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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The story of Japanese design, told through works selected from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Japanese designers' special ability to combine aesthetic tradition with contemporary visual culture and material innovation has created a distinctive and exceptionally successful design industry in Japan, which has produced such divergent icons of modern design as Sori Yanagi's Butterfly Stool, the Sony Walkman, the Honey-Pop Armchair by Tokujin Yoshioka, and the Toyota Prius. This book traces the development of Japanese design from the country's craft revival in the early twentieth century to the extraordinary objects of high technology that have been a specialty of Japanese designers since mid-century. Paola Antonelli's lively introduction provides an overview of Japan's design culture; an essay and timeline by Penny Sparke illuminate the masterpieces of modern Japanese design that are superbly reproduced in the volume's plate section. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Original decorated boards. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. 1st English Language Edition. With plates after Olivier Meriel. Light wear to spine, covers & corners. ; Octavo Oblong; 104 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: New in shrinkwrap. BW-illustrated boards with white and brown lettering. 223 pp. BW and color illustrations. Mural painting became a significant part of Fernand L,ger's work with commissions for the World's Fairs of 1925 and then 1937, held in Paris. They grew increasingly important during the years preceding his exile in America, then, upon on his return to France, in the context of Reconstruction. Due to his international fame, opportunities arose in Europe, the United States, South America and Canada. Yvonne Brunhammer is the former chief curator of the Mus,e des Arts D,coratifs in Paris. Pierre Descargues is a famous French art historian and a personal friend of L,ger and many other twentieth century artist. Over 200 illustrations of the large works and the preparatory studies. Brilliantly presented. Contents as follows: Introduction / Thomas M. Messer -- monumental art of Fernand Leger / Pierre Descargues -- By way of introduction : orchestrating the outdoor show -- prelude to monumental art : Fernand Leger's studio -- "The spectacular object, the spectacular ballet" -- "The wall, the architect, and the artist" : 1925-1940 -- American adventures : 1931/1935/1938-1939/1941-1945 -- Back to France : all forms of monumental art 1946-1955 -- Fernand Leger's idea to ceramics : new "plastic facts" -- Leger after Leger -- By way of conclusion : "that is how it all began ." -- life of Fernand Leger -- Select bibliography / Mathilde Simian.

Paperback. Condición: NEW. Paperback. his catalogue documents an exhibition at the Baur Foundation that brings together work by the French painter Pierre Soulages (b.1919) and the Japanese master bamboo artist Tanabe Chikuunsai IV (b. 1973). Soulages, still working at 102 years old, has painted almost exclusively in black since 1979 and is known as the "master of luminous blacks". Tanabe Chikuunsai IV is a renowned bamboo artist, known for his twisting organic sculptures and room-sized installations made from tiger or black bamboo. The aim of this exhibition is to explore how their work resonates, despite different approaches, in the dark and light effects of their materials. Text in French and English. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Baur Foundation in Switzerland, a museum of Far Eastern Art, from November 2021March 2022. AUTHOR: A graduate of the Ecole du Louvre and holder of a doctorate from Paris IV Sorbonne, Laure Schwartz-Arenales began her career at the Musee national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet and at the Ecole du Louvre, where she taught Far Eastern arts. Her research on ancient Japanese painting, carried out since 1998 in Japan (University of Tohoku - Kyoto National Museum), was rewarded in 2007 by the Kajima Foundation for the Arts. Professor at Ochanomizu University and then at Sophia University (Tokyo), she has been director of the Baur Foundation, Museum of Far Eastern Arts in Geneva since 2018. SELLING POINTS: . Brings together two masters of light and darkness, materiality and abstraction, French painter Pierre Soulages and Japanese bamboo artist Tanabe Chikuunsai IV . The catalogue for a show at the Baur Foundation in Switzerland, a museum of Far Eastern Art, from November 2021 March 2022 50 colour illustrations This catalogue for an exhibition at the Fondation Baur brings together paintings by French artist Pierre Soulages and sculpture by the Japanese bamboo master, Tanabe Chikuunsai IV. Text in English and French. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. No Jacket. Presumed First Edition. Presumed first edition w/NAP, hardcover, has a mild skew to the binding, very slight bumps to the spine end and cover corners, and some faint rubbing to the covers, otherwise a solid, tight Very Good+ copy.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Italian and American Art focuses on the period between 1930 and 1980 in particular. By comparing artworks and examining exhibition and gallery policies, political meddling, and figures linking Italy to the United States, a common thread emerges which held two worlds that were literally an ocean apart but in constant touch as they explored each other's movements contributing to art, from Futurism, Concrete art, and Abstract Expressionism, to Nuclear art, Pop art and Spatialism. AUTHOR: Renato Miracco is an art historian, critic, and curator. He has been Director per chiara fama of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, Cultural Attache at the Italian Embassy to the United States and Member of the Board of Guarantors at the Italian Academy at Columbia University. Miracco has curated numerous exhibitions worldwide, including: an anthological exhibition on Giorgio Morandi at the Metropolitan Museum, New York; the Burri, Fontana, and Manzoni exhibition at the Tate Modern, London; an anthological exhibition dedicated to Giacomo Balla at the Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo (Brazil); and a retrospective of Italian art of the 1950s and 1960s at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC. He is at present Guest Curator at the Phillips Collection (Washington, DC) where he recently curated a monographic exhibition on Giuseppe De Nittis. SELLING POINTS: . This book aims to explore and analyse the way the Italian art world has experienced the allure of its counterpart in America and vice versa, and how the two have interacted 76 colour illustrations This book aims to explore and analyse the way the Italian art world has experienced the allure of its counterpart in America and vice versa, and how the two have interacted. