Product Description: Honore Daumier (1808 1879) is perhaps best known for his political and social caricatures, precise and witty observations of life in 19th-century France. This authoritative new study provides a long-overdue assessment of his work, bringing together his paintings, sculptures, watercolors, drawings, and lithographs, all of which were greatly admired in his day...read more

Product Description: Chris Ofili’s intricately constructed works, combining beadlike dots of paint, collaged images from popular media, and elephant dung, create a unique iconography that marries African artistic and ritual practices with Western art historical traditions and contemporary hip-hop culture...read more

Product Description: Doig, whose smart, dark figurative painting saw him nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994, lives and works in Trinidad. He and the artist Che Lovelace run a small private cinema there, StudioFilmClub. This series of posters for movies they've shown includes paintings that refer to key scenes, quote original movie posters, and weave in broader associations with the films' content...read more

Product Description: Although Peter Doig has had many publications dedicated to his oeuvre, this one focuses solely on his works on paper, examining the artist's themes of the past 12 years. Doig's signature atmospheric works have helped to revive the popularity of figurative painting, a genre lately overshadowed by photography and video art...read more

Product Description: Peter Doig paints without wanting to depict nature. Instead, his models from photography, film, books, and other media offer room for the viewer's ideas. Somehow, conspicuous citations of the individual and partly identifiable motifs produce an expressive force manifested in the final paintings...read more

Product Description: Viewers of a picture by Peter Doig usually experience the vague sensation of having seen a similar motif somewhere else before. This is due to the fact that Doig bases most of his pictorial compositions on models taken from the flood of media images that saturate us daily, appropriating quotations from record covers, sequences from horror movies or citations from art history...read more

Product Description: Presenting unique and in-depth collaborations and editions with leading international artists, Parkett No. 67 features John Bock (Germany), Peter Doig (Great Britain) and Fred Tomaselli (United States of America). John Bock's hypnotic and clownish lectures--his signature artistic medium--mix language, social theory, dramatic elements, history and fairy tales, among other things...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)