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Arts & Architecture
Polyrhythms Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9788772198392
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Description:
“Pulse is essential to life. Everything we do as humans is influenced by the phenomenon of rhythm.”The Hildebrandt Method is about rhythm – or more precisely polyrhythm.
Reinventing the Cabinet of Wonder Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9788775975020
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Description:
How can exhibitions stage encounters between art and science that not only make sense for visitors but encourage them to explore the intricate relationship between themselves and the world further? This book presents a collection of texts that explore exhibitions as a medium for new insights into connections between aesthetic and scientific knowledge production and how such insights facilitate new, more holistic understandings of entanglements between self and lifeworld. The texts all take their outset in a series of three exhibitions called Wunderkammer at Esbjerg Art Museum in Denmark from 2018 to 2022.
Spatial Theories for the Americas Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780822948339
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Illustrations: 42 b&w illustrations
Description:
To study the built environment of the Americas is to wrestle with an inherent contradiction. While the disciplines of architecture, urban design, landscape, and planning share the fundamental belief that space and place matter, the overwhelming majority of canonical knowledge and the vernacular used to describe these disciplines comes from another, very different, continent. With this book, Fernando Luiz Lara discusses several theories of space—drawing on cartography, geography, anthropology, and mostly architecture—and proposes counterweights to five centuries of Eurocentrism.
William Bartram's Visual Wonders Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780822948261
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Description:
The botanical drawings of the American naturalist William Bartram.
Anna Freeman Bentley – Complete Reality Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9781910221655
Pub Date: 27 Feb 2025
Illustrations: 100
Description:
Anna Freeman Bentley (b. 1982) is an artist based in London. Her painting practice explores the built environment, architecture and interiors, inviting emotive, psychological and semiotic readings of space.
China’s 1800s Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780861592418
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2025
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Illustrations: 300
Description:
Material and visual culture of China’s long 19th century is understandably overshadowed by the traumatic warfare, land shortages, famines and uprisings which impacted the lives of a population of around 400 million people. However, innovation can be seen in material culture (including print, painting, calligraphy, textiles, fashion, jewellery, ceramics, lacquer, glass, arms and armour, rugs, silver, money, and photography) during a century in which China’s art, literature, crafts and technology faced unprecedented exposure to global influences. Despite this however, until recently, the 19th century in China has been often defined – and dismissed – as an era of cultural decline.
Wonders: A Literary History of the Deep Sea Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 316
ISBN: 9788775971220
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2025
Description:
In the mid19th century, intrepid explorers began to shine a light on the darkness of the deep. The mystique of what lay beneath the surface of the vast oceans inspired awe in aquarium enthusiasts, Decadent artists, and authors, including Jules Verne and Hans Christian Andersen. Ever since, books, films and visual arts have invited us to contemplate the sea as both the wellspring of all life and a resolutely alien world.
The Magic Hours Cover The Magic Hours Cover
Format: 
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9781985901186
Pub Date: 30 Jan 2025
Series: Screen Classics
Illustrations: 19 b&w illustrations
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9781985901193
Pub Date: 30 Jan 2025
Series: Screen Classics
Illustrations: 19 b&w illustrations
Description:
Terrence Malick is the most enigmatic film director currently working. Since the early seventies, his work has won top prizes at film festivals worldwide and brought him wide recognition as the cinematic equivalent of a poet. His life is shrouded in mystery, leaving audiences with rumors, few established facts, and virtual silence from the filmmaker himself following his last published interview in 1979.
RRP: £63.00
RRP: £32.00
The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting 3 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9781910221594
Pub Date: 10 Dec 2024
Illustrations: 350
Description:
Following the success of The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting in 2018 and The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting 2 in 2021, a third volume has been created to showcase solo exhibitions that have defined contemporary painting since the second volume. This new, even larger anthology presents the work of eighty-five artists born or living in Britain through documentation and discussion of solo exhibitions of their work in museums and galleries nationally and internationally. Featuring artists at different stages of their careers, from senior figures exhibiting at major museums to emerging artists presenting some of their first commercial gallery exhibitions, The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting 3 offers an overview of recent activity in the medium of painting in Britain.
Susie Hamilton Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781910221570
Pub Date: 28 Nov 2024
Illustrations: 165
Description:
Susie Hamilton’s dynamic practice is concerned with a wide range of subjects but often focuses on solitary people in impersonal public spaces or natural wildernesses. From the heroic, isolated exploits of astronauts and Arctic explorers to lone shoppers in supermarkets, all subjects are equal under her gaze. Other works turn attention towards crowds on beaches and in hotel dining rooms, who, as in Hamilton’s paintings of single figures, are invaded by blooms and veils of paint.
Tibetan Memories Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781960521064
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2024
Illustrations: 72 black-and-white illustrations, including 61 duotone photographs by the author
Description:
This is the first book to present the stories and portraits of ordinary Tibetan women and men in exile, in their own words. It includes gorgeous photographs of the lands they embraced in Ladakh, where they fled after the Chinese annexed Tibet in 1959.To meet the people and make these photographs, the Johnsons traveled throughout Ladakh, visiting many villages, and interviewing dozens of people.
Daniel Crews-Chubb Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9781910221617
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2024
Illustrations: c. 150 images
Description:
Daniel Crews-Chubb (b.1984) is a London-based painter whose mixed-media works wrestle with the human condition and modes of selfexpression. This monograph, Out of Chaos, ispublished to coincide with his solo exhibition at Timothy Taylor, New York, which brings togethernew paintings and works on paper.
Joy Labinjo Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781910221631
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2024
Illustrations: 120
Description:
Joy Labinjo (b.1994) is a British-Nigerian artist based in London. Bringing together paintings made between 2017 and 2024, this monograph coincides with her institutional solo exhibition We Are Briefly Gorgeous at Southwark Park Galleries, London, which opened in July 2024.
Albert de Belleroche - Works from the Artist’s Studio & Catalogue Raisonné of the Lithographic Work Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 196
ISBN: 9781999314583
Pub Date: 29 Oct 2024
Illustrations: 320+
Description:
Belleroche was an integral part of the Parisian art scene during the Belle Époque - he was a close friend of the artist John Singer Sargent with whom he shared studios in Paris and London; he was admired and collected by luminaires such as Degas and Renoir - anbdchampioned by the art critic Roger Marx. With Toulouse-Lautrec he shared the celebrated model Lily Grenier. And it is even said that Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray was inspired by Belleroche.
Minami Kobayashi Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9781910221662
Pub Date: 24 Oct 2024
Illustrations: 50
Description:
Minami Kobayashi (b.1989) is a Japanese artist based in London. Covering a significant period of development in her practice as a painter, this publication coincides with her second major solo exhibition, The Song of Jujubes, at Frestonian Gallery, London.
Brassroots Democracy Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 424
ISBN: 9780819501127
Pub Date: 17 Oct 2024
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 25 b&w photos
Description:
**A new understanding of the birth of jazz through a fine-grained social history of early African American musicians **Brassroots Democracy recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed. Benjamin Barson presents a "music history from below," following the musicians as they built communes, performed at Civil Rights rallies, and participated in general strikes. Perhaps most importantly, Barson locates the first emancipatory revolution in the Americas—Haiti—as a nexus for cultural and political change in nineteenth-century Louisiana.