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Switzerland and South Korea, this volume offers a unique point of view on the work of Ji-Young Demol Park and Lee Lee Nam. The evocation of nature unfolds through connections interwoven over the centuries between culture and objects, materials, colours, and motifs. Jade- and pine-coloured decorated ceramics, cobalt oxide for the horizon, porcelain white as snow or the moon, all feature in the work of both artists, their gazes meeting and reflecting in the landscapes of a great painter of old, Jeong Seon (1676-1759). Despite all their differences, the mountains rendered in ink by Ji-Young Demol Park and Lee Lee Nam's virtual landscapes are truly united by the uniqueness of their relationship with this cultural heritage as well as the strength of their individual universes, oriented towards the re-enchantment of nature. Text in English and French. AUTHOR: Laure Schwartz-Arenales has a degree from the Ecole du Louvre and a doctorate from the Paris-Sorbonne University. She began her career at the Musee national des arts asiatiques Guimet and at the Ecole du Louvre where she taught Far-Eastern Art. In 2007, the Kajima Foundation for the Arts gave her an award for her research on Japanese painting (Tohoku University, Kyoto National Museum). She was a professor at Ochanomizu University and then at Sophia University (Tokyo), and since 2018 she has been the director of the Fondation Baur, Musee des Arts d'Extreme-Orient in Geneva. 70 colour illustrations This volume offers a unique point of view on the work of two contemporary Korean artists, Ji-Young Demol Park and Lee Lee Nam. Text in English and French. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Joel Denot (b.1961) is a French photographer. His images are centred on the essential elements of photography: light, colour and shape. They are neither figurative nor abstract, with coloured surfaces floating in a void, framing each other and projecting shadows of overlapping colours: orange then pale pink then blue then bright pink; red then green then pink then grey-blue. Produced entirely during the shoot, they are a purely photographic gesture, created without laboratory work. This is the first monograph on his career. Text in English and French. 50 colour illustrations This volume is the first monograph dedicated to the work of French photographer Joel Denot. Text in English and French. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: NEW. Paperback. This catalogue for the 5th Art Brut Biennial at the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne highlights the museum's holdings with a focus on the subject of belief. In a wide range of mediums, the show reveals the particular link between Art Brut and Outsider artists, religion, and the occult. The subjects of these works include deities, saints, religious figures, as well as abstract compositions, symbolist paintings, and ritual objects. With their diverse and original representations of belief, these artists transcend the often difficult conditions of their lives. AUTHOR: Anic Zanzi is a curator at the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland. SELLING POINTS: . Published to accompany an exhibition at the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne that opens on 17th December 2021 and closes on 24th April 2022 110 colour illustrations This catalogue for the 5th Art Brut Biennial at the Collection de lArt Brut in Lausanne highlights the museums holdings with a selection of works that address belief in its many manifestations, including religion, spirit, and the occult. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Softcover, 4to., 23pp. A clean, tight copy.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The volume accompanying an exhibition at Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne, from 8 December 2023 to 28 April 2024 invites us to reflect on the role a face can play in mediating communication through the gaze. We are all aware of how powerful it can be when eyes meet, as well as their crucial role in giving dignity to people through caring. But the face can also be considered from another, almost conflicting, point of view, as a visible surface masking the invisible aspects of the human being: it can either reveal or conceal feelings and emotions, thoughts and concerns The subject of faces deserves to be explored here in all its anthropological depth. In Art Brut, its production marked as it is by a powerful creative urge, this exploration takes on a singular dimension, with the presentation of works whose figurative content facilitates the encounter with this inalienable aspect of humanity, which becomes somehow inevitable, regardless of the marginality of the social and cultural acknowledgement of the artists. These faces, whether withdrawn or seeking, with their attentive, questioning, communicative, absent, or empty expressions, reflect a manner of relating to the world that interrogates, through a mise en abyme of sorts, our very encounter with humanity. AUTHORS: Pascal Roman is a professor of Clinical Psychology, Psychopathology, and Psychoanalysis. Marco Decimo is a professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre and director of the College de Pataphysique. SELLING POINTS: . The theme of the sixth Biennale de l'Art Brut (20232024) is faces, a distinctive feature of human beings, which, thanks to their expression, can encompass the complexity of the entire person-their body and their spirit . Published to accompany an exhibition at Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne, from 8 December 2023 to 28 April 2024 125 colour illustrations The volume invites us to reflect on the role a face can play in mediating communication through the gaze. