The Past, Present and Future
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Past, Present and Future" title="The Past, Present and Future"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086">The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National</a><p><i>By Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen, John Lund</i><p>£18.95 01 May 2012 Paperback Nationalmuseet Antiksamlingen<p>This publication celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark. The Collection traces its roots back to the Royal Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650 and to the private archaeological collection of King Christian VIII. On his death the two collections were joined and in 1853 a new one emerged, now named Cabinet of Antiquities and open to the public -- a collection which over the ensuing 150 years was constantly enlarged and enriched.<P>In eight articles (text in Danish and English), various aspects of the history of the Collection are tackled -- the authors taking their cues from highlights and humble objects alike: two marble heads from Athens, a mummy from Egypt, and a seemingly insignificant Syrian amulet which none the less can tell an intriguing tale from the past. We meet a largely forgotten 19"th"-century Danish consul in Tunisia with an eye for antiquities and accompany Danish archaeologists on expeditions to Hama in Syria and Luristan in Iran.<P>New research in Corinthian pottery is presented and the reader is introduced to the principles employed in establishing the Greek and Roman galleries opened in 1994 together with plans for a new Cypriot gallery to be opened in 2002.<P>The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities encompasses not only the story of ancient cultures but is in its own right part of the history of Denmark as it unfolds the story of the many relations between Denmark and the Mediterranean countries over the centuries.</td></tr></table><hr>
Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0978607643"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life" title="Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0978607643">With Green Jay Print</a><p><i>By Charley Harper</i><p>£199.95 03 Apr 2012 Hardback AMMO Books LLC<p>The definitive monograph of artist Charley Harpers work, lovingly edited by Todd Oldham. Signed by Charley Harper and Todd Oldham. 250 copies avai lable world-wide.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Past, Present and Future
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Past, Present and Future" title="The Past, Present and Future"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086">The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National</a><p><i>By Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen, John Lund</i><p>£18.95 01 Apr 2012 Paperback Nationalmuseet Antiksamlingen<p>This publication celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark. The Collection traces its roots back to the Royal Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650 and to the private archaeological collection of King Christian VIII. On his death the two collections were joined and in 1853 a new one emerged, now named Cabinet of Antiquities and open to the public -- a collection which over the ensuing 150 years was constantly enlarged and enriched.<P>In eight articles (text in Danish and English), various aspects of the history of the Collection are tackled -- the authors taking their cues from highlights and humble objects alike: two marble heads from Athens, a mummy from Egypt, and a seemingly insignificant Syrian amulet which none the less can tell an intriguing tale from the past. We meet a largely forgotten 19"th"-century Danish consul in Tunisia with an eye for antiquities and accompany Danish archaeologists on expeditions to Hama in Syria and Luristan in Iran.<P>New research in Corinthian pottery is presented and the reader is introduced to the principles employed in establishing the Greek and Roman galleries opened in 1994 together with plans for a new Cypriot gallery to be opened in 2002.<P>The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities encompasses not only the story of ancient cultures but is in its own right part of the history of Denmark as it unfolds the story of the many relations between Denmark and the Mediterranean countries over the centuries.</td></tr></table><hr>
Marcus Harvey
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=190421262X"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Marcus Harvey" title="Marcus Harvey"></a></td><td><i>By Marcus Harvey, Jason Beard</i><p>£75.00 01 Apr 2012 Hardback Other Criteria<p>Iconic painting 'Myra', of child-murderer Myra Hindley was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in September 1997. The monumental monochrome painting was entirely composed from a childs handprints, and has been repeatedly used by the press in the coverage of the case.</td></tr></table><hr>
Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0978607643"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life" title="Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0978607643">With Green Jay Print</a><p><i>By Charley Harper</i><p>£199.95 20 Mar 2012 Hardback AMMO Books LLC<p>The definitive monograph of artist Charley Harpers work, lovingly edited by Todd Oldham. Signed by Charley Harper and Todd Oldham. 250 copies avai lable world-wide.</td></tr></table><hr>
Research
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1846310385"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Research" title="Research"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1846310385">The Itemisation of Creative Knowledge</a><p><i>By C. Gillman</i><p>£12.95 12 Mar 2012 Paperback Liverpool University Press<p>Artists who work in new media and film are increasingly reliant on technological advancements to make the complex art we see today, such as interactive webcasts, sound performances, and robotic installations. That art, in turn, inspires engineers working on these emerging technologies to even greater heights of achievement. "Research "explores this fruitful partnership by focusing on the recent creations of Liverpool's ITEM project, an initiative designed to help artists and engineers work together to develop new media tools for exhibition. The resulting artwork provides sound proof of the creative possibilities of such innovative collaborations.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Past, Present and Future
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Past, Present and Future" title="The Past, Present and Future"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086">The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National</a><p><i>By Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen, John Lund</i><p>£18.95 01 Mar 2012 Paperback Nationalmuseet Antiksamlingen<p>This publication celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark. The Collection traces its roots back to the Royal Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650 and to the private archaeological collection of King Christian VIII. On his death the two collections were joined and in 1853 a new one emerged, now named Cabinet of Antiquities and open to the public -- a collection which over the ensuing 150 years was constantly enlarged and enriched.<P>In eight articles (text in Danish and English), various aspects of the history of the Collection are tackled -- the authors taking their cues from highlights and humble objects alike: two marble heads from Athens, a mummy from Egypt, and a seemingly insignificant Syrian amulet which none the less can tell an intriguing tale from the past. We meet a largely forgotten 19"th"-century Danish consul in Tunisia with an eye for antiquities and accompany Danish archaeologists on expeditions to Hama in Syria and Luristan in Iran.<P>New research in Corinthian pottery is presented and the reader is introduced to the principles employed in establishing the Greek and Roman galleries opened in 1994 together with plans for a new Cypriot gallery to be opened in 2002.<P>The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities encompasses not only the story of ancient cultures but is in its own right part of the history of Denmark as it unfolds the story of the many relations between Denmark and the Mediterranean countries over the centuries.</td></tr></table><hr>
Sigmar Polke
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Sigmar Polke" title="Sigmar Polke"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005">The Dream of Menelaus</a><p><i>By Charles Wylie</i><p>£15.00 24 Feb 2012 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) has experimented with a wide range of styles and subject matter, bringing together imagery from contradictory and unexpected sources, merging the historical and contemporary, and using a variety of different materials and techniques. This catalogue features Polke's major four-painting cycle, "The Dream of Menelaus," one of the artist's most beautiful and challenging. Citing the story of Menelaus, the mythical Greek hero whose wife Helen's abduction started the Trojan War, Polke's cycle alludes to eternal themes of love and war with a typically elusive yet analytic beauty. Here Polke has merged classical and contemporary images to reveal unexpected parallels between mythical histories and present-day realities, all the while creating four paintings of an unsurpassed mastery of the painting medium itself.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Past, Present and Future
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Past, Present and Future" title="The Past, Present and Future"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086">The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National</a><p><i>By Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen, John Lund</i><p>£18.95 01 Feb 2012 Paperback Nationalmuseet Antiksamlingen<p>This publication celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark. The Collection traces its roots back to the Royal Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650 and to the private archaeological collection of King Christian VIII. On his death the two collections were joined and in 1853 a new one emerged, now named Cabinet of Antiquities and open to the public -- a collection which over the ensuing 150 years was constantly enlarged and enriched.<P>In eight articles (text in Danish and English), various aspects of the history of the Collection are tackled -- the authors taking their cues from highlights and humble objects alike: two marble heads from Athens, a mummy from Egypt, and a seemingly insignificant Syrian amulet which none the less can tell an intriguing tale from the past. We meet a largely forgotten 19"th"-century Danish consul in Tunisia with an eye for antiquities and accompany Danish archaeologists on expeditions to Hama in Syria and Luristan in Iran.<P>New research in Corinthian pottery is presented and the reader is introduced to the principles employed in establishing the Greek and Roman galleries opened in 1994 together with plans for a new Cypriot gallery to be opened in 2002.<P>The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities encompasses not only the story of ancient cultures but is in its own right part of the history of Denmark as it unfolds the story of the many relations between Denmark and the Mediterranean countries over the centuries.</td></tr></table><hr>
Stalwart
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0977339955"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Stalwart" title="Stalwart"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0977339955">The Art of Christopher Carter</a><p><i>By Christopher Carter</i><p>£13.99 01 Feb 2012 Hardback Channel Photographics<p>The works in "Stalwart" are as much about drawing as they are about form and material. And by collecting their images on these pages, they begin to reveal other meanings still. Certainly, the process of grouping them, and making a sculptural series into a series of photographs, allows them a kind of mobility they would never have in a gallery. As an artist, Christopher Carter always reaches for an audience and strives to create timely works with social and historical relevance. "With the contributions of the curators, writers, photographer, and publisher," says Carter, "the very process of creating this book has focused my resolve and ideas. It has also added to the complexity of the work by bringing it out of the gallery or studio -- where works of sculpture, like lumber or lost hooks sunk in the bay, are usually bound -- and into the hands of a new audience."</td></tr></table><hr>
Sigmar Polke
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Sigmar Polke" title="Sigmar Polke"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005">The Dream of Menelaus</a><p><i>By Charles Wylie</i><p>£15.00 26 Jan 2012 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) has experimented with a wide range of styles and subject matter, bringing together imagery from contradictory and unexpected sources, merging the historical and contemporary, and using a variety of different materials and techniques. This catalogue features Polke's major four-painting cycle, "The Dream of Menelaus," one of the artist's most beautiful and challenging. Citing the story of Menelaus, the mythical Greek hero whose wife Helen's abduction started the Trojan War, Polke's cycle alludes to eternal themes of love and war with a typically elusive yet analytic beauty. Here Polke has merged classical and contemporary images to reveal unexpected parallels between mythical histories and present-day realities, all the while creating four paintings of an unsurpassed mastery of the painting medium itself.</td></tr></table><hr>
New York in Postcards 1880-1980
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3858817139"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="New York in Postcards 1880-1980" title="New York in Postcards 1880-1980"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3858817139">The Andreas Adam Collection</a><p><i>By Andreas Adam, Paul Goldberger, Kent Lydecker</i><p>£45.00 12 Jan 2012 Hardback Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag<p>New York - quintessential metropolis and global icon - shown in a vast variety of views that form a unique kaleidoscope of more than 900 full-colour plates.</td></tr></table><hr>
Gonzalo Lebrija
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1904212662"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Gonzalo Lebrija" title="Gonzalo Lebrija"></a></td><td><i>By Gonzalo Lebrija, Jason Beard</i><p>£70.00 05 Jan 2012 Hardback Other Criteria<p>This book is a new monograph on Gonzalo Lebrija, a Mexican artist based in Guadalajara. He is a photography-based installation and video artist, and for this book he has commissioned artists, poets and architects he knows to write brief essays on his work..</td></tr></table><hr>
The Past, Present and Future
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Past, Present and Future" title="The Past, Present and Future"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086">The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National</a><p><i>By Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen, John Lund</i><p>£18.95 01 Jan 2012 Paperback Nationalmuseet Antiksamlingen<p>This publication celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark. The Collection traces its roots back to the Royal Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650 and to the private archaeological collection of King Christian VIII. On his death the two collections were joined and in 1853 a new one emerged, now named Cabinet of Antiquities and open to the public -- a collection which over the ensuing 150 years was constantly enlarged and enriched.<P>In eight articles (text in Danish and English), various aspects of the history of the Collection are tackled -- the authors taking their cues from highlights and humble objects alike: two marble heads from Athens, a mummy from Egypt, and a seemingly insignificant Syrian amulet which none the less can tell an intriguing tale from the past. We meet a largely forgotten 19"th"-century Danish consul in Tunisia with an eye for antiquities and accompany Danish archaeologists on expeditions to Hama in Syria and Luristan in Iran.<P>New research in Corinthian pottery is presented and the reader is introduced to the principles employed in establishing the Greek and Roman galleries opened in 1994 together with plans for a new Cypriot gallery to be opened in 2002.<P>The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities encompasses not only the story of ancient cultures but is in its own right part of the history of Denmark as it unfolds the story of the many relations between Denmark and the Mediterranean countries over the centuries.</td></tr></table><hr>
Vermeer
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3822863238"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Vermeer" title="Vermeer"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3822863238">The Complete Paintings</a><p><i>By Norbert Schneider</i><p>£6.99 01 Jan 2012 Paperback Taschen GmbH<p>PY12312001</td></tr></table><hr>
Warhol
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3822863211"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Warhol" title="Warhol"></a></td><td><i>By Klaus Honnef</i><p>£6.99 01 Jan 2012 Paperback Taschen GmbH<p>Andy Warhol is recognized today as the most important exponent of the Pop Art movement. He overturned the traditional understanding of art and placed in its stead a concept that retracts the individuality of the artist. This title depicts the criticism of consumerism inherent within his work.</td></tr></table><hr>
Kahlo
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3822859834"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Kahlo" title="Kahlo"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3822859834">Basic Art Album</a><p><i>By Andrea Kettenmann</i><p>£6.99 01 Jan 2012 Paperback Taschen GmbH<p>The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the most important 20th century painters. This title describes Kahlo's arresting pictures, most of them small format self-portraits, which express the many burdens that weighed upon her soul.</td></tr></table><hr>
Lucian Freud
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3822858056"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Lucian Freud" title="Lucian Freud"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3822858056">Beholding the Animal</a><p><i>By Sebastian Smee</i><p>£6.99 01 Jan 2012 Paperback Taschen GmbH<p>British artist, Lucian Freud is considered an important figurative painter. This title provides a chronological summary of the artist's life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist. It features approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions; and, a concise biography.</td></tr></table><hr>
Albrecht Durer
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3822849227"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Albrecht Durer" title="Albrecht Durer"></a></td><td><i>By Norbert Wolf</i><p>£6.99 01 Jan 2012 Paperback Taschen GmbH<p>Though he is most famous for his engravings, Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was also a master painter and draftsman whose work exemplifies the spirit of German art. This overview of Durer's entire oeuvre - covering his oil, tempera, and watercolor paintings, copper and wood engravings, and his drawings and sketches - is an introduction to his work.</td></tr></table><hr>
Surrealism
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3822822159"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Surrealism" title="Surrealism"></a></td><td><i>By Cathrin Klinsohr-Leroy</i><p>£6.99 01 Jan 2012 Paperback Taschen GmbH<p>Introduction with 30 photographs plus a timeline of the most important political, cultural, scientific and sporting events that took place during the movement; 35 most important works and artists included.</td></tr></table><hr>
HR Giger ARh+
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3822813184"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="HR Giger ARh+" title="HR Giger ARh+"></a></td><td><i>By Gaby Falk</i><p>£6.99 01 Jan 2012 Paperback Taschen GmbH<p>PY12312001</td></tr></table><hr>
Sigmar Polke
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Sigmar Polke" title="Sigmar Polke"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005">The Dream of Menelaus</a><p><i>By Charles Wylie</i><p>£15.00 28 Dec 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) has experimented with a wide range of styles and subject matter, bringing together imagery from contradictory and unexpected sources, merging the historical and contemporary, and using a variety of different materials and techniques. This catalogue features Polke's major four-painting cycle, "The Dream of Menelaus," one of the artist's most beautiful and challenging. Citing the story of Menelaus, the mythical Greek hero whose wife Helen's abduction started the Trojan War, Polke's cycle alludes to eternal themes of love and war with a typically elusive yet analytic beauty. Here Polke has merged classical and contemporary images to reveal unexpected parallels between mythical histories and present-day realities, all the while creating four paintings of an unsurpassed mastery of the painting medium itself.</td></tr></table><hr>
Nude
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Nude" title="Nude"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680">A New Perspective</a><p><i>By Gill Saunders</i><p>£34.50 27 Dec 2011 Hardback KWS Publishers<p>The human body, unclothed and on display, has long been the subject of both artists and art historians. This book examines artists' depictions of nudes and their public reception from classical Greece through the twenty-first century, highlighting the relationship between nudity in art and the rise of feminism.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Past, Present and Future
