Art Today

Art Today

Author: Brandon Taylor. 25.6cm x 22.6cm, 256pp. Paperback.
In Art Today Brandon Taylor charts the ideas and practices of contemporary art across a wide international spectrum. From Minimalism and Conceptualism to video and film, from painting and sculpture to performance and installation, he shows how advanced art has continued to provoke and perplex a fascinated public. Art Today shows how the new art of the last three decades has been energized not merely by changing technologies of art-making, but by the spread of new museum architecture, by the voice of the critic, and in recent times by the activity of the powerful international curator.



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Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art

Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art

Editor: Blanche Craig. 28cm x 23cm, 240pp. Hardback.
Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art is the first authoritative survey of the history of collage from its origins through to the latest work being produced by artists today. From the traditional 'cut and paste' method through to digital, three-dimensional and installation work, and in the incorporation of contemporary concerns such as environment and commercialism, collage is experiencing an exciting renaissance.



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The Drawing Book

The Drawing Book

Editor: Tania Kovats. 28cm x 23cm, 320pp. Paperback.
The works in The Drawing Book, by artists, architects, sculptors, scientists, filmmakers and thinkers of all descriptions, attest to the versatility and immediacy of drawing. From first thoughts to finely wrought, elaborate artworks, from the lightest sketch in pencil to bold, gallery-wall installations, the medium is shown as an essential vehicle for creativity.



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Hockney's Pictures

Hockney's Pictures

Author: David Hockney. 23.5cm x 22cm, 368pp. Paperback with flaps.
Hockney's Pictures is the first 'retrospective' to show the evolution and diversity of Hockney's paintings, drawings, watercolours, prints, and photography, including new and published works. The pieces are selected and organized by David Hockney himself, and track his lifelong experiments in ways of looking and depicting



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How to Read a Painting - Decoding, Understanding and Enjoying the Old Masters

How to Read a Painting - Decoding, Understanding and Enjoying the Old Masters

Author: Patrick de Rynck. 24cm x 16.8cm, 384pp. Flexibound Plastic Laminated Cover (no jacket).
'How to Read a Painting' draws our attention to the imagery and the wonderful, apparently inconsequential details in paintings by Giotto, Botticelli, El Greco, Michelangelo, Rubens, Vermeer, Hogarth, Gainsborough and many more. Brief yet illuminating explanations accompany over 900 colour illustrations, providing the means to interpret and enjoy these and many other works.



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How to Read a Modern Painting - Understanding and Enjoying the Modern Masters

How to Read a Modern Painting - Understanding and Enjoying the Modern Masters

Author: Jon Thompson. 24cm x 17cm, 400pp. Flexibound Plastic Laminated Cover (no Jacket).
In this accessible, practical guide, Jon Thompson explores more than 200 works, helping readers to unlock each painting's meaning. Beginning with the Barbizon school and the Realist movement of the mid-19th century and continuing right up to the 1980s avant-garde, he analyses works by some of the greatest and most popular artists of the modern era, including Bonnard, Van Gogh, Picasso, Pollock, Rauschenberg, Warhol and Basquiat, describing each artist's use of media and symbolism, and providing useful biographical information.



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Lucien Freud Paintings

Lucien Freud Paintings

Author: Robert Hughes. 27.5cm x 24.8cm, 136pp. Paperback.
In his highly acclaimed essay for this survey of Lucian Freud's work, Robert Hughes points out that the reality pursued in the paintings goes far beyond naturalism. It is both startling and disconcerting, producing some of the most powerful and moving visual images to have appeared in the last thirty years. Freud has almost single-handedly redefined the figurative painting of our time. No other living painter possesses his unique ability to paint texture and thinness of skin over flesh, and his distinctive portraits have a haunting quality that makes them impossible to forget.



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Make Your Own Damn Art

Make Your Own Damn Art

Authors: Bob and Roberta Smith, 24cm x 18cm, 186pp. Paperback.
Bob and Roberta Smith believe in Art and Democracy. Bob and Roberta Smith provoke the public. They see the public as a body to cajole, kick and stick pins in, but also to encourage and to liberate. Make Your Own Damn Art examines their methods and explores their work through conversations with Matthew Collings and an essay by Horst Griese. The book sets out how it is possible to 'make your own damn art'. It is a dynamic tour through the life and the mind of artist(s) Bob and Roberta Smith. As such Make Your Own Damn Art is absurd, political, witty and urgent.



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Platform for Art

Platform for Art

Author: Alex Coles. 24cm x 18cm, 160pp. Paperback.
London Underground has long been a pioneer in the field of art and design, from the early twentieth century when it commissioned posters by artists such as Man Ray, Edward McKnight Kauffer and Graham Sutherland and the commission of Eduardo Paolozzi at Tottenham Court Road station in the 1980s, to the current art programme, Platform for Art. Platform for Art is a book that traces the project’s growing success — from its fairly modest beginnings in the late 1990s, to what is now a highly ambitious and creative programme, showcasing some of the most exciting and innovative work from the contemporary international art scene.



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