Product Description: The exhibition 24h Skulptur at Galerie Sexauer, Berlin, which paired Time Sculptures by young artists like Alicja Kwade, Humberto Diaz, and Awst & Walther with benchmarks of the genre by Dennis Oppenheim, Roman Signer, and Franz Erhard Walther, lasted no more than one night and one day...read more

Product Description: The essays in "Border Dialogues" propose a journey into some of the territories of contemporary culture, philosophy and criticism. They lead to encounters with Nietzsche and Italian "weak thought"; with some of the mysteries of being "British"; and with more immediate concerns such as gender, ethnicity, fashion, and computers...read more

Product Description: Bad Brain, Aaron Curry's eagerly awaited retrospective catalog from his 2014 exhibition at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, features 80 artworks spanning a decade, between 2003 and 2014. As Michael Ned Holte writes, Bad Brain draws on the artist's "teenage fondness for Eddie, the skeletal mascot of Iron Maiden, and the gnarly skull drawings of Pushead, who provided artwork for Metallica t-shirts and Texas-based Zorlac skateboards; his eventual encounters with the weird figuration of the Chicago Imagists, the Hairy Who and the oozing faces of Peter Saul during his time in Chicago; and still later his close encounters with Richard Hawkins and Mike Kelley ...read more

Product Description: The National Gallery of Australia holds the largest collection of Australian Indigenous art in the world. Written by Indigenous authors and curators and other experts in the field, this new book features works of art which highlight the diversity, richness and excellence of the Gallery’s collection...read more

Product Description: Empty Lot is a new work by Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas (b. 1968), the first of the Hyundai Commissions for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. This book documents the conception and creation of this dramatic sculpture, looking at its monumental and microscopic scale...read more

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Product Description: Abraham David Christian's diverse points of reference for his sculpture range from African totems to the refined representations of goddesses in southeast Asia, as well as European modernists such as Brancusi and Giacometti. The Way presents his new monumental bronze sculptures, which synthesize these precedents into architecturally inflected, stacked, columnar forms...read more

Product Description: This book will be of interest to Lincoln scholars, and artists engaged in creating sculpture using waste molds for the lost wax method, marble sculpting, and bas relief sculpture. Many photos and illustrations showing each step of processes...read more

Product Description: Israeli artist Absalon (1964-1993) built large white geometric sculptures that began as plain renderings of basic forms--rectangles, squares, triangles, circles--and developed into shapes resembling machine parts, eventually becoming contemplative dwelling units...read more

Product Description: Original and theoretically astute, Abstract Bodies is the first book to apply the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies to the discipline of art history. It recasts debates around abstraction and figuration in 1960s art through a discussion of gender’s mutability and multiplicity...read more

Product Description: Ivor Roberts-Jones (1913-1996) was one of the finest sculptors working in Britain during the twentieth century. This book is the first in-depth study of this compelling artist who was responsible for the magisterial statue of Sir Winston Churchill which stands in London's Parliament Square...read more

Product Description: The first publication of the Barnes Foundation’s important and extensive African art collection. The Barnes Foundation is renowned for its astonishing collection of Postimpressionist and early Modern art assembled by Albert C. Barnes, a Philadelphia pharmaceutical entrepreneur...read more

Product Description: This publication details a 1984 special exhibition of African ivories drawn from outside institutions and meant to augment the understanding of the permanent collection of the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in The Michael C...read more

Product Description: This is the true story of my life, born into a family who lived in poverty on the edge of Bristol. In the early 1930's the economy of England started to improve. This improved my life in that I had my own pair of shoes to wear and some new clothes instead of hand me downs but never enough food...read more

Product Description: Um die Legitimität ihrer Herrschaft zu sichern, stellten sich die Ptolemäer in vielfältiger Weise in die Tradition des Landes. Verschmelzungsprozesse in Kunst und Religion, die Entstehung neuer Ideen, neuer Götter und religiöser Kulte bestimmen das Erscheinungsbild der hellenistischen Zeit, die in |ber 200 Objekte, Statuen, Reliefs, Inschriften und Papyri, darunter Leihgaben aus den bedeutendsten ägyptischen Sammlungen, dargestellt wird...read more

Product Description: The stunning mid-career retrospective on one of the most important artists in Saudi Arabia. Ahmed Mater is a doctor and renowned Saudi artist working with photography, calligraphy, painting, installation, and video. His experiences with medicine have allowed him to challenge his traditional contexts and explore broader issues about Islamic culture in an era of globalization...read more

Product Description: From its fascinating historical origins to its contemporary symbolic significance, every aspect of Ai Weiwei’s beautiful and monumental work of art is explored in this illustrated volume that also guides readers through the highlights of the artist’s career...read more