Publication date: 2005-11-01
Dewey code: 759.5
RRP: £35.00
Price: £23.10
Review Titian and Tragic Painting: Aristotle's Poetics and the Rise of the Modern Artist / Yale University Press:
Authors
- Ken Shamrock
- Richard Hanner
Dewey code: 796.8092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.27
Review Inside the Lion's Den: The Life and Submission Fighting System of Ken Shamrock / Tuttle Publishing,US:
Publication date: 2005-10-18
Dewey code: 759.9493
RRP: £25.00
Price: £18.62
Review Rubens: A Master in the Making (National Gallery Publications) / Yale University Press:
Creator: Dover
Edition: Cdr/Pap
Publication date: 2007-02-16
Dewey code: 741
RRP: £17.99
Price: £6.09
Review Dazzling Art Deco Designs (Dover Electronic Clip Art) (Dover Electronic Clip Art) / Dover Publications Inc.:
Creator: John Pinto
Edition: 4th Revised edition
Publication date: 1999-09-28
Dewey code: 759.5
RRP: £45.00
Price: £40.16
Review Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750: v. 1-3 (Yale University Press Pelican History of Art) / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 2006-12-15
Dewey code: 709.2
RRP: £17.27
Price: £9.11
Review The Joseph Cornell Box: Found Objects, Magical Worlds / Cider Mill Press Book Publishers LLC:
Authors
- Melo Minnella
- Maria Giuffre
Dewey code: 720.9458
RRP: £48.00
Price: £25.90
Review The Baroque Architecture of Sicily / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2003-10
Dewey code: 759.13
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.10
Review Guston in Time / Counterpoint,U.S.:
Publication date: 1999-07
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £30.00
Price: £40.02
Review Alexander "Greek" Thomson / Laurence King Publishing:
Publication date: 2007-06-26
RRP: £38.00
Price: £30.76
Review Pride of Place: The Art of Carl Brenders (Wildlife Art Series) / Langford Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-11-18
Dewey code: 903
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.79
Review Enemies of Rome: Barbarians Through Roman Eyes / The History Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2000-01-31
Dewey code: 700
RRP: £24.95
Price: £15.00
Review Yayoi Kusama (Contemporary Artists) / Phaidon Press Ltd:Maverick septuagenarian artist Yayoi Kusama has spent the last 20 years in a mental hospital in Tokyo, where she has immersed herself in art therapy to help her with her obsessive neurosis. Feeling ostracised by Japan, she went to America in 1958, where for the next 15 years she developed her distinctive imagery of dots, dried macaroni and protuberances, the latter of which, the antithesis of the dots, are phalluses or tumorous root vegetables depending on your delectation. The dots of the so-called "Affinity Nets", rash-like in their spread and obvious itch for her, are the result of a childhood hallucination and their continual repetition serves as a means of self-annihilation, be it on huge canvases, everyday objects or people. In America she also organised frequent Happenings in public places, usually involving nudity and, yes, dots. Since her re-discovery by the world in 1993 when she represented Japan at the Venice Biennale, she has had a wildly successful retrospective back in America and a London exhibition for which Phaidon have produced this excellent explanatory monograph, replete with interviews (including one with British enfant terrible Damien Hirst), an enthusiastic essay, excerpts from her own writing, accompanied by photographs of her installations and nostalgic stills of the Happenings. Like Louise Bourgeois, another &eacaute;migr&eacaute; to America, Kusama draws on a psychic disturbance attributable to an abusive childhood to inform her art, using her new location as a blank canvas for an unashamedly rampant egotism. For someone so scornful of association with art movements such as Pop Art or Surrealism, her works evolved alongside them with remarkable ease and her dynamic self-publicising activities link her with Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys, to name but two. From the prolific whorls and mass reproduction of this proverbial leopard comes an exultant heady release that has developed through changes in medium that only the rigid continuity of substance can allow. In the absence of the physical works themselves, this enlightening volume evokes a reminder of Kusama's singular and survivalist vision, as frightening as it is playful and sensual. -David Vincent.
Creator: Hugo Vickers
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2005-07-27
Dewey code: 709
Price: £10.99
Review The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, 1970-1980 / Carroll & Graf Publishing:
Publication date: 2006-04-15
Dewey code: 686
RRP: £75.00
Price: £49.50
Review Turkish Bookbinding in the 15th Century: The Foundation of an Ottoman Court Style / Azimuth Editions:
Publication date: 1997-11
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £6.95
Price: £1.93
Review Leonardo Da Vinci: Renaissance Man (New Horizons) / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-03-07
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £19.95
Price: £12.57
Review In Search of a Better 'Ole: A Biography of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather / Pen & Sword Books Ltd:
Authors
- Kalle Lasn
- Jonathan Barnbrook
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £35.00
Price: £19.61
Review Barnbrook Bible: The Graphic Design of Jonathan Barnbrook / Booth-Clibborn Editions:
Creator: Cristina Montes
Publication date: 2002-09-30
Dewey code: 720.92
RRP: £7.95
Price: £2.35
Review Mies Van Der Rohe (Archipockets) / teNeues Verlag GmbH + Co KG:
Creator: W. Lindemann
Publication date: 2007-10-15
Dewey code: 739
RRP: £45.00
Price: £34.48
Review Bengel Art Deco Jewellery: A Monument to Jewellery and Industry in Idar-Oberstein / Arnoldsche,Germany:
Publication date: 1992-09
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £6.00
Price: £9.97
Review Egon Schiele 1890-1918: The Midnight Soul of the Artist (Taschen Basic Art) / Taschen:
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