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. This volume marks the publishing debut of the Spanish-Argentinian photographer based in Milan, Patricio Reig, and introduces one of the artist's preferred subjects: the female portrait. Patricio Reig prints and sets his images on special oriental paper, folded over and over, and finally dipped in a bath of coffee and sodium thiosulfate. He has found the result intriguing ever since his very first experiments: fortuitous coffee stains become scars that denote each photograph, and consequently every story they tell. As he himself says: A portrait is not the recording of a single identity, but rather the layering of many elements. For this reason, the image may be fragmented, pieced back together, or even folded over, and yet it never loses its essence. Text in English, French and Spanish. AUTHOR: Patricio Reig (San Juan, Argentina, 1959). After earning a PhD in Architecture in Barcelona, he began studying photography independently. His career has unfolded between Barcelona, Buenos Aires, and Milan, where he now lives and works. He has always been interested in experimenting with alternative photographic processes. His works are included in several public and private collections in America, Europe, and Asia. 60 colour illustrations This volume marks the publishing debut of the Spanish-Argentinian photographer based in Milan, Patricio Reig, and introduces one of the artists preferred subjects: the female portrait. Text in English, French and Spanish. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: VG. Black boards with color illustration.159 pp. 32 color plates and additional illustration. In English. Anne Eisner Putnam (1911-1967) was a New York abstract and landscape painter, watercolorist, and collector of African art. She was also one of the founders of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, and later a writer, her best known book being her account of her experiences in the Belgian Congo, Madami: My Eight Years of Adventure with the Congo Pygmies . Together with her husband, Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904-1953), she ran a compound known as Camp Putnam in the Congo (now Congo Democratic Republic). Patrick Putnam was a Harvard graduate and student of anthropology who, beginning in the 1930s, established Camp Putnam on the Epulu River in the Congo. Patrick Putnam met Anne Eisner in the U.S. in 1945 and eventually they moved together to Camp Putnam, marrying 1948. (source: Harvard.edu's : Putnam, Anne Eisner. Papers).

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Jaime Fernandes was born in 1899, in a small village, near one of the most unspoiled and rebellious rivers of Portugal, the River Ze^zere. He grew up in an idyllic rural landscape, a crossing site with a geography of fertile lands, where gold, wolfram, and tin were extracted from its entrails. A small rural landowner, he married and watched over his five children up to 38 years of age, when he entered Miguel Bombarda Lunatic Asylum in Lisbon, 300 km from his village. He is the most important Portuguese author of art invented in a psychiatric asylum context. About ninety drawings in ink, lead pencil, and ballpoint pen on paper, of varied sizes and quality, are known. His artistic activity, entirely lacking the supervision of any visual art atelier, was encouraged by his hospital psychiatrist, who collected most drawings by Jaime. The crudeness of these drawings impresses the unwitting observer: they are anthropomorphic and zoomorphic representations - cattle, goats, elephants, fish, and birds. The human figures burst through as bodies are placed on hold, arms in the air, eyes wide open that observe, others, sometimes, appear merged with animals. Jaime practiced drawing and wrote lengthy semantically indecipherable texts, in a singular calligraphy, where time is set in long numbers. He did this solely motivated by the pure pleasure gained from this slow exercise of revisiting his memories. In that pleasure, he would have acquired a taste for the imaginary, the world of dreams and fantasies of creation, of being cherished by all who participated in the portraits that he gave us to observe. Jaime died in Lisbon in 1969. Text in English and French. AUTHORS: Joa~o Pedro Frois was born in Lisbon in 1957. University professor and researcher, he is currently a guest researcher at the School of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. He worked as a psychologist in the area of mental healthcare and rehabilitation of children and young people. He coordinated the Gulbenkian Programme on Aesthetic Research and Development and several research projects concerning Education in Art Museums, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Author and co-author of various books on education and the visual arts, two of which published by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He has published studies on the aesthetic theory of Lev S. Vygotsky, and translated two of his books. He regularly publishes in the area of the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and Visual Arts. He worked on the biography of Jaime Fernandes and studied his visual artwork for over a decade, which gave rise to several articles published in international journals. He was vice-chair of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA). He is an affiliated researcher at the Center for Phenomenological Psychology and Aesthetics (CPPA) at the University of Copenhagen. Currently a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and Portuguese Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health (SPPSM). Michel Thevoz was a conservator at the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne from 1960 to 1975. Following his contacts with Jean Dubuffet, he initiated the creation of the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne (Switzerland), of which he assumed the direction from its foundation in 1976 until 2001. Professor of Art History and Museology at the University of Lausanne from 1977 to 2001, he published about 20 books. 