Publication date: 2003-03-13
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.27
Review Art in Question / Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.:
Creator: Marina Abramovich
Publication date: 2004-10-01
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £22.00
Price: £19.80
Review Abramovic: The Biography of Biographies / Charta:
Publication date: 2005-10-04
Dewey code: 720.92
RRP: £19.95
Price: £15.37
Review Alvar Aalto / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 2002-05-30
Dewey code: 746
RRP: £3.98
Price: £0.10
Review Celtic Fashions (Dover coloring book) / Dover Publications Inc.:
Publication date: 2001-04-18
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £30.00
Price: £20.45
Review The Wittgenstein House / Princeton Architectural Press:
Publication date: 1990-06
Price: £32.00
Review The Mezzotint: Development of an Art Form - History and Technique / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-09-11
Dewey code: 598
RRP: £18.99
Price: £8.25
Review Audubon's Elephant: The story of John James Audubon's epic struggle to publish The Birds of America: The Story of John James Audubon's Epic Struggle to Publish the "Birds of America" / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
Publication date: 2004-01
RRP: £32.00
Price: £33.50
Review Jake and Dinos Chapman: The Marriage of Reason and Squalor / Gestion Cultural y Comunicacion:
Publication date: 2003-05-06
Dewey code: 700.92
RRP: £35.00
Price: £22.27
Review Robert Rauschenberg: Breaking Boundaries / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 2006-03-12
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £45.00
Price: £29.97
Review Gunnar Asplund: Monograph / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Edition: Pap/Cdr
Publication date: 2007-04-01
Dewey code: 746
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.37
Review Art Deco Fashion (Pepin Press Fashion Books) / Pepin Press:
Edition: Facsimile of 1961 ed
Publication date: 1999-10
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £10.95
Price: £4.51
Review Le Corbusier Talks with Students / Princeton Architectural Press:
Authors
- Richard Thomson
- Anna Greuzner Robins
RRP: £26.99
Price: £16.19
Review Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris, 1870-1910 / Tate Publishing:
Authors
- Rainer Crone
- Alexandra Von Stosch
Publication date: 2008-03-10
Dewey code: 730
RRP: £25.00
Price: £16.53
Review Anish Kapoor: To Darkness: Svayambh / Prestel:
Publication date: 2003-04-23
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £35.00
Price: £35.00
Review Bridget Riley / Tate Publishing:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 1996-07-01
Dewey code: 745
RRP: £4.99
Price: £4.49
Review African Printed Textile Designs (International Design Library) / Stemmer House Publishers Inc.,U.S.:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2007-04-12
Dewey code: 745
RRP: £24.95
Price: £16.22
Review Japonisme: Cultural Crossings Between Japan and the West / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Authors
- Bryan Robertson
- Charles Saumarez Smith
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £65.00
Price: £55.00
Review Christopher Le Brun / Booth-Clibborn Editions:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1995-01
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £13.95
Price: £14.78
Review Orientalistes, Les: Women as Portrayed in Orientalist Painting v. 3 (PocheCouleur) / ACR Edition:
Creator: Dawn Ades
Publication date: 2001-01-01
RRP: £29.99
Price: £39.45
Review Surrealism : Desire Unbound / Tate Publishing:Surrealism: Desire Unbound is not only a wonderfully produced catalogue to accompany the Tate Modern's excellent surrealism exhibition but also a compelling addition to surrealist studies in its own right. As lavishly illustrated as you could hope for (no less than 300 colour illustrations) the strength of the book really lies in the quality of the essays that make up the catalogue's text, which come from some of the best art historians around. Professor Dawn Ades, the consultant editor, contributes "Surrealism, male-female" which builds on themes of sexuality, and the notion of the fluidity of the category of gender so important to the surrealists, that she (and others, see particularly Surrealism and Women and The Surrealist Look) previously addressed elsewhere (her book on Marcel Duchamp, a constant reference point for so much modern art, is particularly good); Hal Foster (well known for his argument that the 1990s saw the return to bodies and spaces in art in his thought-provoking The Return of the Real) adds a superb essay on the objectification and fetishisation of women within surrealist photography; David Lomas walks us through the influence of Freud (arguably the first theorist of desire) on surrealism; and Annie Le Brun rounds off the book with a look at the invention of desire by surrealism and its adoption by modernity. Desire, as a category and as an impetus, compelled much of the art and thinking of the surrealists and this excellent volume does much to explore and problematise the issues surrounding sex, gender and identity (the sub-heading of the essential Women in Dada which should certainly be consulted when broaching these issues) that obsessed these important artists and their often iconic art. For a beautifully documented study of previous exhibitions it's well worth checking out Displaying the Marvelous. Surrealism: Desire Unbound is a big, beautiful and bold book that does the surrealists proud. -Mark Thwaite.
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