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Past, Present and Future" title="The Past, Present and Future"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086">The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National</a><p><i>By Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen, John Lund</i><p>£18.95 01 Dec 2011 Paperback Nationalmuseet Antiksamlingen<p>This publication celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark. The Collection traces its roots back to the Royal Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650 and to the private archaeological collection of King Christian VIII. On his death the two collections were joined and in 1853 a new one emerged, now named Cabinet of Antiquities and open to the public -- a collection which over the ensuing 150 years was constantly enlarged and enriched.<P>In eight articles (text in Danish and English), various aspects of the history of the Collection are tackled -- the authors taking their cues from highlights and humble objects alike: two marble heads from Athens, a mummy from Egypt, and a seemingly insignificant Syrian amulet which none the less can tell an intriguing tale from the past. We meet a largely forgotten 19"th"-century Danish consul in Tunisia with an eye for antiquities and accompany Danish archaeologists on expeditions to Hama in Syria and Luristan in Iran.<P>New research in Corinthian pottery is presented and the reader is introduced to the principles employed in establishing the Greek and Roman galleries opened in 1994 together with plans for a new Cypriot gallery to be opened in 2002.<P>The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities encompasses not only the story of ancient cultures but is in its own right part of the history of Denmark as it unfolds the story of the many relations between Denmark and the Mediterranean countries over the centuries.</td></tr></table><hr>
1000 Pin-up Girls
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3836505053"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="1000 Pin-up Girls" title="1000 Pin-up Girls"></a></td><td>£8.99 01 Dec 2011 Paperback Taschen GmbH<p>"Girls, Gags & Giggles" - this was publisher Robert Harrison's recipe for dishing up the American pin-up to the US male. In the 1950s, his girlie magazines sold by the millions, before becoming icons of pulp and trash culture.</td></tr></table><hr>
1000 Tattoos
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3822841072"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="1000 Tattoos" title="1000 Tattoos"></a></td><td><i>By Schiffmacher, Henk</i><p>£8.99 01 Dec 2011 Paperback Taschen GmbH<p>The art of the tattoo (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Whether you're thinking of getting a tattoo or just want to see to what lengths others have gone in decorating their bodies, this is the book to check out. This special 25th anniversary edition of Tattoos explores the history of the art worldwide via designs and photos?from 19th century engravings to tribal body art, from circus ladies of the 20s to classic biker designs?giving a fascinating insight into the art of tattooing.</td></tr></table><hr>
Art of the 20th Century
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3822840890"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Art of the 20th Century" title="Art of the 20th Century"></a></td><td><i>By Ingo, Walther F.</i><p>£17.99 01 Dec 2011 Paperback Taschen GmbH<p>From Klimt to Koons and everything in between: it's all here (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Who could possibly have forecast on New Year's Eve 1899 that, one hundred years later, painting and sculpture would be only options, not prerequisites? The term "art" has been defined and redefined so many times over the last 100 years that it has gained entirely new social, political, and technological meanings. Ranging across the full spectrum of disciplines available, including photography and new media, and thematically chaptered to highlight relationships between works and movements, this readable and encyclopaedic masterwork does just what it says on the cover. Whether you want Surrealism or Land Art, Fluxus or Bauhaus, this is your be-all, end-all guide to art of the 20th century. An undertaking as immensely ambitious as this one deserves to be owned by everyone, which is why we decided to make a special, more compact edition of this two-volume classic in celebration of 25</td></tr></table><hr>
Curve Surface Freeform
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3211990240"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Curve Surface Freeform" title="Curve Surface Freeform"></a></td><td><i>By Daniel Lordick</i><p>£45.99 01 Dec 2011 Hardback Springer Verlag GmbH<p>This book details different 3D modeling techniques for architectural design using Rhinoceros(R), providing step-by-step instruction. It explains how to handle open areas and shape styling and the completion of models with rapid prototyping or laser cutting.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Art and Architecture of Ottoman Istanbul
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1859642241"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Art and Architecture of Ottoman Istanbul" title="The Art and Architecture of Ottoman Istanbul"></a></td><td><i>By Richard Yeomans</i><p>£50.00 30 Nov 2011 Hardback Garnet Publishing Ltd<p>Allows the reader to appreciate the complexities and subtleties of Ottoman art and architecture as a whole, while simultaneously learning more about the history of one of the world's most magnificent cities - Istanbul. This book discusses Ottoman architecture, regalia, textiles, books, ceramics, calligraphy and painting.</td></tr></table><hr>
Sigmar Polke
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Sigmar Polke" title="Sigmar Polke"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005">The Dream of Menelaus</a><p><i>By Charles Wylie</i><p>£15.00 29 Nov 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) has experimented with a wide range of styles and subject matter, bringing together imagery from contradictory and unexpected sources, merging the historical and contemporary, and using a variety of different materials and techniques. This catalogue features Polke's major four-painting cycle, "The Dream of Menelaus," one of the artist's most beautiful and challenging. Citing the story of Menelaus, the mythical Greek hero whose wife Helen's abduction started the Trojan War, Polke's cycle alludes to eternal themes of love and war with a typically elusive yet analytic beauty. Here Polke has merged classical and contemporary images to reveal unexpected parallels between mythical histories and present-day realities, all the while creating four paintings of an unsurpassed mastery of the painting medium itself.</td></tr></table><hr>
Nude
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Nude" title="Nude"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680">A New Perspective</a><p><i>By Gill Saunders</i><p>£34.50 28 Nov 2011 Hardback KWS Publishers<p>The human body, unclothed and on display, has long been the subject of both artists and art historians. This book examines artists' depictions of nudes and their public reception from classical Greece through the twenty-first century, highlighting the relationship between nudity in art and the rise of feminism.</td></tr></table><hr>
Writers on Artists
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0789480352"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Writers on Artists" title="Writers on Artists"></a></td><td><i>By Dk,</i><p>£9.99 11 Nov 2011 Hardback Dorling Kindersley Inc<p>Featuring 50 of the century's greatest artists, this book brings together the best and brightest of the art and literary worlds, with rare interviews and over 350 art reproductions.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Past, Present and Future
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Past, Present and Future" title="The Past, Present and Future"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086">The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National</a><p><i>By Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen, John Lund</i><p>£18.95 01 Nov 2011 Paperback Nationalmuseet Antiksamlingen<p>This publication celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark. The Collection traces its roots back to the Royal Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650 and to the private archaeological collection of King Christian VIII. On his death the two collections were joined and in 1853 a new one emerged, now named Cabinet of Antiquities and open to the public -- a collection which over the ensuing 150 years was constantly enlarged and enriched.<P>In eight articles (text in Danish and English), various aspects of the history of the Collection are tackled -- the authors taking their cues from highlights and humble objects alike: two marble heads from Athens, a mummy from Egypt, and a seemingly insignificant Syrian amulet which none the less can tell an intriguing tale from the past. We meet a largely forgotten 19"th"-century Danish consul in Tunisia with an eye for antiquities and accompany Danish archaeologists on expeditions to Hama in Syria and Luristan in Iran.<P>New research in Corinthian pottery is presented and the reader is introduced to the principles employed in establishing the Greek and Roman galleries opened in 1994 together with plans for a new Cypriot gallery to be opened in 2002.<P>The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities encompasses not only the story of ancient cultures but is in its own right part of the history of Denmark as it unfolds the story of the many relations between Denmark and the Mediterranean countries over the centuries.</td></tr></table><hr>
Sigmar Polke
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Sigmar Polke" title="Sigmar Polke"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005">The Dream of Menelaus</a><p><i>By Charles Wylie</i><p>£15.00 31 Oct 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) has experimented with a wide range of styles and subject matter, bringing together imagery from contradictory and unexpected sources, merging the historical and contemporary, and using a variety of different materials and techniques. This catalogue features Polke's major four-painting cycle, "The Dream of Menelaus," one of the artist's most beautiful and challenging. Citing the story of Menelaus, the mythical Greek hero whose wife Helen's abduction started the Trojan War, Polke's cycle alludes to eternal themes of love and war with a typically elusive yet analytic beauty. Here Polke has merged classical and contemporary images to reveal unexpected parallels between mythical histories and present-day realities, all the while creating four paintings of an unsurpassed mastery of the painting medium itself.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Nude
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Nude" title="The Nude"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680">A New Perspective</a><p><i>By Gill Saunders</i><p>£34.50 28 Oct 2011 Hardback KWS Publishers<p>The human body, unclothed and on display, has long been the subject of both artists and art historians. This book examines artists' depictions of nudes and their public reception from classical Greece through the twenty-first century, highlighting the relationship between nudity in art and the rise of feminism.</td></tr></table><hr>
Birds and Flowers of Kono Bairei
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0486470504"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Birds and Flowers of Kono Bairei" title="Birds and Flowers of Kono Bairei"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0486470504">An Album of Japanese Woodblock Prints</a><p><i>By Kono Bairei</i><p>£17.99 28 Oct 2011 Paperback Dover Publications Inc.<p>Kono Bairei's wonderfully lifelike images of birds and flowers first appeared in a three-volume, 1883 portfolio. His woodblock prints were so popular that dealers sold them individually, destroying most complete sets. A collector's delight, this exquisite edition reprints a facsimile assembled in the 1930s and is alive with 150 color illustrations of the highest quality.</td></tr></table><hr>
Karl Bodmer - Painter of the Native Americans
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3858812366"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Karl Bodmer - Painter of the Native Americans" title="Karl Bodmer - Painter of the Native Americans"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3858812366">Europe Encounters America</a><p><i>By Schierle, Sonja Bolz, Peter Isernhagen, Hartwig</i><p>£35.00 27 Oct 2011 Hardback Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag<p>Karl Bodmer, born in Zurich in 1809, is well known for the illustrations he made in 1832-34 on an expedition along the upper Missouri and Ohio rivers. This book marks his 200th anniversary and is an homage to the painter who gave detailed insights into the way of life and appearance of the native people in the North American plains and prairies.</td></tr></table><hr>
Leo Politi
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1883318769"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Leo Politi" title="Leo Politi"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1883318769">Capturing the Heart of Los Angeles</a><p><i>By Rob Wagner, Politi Bischof, Paul Leo Politi, Rob Wagner</i><p>£30.00 27 Oct 2011 Hardback Angel City Press,U.S.<p>This full-color monograph examines the life and work of Leo Politi, the beloved artist and author, whose paintings, illustrations and sculptures vividly articulate the multiethnic identity of Los Angeles. Trained as a fine artist in Italy, Politi worked as a street artist on L.A.'s famed Olvera Street and achieved national attention with his twenty children's books and a coveted Caldecott Medal. Remembered for capturing the heart of Los Angeles, both on paper and in the minds of its people, Politi's artwork is showcased in this extraordinary volume, to coincide with the Leo Politi 2008 Centennial.</td></tr></table><hr>
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Friends
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3858817066"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Friends" title="Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Friends"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3858817066">Expressions from the Swiss Mountains</a><p><i>By Beat Stutzer</i><p>£75.00 24 Oct 2011 Hardback Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag<p>Ernst Kirchner, seminal expressionist painter and founding member of the influential artists’ collective Die Brü cke, came to the Swiss mountains during World War I to recuperate from a nervous breakdown. "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and his Friends" is the first book to explore how Kirchner became a role model, teacher, and mentor for younger artists during his time in Davos.<BR>The momentous artistic exchange between Kirchner and his young admirers— whose ranks included the German Philipp Bauknecht, the Dutch Jan Wiegers, and the members of the Swiss Gruppe Rot-Blau— established a dialogue that had a formative influence on the direction of European art in the twentieth century. This matchless volume provides a record of the extraordinary bond that developed between a legendary— yet ailing— artist and the up-and-coming Gruppe Rot-Blaue in Switzerland.</td></tr></table><hr>
Gonzalo Lebrija
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1904212662"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Gonzalo Lebrija" title="Gonzalo Lebrija"></a></td><td><i>By Gonzalo Lebrija, Jason Beard</i><p>£70.00 24 Oct 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>This book is a new monograph on Gonzalo Lebrija, a Mexican artist based in Guadalajara. He is a photography-based installation and video artist, and for this book he has commissioned artists, poets and architects he knows to write brief essays on his work..</td></tr></table><hr>
Agnes Martin
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300151055"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Agnes Martin" title="Agnes Martin"></a></td><td><i>By Anastas, Rhea Crimp, Douglas Katz, Jonathan D.</i><p>£25.00 17 Oct 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Gorgeously quiet in colour and composition, Agnes Martin's paintings have a distinctive grace that sets them apart from those of the Abstract Expressionists of her day and the Minimalist artists she inspired. This anthology presents scholarship on Martin's paintings.</td></tr></table><hr>
Blue
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323123"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Blue" title="Blue"></a></td><td><i>By Scott Short</i><p>£17.50 14 Oct 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>Chicago-based painter Scott Short has a very simple, yet highly refined method of arriving at his mesmerizing abstract compositions. He places a piece of colored construction paper on the scanning bed of a black-and-white photocopier and makes a photocopy. Then he makes a photocopy of that photocopy. He repeats the process, moving one generation further from his original each time, not quite ad infinitum, but at least a few hundred times.<BR>The resulting image renders the original monochrome of the construction paper an arresting field of intricately textured black-and-white static. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition of Short's work at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, "Blue "presents all the steps involved in the creation of a single piece of this art. In its reconstruction of Short's method of composition, "Blue" is essentially an artist's workbook, explanatory yet hypnotic, and it will appeal to all fans of abstract contemporary art.<BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1554072905"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings" title="Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings"></a></td><td><i>By Anne Newlands</i><p>£40.00 13 Oct 2011 Hardback Firefly Books Ltd<p>A well-illustrated survey of wide variety of styles and subject matter within Canadian art and covers from the 18th-century to contemporary practitioners. The book includes an introduction and informative captions for each work.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1554071542"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson" title="The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson"></a></td><td><i>By David P. Silcox</i><p>£29.95 13 Oct 2011 Hardback Firefly Books Ltd<p>A comprehensive study of the famous Canadian art movement. 400 full colour artworks are organised by region and theme, each group introduced by an essay.</td></tr></table><hr>
Fine Words Butter No Cabbage
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" title="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069">26 Years of Whitewalls</a><p><i>By Anthony Elms</i><p>£15.00 10 Oct 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>The longest-running journal dedicated to artists' projects in the world, "WhiteWalls "recently exhibited "Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"--a celebration of twenty-six years of conceptual art and writing by new and established artists from Chicago and around the world. <BR>"Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" now compiles over forty new projects from these artists, each created specifically for the book, alongside photographs from the accompanying exhibit. The book features work from early contributors to the journal, such as Robert Barry, Gary Cannone, and the performance group Goat Island, as well as pieces by Mindy Rose Schwartz, Helen Mirra, and Andreas Fischer. Richly illustrated and accompanied by illuminating essays by former editors Buzz Spector, Ann Torke, and Laurie Palmer, and current editor Anthony Elms, "Fine Words" "Butter No Cabbage "is an illuminating look at some of the best conceptual artists of our time. <BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Taxidermied
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1845769392"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Taxidermied" title="Taxidermied"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1845769392">The Art of Roman Dirge</a><p><i>By Roman Dirge</i><p>£24.99 07 Oct 2011 Hardback Titan Books Ltd<p>A full-color celebration of the artwork of Lenore creator Roman Dirge. It includes an introduction and background information on the imagery.</td></tr></table><hr>
Lawren Harris
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1552977633"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Lawren Harris" title="Lawren Harris"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1552977633">An Introduction to His Life and Art</a><p><i>By Joan Murray</i><p>£9.95 06 Oct 2011 Paperback Firefly Books Ltd<p>An illustrated introduction to the life and work of the leader of the Group of Seven.</td></tr></table><hr>
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0896599280"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Dante Gabriel Rossetti" title="Dante Gabriel Rossetti"></a></td><td><i>By Alicia Craig Faxon</i><p>£60.00 05 Oct 2011 Hardback Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.<p>Chronicling Rossetti's career from his early achievements as a founder of the final years, Faxonoraries, bringing to life a charismatic character. 265 illustrations, 140 in full color.</td></tr></table><hr>
Francis Alys
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865212905"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Francis Alys" title="Francis Alys"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865212905">Sign Painting Project</a><p><i>By Francis Alys, Theodora Vischer</i><p>£38.00 03 Oct 2011 Hardback Steidl Publishers<p>The Belgian-born conceptual painter and artistic interventionist Francis Alys developed "The Sign Painting Project" over a period of four years. He began by painting fairly small canvases depicting people and objects in the flat, brightly-colored manner of billboard advertisements. The artist, who currently lives in Mexico, then asked local sign-painters Juan Garcia, Enrique Huerta and Emilio Rivera to copy and enlarge his paintings. The result of the artists' combined labors is a set of 120 paintings that reveal variations on particular themes and that inevitably provoke questions about collaboration, authorship and originality. This book, which features 300 color plates, is a catalogue raisonne of that project.</td></tr></table><hr>