100 colour illustrations Jaime Fernandes (1899) is the most important Portuguese author of art invented in a psychiatric asylum context. About 90 drawings in ink, lead pencil, and ballpoint pen on paper, of varied sizes and quality, are known and collected here in this publication. Text in English and French. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: NEW. Hardcover. The masks in this book, all presented by two or more images, are accompanied by brief commentaries that offer readers - be they scholars or enthusiasts - an insight into these veritable masterpieces of African art, which in most cases boast an exceptional pedigree, having been included in the most important international collections of extra-European art. Even though the works with which Zhang has chosen to surround himself are not all extra-European, as Marco Riccomini explains in his introduction, offering a broader framework for the interpretation of Zhang's esthetic choices, we have chosen to devote this elegant and carefully crafted publication to a specific aspect of African material culture. Text in English and French. AUTHOR: Marco Riccomini, after 10 years as Head of the Old Masters Department at Christie's, now lives with his suitcase in hand, alternating quick incursions into the capitals of the art market and tours of forgotten locations of which no one speaks. He has contributed vastly to art magazines and catalogues, and has written a number of volumes on 18th-century Italian artists, such as Donato Creti. Le opere su carta (2012), Giuseppe Maria Crespi. I disegni e le stampe (2014), and I Gandolfi. Disegni della raccolta Certani alla Fondazione Giorgio Cini (2018). He has written and appeared in the documentary I Carracci. La rivoluzione silenziosa (2019). SELLING POINTS: . This volume introduces and describes 16 African masks belonging to the collection of Leinuo Zhang, a young Chinese art lover and collector 70 colour illustrations This volume introduces and describes sixteen African masks belonging to the collection of Leinuo Zhang, a young Chinese art lover and collector. Text in English and French. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. This monograph on Susanna Bauer presents the artist's work to an international audience for the first time in book form. The essential ingredients of Bauer's artistic production are the ephemeral natural elements that she encounters during walks and hikes in Cornwall, UK, where she lives and works. They are leaves, stones, twigs. elements that become the heart of more elaborate creations rendered with crochet - sometimes used conventionally as a decoration, other times as a sculptural means of communication. Bauer's leaves are airy sculptures in which the artist pursues a balance between strength and fragility. Nature becomes a metaphor for humanity: the artfully interwoven threads remind us that we are all part of a vaster network and therefore generators of connections. But it also stands for life: viewing these works it is impossible not to reflect on the confluences of beauty and vulnerability, resistance and transformation. The theme of the relationship between art and nature, and the ensuing interconnections, are investigated both through Bauer's original work and in an introductory essay that analyses her oeuvre within the broader context of the history of art. Susanna Bauer is a visual artist. She studied landscape architecture at the Technical University of Munich. For 17 years, she worked as a modelmaker for advertising, film and artists. She later continued her studies at the Camberwell College of Art, London. Though she learned the art of crocheting as a child in Germany, it was in England that she glimpsed the potential of combining this skill with her love of nature. When she met her partner, the artist Paul Fry, she began to discover the territory of Cornwall, which kindled her memories of a childhood spent close to nature. After many years travelling between Cornwall and London and following the birth of her son, she chose to permanently relocate to the former. Her work has appeared in many newspapers, including the Guardian, the Observer, and Politiken; and articles have been written about her in such high-profile magazines as Flow International, American Craft, Sculpture, and Io Donna. AUTHOR: Valentina De Pasca is a historian of ancient art. She obtained a PhD in art history and medieval archaeology from Milan University with a thesis titled 'Intercultural Exchanges and Interactions with the Eastern Mediterranean Area in Lombard Art in Italy (16th-17th Century): the Case of the Disk Fibulae,' which she defended in 2018. She also specialises in late antiquity and early medieval art, and compiled a study on the influence of Eastern Mediterranean style on the valuable artifacts unearthed in the Central Italian necropolis of Castel Trosino and Nocera Umbra. After a period of teaching at university and working with the Archive for Metaphysical Art in Milan, in the spring of 2018 she joined 5 Continents Editions, where she is in charge of sales, marketing, and communication. In 2019 her first illustrated children's book, Pomodori da scartare, was published by Edizioni Gruppo Abele. 100 colour illustrations This monograph on Susanna Bauer presents the artist's work to an international audience for the first time in book form. The essential ingredients of Bauer's artistic production are leaves, stones, twigs. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Erste Ausgabe. 17 x 24 cm. Visions of Africa. Erste Auflage, 121 (1) S. Farbig illustrierter Originalkarton. Sprache: Englisch, Abbildungen auf Tafeln. tadellos.

