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Product Description: Contemporary art has recently taken a particular interest in the animal world - not surprising given current debates on the evolution of natural history and the unprecedented ecological upheavals taking place in the natural world...read more

Product Description: This catalogue gathers work that explores recent changes in the perception of nature. The 12 artists featured are Lothar Baumgarten, Mark Dion, Cai Guo Qiang, Peter Doig, Mario García Torres, Kimsooja, Tetsumi Kudo, Charly Nijensohn, Yoko Ono, Marco Pando Quevedo, Willem de Rooij and Liang Shaoji...read more

Product Description: Zones in which nature can offset the tyranny of the built environment are an essential part of any satisfying urban experience, aesthetically and ecologically. (Re)Designing Nature presents innovative design concepts for enhancing the presence and presentation of nature in cities...read more

Product Description: The arts of Japan have been inextricably linked with nature, whether through traditional themes of seasonal change or through objects whose shape, materials, or decorative elements evoke natural motifs. This book provides an overview of the history of Japanese paintings of nature, demonstrating not only the importance of seasonal imagery but also the range of painting styles popular during the period from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries...read more

Spanning the artist's entire career, a catalog of paintings, tied to an exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, captures the evolution of O'Keeffe's art, from her earliest works to paintings created well into the 1970s, including her renderings of New York and New Mexico, flowers, dried bones, trees, and aerial perspectives.

Product Description: The Forest: Politics, Poetics, and Practice focuses on the forest as a theme in contemporary art. The full-color catalog accompanies one of the inaugural exhibitions at the new Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, on view from October 2, 2005, through January 29, 2006...read more

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