David Hockney's Dog Days
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0500286272"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="David Hockney's Dog Days" title="David Hockney's Dog Days"></a></td><td><i>By David Hockney</i><p>£7.95 03 Oct 2011 Paperback Thames & Hudson Ltd<p>This collection of David Hockney's enchanting paintings and drawings featuring his two dachshunds offers a heartwarming celebration of the age-old bond between people and dogs. 84 illustrations.</td></tr></table><hr>
In the Flesh
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=9040083789"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="In the Flesh" title="In the Flesh"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=9040083789">Jan Van Eyck's "Adam and Eve" - Panels and the Making of the Northern Nude</a><p><i>By Ann-Sophie Lehmann</i><p>£65.00 01 Oct 2011 Hardback Waanders BV, Uitgeverij<p>Art history has fostered the notion that the nude as a genre is an Italian discovery. For a long time in the North the nude was supposed to have been only warranted within a religious context to demonstrate shame and guilt. This study of the two nudes in Dutch art, the figures of Adam and Eve of the Ghent altarpiece, tells a different story.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Past, Present and Future
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Past, Present and Future" title="The Past, Present and Future"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086">The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National</a><p><i>By Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen, John Lund</i><p>£18.95 01 Oct 2011 Paperback Nationalmuseet Antiksamlingen<p>This publication celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark. The Collection traces its roots back to the Royal Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650 and to the private archaeological collection of King Christian VIII. On his death the two collections were joined and in 1853 a new one emerged, now named Cabinet of Antiquities and open to the public -- a collection which over the ensuing 150 years was constantly enlarged and enriched.<P>In eight articles (text in Danish and English), various aspects of the history of the Collection are tackled -- the authors taking their cues from highlights and humble objects alike: two marble heads from Athens, a mummy from Egypt, and a seemingly insignificant Syrian amulet which none the less can tell an intriguing tale from the past. We meet a largely forgotten 19"th"-century Danish consul in Tunisia with an eye for antiquities and accompany Danish archaeologists on expeditions to Hama in Syria and Luristan in Iran.<P>New research in Corinthian pottery is presented and the reader is introduced to the principles employed in establishing the Greek and Roman galleries opened in 1994 together with plans for a new Cypriot gallery to be opened in 2002.<P>The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities encompasses not only the story of ancient cultures but is in its own right part of the history of Denmark as it unfolds the story of the many relations between Denmark and the Mediterranean countries over the centuries.</td></tr></table><hr>
Sigmar Polke
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Sigmar Polke" title="Sigmar Polke"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005">The Dream of Menelaus</a><p><i>By Charles Wylie</i><p>£15.00 01 Oct 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) has experimented with a wide range of styles and subject matter, bringing together imagery from contradictory and unexpected sources, merging the historical and contemporary, and using a variety of different materials and techniques. This catalogue features Polke's major four-painting cycle, "The Dream of Menelaus," one of the artist's most beautiful and challenging. Citing the story of Menelaus, the mythical Greek hero whose wife Helen's abduction started the Trojan War, Polke's cycle alludes to eternal themes of love and war with a typically elusive yet analytic beauty. Here Polke has merged classical and contemporary images to reveal unexpected parallels between mythical histories and present-day realities, all the while creating four paintings of an unsurpassed mastery of the painting medium itself.</td></tr></table><hr>
Marcus Harvey
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=190421262X"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Marcus Harvey" title="Marcus Harvey"></a></td><td><i>By Marcus Harvey, Jason Beard</i><p>£75.00 30 Sep 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>Iconic painting 'Myra', of child-murderer Myra Hindley was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in September 1997. The monumental monochrome painting was entirely composed from a childs handprints, and has been repeatedly used by the press in the coverage of the case.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Nude
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Nude" title="The Nude"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680">A New Perspective</a><p><i>By Gill Saunders</i><p>£34.50 29 Sep 2011 Hardback KWS Publishers<p>The human body, unclothed and on display, has long been the subject of both artists and art historians. This book examines artists' depictions of nudes and their public reception from classical Greece through the twenty-first century, highlighting the relationship between nudity in art and the rise of feminism.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Sculpture of Gertrude Hermes
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0853318654"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Sculpture of Gertrude Hermes" title="The Sculpture of Gertrude Hermes"></a></td><td><i>By Jane Hill</i><p>£45.00 28 Sep 2011 Hardback Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd<p>The Sculpture of Gertrude Hermes presents for the first time a full analysis of the artist's entire sculptural oeuvre. Along with a comprehensive catalogue of Hermes' works, Jane Hill provides a full account of the artist's life in the context of her career as a sculptor.</td></tr></table><hr>
Michael Clark
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1900828332"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Michael Clark" title="Michael Clark"></a></td><td><i>By Michael Bracewell, Suzanne Cotter, Stephanie Jordan</i><p>£49.95 19 Sep 2011 Hardback Violette Editions<p>Edited by Suzanne Cotter, Robert Violette. Text by Michael Bracewell, Suzanne Cotter, Stephanie Jordan. Interviews with Charles Atlas, Michael Clark, Merce Cunningham, Kate Coyne, Sophie Fiennes, Richard Glasstone, Matthew Hawkins, Melissa Hetherington, Sarah Lucas, Judith Mackrell, Steven Scott, Susan Stenger, Stevie Stewart, Cerith Wyn Evans, et al.</td></tr></table><hr>
Agnes Martin
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300151055"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Agnes Martin" title="Agnes Martin"></a></td><td><i>By Anastas, Rhea Crimp, Douglas Katz, Jonathan D.</i><p>£25.00 16 Sep 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Gorgeously quiet in colour and composition, Agnes Martin's paintings have a distinctive grace that sets them apart from those of the Abstract Expressionists of her day and the Minimalist artists she inspired. This anthology presents scholarship on Martin's paintings.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Weirding Field
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1934781118"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Weirding Field" title="The Weirding Field"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1934781118">The North Texas Spacecraft of Gene Watson, Father and Visionary</a><p><i>By Esther Pearl Watson</i><p>£10.99 15 Sep 2011 Hardback McSweeney's Publishing<p>"The Weirding Field" is a new kind of narrative scrapbook, telling the story of Gene Watson--folk artist, failed astronaut, phenomenon--through the eyes of his daughter, artist Esther Pearl Watson, who has used both his successes and failures to direct her life and career.</td></tr></table><hr>
Blue
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323123"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Blue" title="Blue"></a></td><td><i>By Scott Short</i><p>£17.50 15 Sep 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>Chicago-based painter Scott Short has a very simple, yet highly refined method of arriving at his mesmerizing abstract compositions. He places a piece of colored construction paper on the scanning bed of a black-and-white photocopier and makes a photocopy. Then he makes a photocopy of that photocopy. He repeats the process, moving one generation further from his original each time, not quite ad infinitum, but at least a few hundred times.<BR>The resulting image renders the original monochrome of the construction paper an arresting field of intricately textured black-and-white static. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition of Short's work at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, "Blue "presents all the steps involved in the creation of a single piece of this art. In its reconstruction of Short's method of composition, "Blue" is essentially an artist's workbook, explanatory yet hypnotic, and it will appeal to all fans of abstract contemporary art.<BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Fine Words Butter No Cabbage
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" title="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069">26 Years of Whitewalls</a><p><i>By Anthony Elms</i><p>£15.00 11 Sep 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>The longest-running journal dedicated to artists' projects in the world, "WhiteWalls "recently exhibited "Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"--a celebration of twenty-six years of conceptual art and writing by new and established artists from Chicago and around the world. <BR>"Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" now compiles over forty new projects from these artists, each created specifically for the book, alongside photographs from the accompanying exhibit. The book features work from early contributors to the journal, such as Robert Barry, Gary Cannone, and the performance group Goat Island, as well as pieces by Mindy Rose Schwartz, Helen Mirra, and Andreas Fischer. Richly illustrated and accompanied by illuminating essays by former editors Buzz Spector, Ann Torke, and Laurie Palmer, and current editor Anthony Elms, "Fine Words" "Butter No Cabbage "is an illuminating look at some of the best conceptual artists of our time. <BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Sigmar Polke
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Sigmar Polke" title="Sigmar Polke"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005">The Dream of Menelaus</a><p><i>By Charles Wylie</i><p>£15.00 03 Sep 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) has experimented with a wide range of styles and subject matter, bringing together imagery from contradictory and unexpected sources, merging the historical and contemporary, and using a variety of different materials and techniques. This catalogue features Polke's major four-painting cycle, "The Dream of Menelaus," one of the artist's most beautiful and challenging. Citing the story of Menelaus, the mythical Greek hero whose wife Helen's abduction started the Trojan War, Polke's cycle alludes to eternal themes of love and war with a typically elusive yet analytic beauty. Here Polke has merged classical and contemporary images to reveal unexpected parallels between mythical histories and present-day realities, all the while creating four paintings of an unsurpassed mastery of the painting medium itself.</td></tr></table><hr>
Hip Pocket Sleaze
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1900486482"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Hip Pocket Sleaze" title="Hip Pocket Sleaze"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1900486482">The Lurid World of Vintage Adult Paperbacks</a><p><i>By John Harrison</i><p>£12.99 02 Sep 2011 Paperback Headpress<p>"Hip Pocket Sleaze" is an introduction to the world of vintage, lurid adult paperbacks. Charting the rise of sleazy pulp fiction during the 1960s and 1970s and reviewing many of the key titles, the book takes an informed look at the various genres and markets from this enormously prolific era, from groundbreaking gay and lesbian-themed books to the Armed Services Editions. Influential authors, publishers and cover artists are profiled and interviewed, including the "godfather of gore" H. G. Lewis, cult lesbian author Ann Bannon, fetish artist par excellence Bill Ward and many others. <P>A companion to "Bad Mags," Headpress' guide to sensationalist magazines of the 1970s, "Hip Pocket Sleaze" also offers extensive bibliographical information and plenty of outrageous cover art.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Past, Present and Future
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Past, Present and Future" title="The Past, Present and Future"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086">The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National</a><p><i>By Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen, John Lund</i><p>£18.95 01 Sep 2011 Paperback Nationalmuseet Antiksamlingen<p>This publication celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark. The Collection traces its roots back to the Royal Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650 and to the private archaeological collection of King Christian VIII. On his death the two collections were joined and in 1853 a new one emerged, now named Cabinet of Antiquities and open to the public -- a collection which over the ensuing 150 years was constantly enlarged and enriched.<P>In eight articles (text in Danish and English), various aspects of the history of the Collection are tackled -- the authors taking their cues from highlights and humble objects alike: two marble heads from Athens, a mummy from Egypt, and a seemingly insignificant Syrian amulet which none the less can tell an intriguing tale from the past. We meet a largely forgotten 19"th"-century Danish consul in Tunisia with an eye for antiquities and accompany Danish archaeologists on expeditions to Hama in Syria and Luristan in Iran.<P>New research in Corinthian pottery is presented and the reader is introduced to the principles employed in establishing the Greek and Roman galleries opened in 1994 together with plans for a new Cypriot gallery to be opened in 2002.<P>The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities encompasses not only the story of ancient cultures but is in its own right part of the history of Denmark as it unfolds the story of the many relations between Denmark and the Mediterranean countries over the centuries.</td></tr></table><hr>
Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1554072905"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings" title="Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings"></a></td><td><i>By Anne Newlands</i><p>£40.00 01 Sep 2011 Hardback Firefly Books Ltd<p>A well-illustrated survey of wide variety of styles and subject matter within Canadian art and covers from the 18th-century to contemporary practitioners. The book includes an introduction and informative captions for each work.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Nude
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Nude" title="The Nude"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680">A New Perspective</a><p><i>By Gill Saunders</i><p>£34.50 01 Sep 2011 Hardback KWS Publishers<p>The human body, unclothed and on display, has long been the subject of both artists and art historians. This book examines artists' depictions of nudes and their public reception from classical Greece through the twenty-first century, highlighting the relationship between nudity in art and the rise of feminism.</td></tr></table><hr>
Gonzalo Lebrija
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1904212662"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Gonzalo Lebrija" title="Gonzalo Lebrija"></a></td><td><i>By Gonzalo Lebrija, Jason Beard</i><p>£70.00 31 Aug 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>This book is a new monograph on Gonzalo Lebrija, a Mexican artist based in Guadalajara. He is a photography-based installation and video artist, and for this book he has commissioned artists, poets and architects he knows to write brief essays on his work..</td></tr></table><hr>
Marcus Harvey
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=190421262X"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Marcus Harvey" title="Marcus Harvey"></a></td><td><i>By Marcus Harvey, Jason Beard</i><p>£75.00 31 Aug 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>Iconic painting 'Myra', of child-murderer Myra Hindley was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in September 1997. The monumental monochrome painting was entirely composed from a childs handprints, and has been repeatedly used by the press in the coverage of the case.</td></tr></table><hr>
Vision in Design
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=9063692056"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Vision in Design" title="Vision in Design"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=9063692056">A Guidebook for Innovators</a><p><i>By BIS Publishers</i><p>£37.50 30 Aug 2011 Hardback BIS Publishers B.V.<p><P>This book explores how to formulate a vision for new and appropriate products. A new approach called Vision in Product Design (ViP) strikes a good balance between structuring the process of design while allowing the designers to take a personal position and fully express themselves in producing a product. ViP is both a method and a design philosophy. <P>Paul Hekkert is a professor of Form Theory and on the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology in Holland. <P>Peter Lloyd is head of the Department of Design and Innovation at the Open University in the United Kingdom. <P>Matthijs van Dijk is CEO of KVD design consultancy and is a professor of Applied Design at TU Delft.</td></tr></table><hr>
London A Portrait of a City
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8857200590"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="London A Portrait of a City" title="London A Portrait of a City"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8857200590">Serpentine Gallery 24 Hour Interview. Marathon</a><p><i>By Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Rem Koolhaas</i><p>£19.95 29 Aug 2011 Paperback Skira<p>This series of dialogues conducted by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rem Koolhaas is dedicated to the most topical subjects on the international scene. Protagonists of the British architectural, political, and artistic scene, including Brian Eno, Zaha Hadid, Doris Lessing, Damien Hirst, and Gilbert and George, amongst others, have been invited to speak about the near future.</td></tr></table><hr>
Agnes Martin
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300151055"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Agnes Martin" title="Agnes Martin"></a></td><td><i>By Anastas, Rhea Crimp, Douglas Katz, Jonathan D.</i><p>£25.00 19 Aug 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Gorgeously quiet in colour and composition, Agnes Martin's paintings have a distinctive grace that sets them apart from those of the Abstract Expressionists of her day and the Minimalist artists she inspired. This anthology presents scholarship on Martin's paintings.</td></tr></table><hr>
Blue
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323123"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Blue" title="Blue"></a></td><td><i>By Scott Short</i><p>£17.50 18 Aug 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>Chicago-based painter Scott Short has a very simple, yet highly refined method of arriving at his mesmerizing abstract compositions. He places a piece of colored construction paper on the scanning bed of a black-and-white photocopier and makes a photocopy. Then he makes a photocopy of that photocopy. He repeats the process, moving one generation further from his original each time, not quite ad infinitum, but at least a few hundred times.<BR>The resulting image renders the original monochrome of the construction paper an arresting field of intricately textured black-and-white static. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition of Short's work at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, "Blue "presents all the steps involved in the creation of a single piece of this art. In its reconstruction of Short's method of composition, "Blue" is essentially an artist's workbook, explanatory yet hypnotic, and it will appeal to all fans of abstract contemporary art.<BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Fine Words Butter No Cabbage
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" title="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069">26 Years of Whitewalls</a><p><i>By Anthony Elms</i><p>£15.00 14 Aug 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>The longest-running journal dedicated to artists' projects in the world, "WhiteWalls "recently exhibited "Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"--a celebration of twenty-six years of conceptual art and writing by new and established artists from Chicago and around the world. <BR>"Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" now compiles over forty new projects from these artists, each created specifically for the book, alongside photographs from the accompanying exhibit. The book features work from early contributors to the journal, such as Robert Barry, Gary Cannone, and the performance group Goat Island, as well as pieces by Mindy Rose Schwartz, Helen Mirra, and Andreas Fischer. Richly illustrated and accompanied by illuminating essays by former editors Buzz Spector, Ann Torke, and Laurie Palmer, and current editor Anthony Elms, "Fine Words" "Butter No Cabbage "is an illuminating look at some of the best conceptual artists of our time. <BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Sigmar Polke