Hardcover. Condición: NEW. Hardcover. This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Helen McNicoll. An Impressionist Journey at Musee National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, Quebec City, Canada 20 June 2024 to 05 January 2025. Edited by Anne-Marie Bouchard, curator of Modern Art, the volume focuses on the idea of mobility in the life of the Canadian artist Helen McNicoll (1879-1915). In the early 1900s, when women from well-to-do backgrounds were often confined to family and domestic life, Canadian Impressionist Helen McNicoll stood out for her love of travel and the discovery of new spaces. The artist emphasised painting outdoors and researching the effects of light and atmosphere that her numerous trips sustained. Her favourite subjects were scenes of everyday life, although she succeeded in offering an interpretation distinct from the Impressionists in that she focused more extensively on women's labour. The Helen McNicoll. An Impressionist Journey exhibition presents more than 60 works by the artist, 25 of them from the Pierre Lassonde collection. Through the prism of travel, the book thus examines the themes of female independence, risk-taking, friendship, and freedom for women in the stimulating context of the struggle by English suffragettes to win the right to vote. Text in English and French. AUTHOR: Helen McNicoll was born in Toronto in 1879 and grew up in Montreal in a well-to-do environment conducive to artistic practice. Scarlet fever rendered her deaf when she was two years old and her parents encouraged her to develop her artistic and musical creativity despite her handicap. She began her artistic training in the late 1890s with William Brymner at the Art Association of Montreal, then moved to England on his advice. She settled in London in 1902 and took courses at the Slade School of Fine Art, recognised for its avant-gardist precepts and its mixed instruction that promoted gender equality. She travelled in Europe and numerous exhibitions afforded her inside knowledge of developments in the realms of impressionism and post-impressionism. She began to exhibit her work at the Art Association in 1906 and received the first Jessie Dow Prize there in 1908. Elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1913, then to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1914, she was a prominent Quebec modern artist, although her works were exhibited regularly in contemporary exhibitions in Montreal and widely appreciated by critics at the time, remained for a long time in the shadow of other Canadian Impressionists. She died in 1915 at the age of 35 following complications from diabetes. Ten years later, the Art Association of Montreal devoted a major retrospective exhibition to her encompassing more than 120 works. 90 colour illustrations This monograph focuses on Canadian Impressionist Helen McNicoll and the idea of mobility in her life, depicting more than 60 works and accompanies a major exhibition Musee National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, Quebec City, Canada 20 June 2024 to 05 January 2025. Text in English and French. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: NEW. Hardcover. This book explores the figure of Ghitta Carell (18991972), a Hungarian-born photographer who was naturalised Italian. Ghitta was born into a Jewish family of humble origins; at a very young age she moved to Italy, where she quickly became a very sought-after portrait photographer. Intellectuals, actors, generals, and political leaders posed in her studio in Rome, as well as famous women and members of royalty and the middle class. Her black-and-white pictures were taken with a view camera: Ghitta crafted her photographs with mastery and delicacy, and thus created luminous and soft images, intervening through subtraction by removing the most superficial layers. This is how she achieved a kind of unmasking, thanks to which she restored not only the face but first and foremost the soul of those photographed. Ghitta Carell died in Haifa, Israel, leaving behind more than 50,000 plates now mostly dispersed. Text in English and Hebrew. AUTHORS: Roberto Dulio is an Associate Professor of the History of Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano DABC. He deals with modern and contemporary architectural culture and its relationship to art and photography. Maria Sica is a member of the Cultural Promotion Department of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. She served as Attache at the Institute of Culture in Moscow from 2007 to 2013 and as Director at the Institute of Culture in Zagreb from 2013 to 2016. In 2017 she worked at the Italian National Commission for UNESCO. From 2018 to 2021 she directed the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm as well as the Italian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv until December 2023. Explores the work of Ghitta Carell, a Hungarian-born photographer, who was a naturalised Italian. Text in English and Hebrew. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. This monographic publication dedicated to Magali Herrera (1914-1992) reveals for the first time the large body of work by this Uruguayan-born artist and the many personal archives in the holdings of the Collection de l'Art Brut. In 1967, Magali Herrera began corresponding with Jean Dubuffet, who included her drawings in the holdings of the Compagnie de l'Art Brut in Paris. For several years, they maintained a letter-writing relationship in which Herrera invested herself intensely. For this reason, she entrusted her husband with the task of donating her drawings and personal archives to the Collection de l'Art Brut after her death. Text in English and French. AUTHOR: Magali Herrera (19141992) was born in Rivera, Uruguay. Raised among a family of notables, she taught herself dance, theatre, and photography, and organised poetry evenings. In addition to poems, she wrote science-fiction short stories, some of which have never been published. Around 1952, she began to paint occasionally, then took it up exclusively during the early 1960s, working day and night in a trance-like state. 206 colour illustrations A monograph on one of the protagonists of Art Brut: Uruguayan-born artist Magali Herrera. Text in English and French. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Outsider art reflects a territory of cultural production that gives credence to creative practices independent of formal training, recognised art movements, and current trends. Outsider art is said to exist only because of cultural elitism and class differences where the margins are defined by the centre. Thus, outsider artists are dismissed twice: first, by those who hold status and power, and second, by the mainstream art world. Their marginalised social status, often due to mental health issues, has led to their exclusion from the world of contemporary art. This book challenges viewers to relinquish myths and stereotypes about the source of creativity and to embrace the work of self-taught creators who are compelled to express themselves in unique ways. Most importantly, they will be asked to consider the role of art institutions in shaping their views on art. This volume addresses issues of social justice, diversity, and inclusion in the art world. AUTHOR: Linda Ranaldi has been exploring outsider art for many years, both academically and personally, while working as a writer and editor in the legal field. She has published articles in various outsider art journals. She lives in Vancouver, Canada, but is pretty sure she also lives a more extraordinary life in a parallel universe. 