "Swedish Ecstasy" tells the story of r...
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45.00 GBP
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Sensing the Future Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)
ISBN: PB: 9781606069233, Getty Publications, September 2024
128 pp., 254,0x19,1 cm, 47 colour and 17 black&white illus.
In 1966, Billy Kluver and Fred Waldhauer, engineers at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey, teamed up with artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman to form a nonprofit organization, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). E.A.T.'s deb...
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Alejandro Magallanes The Order of Chaos
ISBN: HB: 9788410650046, Hoaki, September 2024
192 pp., 22,8x17,0 cm, colour and black&white illus.
A book featuring the wide-ranging work of internationally renowned Mexican graphic designer, illustrator, poet and artist Alejandro Magallanes, including posters, book illustrations, and works of art, as well as the artist's thoughts about the nature...
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How Ideas are Born Artists on Creative Processes
ISBN: HB: 9788419220479, Hoaki, September 2024
304 pp., 21,0x14,8 cm, fully illustrated in colour
This book should serve as a source of inspiration to helpcreative people overcome the obstacles that can appear during the productionprocess. Featuring 25 genre-defyingartists working outside the mainstream, it takes readers inside their workspaces a...
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Portrait of the Art Dealer as a Young Man New York in the Sixties
ISBN: HB: 9783791377261, Prestel Publishing, September 2024
228 pp., 24,0x17,0 cm, 50 colour illus.
This memoir from the influential art dealer and author offers an up close and personal perspective on New York's vibrant art scene of the sixties and seventies. One of today's most respected art dealers, Michael Findlay launched his career surrounde...
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Art of Jesus Cisneros Drawing from Memory
ISBN: PB: 9788419220738, Hoaki, August 2024
192 pp., 23,4x17,4 cm, fully illustrated in colour
A visually mesmerizing book that celebrates the wide range and intensity of Jose Cisneros's artistry. Jesus Cisneros is a celebrated international illustrator whose work is characterised by its economy of elements, simple, almost minimalist strokes,...
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Overflow, Afterglow New Work in Chromatic Figuration
ISBN: PB: 9780300275797, Yale University Press, July 2024
96 pp., 27,9x21,0 cm, 120 colour illus.
An investigation of how seven cutting-edge contemporary artists use high-key, kaleidoscopic color to express the hybrid and multiform nature of identity. As contemporary artists reckon with the immense destructive forces of today's world, including...
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Petrit Halilaj
ISBN: PB: 9781588397768, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2024
64 pp., 18,4x10,8 cm, 40 colour illus.
This exploration of Petrit Halilaj's site-specific installation reflects the artist's personal experience as a refugee of war and the universal hopes and fears captured in children's drawings. Petrit Halilaj (b. 1986, Kosovo) is known for installat...
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Written in Water The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300215489, Yale University Press, July 2024
528 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 32 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
A deeply personal yet broadly relevant exploration of the ephemeral life of the classic in art, from the eighteenth century to our own day. Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a decade ago, Rochelle Gurstein set out to explore an...
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