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Sigmar Polke" title="Sigmar Polke"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005">The Dream of Menelaus</a><p><i>By Charles Wylie</i><p>£15.00 06 Aug 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) has experimented with a wide range of styles and subject matter, bringing together imagery from contradictory and unexpected sources, merging the historical and contemporary, and using a variety of different materials and techniques. This catalogue features Polke's major four-painting cycle, "The Dream of Menelaus," one of the artist's most beautiful and challenging. Citing the story of Menelaus, the mythical Greek hero whose wife Helen's abduction started the Trojan War, Polke's cycle alludes to eternal themes of love and war with a typically elusive yet analytic beauty. Here Polke has merged classical and contemporary images to reveal unexpected parallels between mythical histories and present-day realities, all the while creating four paintings of an unsurpassed mastery of the painting medium itself.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Nude
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Nude" title="The Nude"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680">A New Perspective</a><p><i>By Gill Saunders</i><p>£34.50 04 Aug 2011 Hardback KWS Publishers<p>The human body, unclothed and on display, has long been the subject of both artists and art historians. This book examines artists' depictions of nudes and their public reception from classical Greece through the twenty-first century, highlighting the relationship between nudity in art and the rise of feminism.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Past, Present and Future
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Past, Present and Future" title="The Past, Present and Future"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086">The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National</a><p><i>By Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen, John Lund</i><p>£18.95 01 Aug 2011 Paperback Nationalmuseet Antiksamlingen<p>This publication celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark. The Collection traces its roots back to the Royal Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650 and to the private archaeological collection of King Christian VIII. On his death the two collections were joined and in 1853 a new one emerged, now named Cabinet of Antiquities and open to the public -- a collection which over the ensuing 150 years was constantly enlarged and enriched.<P>In eight articles (text in Danish and English), various aspects of the history of the Collection are tackled -- the authors taking their cues from highlights and humble objects alike: two marble heads from Athens, a mummy from Egypt, and a seemingly insignificant Syrian amulet which none the less can tell an intriguing tale from the past. We meet a largely forgotten 19"th"-century Danish consul in Tunisia with an eye for antiquities and accompany Danish archaeologists on expeditions to Hama in Syria and Luristan in Iran.<P>New research in Corinthian pottery is presented and the reader is introduced to the principles employed in establishing the Greek and Roman galleries opened in 1994 together with plans for a new Cypriot gallery to be opened in 2002.<P>The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities encompasses not only the story of ancient cultures but is in its own right part of the history of Denmark as it unfolds the story of the many relations between Denmark and the Mediterranean countries over the centuries.</td></tr></table><hr>
Gonzalo Lebrija
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1904212662"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Gonzalo Lebrija" title="Gonzalo Lebrija"></a></td><td><i>By Gonzalo Lebrija, Jason Beard</i><p>£70.00 31 Jul 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>This book is a new monograph on Gonzalo Lebrija, a Mexican artist based in Guadalajara. He is a photography-based installation and video artist, and for this book he has commissioned artists, poets and architects he knows to write brief essays on his work..</td></tr></table><hr>
Marcus Harvey
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=190421262X"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Marcus Harvey" title="Marcus Harvey"></a></td><td><i>By Marcus Harvey, Jason Beard</i><p>£75.00 31 Jul 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>Iconic painting 'Myra', of child-murderer Myra Hindley was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in September 1997. The monumental monochrome painting was entirely composed from a childs handprints, and has been repeatedly used by the press in the coverage of the case.</td></tr></table><hr>
Self Portraits
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1934781517"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Self Portraits" title="Self Portraits"></a></td><td><i>By McSweeney's Books</i><p>£11.99 28 Jul 2011 Hardback McSweeney's Publishing<p>"Self Portraits" is a collection of brand new self portraits by writers, musicians, directors, actors, chefs, philosophers -- all kinds of people you might know, but probably not for their drawing ability (which may be scant). Contributors include writers like Judy Blume, Jonathan Ames, Stephen Elliott, and Trinie Dalton; filmmakers like Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze; poets like David Berman, Kevin Young, and Matthea Harvey; musicians like David Byrne, Fiona Apple, Antony Hegarty (of Antony and the Johnsons), and Will Sheff (of Okkervil River); philosophers like Slavoj Zizek and hundreds of others. The book also includes bonus "vintage" self portraits made by unlikely candidates, such as Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind.</td></tr></table><hr>
Dali Dali Featuring Francesco Vezzoli
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865219365"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Dali Dali Featuring Francesco Vezzoli" title="Dali Dali Featuring Francesco Vezzoli"></a></td><td><i>By Salvador Dali, John Peter Nilsson, Caroline Corbetta</i><p>£40.00 25 Jul 2011 Paperback Steidl Publishers<p>Edited by John Peter Nilsson. Text by Hal Foster, Carolina Corbetta, David Lomas, John Peter Nilsson.</td></tr></table><hr>
Tacita Dean
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218717"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Tacita Dean" title="Tacita Dean"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218717">Teignmouth Electron</a><p><i>By Tacita Dean</i><p>£14.95 25 Jul 2011 Paperback Steidl Publishers<p>A project recalling the work of Bas Jan Ader, British photographer Tacita Dean's "Teignmouth Electron" is based on the haunting story of Donald Crowhurst, a participant in the 1968 around-the-world "Sunday Times" Golden Globe yacht race. Martyn Ridgewell has redesigned this edition, which was first published in 1999.</td></tr></table><hr>
Berlinde de Bruyckere
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218490"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Berlinde de Bruyckere" title="Berlinde de Bruyckere"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218490">In the Woods There Were Chainsaws</a><p><i>By Berlinde de Bruyckere, Tommy Devriendt</i><p>£50.00 25 Jul 2011 Hardback Steidl Publishers<p>Text by Tommy Wieringa, Berlinde De Bruyckere. Photographs by Mirjam Devriendt.</td></tr></table><hr>
Guillermo Kuitca
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218482"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Guillermo Kuitca" title="Guillermo Kuitca"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218482">Plates No. 01-24</a><p><i>By Guillermo Kuitca, Robert Storr</i><p>£35.00 25 Jul 2011 Hardback Steidl Publishers<p>Guillermo Kuitca is a painter of space, an organizer of emptiness. His paintings and works on paper reimagine Cubism, sampling its stylistic elements. This volume presents his most recent work, which developed out of the series that was shown in 2007 at Ateneo Veneto in the Argentine Pavilion of the Venice Biennale.</td></tr></table><hr>
Edward Ruscha
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218326"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Edward Ruscha" title="Edward Ruscha"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218326">Catalogue Raisonne of Works on Paper: Volume One: 1956-1969</a><p><i>By Edward Ruscha</i><p>£110.00 25 Jul 2011 Hardback Steidl Publishers<p>Edited by Petrus Schaesberg, Rainer Crone.</td></tr></table><hr>
Jim Dine
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218288"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Jim Dine" title="Jim Dine"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218288">Poet Singing (The Flowering Sheets)</a><p><i>By Jim Dine</i><p>£20.00 25 Jul 2011 Hardback Steidl Publishers<p>Poems by Jim Dine. Photographs by Jim Dine, Gerhard Steidl, Diana Michener.</td></tr></table><hr>
Marcel Dzama
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865217427"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Marcel Dzama" title="Marcel Dzama"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865217427">Even the Ghost of the Past</a><p><i>By Marcel Dzama, Spike Jonze, Cameron Shaw</i><p>£35.00 25 Jul 2011 Hardback Steidl Publishers<p>Text by Cameron Shaw. Interview by Spike Jonze.</td></tr></table><hr>
Andy Warhol
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865216145"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Andy Warhol" title="Andy Warhol"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865216145">Catalogue Published on the Occasion of the Andy Warhol Exhibition at Moderna</a><p><i>By Andy Warhol, Pontus Hulten</i><p>£25.00 25 Jul 2011 Paperback Steidl Publishers<p>Edited by Andy Warhol, Pontus Hulten, Kasper Konig, Olle Granath.</td></tr></table><hr>
Paul McCarthy
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865214894"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Paul McCarthy" title="Paul McCarthy"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865214894">Inflation</a><p><i>By Paul McCarthy</i><p>£42.00 25 Jul 2011 Hardback Steidl Publishers<p>This volume presents the first comprehensive survey of Paul McCarthy's large-scale inflatable sculptures. McCarthy, born in 1945 in Salt Lake City and based in the Los Angeles area, where he taught at UCLA for many years, first came to public notice in the 1970s with his shockingly scatological and strangely hypnotic performances and videos; he's now a veteran of solo exhibits at Tate Modern and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, among many other world-class institutions of art. Since the mid-1980s, he has been creating increasingly complex and influential installations and videos, as well as a broad portfolio of sculptures and large-scale, outdoor blow-up figures. This volume--which contains 15 giant posters housed in a shopping bag, 12 notebooks and a text booklet--illustrates every McCarthy inflatable to date, including important pieces such as "Daddies Ketchup Bottle" (2003) and a significant number of newly commissioned works.</td></tr></table><hr>
Patrick Swirc
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865214819"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Patrick Swirc" title="Patrick Swirc"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865214819">On Her Road</a><p><i>By Swirc, Patrick</i><p>£18.00 25 Jul 2011 Hardback Steidl Publishers<p>"It was in Paris, the day before I left. A first kiss, the first day of April, the taste of her lips and words close to my mouth: 'See you soon, somewhere in China.' She is Sephardic, lives in China and is studying the traces of the country's Jewish past. I am half-Jewish through my father and half-Catholic through my mother. When asked if my name was Jewish I always answered: 'No, why?' Yet deep inside, I feel Jewish. A few weeks after that first kiss, I traveled to Kirghizstan as planned. West China was only a few hours away by bus. Using phone text messages, she guided me around China, sometimes through sinister cities, one of which Jews had inhabited during the twelfth century. It was on her road that I would reconnect with my origins."<BR>Patrick Swirc studied photography in Switzerland but left to follow a striptease artist to Paris. He has since contributed covers to "Elle" and "Time."</td></tr></table><hr>
Agnes Martin
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300151055"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Agnes Martin" title="Agnes Martin"></a></td><td><i>By Anastas, Rhea Crimp, Douglas Katz, Jonathan D.</i><p>£25.00 22 Jul 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Gorgeously quiet in colour and composition, Agnes Martin's paintings have a distinctive grace that sets them apart from those of the Abstract Expressionists of her day and the Minimalist artists she inspired. This anthology presents scholarship on Martin's paintings.</td></tr></table><hr>
Blue
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323123"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Blue" title="Blue"></a></td><td><i>By Scott Short</i><p>£17.50 21 Jul 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>Chicago-based painter Scott Short has a very simple, yet highly refined method of arriving at his mesmerizing abstract compositions. He places a piece of colored construction paper on the scanning bed of a black-and-white photocopier and makes a photocopy. Then he makes a photocopy of that photocopy. He repeats the process, moving one generation further from his original each time, not quite ad infinitum, but at least a few hundred times.<BR>The resulting image renders the original monochrome of the construction paper an arresting field of intricately textured black-and-white static. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition of Short's work at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, "Blue "presents all the steps involved in the creation of a single piece of this art. In its reconstruction of Short's method of composition, "Blue" is essentially an artist's workbook, explanatory yet hypnotic, and it will appeal to all fans of abstract contemporary art.<BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Fine Words Butter No Cabbage
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" title="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069">26 Years of Whitewalls</a><p><i>By Anthony Elms</i><p>£15.00 17 Jul 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>The longest-running journal dedicated to artists' projects in the world, "WhiteWalls "recently exhibited "Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"--a celebration of twenty-six years of conceptual art and writing by new and established artists from Chicago and around the world. <BR>"Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" now compiles over forty new projects from these artists, each created specifically for the book, alongside photographs from the accompanying exhibit. The book features work from early contributors to the journal, such as Robert Barry, Gary Cannone, and the performance group Goat Island, as well as pieces by Mindy Rose Schwartz, Helen Mirra, and Andreas Fischer. Richly illustrated and accompanied by illuminating essays by former editors Buzz Spector, Ann Torke, and Laurie Palmer, and current editor Anthony Elms, "Fine Words" "Butter No Cabbage "is an illuminating look at some of the best conceptual artists of our time. <BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Sigmar Polke
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Sigmar Polke" title="Sigmar Polke"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005">The Dream of Menelaus</a><p><i>By Charles Wylie</i><p>£15.00 09 Jul 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) has experimented with a wide range of styles and subject matter, bringing together imagery from contradictory and unexpected sources, merging the historical and contemporary, and using a variety of different materials and techniques. This catalogue features Polke's major four-painting cycle, "The Dream of Menelaus," one of the artist's most beautiful and challenging. Citing the story of Menelaus, the mythical Greek hero whose wife Helen's abduction started the Trojan War, Polke's cycle alludes to eternal themes of love and war with a typically elusive yet analytic beauty. Here Polke has merged classical and contemporary images to reveal unexpected parallels between mythical histories and present-day realities, all the while creating four paintings of an unsurpassed mastery of the painting medium itself.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Nude
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Nude" title="The Nude"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680">A New Perspective</a><p><i>By Gill Saunders</i><p>£34.50 07 Jul 2011 Hardback KWS Publishers<p>The human body, unclothed and on display, has long been the subject of both artists and art historians. This book examines artists' depictions of nudes and their public reception from classical Greece through the twenty-first century, highlighting the relationship between nudity in art and the rise of feminism.</td></tr></table><hr>
London A Portrait of a City
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8857200590"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="London A Portrait of a City" title="London A Portrait of a City"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8857200590">Serpentine Gallery 24 Hour Interview. Marathon</a><p><i>By Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Rem Koolhaas</i><p>£19.95 04 Jul 2011 Paperback Skira<p>This series of dialogues conducted by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rem Koolhaas is dedicated to the most topical subjects on the international scene. Protagonists of the British architectural, political, and artistic scene, including Brian Eno, Zaha Hadid, Doris Lessing, Damien Hirst, and Gilbert and George, amongst others, have been invited to speak about the near future.</td></tr></table><hr>
Michael Clark
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1900828332"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Michael Clark" title="Michael Clark"></a></td><td><i>By Suzanne Cotter, Michael Bracewell</i><p>£45.00 04 Jul 2011 Hardback Violette Editions<p>Edited by Suzanne Cotter, Robert Violette. Text by Michael Bracewell, Suzanne Cotter, Stephanie Jordan. Interviews with Charles Atlas, Michael Clark, Merce Cunningham, Kate Coyne, Sophie Fiennes, Richard Glasstone, Matthew Hawkins, Melissa Hetherington, Sarah Lucas, Judith Mackrell, Steven Scott, Susan Stenger, Stevie Stewart, Cerith Wyn Evans, et al.</td></tr></table><hr>
Bedtime Tales for Sleepless Nights
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0955862094"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Bedtime Tales for Sleepless Nights" title="Bedtime Tales for Sleepless Nights"></a></td><td><i>By Jake Chapman, Dinos Chapman</i><p>£19.95 04 Jul 2011 Hardback FUEL Publishing<p>In "Bedtime Tales for Sleepless Nights," the Chapman Brothers reconceive the Victorian morality tale for less sanctimonious (and more misanthropic) times. This volume offers fans and younger readers alike a beautiful, large-scale publication that has a winsomeness entirely its own.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Past, Present and Future
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Past, Present and Future" title="The Past, Present and Future"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086">The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National</a><p><i>By Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen, John Lund</i><p>£18.95 01 Jul 2011 Paperback Nationalmuseet Antiksamlingen<p>This publication celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark. The Collection traces its roots back to the Royal Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650 and to the private archaeological collection of King Christian VIII. On his death the two collections were joined and in 1853 a new one emerged, now named Cabinet of Antiquities and open to the public -- a collection which over the ensuing 150 years was constantly enlarged and enriched.<P>In eight articles (text in Danish and English), various aspects of the history of the Collection are tackled -- the authors taking their cues from highlights and humble objects alike: two marble heads from Athens, a mummy from Egypt, and a seemingly insignificant Syrian amulet which none the less can tell an intriguing tale from the past. We meet a largely forgotten 19"th"-century Danish consul in Tunisia with an eye for antiquities and accompany Danish archaeologists on expeditions to Hama in Syria and Luristan in Iran.<P>New research in Corinthian pottery is presented and the reader is introduced to the principles employed in establishing the Greek and Roman galleries opened in 1994 together with plans for a new Cypriot gallery to be opened in 2002.<P>The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities encompasses not only the story of ancient cultures but is in its own right part of the history of Denmark as it unfolds the story of the many relations between Denmark and the Mediterranean countries over the centuries.</td></tr></table><hr>
London Transport Posters
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0853319855"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="London Transport Posters" title="London Transport Posters"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0853319855">A Century of Art and Design</a><p><i>By Bownes, David Green, Oliver Black, Jonathan</i><p>£19.99 01 Jul 2011 Paperback Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd<p>Celebrates a century of outstanding graphic design commissioned by the Underground, London Transport, and its successor, Transport for London. This book explores the organisation's pioneering role as Britain's greatest patron of poster art.</td></tr></table><hr>
Vision in Product Design