100 colour illustrations This book, dedicated to expressions of Outsider Art made in Canada, challenges viewers to relinquish myths and stereotypes about the source of creativity and to embrace the work of self-taught creators who are compelled to express themselves in unique ways. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Hardcover in good condition. Photo captions in English and French. Front leading corners of jacket have tape repairs. Spine ends are worn and the rear jacket has some superficial marks. Edgewear to the jacket and some of the leading edges. Half title page has a few small marks. Binding is sound and the content clear throughout. CM. Used.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Antonio Canova (1757-1822), is considered the greatest Neoclassical sculptor of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This book, the third in the series Canova: Four Tempos, features a collection of sublime black and white photographs of Canova's plaster models taken by photographer Luigi Spina. The full-size plaster models that preceded the production of his marble sculptures played an important part in Canova's creative process. Included here are his masterpieces The Three Graces and Sleeping Nymph, and the only work Canova made for an overseas patron, George Washington depicted as a Roman potentate. The text is by the well-known Italian art historian Vittorio Sgarbi. Also available: Canova: Four Tempos, Vol. 1, ISBN 9788874399215, and Canova: Four Tempos Vol. 2 9788874399598 AUTHORS: Luigi Spina is an Italian photographer. With 5 Continents Editions he has published The Buchner Boxes (2014), Hemba (2017), and Diario Mitico (2017). With 5 Continents and with the cooperation of Valeria Sampaolo he has also created the series Rare and Precious Objects from the National Archaeological Museum in Naples and Hidden Treasures, which includes the following volumes: The Farnese Cup, Alexander's Mosaic, San Domenico di Niccolo dell'Arca, and The Riace Bronzes. Vittorio Sgarbi is an Italian art critic, the curator of internationally acclaimed exhibitions, a refined collector, and the author of popular volumes on the importance of culture and art. Among his most recent publications is Ecce Caravaggio. Da Roberto Longhi a oggi (La Nave di Teseo, 2021). He is also a politician and an independent free thinker. 61 b/w illustrations A collection of sublime black and white photographs of plaster models created by Italian Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822), photographed by Luigi Spina with text by art historian Vittorio Sgarbi. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. The fourth and final volume of the photographic and editorial project Canova. Four Tempos, dedicated to the plaster casts by Antonio Canova at the Gypsotheca in Possagno (Italy), continues the investigation into the imperfect form: works that, with their small nails that allowed plaster to be reproduced in marble, are an expression of genius in his making. Luigi Spina approaches the works in a completely new way, from mythological subjects to the faces of the commissioners, from Daedalus and Icarus, a masterpiece of youth, to Adonis crowned by Venus, unfinished and never translated into marble. From the eternal comparison between the sculpture of Hector in a dynamic pose and Ajax about to draw his sword. The sensuality of Venus while revealing herself as she emerges from her bath. Finally, the volume takes a look at the commissioners: the sculpture of the little prince Heryk Lubominski dressed as Cupid with bow and quiver and the sculpture of Princess Leopoldina Esterhazy Liechtenstein. In the sculptor's mind dominates the classical model, a symbol of harmony and perfection. AUTHORS: Luigi Spina, a photographer, has published several volumes with 5 Continents Editions, including The Buchner Boxes (2014), Hemba (2017), and Mythical Diary (2017), dedicated to the Farnese Collection. With the same publisher, he created the series Hidden Treasures: The Farnese Cup, The Alexander Mosaic, San Domenico by Niccolo dell'Arca, The Riace Bronzes (2022), and the large-scale photographic project Inside Pompeij (2023). Vittorio Sgarbi is an art critic, curator, and refined collector, as well as the author of many books dedicated to great artists and the central role of art. Among his recent publications: Ecce Caravaggio. Da Roberto Longhi a oggi (La Nave di Teseo, 2021). He is also a politician and a free thinker. SELLING POINTS: . A collection of sublime black and white photographs of plaster models created by Italian Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) - the fourth and final in the series . Photographed by Luigi Spina with text by art historian Vittorio Sgarbi 50 colour illustrations The fourth and final volume of the photographic and editorial project Canova. Four Tempos, dedicated to the plaster casts by Antonio Canova at the Gypsotheca in Possagno (Italy) Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Italian artist Enzo Cucchi (b. 1949), is one of the pioneers of the 20th century trans avant-garde art movement, and was part of a wider international movement of Neo-Expressionist painters. Today he is considered one of Italy's most productive and innovative artists, and has become a model for the younger generation. His work is notable for its vibrant colour, figuration, and symbolism, with signs, symbols, mixed media, and words which meld into a powerful new aesthetic. His work is presented here in thematic chapters, and includes his ceramics, small bronze figurines, drawings, paintings, and artist books. This volume