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=9063692056"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Vision in Product Design" title="Vision in Product Design"></a></td><td><i>By BIS Publishers</i><p>£37.50 30 Jun 2011 Hardback BIS Publishers B.V.<p><P>This book explores how to formulate a vision for new and appropriate products. A new approach called Vision in Product Design (ViP) strikes a good balance between structuring the process of design while allowing the designers to take a personal position and fully express themselves in producing a product. ViP is both a method and a design philosophy. <P>Paul Hekkert is a professor of Form Theory and on the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology in Holland. <P>Peter Lloyd is head of the Department of Design and Innovation at the Open University in the United Kingdom. <P>Matthijs van Dijk is CEO of KVD design consultancy and is a professor of Applied Design at TU Delft.</td></tr></table><hr>
Gonzalo Lebrija
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1904212662"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Gonzalo Lebrija" title="Gonzalo Lebrija"></a></td><td><i>By Gonzalo Lebrija, Jason Beard</i><p>£70.00 30 Jun 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>This book is a new monograph on Gonzalo Lebrija, a Mexican artist based in Guadalajara. He is a photography-based installation and video artist, and for this book he has commissioned artists, poets and architects he knows to write brief essays on his work..</td></tr></table><hr>
Marcus Harvey
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=190421262X"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Marcus Harvey" title="Marcus Harvey"></a></td><td><i>By Marcus Harvey, Jason Beard</i><p>£75.00 30 Jun 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>Iconic painting 'Myra', of child-murderer Myra Hindley was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in September 1997. The monumental monochrome painting was entirely composed from a childs handprints, and has been repeatedly used by the press in the coverage of the case.</td></tr></table><hr>
Agnes Martin
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300151055"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Agnes Martin" title="Agnes Martin"></a></td><td><i>By Anastas, Rhea Crimp, Douglas Katz, Jonathan D.</i><p>£25.00 24 Jun 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Gorgeously quiet in colour and composition, Agnes Martin's paintings have a distinctive grace that sets them apart from those of the Abstract Expressionists of her day and the Minimalist artists she inspired. This anthology presents scholarship on Martin's paintings.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Weirding Field
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1934781118"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Weirding Field" title="The Weirding Field"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1934781118">The North Texas Spacecraft of Gene Watson, Father and Visionary</a><p><i>By Esther Pearl Watson</i><p>£10.99 23 Jun 2011 Hardback McSweeney's Publishing<p>"The Weirding Field" is a new kind of narrative scrapbook, telling the story of Gene Watson--folk artist, failed astronaut, phenomenon--through the eyes of his daughter, artist Esther Pearl Watson, who has used both his successes and failures to direct her life and career.</td></tr></table><hr>
Blue
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323123"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Blue" title="Blue"></a></td><td><i>By Scott Short</i><p>£17.50 23 Jun 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>Chicago-based painter Scott Short has a very simple, yet highly refined method of arriving at his mesmerizing abstract compositions. He places a piece of colored construction paper on the scanning bed of a black-and-white photocopier and makes a photocopy. Then he makes a photocopy of that photocopy. He repeats the process, moving one generation further from his original each time, not quite ad infinitum, but at least a few hundred times.<BR>The resulting image renders the original monochrome of the construction paper an arresting field of intricately textured black-and-white static. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition of Short's work at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, "Blue "presents all the steps involved in the creation of a single piece of this art. In its reconstruction of Short's method of composition, "Blue" is essentially an artist's workbook, explanatory yet hypnotic, and it will appeal to all fans of abstract contemporary art.<BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Dinosaurs: How to Draw Thunder Lizards and Other Prehistoric Beasts
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0823099199"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Dinosaurs: How to Draw Thunder Lizards and Other Prehistoric Beasts" title="Dinosaurs: How to Draw Thunder Lizards and Other Prehistoric Beasts"></a></td><td><i>By Steve Miller</i><p>£14.99 23 Jun 2011 Paperback Watson-Guptill Publications<p>Think dinosaurs are kid stuff? Not with this artists' guide! <P>Everybody knows one of those nerdy little kids who is a walking encyclopedia of all things dinosaur-related. And all of us adults are afraid of looking like that kid. But secretly, in our innermost souls . . . we love dinosaurs, too. Now the artists among us can express that secret love using Dinosaurs: How to Draw Thunder Lizards and Other Prehistoric Beasts. It's a glowing reissue of the first book designed to teach adults how to draw these fabulous creatures. With a focus on anatomy, Steve Miller's step-by-step illustrations encompass the latest scientific research to show artists how to create the most realistic dinosaurs possible. For extra inspiration, the book features a gallery of work by leading dinosaur artists including Arthur Adams, Bryan Baugh, Brett Booth, Scott Harman, Gregory S. Paul, and the legendary Bernie Wrightson. Unleash the behemoths of the prehistoric world with this one-of-a-kind guide!</td></tr></table><hr>
Watercolor a Beginner's Guide
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0823033007"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Watercolor a Beginner's Guide" title="Watercolor a Beginner's Guide"></a></td><td><i>By Elizabeth Horowitz</i><p>£16.99 23 Jun 2011 Paperback Watson-Guptill Publications<p>Offers a foundation course in watercolour painting, with instruction and subject matter organised in a progressive order. This guide shows beginners without any prior painting experience how to develop their watercolour painting skills and personal style. It allows the reader to use their own creativity.</td></tr></table><hr>
Fine Words Butter No Cabbage
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" title="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069">26 Years of Whitewalls</a><p><i>By Anthony Elms</i><p>£15.00 19 Jun 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>The longest-running journal dedicated to artists' projects in the world, "WhiteWalls "recently exhibited "Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"--a celebration of twenty-six years of conceptual art and writing by new and established artists from Chicago and around the world. <BR>"Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" now compiles over forty new projects from these artists, each created specifically for the book, alongside photographs from the accompanying exhibit. The book features work from early contributors to the journal, such as Robert Barry, Gary Cannone, and the performance group Goat Island, as well as pieces by Mindy Rose Schwartz, Helen Mirra, and Andreas Fischer. Richly illustrated and accompanied by illuminating essays by former editors Buzz Spector, Ann Torke, and Laurie Palmer, and current editor Anthony Elms, "Fine Words" "Butter No Cabbage "is an illuminating look at some of the best conceptual artists of our time. <BR></td></tr></table><hr>
History of the Saatchi Gallery
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1861543158"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="History of the Saatchi Gallery" title="History of the Saatchi Gallery"></a></td><td><i>By Edward Booth-Clibborn</i><p>£85.00 13 Jun 2011 Hardback Booth-Clibborn Editions<p>The first mass market book to chronicle the history of one of the world's leading contemporary art galleries, it includes the work of 150 of the most important artists in the last twenty years. Essential to all collectors, libraries and institutions as well as anyone with an interest in contemporary art.</td></tr></table><hr>
Sigmar Polke
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Sigmar Polke" title="Sigmar Polke"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005">The Dream of Menelaus</a><p><i>By Charles Wylie</i><p>£15.00 11 Jun 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) has experimented with a wide range of styles and subject matter, bringing together imagery from contradictory and unexpected sources, merging the historical and contemporary, and using a variety of different materials and techniques. This catalogue features Polke's major four-painting cycle, "The Dream of Menelaus," one of the artist's most beautiful and challenging. Citing the story of Menelaus, the mythical Greek hero whose wife Helen's abduction started the Trojan War, Polke's cycle alludes to eternal themes of love and war with a typically elusive yet analytic beauty. Here Polke has merged classical and contemporary images to reveal unexpected parallels between mythical histories and present-day realities, all the while creating four paintings of an unsurpassed mastery of the painting medium itself.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Image of Christ
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1857092929"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Image of Christ" title="The Image of Christ"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1857092929">Catalogue of the Exhibition "Seeing Salvation"</a><p><i>By Finaldi, Gabriele</i><p>£14.99 09 Jun 2011 Paperback National Gallery Company Ltd<p>The changing image of Christ through the ages is traced in this account of the iconography of someone who is both God and man, human and divine, mortal and immortal. The book is produced to accompany the millennial exhibition "Seeing Salvation - the image of Christ" at the National Gallery.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Nude
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Nude" title="The Nude"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680">A New Perspective</a><p><i>By Gill Saunders</i><p>£34.50 09 Jun 2011 Hardback KWS Publishers<p>The human body, unclothed and on display, has long been the subject of both artists and art historians. This book examines artists' depictions of nudes and their public reception from classical Greece through the twenty-first century, highlighting the relationship between nudity in art and the rise of feminism.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Past, Present and Future
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Past, Present and Future" title="The Past, Present and Future"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086">The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National</a><p><i>By Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen, John Lund</i><p>£18.95 01 Jun 2011 Paperback Nationalmuseet Antiksamlingen<p>This publication celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark. The Collection traces its roots back to the Royal Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650 and to the private archaeological collection of King Christian VIII. On his death the two collections were joined and in 1853 a new one emerged, now named Cabinet of Antiquities and open to the public -- a collection which over the ensuing 150 years was constantly enlarged and enriched.<P>In eight articles (text in Danish and English), various aspects of the history of the Collection are tackled -- the authors taking their cues from highlights and humble objects alike: two marble heads from Athens, a mummy from Egypt, and a seemingly insignificant Syrian amulet which none the less can tell an intriguing tale from the past. We meet a largely forgotten 19"th"-century Danish consul in Tunisia with an eye for antiquities and accompany Danish archaeologists on expeditions to Hama in Syria and Luristan in Iran.<P>New research in Corinthian pottery is presented and the reader is introduced to the principles employed in establishing the Greek and Roman galleries opened in 1994 together with plans for a new Cypriot gallery to be opened in 2002.<P>The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities encompasses not only the story of ancient cultures but is in its own right part of the history of Denmark as it unfolds the story of the many relations between Denmark and the Mediterranean countries over the centuries.</td></tr></table><hr>
Michael Krebber
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865602010"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Michael Krebber" title="Michael Krebber"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865602010">Ical</a><p>£26.00 01 Jun 2011 Paperback Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. Verlag<p>The artist and professor Michael Krebber recently invited his colleagues Gareth James, John Kelsey and Josef Strau to participate in an exhibition with the title Ical Krbbr Prdly Prsnts Gart Jas, Jon Klsy, Josf Stra. Minus a few of the necessary letters, the artists' names became a wall painting transformed into concrete poetry. As the exhibition freed itself from the curator's reins, the resulting exhibition catalogue also goes against conventional form and order. For example, a foreword by the editor turns out to be an artist's improvised speech on the topic of Puberty in Painting: "Now I have written: I can't decide any longer for one of these points of views or non-points of views." Artworks are not presented in groups by artist, but rather by associative links of picture strips, found-object texts, prose, drawings and collages.</td></tr></table><hr>
Requiem I and II
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1906967075"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Requiem I and II" title="Requiem I and II"></a></td><td><i>By Damien Hirst</i><p>£450.00 31 May 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>This details all the Damien Hirst works in the Pinchuk Art Centre exhibition, Kyiv in April 2009. The book features over ninety works including iconic early pieces from the 1990's, sculptures, and paintings from recent years, together with the new, previously unseen skull paintings.<BR> Born in Bristol in 1965, Damien Hirst studied Goldsmith's College. In 1988 he curated the now renowned exhibition, Freeze, help in London. In 1991, he had his first solo exhibition in London entitled In and Out of Love and the following year he was a major part of the groundbreaking Young British Artists exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. He was awarded the prestigious Tate Gallery Turner Prize in 1995. Hirst's work has been shown in many important group and solo shows throughout the world and his is now one of Britain's most celebrated living artists. He lives and works in Devon and London.<BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Gonzalo Lebrija
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1904212662"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Gonzalo Lebrija" title="Gonzalo Lebrija"></a></td><td><i>By Gonzalo Lebrija, Jason Beard</i><p>£70.00 31 May 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>This book is a new monograph on Gonzalo Lebrija, a Mexican artist based in Guadalajara. He is a photography-based installation and video artist, and for this book he has commissioned artists, poets and architects he knows to write brief essays on his work..</td></tr></table><hr>
Marcus Harvey
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=190421262X"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Marcus Harvey" title="Marcus Harvey"></a></td><td><i>By Marcus Harvey, Jason Beard</i><p>£75.00 31 May 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>Iconic painting 'Myra', of child-murderer Myra Hindley was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in September 1997. The monumental monochrome painting was entirely composed from a childs handprints, and has been repeatedly used by the press in the coverage of the case.</td></tr></table><hr>
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0896599280"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Dante Gabriel Rossetti" title="Dante Gabriel Rossetti"></a></td><td><i>By Alicia Craig Faxon</i><p>£60.00 27 May 2011 Hardback Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.<p>Chronicling Rossetti's career from his early achievements as a founder of the final years, Faxonoraries, bringing to life a charismatic character. 265 illustrations, 140 in full color.</td></tr></table><hr>
Agnes Martin
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300151055"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Agnes Martin" title="Agnes Martin"></a></td><td><i>By Anastas, Rhea Crimp, Douglas Katz, Jonathan D.</i><p>£25.00 27 May 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Gorgeously quiet in colour and composition, Agnes Martin's paintings have a distinctive grace that sets them apart from those of the Abstract Expressionists of her day and the Minimalist artists she inspired. This anthology presents scholarship on Martin's paintings.</td></tr></table><hr>
Blue
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323123"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Blue" title="Blue"></a></td><td><i>By Scott Short</i><p>£17.50 26 May 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>Chicago-based painter Scott Short has a very simple, yet highly refined method of arriving at his mesmerizing abstract compositions. He places a piece of colored construction paper on the scanning bed of a black-and-white photocopier and makes a photocopy. Then he makes a photocopy of that photocopy. He repeats the process, moving one generation further from his original each time, not quite ad infinitum, but at least a few hundred times.<BR>The resulting image renders the original monochrome of the construction paper an arresting field of intricately textured black-and-white static. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition of Short's work at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, "Blue "presents all the steps involved in the creation of a single piece of this art. In its reconstruction of Short's method of composition, "Blue" is essentially an artist's workbook, explanatory yet hypnotic, and it will appeal to all fans of abstract contemporary art.<BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Fine Words Butter No Cabbage
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" title="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069">26 Years of Whitewalls</a><p><i>By Anthony Elms</i><p>£15.00 22 May 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>The longest-running journal dedicated to artists' projects in the world, "WhiteWalls "recently exhibited "Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"--a celebration of twenty-six years of conceptual art and writing by new and established artists from Chicago and around the world. <BR>"Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" now compiles over forty new projects from these artists, each created specifically for the book, alongside photographs from the accompanying exhibit. The book features work from early contributors to the journal, such as Robert Barry, Gary Cannone, and the performance group Goat Island, as well as pieces by Mindy Rose Schwartz, Helen Mirra, and Andreas Fischer. Richly illustrated and accompanied by illuminating essays by former editors Buzz Spector, Ann Torke, and Laurie Palmer, and current editor Anthony Elms, "Fine Words" "Butter No Cabbage "is an illuminating look at some of the best conceptual artists of our time. <BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Sigmar Polke
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Sigmar Polke" title="Sigmar Polke"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005">The Dream of Menelaus</a><p><i>By Charles Wylie</i><p>£15.00 14 May 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) has experimented with a wide range of styles and subject matter, bringing together imagery from contradictory and unexpected sources, merging the historical and contemporary, and using a variety of different materials and techniques. This catalogue features Polke's major four-painting cycle, "The Dream of Menelaus," one of the artist's most beautiful and challenging. Citing the story of Menelaus, the mythical Greek hero whose wife Helen's abduction started the Trojan War, Polke's cycle alludes to eternal themes of love and war with a typically elusive yet analytic beauty. Here Polke has merged classical and contemporary images to reveal unexpected parallels between mythical histories and present-day realities, all the while creating four paintings of an unsurpassed mastery of the painting medium itself.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Nude
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Nude" title="The Nude"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680">A New Perspective</a><p><i>By Gill Saunders</i><p>£34.50 12 May 2011 Hardback KWS Publishers<p>The human body, unclothed and on display, has long been the subject of both artists and art historians. This book examines artists' depictions of nudes and their public reception from classical Greece through the twenty-first century, highlighting the relationship between nudity in art and the rise of feminism.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Past, Present and Future
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Past, Present and Future" title="The Past, Present and Future"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086">The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National</a><p><i>By Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen, John Lund</i><p>£18.95 01 May 2011 Paperback Nationalmuseet Antiksamlingen<p>This publication celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark. The Collection traces its roots back to the Royal Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650 and to the private archaeological collection of King Christian VIII. On his death the two collections were joined and in 1853 a new one emerged, now named Cabinet of Antiquities and open to the public -- a collection which over the ensuing 150 years was constantly enlarged and enriched.<P>In eight articles (text in Danish and English), various aspects of the history of the Collection are tackled -- the authors taking their cues from highlights and humble objects alike: two marble heads from Athens, a mummy from Egypt, and a seemingly insignificant Syrian amulet which none the less can tell an intriguing tale from the past. We meet a largely forgotten 19"th"-century Danish consul in Tunisia with an eye for antiquities and accompany Danish archaeologists on expeditions to Hama in Syria and Luristan in Iran.<P>New research in Corinthian pottery is presented and the reader is introduced to the principles employed in establishing the Greek and Roman galleries opened in 1994 together with plans for a new Cypriot gallery to be opened in 2002.<P>The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities encompasses not only the story of ancient cultures but is in its own right part of the history of Denmark as it unfolds the story of the many relations between Denmark and the Mediterranean countries over the centuries.</td></tr></table><hr>
History of the Saatchi Gallery
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1861543158"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="History of the Saatchi Gallery" title="History of the Saatchi Gallery"></a></td><td><i>By Edward Booth-Clibborn</i><p>£85.00 01 May 2011 Hardback Booth-Clibborn Editions<p>The first mass market book to chronicle the history of one of the world's leading contemporary art galleries, it includes the work of 150 of the most important artists in the last twenty years. Essential to all collectors, libraries and institutions as well as anyone with an interest in contemporary art.</td></tr></table><hr>
Requiem I and II
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1906967075"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Requiem I and II" title="Requiem I and II"></a></td><td><i>By Damien Hirst</i><p>£450.00 30 Apr 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>This details all the Damien Hirst works in the Pinchuk Art Centre exhibition, Kyiv in April 2009. The book features over ninety works including iconic early pieces from the 1990's, sculptures, and paintings from recent years, together with the new, previously unseen skull paintings.<BR> Born in Bristol in 1965, Damien Hirst studied Goldsmith's College. In 1988 he curated the now renowned exhibition, Freeze, help in London. In 1991, he had his first solo exhibition in London entitled In and Out of Love and the following year he was a major part of the groundbreaking Young British Artists exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. He was awarded the prestigious Tate Gallery Turner Prize in 1995. Hirst's work has been shown in many important group and solo shows throughout the world and his is now one of Britain's most celebrated living artists. He lives and works in Devon and London.<BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Gonzalo Lebrija
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1904212662"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Gonzalo Lebrija" title="Gonzalo Lebrija"></a></td><td><i>By Gonzalo Lebrija, Jason Beard</i><p>£70.00 30 Apr 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>This book is a new monograph on Gonzalo Lebrija, a Mexican artist based in Guadalajara. He is a photography-based installation and video artist, and for this book he has commissioned artists, poets and architects he knows to write brief essays on his work..</td></tr></table><hr>
Marcus Harvey
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=190421262X"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Marcus Harvey" title="Marcus Harvey"></a></td><td><i>By Marcus Harvey, Jason Beard</i><p>£75.00 30 Apr 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>Iconic painting 'Myra', of child-murderer Myra Hindley was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in September 1997. The monumental monochrome painting was entirely composed from a childs handprints, and has been repeatedly used by the press in the coverage of the case.</td></tr></table><hr>
Agnes Martin
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300151055"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Agnes Martin" title="Agnes Martin"></a></td><td><i>By Anastas, Rhea Crimp, Douglas Katz, Jonathan D.</i><p>£25.00 29 Apr 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Gorgeously quiet in colour and composition, Agnes Martin's paintings have a distinctive grace that sets them apart from those of the Abstract Expressionists of her day and the Minimalist artists she inspired. This anthology presents scholarship on Martin's paintings.</td></tr></table><hr>
Blue
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323123"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Blue" title="Blue"></a></td><td><i>By Scott Short</i><p>£17.50 28 Apr 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>Chicago-based painter Scott Short has a very simple, yet highly refined method of arriving at his mesmerizing abstract compositions. He places a piece of colored construction paper on the scanning bed of a black-and-white photocopier and makes a photocopy. Then he makes a photocopy of that photocopy. He repeats the process, moving one generation further from his original each time, not quite ad infinitum, but at least a few hundred times.<BR>The resulting image renders the original monochrome of the construction paper an arresting field of intricately textured black-and-white static. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition of Short's work at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, "Blue "presents all the steps involved in the creation of a single piece of this art. In its reconstruction of Short's method of composition, "Blue" is essentially an artist's workbook, explanatory yet hypnotic, and it will appeal to all fans of abstract contemporary art.<BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Dali Dali Featuring Francesco Vezzoli
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865219365"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Dali Dali Featuring Francesco Vezzoli" title="Dali Dali Featuring Francesco Vezzoli"></a></td><td><i>By Salvador Dali, John Peter Nilsson, Caroline Corbetta</i><p>£40.00 25 Apr 2011 Paperback Steidl Publishers<p>Edited by John Peter Nilsson. Text by Hal Foster, Carolina Corbetta, David Lomas, John Peter Nilsson.</td></tr></table><hr>
Tacita Dean
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218717"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Tacita Dean" title="Tacita Dean"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218717">Teignmouth Electron</a><p><i>By Tacita Dean</i><p>£14.95 25 Apr 2011 Paperback Steidl Publishers<p>A project recalling the work of Bas Jan Ader, British photographer Tacita Dean's "Teignmouth Electron" is based on the haunting story of Donald Crowhurst, a participant in the 1968 around-the-world "Sunday Times" Golden Globe yacht race. Martyn Ridgewell has redesigned this edition, which was first published in 1999.</td></tr></table><hr>
Berlinde de Bruyckere
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218490"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Berlinde de Bruyckere" title="Berlinde de Bruyckere"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218490">In the Woods There Were Chainsaws</a><p><i>By Berlinde de Bruyckere, Tommy Devriendt</i><p>£50.00 25 Apr 2011 Hardback Steidl Publishers<p>Text by Tommy Wieringa, Berlinde De Bruyckere. Photographs by Mirjam Devriendt.</td></tr></table><hr>
Guillermo Kuitca
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218482"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Guillermo Kuitca" title="Guillermo Kuitca"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218482">Plates No. 01-24</a><p><i>By Guillermo Kuitca, Robert Storr</i><p>£35.00 25 Apr 2011 Hardback Steidl Publishers<p>Guillermo Kuitca is a painter of space, an organizer of emptiness. His paintings and works on paper reimagine Cubism, sampling its stylistic elements. This volume presents his most recent work, which developed out of the series that was shown in 2007 at Ateneo Veneto in the Argentine Pavilion of the Venice Biennale.</td></tr></table><hr>
Edward Ruscha
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218326"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Edward Ruscha" title="Edward Ruscha"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218326">Catalogue Raisonne of Works on Paper</a><p><i>By Edward Ruscha</i><p>£110.00 25 Apr 2011 Hardback Steidl Publishers<p>Edited by Petrus Schaesberg, Rainer Crone.</td></tr></table><hr>
Jim Dine
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218288"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Jim Dine" title="Jim Dine"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218288">Poet Singing (The Flowering Sheets)</a><p><i>By Jim Dine</i><p>£20.00 25 Apr 2011 Hardback Steidl Publishers<p>Poems by Jim Dine. Photographs by Jim Dine, Gerhard Steidl, Diana Michener.</td></tr></table><hr>
Jean Arp
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218075"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Jean Arp" title="Jean Arp"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865218075">Poupees</a><p><i>By Jean Arp</i><p>£20.00 25 Apr 2011 Hardback Steidl Publishers<p>Edited and text by Rainer Hubner, Roland Scotti.</td></tr></table><hr>
Marcel Dzama
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865217427"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Marcel Dzama" title="Marcel Dzama"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865217427">Even the Ghost of the Past</a><p><i>By Marcel Dzama, Spike Jonze, Cameron Shaw</i><p>£35.00 25 Apr 2011 Hardback Steidl Publishers<p>Text by Cameron Shaw. Interview by Spike Jonze.</td></tr></table><hr>
Andy Warhol
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865216145"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Andy Warhol" title="Andy Warhol"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865216145">Catalogue Published on the Occasion of the Andy Warhol Exhibition at Moderna</a><p><i>By Andy Warhol, Pontus Hulten</i><p>£25.00 25 Apr 2011 Paperback Steidl Publishers<p>Edited by Andy Warhol, Pontus Hulten, Kasper Konig, Olle Granath.</td></tr></table><hr>
Inflation
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865214894"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Inflation" title="Inflation"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865214894">Inflated Histories</a><p><i>By Paul McCarthy</i><p>£42.00 25 Apr 2011 Paperback Steidl Publishers<p>This volume presents the first comprehensive survey of Paul McCarthy's large-scale inflatable sculptures. McCarthy, born in 1945 in Salt Lake City and based in the Los Angeles area, where he taught at UCLA for many years, first came to public notice in the 1970s with his shockingly scatological and strangely hypnotic performances and videos; he's now a veteran of solo exhibits at Tate Modern and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, among many other world-class institutions of art. Since the mid-1980s, he has been creating increasingly complex and influential installations and videos, as well as a broad portfolio of sculptures and large-scale, outdoor blow-up figures. This volume--which contains 15 giant posters housed in a shopping bag, 12 notebooks and a text booklet--illustrates every McCarthy inflatable to date, including important pieces such as "Daddies Ketchup Bottle" (2003) and a significant number of newly commissioned works.</td></tr></table><hr>
Patrick Swirc
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865214819"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Patrick Swirc" title="Patrick Swirc"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865214819">On Her Road</a><p><i>By Swirc, Patrick</i><p>£18.00 25 Apr 2011 Hardback Steidl Publishers<p>"It was in Paris, the day before I left. A first kiss, the first day of April, the taste of her lips and words close to my mouth: 'See you soon, somewhere in China.' She is Sephardic, lives in China and is studying the traces of the country's Jewish past. I am half-Jewish through my father and half-Catholic through my mother. When asked if my name was Jewish I always answered: 'No, why?' Yet deep inside, I feel Jewish. A few weeks after that first kiss, I traveled to Kirghizstan as planned. West China was only a few hours away by bus. Using phone text messages, she guided me around China, sometimes through sinister cities, one of which Jews had inhabited during the twelfth century. It was on her road that I would reconnect with my origins."<BR>Patrick Swirc studied photography in Switzerland but left to follow a striptease artist to Paris. He has since contributed covers to "Elle" and "Time."</td></tr></table><hr>
Francis Alys
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865212905"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Francis Alys" title="Francis Alys"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3865212905">Sign Painting Project</a><p><i>By Francis Alys</i><p>£34.00 25 Apr 2011 Hardback Steidl Publishers<p>The Belgian-born conceptual painter and artistic interventionist Francis Alys developed "The Sign Painting Project" over a period of four years. He began by painting fairly small canvases depicting people and objects in the flat, brightly-colored manner of billboard advertisements. The artist, who currently lives in Mexico, then asked local sign-painters Juan Garcia, Enrique Huerta and Emilio Rivera to copy and enlarge his paintings. The result of the artists' combined labors is a set of 120 paintings that reveal variations on particular themes and that inevitably provoke questions about collaboration, authorship and originality. This book, which features 300 color plates, is a catalogue raisonne of that project.</td></tr></table><hr>
Valentino
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3836503298"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Valentino" title="Valentino"></a></td><td><i>By Matt Tyrnauer, Suzy Menkes</i><p>£44.99 25 Apr 2011 Hardback Taschen GmbH<p>Think Valentino: think luxury. Think elegance. Think red carpet. Fashion most beloved upholder of refined decadence and the most exciting couturier in business is known around the globe simply by his first name. Only a few years after opening his fashion house in Rome in 1959, Valentino was already at the height of success, counting Elizabeth Taylor, Jackie Kennedy, and Audrey Hepburn among his devotees. Over forty years later, not much has changed. Valentino has always designed clothes for glamorous and sophisticated women, never wavering from his signature style. This publication renders homage to Valentino illustrious career via a copious selection of images from his archives, including drawings, magazine shoots, advertisements, portraits of Valentino, and documentary photographs; presented chronologically, the visual material is accompanied by a vast array of newspaper and magazine articles about Valentino throughout the years.</td></tr></table><hr>
Vermeer
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3822863238"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Vermeer" title="Vermeer"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3822863238">The Complete Paintings</a><p><i>By Norbert Schneider</i><p>£6.99 25 Apr 2011 Paperback Taschen GmbH<p>PY12312001</td></tr></table><hr>
Escher
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3822858641"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Escher" title="Escher"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3822858641">The Graphic Work</a><p><i>By Ulrike Becks-Malorny</i><p>£6.99 25 Apr 2011 Paperback Taschen GmbH<p>Renowned artist M.C. Escher is not a surrealist drawing us into his dream world, but an architect of perfectly impossible worlds who presents the structurally unthinkable as though it were a law of nature. Weird, beautiful, finely detailed illusions.</td></tr></table><hr>
Surrealism
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=3822822159"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Surrealism" title="Surrealism"></a></td><td><i>By Cathrin Klinsohr-Leroy</i><p>£6.99 25 Apr 2011 Paperback Taschen GmbH<p>Introduction with 30 photographs plus a timeline of the most important political, cultural, scientific and sporting events that took place during the movement; 35 most important works and artists included.</td></tr></table><hr>
Fine Words Butter No Cabbage
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" title="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069">26 Years of Whitewalls</a><p><i>By Anthony Elms</i><p>£15.00 24 Apr 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>The longest-running journal dedicated to artists' projects in the world, "WhiteWalls "recently exhibited "Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"--a celebration of twenty-six years of conceptual art and writing by new and established artists from Chicago and around the world. <BR>"Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" now compiles over forty new projects from these artists, each created specifically for the book, alongside photographs from the accompanying exhibit. The book features work from early contributors to the journal, such as Robert Barry, Gary Cannone, and the performance group Goat Island, as well as pieces by Mindy Rose Schwartz, Helen Mirra, and Andreas Fischer. Richly illustrated and accompanied by illuminating essays by former editors Buzz Spector, Ann Torke, and Laurie Palmer, and current editor Anthony Elms, "Fine Words" "Butter No Cabbage "is an illuminating look at some of the best conceptual artists of our time. <BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Sigmar Polke
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Sigmar Polke" title="Sigmar Polke"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005">The Dream of Menelaus</a><p><i>By Charles Wylie</i><p>£15.00 16 Apr 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) has experimented with a wide range of styles and subject matter, bringing together imagery from contradictory and unexpected sources, merging the historical and contemporary, and using a variety of different materials and techniques. This catalogue features Polke's major four-painting cycle, "The Dream of Menelaus," one of the artist's most beautiful and challenging. Citing the story of Menelaus, the mythical Greek hero whose wife Helen's abduction started the Trojan War, Polke's cycle alludes to eternal themes of love and war with a typically elusive yet analytic beauty. Here Polke has merged classical and contemporary images to reveal unexpected parallels between mythical histories and present-day realities, all the while creating four paintings of an unsurpassed mastery of the painting medium itself.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Nude
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Nude" title="The Nude"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680">A New Perspective</a><p><i>By Gill Saunders</i><p>£34.50 14 Apr 2011 Hardback KWS Publishers<p>The human body, unclothed and on display, has long been the subject of both artists and art historians. This book examines artists' depictions of nudes and their public reception from classical Greece through the twenty-first century, highlighting the relationship between nudity in art and the rise of feminism.</td></tr></table><hr>
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0896599280"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Dante Gabriel Rossetti" title="Dante Gabriel Rossetti"></a></td><td><i>By Alicia Craig Faxon</i><p>£50.00 05 Apr 2011 Hardback Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.<p>Chronicling Rossetti's career from his early achievements as a founder of the final years, Faxonoraries, bringing to life a charismatic character. 265 illustrations, 140 in full color.</td></tr></table><hr>
Le "Gun" (Issue 4)
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981780512"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Le "Gun" (Issue 4)" title="Le "Gun" (Issue 4)"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981780512">Magazine of International Illustration</a><p><i>By Le Gun, Le Gun</i><p>£25.00 03 Apr 2011 Hardback Mark Batty Publisher<p>LE GUN is an art collective and magazine that is small, scrappy and dedicated to celebrating the work of illustrators from around the world.</td></tr></table><hr>
Le "Gun" (Issues 1-3)
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981780504"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Le "Gun" (Issues 1-3)" title="Le "Gun" (Issues 1-3)"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981780504">Magazine of International Illustration</a><p><i>By Le Gun, Le Gun</i><p>£85.00 03 Apr 2011 Hardback Mark Batty Publisher<p>LE GUN is an art collective and magazine that is small, scrappy and dedicated to celebrating the work of illustrators from around the world.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Past, Present and Future
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Past, Present and Future" title="The Past, Present and Future"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086">The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National</a><p><i>By Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen, John Lund</i><p>£18.95 01 Apr 2011 Paperback Nationalmuseet Antiksamlingen<p>This publication celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark. The Collection traces its roots back to the Royal Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650 and to the private archaeological collection of King Christian VIII. On his death the two collections were joined and in 1853 a new one emerged, now named Cabinet of Antiquities and open to the public -- a collection which over the ensuing 150 years was constantly enlarged and enriched.<P>In eight articles (text in Danish and English), various aspects of the history of the Collection are tackled -- the authors taking their cues from highlights and humble objects alike: two marble heads from Athens, a mummy from Egypt, and a seemingly insignificant Syrian amulet which none the less can tell an intriguing tale from the past. We meet a largely forgotten 19"th"-century Danish consul in Tunisia with an eye for antiquities and accompany Danish archaeologists on expeditions to Hama in Syria and Luristan in Iran.<P>New research in Corinthian pottery is presented and the reader is introduced to the principles employed in establishing the Greek and Roman galleries opened in 1994 together with plans for a new Cypriot gallery to be opened in 2002.<P>The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities encompasses not only the story of ancient cultures but is in its own right part of the history of Denmark as it unfolds the story of the many relations between Denmark and the Mediterranean countries over the centuries.</td></tr></table><hr>