accompanies the exhibition Enzo Cucchi: Poet and Magician that will be held between May and November 2023 at MAXXI in Rome. Text in English and German. AUTHORS: Luigia Lonardelli earned a Master's degree in curatorship at the Facolta di Architettura di Valle Giulia, Rome, in 2005. In 2009 she graduated from the Scuola di Specializzazione in Siena with a thesis on the history of photography. In 2012 she received her doctorate. Since 2005 she has worked in concert with the Direzione Generale per l'Arte Contemporanea, dealing mainly with the promotion of Italian art abroad. She began working as a researcher at MAXXI in Rome in 2010. Since 2011, she has worked in the Museum's curatorial department. She co-curated the XVI Quadriennale d'Arte in Rome, was an art consultant for the most recent appendix of the Enciclopedia Treccani, and is part of the scientific committee of the Fondazione Maria Lai. Bartolomeo Pietromarchi was born in Rome in 1968. He is an art critic and curator, and since May 2016 he has directed MAXXI Arte, Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo. From 2011 to 2013 he directed MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea in Rome. From 1998 to 2003 he directed the contemporary art program of the Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, of which he was also the director between 2003 and 2007. In 2007 and 2008 he was a curator for the Fondazione Hangar Bicocca in Milan. He is the author of many essays and volumes on art. He also curated the Italian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013). 70 colour illustrations This volume accompanies the exhibition Enzo Cucchi. The Poet and the Magician that will be held between May and November 2023 at MAXXI in Rome. Text in English and Italian. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. These previously unpublished images of New York's waterfront are presented here as part of a unique editorial project: the iconographic perspective is analysed and discussed in Pauline Vermare's interview with Sophie Fenwick, and finds further literary development in the photographer's poetry, on which she started working during the pandemic and is used here to accompany the visual narrative. The language of photography is used here - in a series of black and white and colour shots - to retrace the memory of a transformation and to express the urgency of documentation that in these pages evolves from personal to universal. The invitation to travel voiced by Fenwick is visual poetry articulated in a series of pictures, each of which possesses the potential to become a true icon. Text in English and French. AUTHORS: Sophie Fenwick is a French-American photographer born in New York in 1969. She studied photography at Parsons in Paris and at the International Center of Photography in New York. She began documenting the New York waterfront when she worked for Magnum in the early 1990s. Her first solo exhibition - Entrepots d'Eaux (Homage to the Port of New York) held at Victoire Schlumberger in Paris - also explored this theme. In New York she has held exhibitions at Philippe Briet gallery, Threadwaxing Space, Seamen's Church Institute, Museum of the City of New York, and Brooklyn Public Library. Alongside her career as a photographer, Sophie has also worked as a film curator, founding the Cine Club at the Guillaume Gallozzi Gallery (NYC) and curating the program of the Anthology Film Archives and Ocularis (NYC). She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the director Julius Ziz. They have two daughters, Sia and Lara. This is her first book. Pauline Vermare is a curator and a historian of photography. She was the cultural director of Magnum Photos, New York, and a curator at the International Center of Photography and at MoMA. From 2002 to 2009 she worked for the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris. She is the author of many interviews and essays on photography. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Saul Leiter Foundation and of the Catherine Leroy Fund. SELLING POINTS: . This photographic narrative of the New York waterfront composed by Sophie Fenwick stems from her desire to create a visual archive of a view of the Big Apple that is as unusual as it is evocative 80 colour, 100 b/w illustrations This photographic narrative of the New York waterfront composed by Sophie Fenwick stems from her desire to create a visual archive of a view of the Big Apple that is as unusual as it is evocative. Text in English and French. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. This publication was designed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Riace Bronzes. In it, Luigi Spina's photographic research dialogues with the texts written by Carmelo Malacrino. The photographer here develops a continued narrative, offering a direct comparison between the two sculptures, identified as A and B, exploring interpretations of the physicality of the two subjects as well as the three-dimensional quality of the bronze bodies, often concealed by the two-dimensional appearance of photographic images. Carmelo Malacrino analyses these famous 5th century BC masterpieces from two points of view: as ancient works of art on the one hand, and considering their significance for contemporary culture on the other. He retraces the story of the Bronzes beginning with their discovery in August, 1972, exploring the circumstances of their unearthing, the restoration they underwent, the exhibitions in which they were shown, as well as the impact they have had on the public, both nationally and internationally. Equally relevant is the reinterpretation of these two statues, beginning with their contextualisation in the sphere of ancient Greek art, the related stylistic issues, and the reflection upon the practices and the knowledge possessed by Classical sculpture workshops. This volume will be a pleasant surprise for those of you who love Classical sculpture, for archaeology enthusiasts, and for all those who aren't satisfied with a quick glance when it comes to admiring a work of art. AUTHORS: Luigi Spina is a photographer. His visual research began with the exploration of amphitheatres, of the civic aura of sacred places, of the connections between art and faith, of the search for ancient cultural identities, and of the physical encounter with Classical sculpture. With 5 Continents Editions he has published The Buchner Boxes (2014), Hemba (2017), and Diario Mitico (2017). For the same publisher he inaugurated the Hidden Treasures series, which includes the titles: Tazza Farnese, Mosaico di Alessandro, San Domenico di Niccolo dell'Arca. Carmelo Malacrino has been the director of the National Archaeological Museum of Reggio Calabria since 2015. He was a researcher and a professor at the Universita degli Studi "Mediterranea" in Reggio Calabria and a grantee at the IUAV University in Venice. He has published many scientific papers, conducted many research missions, and been the curator of several exhibitions. 