Costing for the Fashion Industry
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1847882595"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Costing for the Fashion Industry" title="Costing for the Fashion Industry"></a></td><td><i>By Michael Jeffrey, Nathalie Evans</i><p>£19.99 01 Apr 2011 Paperback A & C Black Publishers Ltd<p>This book offers a practical, easy-to-use approach to costing for the fashion industry for general fashion students who lack any accounting experience.</td></tr></table><hr>
Agnes Martin
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300151055"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Agnes Martin" title="Agnes Martin"></a></td><td><i>By Anastas, Rhea Crimp, Douglas Katz, Jonathan D.</i><p>£25.00 01 Apr 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Gorgeously quiet in colour and composition, Agnes Martin's paintings have a distinctive grace that sets them apart from those of the Abstract Expressionists of her day and the Minimalist artists she inspired. This anthology presents scholarship on Martin's paintings.</td></tr></table><hr>
Vision in Product Design
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=9063692056"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Vision in Product Design" title="Vision in Product Design"></a></td><td><i>By BIS Publishers</i><p>£37.50 31 Mar 2011 Hardback BIS Publishers B.V.<p><P>This book explores how to formulate a vision for new and appropriate products. A new approach called Vision in Product Design (ViP) strikes a good balance between structuring the process of design while allowing the designers to take a personal position and fully express themselves in producing a product. ViP is both a method and a design philosophy. <P>Paul Hekkert is a professor of Form Theory and on the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology in Holland. <P>Peter Lloyd is head of the Department of Design and Innovation at the Open University in the United Kingdom. <P>Matthijs van Dijk is CEO of KVD design consultancy and is a professor of Applied Design at TU Delft.</td></tr></table><hr>
Requiem I and II
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1906967075"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Requiem I and II" title="Requiem I and II"></a></td><td><i>By Damien Hirst</i><p>£450.00 31 Mar 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>This details all the Damien Hirst works in the Pinchuk Art Centre exhibition, Kyiv in April 2009. The book features over ninety works including iconic early pieces from the 1990's, sculptures, and paintings from recent years, together with the new, previously unseen skull paintings.<BR> Born in Bristol in 1965, Damien Hirst studied Goldsmith's College. In 1988 he curated the now renowned exhibition, Freeze, help in London. In 1991, he had his first solo exhibition in London entitled In and Out of Love and the following year he was a major part of the groundbreaking Young British Artists exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. He was awarded the prestigious Tate Gallery Turner Prize in 1995. Hirst's work has been shown in many important group and solo shows throughout the world and his is now one of Britain's most celebrated living artists. He lives and works in Devon and London.<BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Gonzalo Lebrija
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1904212662"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Gonzalo Lebrija" title="Gonzalo Lebrija"></a></td><td><i>By Gonzalo Lebrija, Jason Beard</i><p>£70.00 31 Mar 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>This book is a new monograph on Gonzalo Lebrija, a Mexican artist based in Guadalajara. He is a photography-based installation and video artist, and for this book he has commissioned artists, poets and architects he knows to write brief essays on his work..</td></tr></table><hr>
Marcus Harvey
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=190421262X"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Marcus Harvey" title="Marcus Harvey"></a></td><td><i>By Marcus Harvey, Jason Beard</i><p>£75.00 31 Mar 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>Iconic painting 'Myra', of child-murderer Myra Hindley was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in September 1997. The monumental monochrome painting was entirely composed from a childs handprints, and has been repeatedly used by the press in the coverage of the case.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Newark Museum
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1857595882"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Newark Museum" title="The Newark Museum"></a></td><td><i>By Venn Fbeth</i><p>£12.50 31 Mar 2011 Paperback Antique Collectors' Club Ltd<p>This fully illustrated book highlights the extensive and diverse collections of New Jersey's largest museum.</td></tr></table><hr>
Blue
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323123"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Blue" title="Blue"></a></td><td><i>By Scott Short</i><p>£17.50 31 Mar 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>Chicago-based painter Scott Short has a very simple, yet highly refined method of arriving at his mesmerizing abstract compositions. He places a piece of colored construction paper on the scanning bed of a black-and-white photocopier and makes a photocopy. Then he makes a photocopy of that photocopy. He repeats the process, moving one generation further from his original each time, not quite ad infinitum, but at least a few hundred times.<BR>The resulting image renders the original monochrome of the construction paper an arresting field of intricately textured black-and-white static. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition of Short's work at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, "Blue "presents all the steps involved in the creation of a single piece of this art. In its reconstruction of Short's method of composition, "Blue" is essentially an artist's workbook, explanatory yet hypnotic, and it will appeal to all fans of abstract contemporary art.<BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Fine Words Butter No Cabbage
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" title="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069">26 Years of Whitewalls</a><p><i>By Anthony Elms</i><p>£15.00 27 Mar 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>The longest-running journal dedicated to artists' projects in the world, "WhiteWalls "recently exhibited "Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"--a celebration of twenty-six years of conceptual art and writing by new and established artists from Chicago and around the world. <BR>"Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" now compiles over forty new projects from these artists, each created specifically for the book, alongside photographs from the accompanying exhibit. The book features work from early contributors to the journal, such as Robert Barry, Gary Cannone, and the performance group Goat Island, as well as pieces by Mindy Rose Schwartz, Helen Mirra, and Andreas Fischer. Richly illustrated and accompanied by illuminating essays by former editors Buzz Spector, Ann Torke, and Laurie Palmer, and current editor Anthony Elms, "Fine Words" "Butter No Cabbage "is an illuminating look at some of the best conceptual artists of our time. <BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Sigmar Polke
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Sigmar Polke" title="Sigmar Polke"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005">The Dream of Menelaus</a><p><i>By Charles Wylie</i><p>£15.00 19 Mar 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) has experimented with a wide range of styles and subject matter, bringing together imagery from contradictory and unexpected sources, merging the historical and contemporary, and using a variety of different materials and techniques. This catalogue features Polke's major four-painting cycle, "The Dream of Menelaus," one of the artist's most beautiful and challenging. Citing the story of Menelaus, the mythical Greek hero whose wife Helen's abduction started the Trojan War, Polke's cycle alludes to eternal themes of love and war with a typically elusive yet analytic beauty. Here Polke has merged classical and contemporary images to reveal unexpected parallels between mythical histories and present-day realities, all the while creating four paintings of an unsurpassed mastery of the painting medium itself.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Nude
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Nude" title="The Nude"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680">A New Perspective</a><p><i>By Gill Saunders</i><p>£34.50 17 Mar 2011 Hardback KWS Publishers<p>The human body, unclothed and on display, has long been the subject of both artists and art historians. This book examines artists' depictions of nudes and their public reception from classical Greece through the twenty-first century, highlighting the relationship between nudity in art and the rise of feminism.</td></tr></table><hr>
Health & Efficency
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8492480327"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Health & Efficency" title="Health & Efficency"></a></td><td><i>By Dr Lakra</i><p>£30.00 10 Mar 2011 Hardback RM Verlag SL<p>The series of works that make up this book originated in a group of magazines about nudist camps that Lakra bought in the Sunday market on Brick Lane in London.</td></tr></table><hr>
London A Portrait of a City
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8857200590"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="London A Portrait of a City" title="London A Portrait of a City"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8857200590">Serpentine Gallery 24 Hour Interview. Marathon</a><p><i>By Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Rem Koolhaas</i><p>£19.95 07 Mar 2011 Paperback Skira<p>This series of dialogues conducted by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rem Koolhaas is dedicated to the most topical subjects on the international scene. Protagonists of the British architectural, political, and artistic scene, including Brian Eno, Zaha Hadid, Doris Lessing, Damien Hirst, and Gilbert and George, amongst others, have been invited to speak about the near future.</td></tr></table><hr>
Agnes Martin
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300151055"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Agnes Martin" title="Agnes Martin"></a></td><td><i>By Anastas, Rhea Crimp, Douglas Katz, Jonathan D.</i><p>£25.00 04 Mar 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Gorgeously quiet in colour and composition, Agnes Martin's paintings have a distinctive grace that sets them apart from those of the Abstract Expressionists of her day and the Minimalist artists she inspired. This anthology presents scholarship on Martin's paintings.</td></tr></table><hr>
Blue
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323123"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Blue" title="Blue"></a></td><td><i>By Scott Short</i><p>£17.50 03 Mar 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>Chicago-based painter Scott Short has a very simple, yet highly refined method of arriving at his mesmerizing abstract compositions. He places a piece of colored construction paper on the scanning bed of a black-and-white photocopier and makes a photocopy. Then he makes a photocopy of that photocopy. He repeats the process, moving one generation further from his original each time, not quite ad infinitum, but at least a few hundred times.<BR>The resulting image renders the original monochrome of the construction paper an arresting field of intricately textured black-and-white static. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition of Short's work at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, "Blue "presents all the steps involved in the creation of a single piece of this art. In its reconstruction of Short's method of composition, "Blue" is essentially an artist's workbook, explanatory yet hypnotic, and it will appeal to all fans of abstract contemporary art.<BR></td></tr></table><hr>
The Past, Present and Future
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Past, Present and Future" title="The Past, Present and Future"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086">The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National</a><p><i>By Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen, John Lund</i><p>£18.95 01 Mar 2011 Paperback Nationalmuseet Antiksamlingen<p>This publication celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark. The Collection traces its roots back to the Royal Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650 and to the private archaeological collection of King Christian VIII. On his death the two collections were joined and in 1853 a new one emerged, now named Cabinet of Antiquities and open to the public -- a collection which over the ensuing 150 years was constantly enlarged and enriched.<P>In eight articles (text in Danish and English), various aspects of the history of the Collection are tackled -- the authors taking their cues from highlights and humble objects alike: two marble heads from Athens, a mummy from Egypt, and a seemingly insignificant Syrian amulet which none the less can tell an intriguing tale from the past. We meet a largely forgotten 19"th"-century Danish consul in Tunisia with an eye for antiquities and accompany Danish archaeologists on expeditions to Hama in Syria and Luristan in Iran.<P>New research in Corinthian pottery is presented and the reader is introduced to the principles employed in establishing the Greek and Roman galleries opened in 1994 together with plans for a new Cypriot gallery to be opened in 2002.<P>The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities encompasses not only the story of ancient cultures but is in its own right part of the history of Denmark as it unfolds the story of the many relations between Denmark and the Mediterranean countries over the centuries.</td></tr></table><hr>
Floral Paintings
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1901092690"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Floral Paintings" title="Floral Paintings"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1901092690">Of Popular Garden Flowers</a><p><i>By Andrews, James</i><p>£25.00 01 Mar 2011 Paperback Papadakis<p>Nineteenth-century botanical illustration by the renowned Victorian artist James Andrews</td></tr></table><hr>
History of the Saatchi Gallery
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1861543158"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="History of the Saatchi Gallery" title="History of the Saatchi Gallery"></a></td><td><i>By Edward Booth-Clibborn</i><p>£85.00 01 Mar 2011 Hardback Booth-Clibborn Editions<p>The first mass market book to chronicle the history of one of the world's leading contemporary art galleries, it includes the work of 150 of the most important artists in the last twenty years. Essential to all collectors, libraries and institutions as well as anyone with an interest in contemporary art.</td></tr></table><hr>
Vision in Product Design
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=9063692056"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Vision in Product Design" title="Vision in Product Design"></a></td><td><i>By BIS Publishers</i><p>£37.50 28 Feb 2011 Hardback BIS Publishers B.V.<p><P>This book explores how to formulate a vision for new and appropriate products. A new approach called Vision in Product Design (ViP) strikes a good balance between structuring the process of design while allowing the designers to take a personal position and fully express themselves in producing a product. ViP is both a method and a design philosophy. <P>Paul Hekkert is a professor of Form Theory and on the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology in Holland. <P>Peter Lloyd is head of the Department of Design and Innovation at the Open University in the United Kingdom. <P>Matthijs van Dijk is CEO of KVD design consultancy and is a professor of Applied Design at TU Delft.</td></tr></table><hr>
Requiem I and II
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1906967075"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Requiem I and II" title="Requiem I and II"></a></td><td><i>By Damien Hirst</i><p>£450.00 28 Feb 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>This details all the Damien Hirst works in the Pinchuk Art Centre exhibition, Kyiv in April 2009. The book features over ninety works including iconic early pieces from the 1990's, sculptures, and paintings from recent years, together with the new, previously unseen skull paintings.<BR> Born in Bristol in 1965, Damien Hirst studied Goldsmith's College. In 1988 he curated the now renowned exhibition, Freeze, help in London. In 1991, he had his first solo exhibition in London entitled In and Out of Love and the following year he was a major part of the groundbreaking Young British Artists exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. He was awarded the prestigious Tate Gallery Turner Prize in 1995. Hirst's work has been shown in many important group and solo shows throughout the world and his is now one of Britain's most celebrated living artists. He lives and works in Devon and London.<BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Gonzalo Lebrija
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1904212662"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Gonzalo Lebrija" title="Gonzalo Lebrija"></a></td><td><i>By Gonzalo Lebrija, Jason Beard</i><p>£70.00 28 Feb 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>This book is a new monograph on Gonzalo Lebrija, a Mexican artist based in Guadalajara. He is a photography-based installation and video artist, and for this book he has commissioned artists, poets and architects he knows to write brief essays on his work..</td></tr></table><hr>
Marcus Harvey
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=190421262X"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Marcus Harvey" title="Marcus Harvey"></a></td><td><i>By Marcus Harvey, Jason Beard</i><p>£75.00 28 Feb 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>Iconic painting 'Myra', of child-murderer Myra Hindley was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in September 1997. The monumental monochrome painting was entirely composed from a childs handprints, and has been repeatedly used by the press in the coverage of the case.</td></tr></table><hr>
Fine Words Butter No Cabbage
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" title="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069">26 Years of Whitewalls</a><p><i>By Anthony Elms</i><p>£15.00 27 Feb 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>The longest-running journal dedicated to artists' projects in the world, "WhiteWalls "recently exhibited "Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"--a celebration of twenty-six years of conceptual art and writing by new and established artists from Chicago and around the world. <BR>"Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" now compiles over forty new projects from these artists, each created specifically for the book, alongside photographs from the accompanying exhibit. The book features work from early contributors to the journal, such as Robert Barry, Gary Cannone, and the performance group Goat Island, as well as pieces by Mindy Rose Schwartz, Helen Mirra, and Andreas Fischer. Richly illustrated and accompanied by illuminating essays by former editors Buzz Spector, Ann Torke, and Laurie Palmer, and current editor Anthony Elms, "Fine Words" "Butter No Cabbage "is an illuminating look at some of the best conceptual artists of our time. <BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Sigmar Polke
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Sigmar Polke" title="Sigmar Polke"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005">The Dream of Menelaus</a><p><i>By Charles Wylie</i><p>£15.00 19 Feb 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) has experimented with a wide range of styles and subject matter, bringing together imagery from contradictory and unexpected sources, merging the historical and contemporary, and using a variety of different materials and techniques. This catalogue features Polke's major four-painting cycle, "The Dream of Menelaus," one of the artist's most beautiful and challenging. Citing the story of Menelaus, the mythical Greek hero whose wife Helen's abduction started the Trojan War, Polke's cycle alludes to eternal themes of love and war with a typically elusive yet analytic beauty. Here Polke has merged classical and contemporary images to reveal unexpected parallels between mythical histories and present-day realities, all the while creating four paintings of an unsurpassed mastery of the painting medium itself.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Nude
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Nude" title="The Nude"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680">A New Perspective</a><p><i>By Gill Saunders</i><p>£34.50 17 Feb 2011 Hardback KWS Publishers<p>The human body, unclothed and on display, has long been the subject of both artists and art historians. This book examines artists' depictions of nudes and their public reception from classical Greece through the twenty-first century, highlighting the relationship between nudity in art and the rise of feminism.</td></tr></table><hr>