75 colour illustrations Published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Riace Bronzes, two fifth-century BC masterpieces. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. The red-figure vases from the National Museum Domenico Ridola in Matera and the Rizzon Collection rich in precious Apulian and Lucanian pieces offer a unique opportunity to grasp Magna Graecia antiquity from an unusual perspective through the photographs by Luigi Spina. Significant testimony to vase painting between the 5th and 4th centuries BCE, the museum's artefacts largely date back to the discoveries of Domenico Ridola (1841-1932) and form part of elaborate funerary assemblages, possessing great aesthetic and historical value through which everyday life is reflected in myths. In the book, black is the protagonist: it enhances the red figures and brings out the keen eye of photographer Luigi Spina. Anatomical details, drapery, and decorative motifs emerge in all their strength without the filter of museum cases, while touches of white enrich the vases' bichrome palette. Photographing a work of art means capturing its deep meaning to communicate it to the world. Far from the idea of a museum catalogue, the volume is rather a figurative atlas of antiquity. Text in English and Italian. AUTHOR: Luigi Spina, a photographer, has published several volumes with 5 Continents Editions, including The Buchner Boxes (2014), Hemba (2017), and Mythical Diary (2017), dedicated to the Farnese Collection. With the same publisher, he created the series Hidden Treasures: The Farnese Cup, The Alexander Mosaic, San Domenico by Niccolo dell'Arca, The Riace Bronzes (2022), and the large-scale photographic project Inside Pompeij (2023). 196 colour illustrations The red-figure vases from the National Museum Domenico Ridola of Matera in Italy and the Rizzon Collection rich in precious Apulian and Lucanian pieces offer a unique opportunity to grasp Magna Graecia antiquity from an unusual perspective through the photographs by Luigi Spina. Text in English and Italian. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Samantha McEwen is an Anglo-American artist born in 1960 in London, about whom Keith Haring declares in one of his interviews: When I arrived in New York, I spent my time at school (School of Visual Arts). Everything was new and exciting. I was 20 years old. In my drawing class, I was immediately drawn to a girl named Samantha McEwen. Samantha remembers: He sat in front of me and said: 'Can I draw you?'. Relatively unknown to this day, she also modelled for Francesco Clemente and Alex Katz. In the 1980s, Samantha McEwen was one of the few women to exhibit twice in the famous Tony Shafrazi Gallery. She also participates in numerous group exhibitions alongside the leading artists of that flamboyant decade. However, very few texts exist about her work; art critics are mainly men who write about men. In the numerous articles of the art press on these exhibitions, her name is merely mentioned and rarely accompanied by a few lines. A revealing paradox of that era, Samantha McEwen is found in full-page spreads in the fashion sections of major magazines, such as Interview (Andy Warhol's magazine) and The New York Times Magazine. Text in English and French. AUTHOR: Herve Perdriolle is an art critic and curator. After organising the first show of the French Figuration Libre movement (Blanchard, Boisrond, Combas, Di Rosa, Viollet) in Paris (1981), he took part in the first exhibitions of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring at Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1984). SELLING POINTS: . First monograph on Samantha McEwen's life and work . Unseen works from the 1980s to the present . Gives a glace on the punk and glam artistic scene in New York 183 colour illustrations This is the first large monograph on Samantha McEwen, an Anglo-American artist born in 1960 in London, active in New York in 1980s. She was one of the few women to exhibit twice in the famous Tony Shafrazi Gallery. Text in English and French. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Italian artist Ugo Rondinone was invited by the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire (MAH) in Geneva to curate a show that invites a dialogue between his work and the works in the permanent collection. The show he created centres around two emblematic figures of 19th and 20th century Swiss art Felix Vallotton and Ferdinand Hodler and considers the importance of love and desire in our relationship with art and creation. This book documents the museum's halls and the exhibition, which includes works by Rondinone and art from the MAH Collection. Text in English and French. AUTHOR: Ugo Rondinone was born in Brunnen in 1964 and lives in New York. He is one of the most important figures in the international contemporary art scene. His work at the MAH (Musee d'art et d'histoire) in Geneva is not only in line with the spirit of carte blanche curatorial projects promoted by Marc-Olivier Wahler, but is also in keeping with Rondinone's penchant for vast exhibitions, both as an artist and a curator (such as The Third Mind or I love John Giorno, organised at the Palais de Tokyo in 2007 and 2015). 500 colour illustrations This catalogue documents an exhibition created by Italian artist Ugo Rondinone, who was invited by the Musee dArt et dHistoire (MAH) in Geneva to curate a show that invites a dialogue between his work and the works in the permanent collection. Text in English and French. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.