Agnes Martin
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300151055"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Agnes Martin" title="Agnes Martin"></a></td><td><i>By Anastas, Rhea Crimp, Douglas Katz, Jonathan D.</i><p>£25.00 04 Feb 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Gorgeously quiet in colour and composition, Agnes Martin's paintings have a distinctive grace that sets them apart from those of the Abstract Expressionists of her day and the Minimalist artists she inspired. This anthology presents scholarship on Martin's paintings.</td></tr></table><hr>
Blue
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323123"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Blue" title="Blue"></a></td><td><i>By Scott Short</i><p>£17.50 03 Feb 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>Chicago-based painter Scott Short has a very simple, yet highly refined method of arriving at his mesmerizing abstract compositions. He places a piece of colored construction paper on the scanning bed of a black-and-white photocopier and makes a photocopy. Then he makes a photocopy of that photocopy. He repeats the process, moving one generation further from his original each time, not quite ad infinitum, but at least a few hundred times.<BR>The resulting image renders the original monochrome of the construction paper an arresting field of intricately textured black-and-white static. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition of Short's work at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, "Blue "presents all the steps involved in the creation of a single piece of this art. In its reconstruction of Short's method of composition, "Blue" is essentially an artist's workbook, explanatory yet hypnotic, and it will appeal to all fans of abstract contemporary art.<BR></td></tr></table><hr>
The Past, Present and Future
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Past, Present and Future" title="The Past, Present and Future"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8789438086">The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National</a><p><i>By Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen, John Lund</i><p>£18.95 01 Feb 2011 Paperback Nationalmuseet Antiksamlingen<p>This publication celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark. The Collection traces its roots back to the Royal Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650 and to the private archaeological collection of King Christian VIII. On his death the two collections were joined and in 1853 a new one emerged, now named Cabinet of Antiquities and open to the public -- a collection which over the ensuing 150 years was constantly enlarged and enriched.<P>In eight articles (text in Danish and English), various aspects of the history of the Collection are tackled -- the authors taking their cues from highlights and humble objects alike: two marble heads from Athens, a mummy from Egypt, and a seemingly insignificant Syrian amulet which none the less can tell an intriguing tale from the past. We meet a largely forgotten 19"th"-century Danish consul in Tunisia with an eye for antiquities and accompany Danish archaeologists on expeditions to Hama in Syria and Luristan in Iran.<P>New research in Corinthian pottery is presented and the reader is introduced to the principles employed in establishing the Greek and Roman galleries opened in 1994 together with plans for a new Cypriot gallery to be opened in 2002.<P>The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities encompasses not only the story of ancient cultures but is in its own right part of the history of Denmark as it unfolds the story of the many relations between Denmark and the Mediterranean countries over the centuries.</td></tr></table><hr>
Vision in Product Design
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=9063692056"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Vision in Product Design" title="Vision in Product Design"></a></td><td><i>By BIS Publishers</i><p>£37.50 31 Jan 2011 Hardback BIS Publishers B.V.<p><P>This book explores how to formulate a vision for new and appropriate products. A new approach called Vision in Product Design (ViP) strikes a good balance between structuring the process of design while allowing the designers to take a personal position and fully express themselves in producing a product. ViP is both a method and a design philosophy. <P>Paul Hekkert is a professor of Form Theory and on the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology in Holland. <P>Peter Lloyd is head of the Department of Design and Innovation at the Open University in the United Kingdom. <P>Matthijs van Dijk is CEO of KVD design consultancy and is a professor of Applied Design at TU Delft.</td></tr></table><hr>
Requiem I and II
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1906967075"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Requiem I and II" title="Requiem I and II"></a></td><td><i>By Damien Hirst</i><p>£450.00 31 Jan 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>This details all the Damien Hirst works in the Pinchuk Art Centre exhibition, Kyiv in April 2009. The book features over ninety works including iconic early pieces from the 1990's, sculptures, and paintings from recent years, together with the new, previously unseen skull paintings.<BR> Born in Bristol in 1965, Damien Hirst studied Goldsmith's College. In 1988 he curated the now renowned exhibition, Freeze, help in London. In 1991, he had his first solo exhibition in London entitled In and Out of Love and the following year he was a major part of the groundbreaking Young British Artists exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. He was awarded the prestigious Tate Gallery Turner Prize in 1995. Hirst's work has been shown in many important group and solo shows throughout the world and his is now one of Britain's most celebrated living artists. He lives and works in Devon and London.<BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Gonzalo Lebrija
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1904212662"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Gonzalo Lebrija" title="Gonzalo Lebrija"></a></td><td><i>By Gonzalo Lebrija, Jason Beard</i><p>£70.00 31 Jan 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>This book is a new monograph on Gonzalo Lebrija, a Mexican artist based in Guadalajara. He is a photography-based installation and video artist, and for this book he has commissioned artists, poets and architects he knows to write brief essays on his work..</td></tr></table><hr>
Marcus Harvey
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=190421262X"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Marcus Harvey" title="Marcus Harvey"></a></td><td><i>By Marcus Harvey, Jason Beard</i><p>£75.00 31 Jan 2011 Hardback Other Criteria<p>Iconic painting 'Myra', of child-murderer Myra Hindley was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in September 1997. The monumental monochrome painting was entirely composed from a childs handprints, and has been repeatedly used by the press in the coverage of the case.</td></tr></table><hr>
Fine Words Butter No Cabbage
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" title="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069">26 Years of Whitewalls</a><p><i>By Anthony Elms</i><p>£15.00 30 Jan 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>The longest-running journal dedicated to artists' projects in the world, "WhiteWalls "recently exhibited "Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"--a celebration of twenty-six years of conceptual art and writing by new and established artists from Chicago and around the world. <BR>"Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" now compiles over forty new projects from these artists, each created specifically for the book, alongside photographs from the accompanying exhibit. The book features work from early contributors to the journal, such as Robert Barry, Gary Cannone, and the performance group Goat Island, as well as pieces by Mindy Rose Schwartz, Helen Mirra, and Andreas Fischer. Richly illustrated and accompanied by illuminating essays by former editors Buzz Spector, Ann Torke, and Laurie Palmer, and current editor Anthony Elms, "Fine Words" "Butter No Cabbage "is an illuminating look at some of the best conceptual artists of our time. <BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Himalaya
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0856676268"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Himalaya" title="Himalaya"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0856676268">Peoples, Arts and Adornment in Arunachal Pradesh</a><p><i>By Peter Van Ham, Aglaja Stirn</i><p>£27.50 30 Jan 2011 Hardback Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd<p>The Northeast-Indian State of Arunachal Pradesh is formed by the easternmost part of the Himalaya. The region's elevated hilltops are inhabited by 50 ethnic groups who are culturally very much different from each other. This book documents their religious customs and beliefs, their festivals as well as their art, and includes a CD.</td></tr></table><hr>
Health & Efficency
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8492480327"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Health & Efficency" title="Health & Efficency"></a></td><td><i>By Dr Lakra</i><p>£30.00 27 Jan 2011 Hardback RM Verlag SL<p>The series of works that make up this book originated in a group of magazines about nudist camps that Lakra bought in the Sunday market on Brick Lane in London.</td></tr></table><hr>
Leon Ferrari
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8492480246"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Leon Ferrari" title="Leon Ferrari"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8492480246">Works 1976-2008</a><p><i>By Andrea Giunta</i><p>£26.00 27 Jan 2011 Hardback RM Verlag SL<p>As poetic as he is controversial, Argentinean artist Leon Ferrari seduces us with his exquisite works and his monumental controversies.</td></tr></table><hr>
Badlands
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8492480238"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Badlands" title="Badlands"></a></td><td><i>By Jan Hendrix</i><p>£36.00 27 Jan 2011 Hardback RM Verlag SL<p>Jan Hendrix has been known for always launching elegant and well-crafted editions. Hendrix (1949) is a Dutch artist who has been living in Mexico for the past 30 years. This book, which includes a series of engravings inspired by the landscape on Lanzarote Island (Canary Islands), is now an unmistakable constituent of his extensive work.</td></tr></table><hr>
Diego Rivera, Illustrious Words (v. 2)
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8492480106"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Diego Rivera, Illustrious Words (v. 2)" title="Diego Rivera, Illustrious Words (v. 2)"></a></td><td><i>By Juan Rafael, Juan Coronel Rivera</i><p>£45.00 27 Jan 2011 Hardback RM Verlag SL<p>This second volume of Illustrious Words covers the period extending from Diego Rivera's return to Mexico in June 1921 to his death in 1957.</td></tr></table><hr>
Out of the Dark Ages
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0715636855"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Out of the Dark Ages" title="Out of the Dark Ages"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0715636855">Art and State Formation in Post-Roman Europe</a><p><i>By John Mitchell</i><p>£16.99 27 Jan 2011 Paperback Bloomsbury Academic<p>Re-evaluates the cultural dynamics of Europe in the post-Roman period. This book analyses some of the most significant architectural, artistic and material outcomes of the complex movements of people, ideas and patterns between regions and places, across the Mediterranean to Byzantium and Islam, which were so striking a feature of the age.</td></tr></table><hr>
Sigmar Polke
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Sigmar Polke" title="Sigmar Polke"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300159005">The Dream of Menelaus</a><p><i>By Charles Wylie</i><p>£15.00 22 Jan 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) has experimented with a wide range of styles and subject matter, bringing together imagery from contradictory and unexpected sources, merging the historical and contemporary, and using a variety of different materials and techniques. This catalogue features Polke's major four-painting cycle, "The Dream of Menelaus," one of the artist's most beautiful and challenging. Citing the story of Menelaus, the mythical Greek hero whose wife Helen's abduction started the Trojan War, Polke's cycle alludes to eternal themes of love and war with a typically elusive yet analytic beauty. Here Polke has merged classical and contemporary images to reveal unexpected parallels between mythical histories and present-day realities, all the while creating four paintings of an unsurpassed mastery of the painting medium itself.</td></tr></table><hr>
Artists Against the War
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=1599290308"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Artists Against the War" title="Artists Against the War"></a></td><td><i>By Steve Brodner</i><p>£14.99 20 Jan 2011 Hardback Underwood Books Inc<p>Based on the Society of Illustrators' exhibit "Artists Against the War," this book of the same name draws from the vibrant history of graphic protest to demonstrate the many ways that illustrators -- in editorial cartoons, comics, magazine illustrations, and elsewhere -- have reflected on the representations and misrepresentations of war, especially the war in Iraq. Works by Ralph Steadman, Wendy Popp, Nathan Fox, Burt Silverman, Guy Billout, and other renowned illustrators not only bridge the gap between high art and illustration; they testify to the ability of images to examine complex issues in a way that connects with broad numbers of people. In doing so, they reveal how the world of commercial illustration offers a model for the advancement of contemporary fine art.</td></tr></table><hr>
The Nude
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="The Nude" title="The Nude"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0981773680">A New Perspective</a><p><i>By Gill Saunders</i><p>£34.50 20 Jan 2011 Hardback KWS Publishers<p>The human body, unclothed and on display, has long been the subject of both artists and art historians. This book examines artists' depictions of nudes and their public reception from classical Greece through the twenty-first century, highlighting the relationship between nudity in art and the rise of feminism.</td></tr></table><hr>
Travelling the Spaceways
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323158"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Travelling the Spaceways" title="Travelling the Spaceways"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323158">Sun Ra, the Astro Black and Other Solar Myths</a><p><i>By John Corbett, Anthony Elms, Terri Kapsalis</i><p>£17.50 20 Jan 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>Sun Ra - self-proclaimed visionary extraterrestrial of the "Angel Race," prophetic jazz band leader and composer, and lyrical proponent of Afro-futurism - was one of the influential figures of twentieth-century music. This title confronts the visual manifestation of Sun Ra's philosophy.</td></tr></table><hr>
Marianne Heske
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8876247467"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Marianne Heske" title="Marianne Heske"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=8876247467">A Doll's House</a><p><i>By Ina Johannesen, Selene Wendt</i><p>£28.00 17 Jan 2011 Hardback Skira<p>More than 30 years ago the Norwegian artist Marianne Heske found a large box of papier-mache doll heads at a Paris flea market; she was intrigued by the glamour of early-twentieth-century film stars she saw in the doll's faces, and soon knew they would figure in her works. These works were exhibited when Heske was invited to participate in the international celebration of the centenary of Ibsen's birth, Ibsen Year 2006. The celebration in Oslo, Norway, includes roles for Heske's dolls in her installation dedicated to Ibsen's A Doll's House, and also includes Heske's early video work and several early lithographs, works that are fundamental to her productions with the dolls. Heske's A Doll's House installation is a collaborative project with the National Musuem of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, and will subsequently be shown in Rome and New York City.</td></tr></table><hr>
Agnes Martin
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0300151055"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Agnes Martin" title="Agnes Martin"></a></td><td><i>By Anastas, Rhea Crimp, Douglas Katz, Jonathan D.</i><p>£25.00 07 Jan 2011 Paperback Yale University Press<p>Gorgeously quiet in colour and composition, Agnes Martin's paintings have a distinctive grace that sets them apart from those of the Abstract Expressionists of her day and the Minimalist artists she inspired. This anthology presents scholarship on Martin's paintings.</td></tr></table><hr>
Blue
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323123"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Blue" title="Blue"></a></td><td><i>By Scott Short</i><p>£17.50 06 Jan 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>Chicago-based painter Scott Short has a very simple, yet highly refined method of arriving at his mesmerizing abstract compositions. He places a piece of colored construction paper on the scanning bed of a black-and-white photocopier and makes a photocopy. Then he makes a photocopy of that photocopy. He repeats the process, moving one generation further from his original each time, not quite ad infinitum, but at least a few hundred times.<BR>The resulting image renders the original monochrome of the construction paper an arresting field of intricately textured black-and-white static. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition of Short's work at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, "Blue "presents all the steps involved in the creation of a single piece of this art. In its reconstruction of Short's method of composition, "Blue" is essentially an artist's workbook, explanatory yet hypnotic, and it will appeal to all fans of abstract contemporary art.<BR></td></tr></table><hr>
Fine Words Butter No Cabbage
<table border=0><tr valign=top><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069"><img border="0" src="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/s/nojacket.gif" alt="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" title="Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"></a></td><td><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp?source=rss&isbn=0945323069">26 Years of Whitewalls</a><p><i>By Anthony Elms</i><p>£15.00 02 Jan 2011 Paperback WhiteWalls, Inc<p>The longest-running journal dedicated to artists' projects in the world, "WhiteWalls "recently exhibited "Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"--a celebration of twenty-six years of conceptual art and writing by new and established artists from Chicago and around the world. <BR>"Fine Words Butter No Cabbage" now compiles over forty new projects from these artists, each created specifically for the book, alongside photographs from the accompanying exhibit. The book features work from early contributors to the journal, such as Robert Barry, Gary Cannone, and the performance group Goat Island, as well as pieces by Mindy Rose Schwartz, Helen Mirra, and Andreas Fischer. Richly illustrated and accompanied by illuminating essays by former editors Buzz Spector, Ann Torke, and Laurie Palmer, and current editor Anthony Elms, "Fine Words" "Butter No Cabbage "is an illuminating look at some of the best conceptual artists of our time. <BR></td></tr></table><hr>
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Some Items On Renaissance Art
The Renaissance is widely considered by many to have been a historic age,
this period of time came after the Middle Ages but before the Reformation in
historic hindsight, but the Italian Renaissance of the 15th century is
connected with the absorption of knowledge by Western influences.
Especially the various realms of mathematics from the origins of Hindu
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about by the invention of printing that
allowed many to understand the world around them.
As for the art of the time, the Renaissance boasted many of the most
important artists to have been culled from the public consciousness; such as
Leonardo da Vinci, Donatello, and Michelangelo, and has come to represent a
golden era of time in which many people found themselves enlightened as to
the state of world affairs and their own internal issues as well. Much of
the art to come out of the Renaissance has been described as being the
turning point for a large amount changes in the way things worked, and much
of this is due to the previously mentioned artists and their now priceless
works.
The Renaissance has seemed to donate quite a bit to our culture as it now
stands, even though a new age of Renaissance has yet to be really hinted at,
and much has collected throughout the years to show the validity within this
age of progression in all avenues of interest. It is the Renaissance that
has propelled the many ages to follow into their current state, with much
praise being accrued to the many pioneers which pushed this age to a close,
but their impact is felt in the architecture and artwork of our time through
the striking ways in which they moved everything forward by leaps and
bounds.
Much to come from the years within the Renaissance, whether it would be
philosophically or in the aesthetics that claim to hold sway in the
multitude of artistic pursuits to have arisen, but from there it has only
been elaborated upon. Creating an established amount of history from which
to draw upon, and it is these things which man claims to call art which
seems to have truly revolutionized the world in which we live and strive
every day.
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