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Rachel Harrison: Museum With Walls
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"Her assemblages of found and constructed objects carry a provisional quality, a wry sense of humor and an all-embracing intelligence. Playing with materials ranging from plinth, pedestal and corrugated cardboard to plastic ketchup bottles, insulated travel mugs and Barbie's wheelchair-bound friend, Harrison creates colorful, canny, thought-provoking constructions that are worthy peers of Rauschenb..."
Lichtenstein: Girls: Gagosian Gallery - Roy Lichtenstein
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"I know, I know, another Roy Lichtenstein book, I know it's not fair, but they looks so great on the shelf, on the table, in our hands. No matter this one is all about the women, and so heres to the Lichtenstein Girls, may their colors never fade!"
Nude Sculpture: 5,000 Years: Vicki Goldberg, David Finn
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"Even though at the moment I can go to the internet find most things I'm researching I'm always happy to find a book that has what I'm looking for. In this case 5,000 Years of nude sculpture."
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
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"Marina Abramović is a walking epic. So it's fitting that in 2010 the catalogue "The Artist Is Present" attempts to give a panoramic view of four decades of Abramovic's interventions, sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, and solo performances."
Performing/Guzzling: Kim Gordon
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"What can I say, I love Kim Gordon's contribution to the arts, be it music, performance, paintings, photography, texts or musings. I'm delighted that Performing/Guzzling exists so that I can gaze at her work at my own tempo. p.s. maybe now Fender and Gibson will make a Kim Gordon artist series guitar."
Go Faster - The Graphic Design of Racing Cars: Sven Voelker
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"In our world graphics play many roles, some more obvious than others. Go Faster frames the in your face graphics used on racing cars. I'm trilled to see that someone has not only collected images of this overlooked area of design, but Sven Voelker has done so in a playful way by photographic toy cars with and without racing graphics so that one can see how different the cars look with and without..."
Caravaggio. The Complete Works - Sebastian Schütze
2 recommendations
"Caravaggio. The Complete Works is lush in it's print quality and presentation, I recommend it to anyone interested in the dramatically sensual works of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio."
Phaidon Store: My Name Is Charles Saatchi And I Am An Artoholic by Charles Saatchi
2 recommendations
"His 1999 art exhibit (despite being entitled "Sensation") almost never happened but Saatchi lives to tell that tale . . . and many marvelous more. Worth a peek for art lovers and collectors and sensationalists of every stripe."
this is auto: Color Library Series
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"Art 101 in both form and function, this 48-book collection presents the masters in all their full color glory . . . just gazing at this impressive stack will inspire awe in artists, art collectors, art groupies and book junkies alike."
Alex Box by Alex Box, Rankin
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"Alex Box is an unconventional makeup artist whose amazing creations have adorned the faces of models for Karl Lagerfeld and avant garde British designer, Gareth Pugh. With a background in fine art, Box has become known for pushing the boundaries of makeup, taking it to a whole new level. Here she talks exclusively to Jo Jones about her latest collaboration with photographer Rankin. His stunning im..."
Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made: TASCHEN
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"For 40 years, Kubrick fans and film buffs have wondered about the director’s mysterious unmade film on Napoleon Bonaparte. Now, ten books in one tell the fascinating tale of Kubrick’s unfilmed masterpiece ‘Napoleon: The Greatest Move Never Made’, all tucked inside of a carved-out book. Readers can imagine what his unmade film about the emperor might have been like, including a facsimile of the scr..."
Pioneers of Spanish Graphic Design
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"Spain: a country that calls so many famed artists ? Picasso, Dali, Goya, Miro, to name only four ? its own. Yet, the reputation of its graphic designers has never been fully recognized by the international design community, until now. Pioneers of Spanish Graphic Design establishes, once and for all, the legacy of 15 ground-breaking Spanish graphic designers working between 1939-1975. While that hi..."
Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art
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"The new wave is here, ok, it's been here for a while but while we've been looking towards China, India has come into the light with seriously great works of contemporary art."
Sound Kapital: Beijing's Music Underground
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"Included with the book are concert posters and illustrations that encapsulate the underground scene in Beijing, as well as a CD sampler of the new music being produced. Enjoy the view."
The Printmaking Bible
1 recommendation
"i just stumbled across this - it looks like a fabulous resource with tons of pictures and instructions for real people - plus printed by an independent publishing company."
Amazon: Cars - Freedom, Style, Sex, Power, Motion, Colour, Everything by Stephen Bayley
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"A tribute to automotive beauty, the author has culled 86 cars from the automotive history books to profile, photograph and idolize. A slipcased keepsake for the moto aficionado in your life."
Helmut Newton, SUMO
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"Helmut Newton's SUMO established new standards for the art monograph genre, and secured a prominent place in photo-book history. SUMO was a titanic book in every respect: a 480-page tribute to the 20th century’s most influential, intriguing and controversial photographer, it broke records for weight, dimensions, and resale price."
The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
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"I have to say Crumb's Eve is my favorite, she is truly hot. This eagerly awaited graphic work retells the first book of the Bible in a profoundly honest way. Peeling away the theological and scholarly interpretations that have often obscured its most dramatic stories, R. Crumb—using the actual text word for word—has imagined the Bible as it really was. Now, readers of every persuasion—Crumb fan..."
GRAFFITI SET
5 recommendations
"This looks like a lot of fun. They don't make enough things like this for adults."
Beasts!: Book Two: Jacob Covey
1 recommendation
"In the spirit of 2007's acclaimed Beasts!, editor/designer Jacob Covey has assembled an entirely new line-up of over 90 artists who did not appear in the first Beasts! volume. Like the first book, the deluxe collection Beasts! Book Two includes a Who's Who of the contemporary art world, collectively crafting a menagerie of mythological creatures, monsters, beasts and things that go bump in the nig..."
Extraordinary Records Book by Giorgio Moroder
2 recommendations
"For all of us record lovers out the -- the true appreciators of groove. This book features 400 of the most collectible, most awesome LPs out there."
The Body: Photographs of the Human Form by William Ewing
2 recommendations
"There are some interesting photographs of the human body, some sexually charged photographs of the body and then just plain weird photographs of the body. THis is a wonderful book."
Walker Evans: Signs (Getty Trust Publications, J. Paul Getty Museum)
1 recommendation
"I also have a love affair with signs. Not to mention Walker Evans is amazing. I love the period of time that he did most of work and is prominent in his photography."
Joe Sorren: In Celebration of Balance & Opposable Thumbs
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"One of my favorite contemporary artists. He is a little like Ryden, if that is your cup of tea. This is one of my favorite artists, favorite books. Joe Sorren is AMAZING!"
The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon: Dan Eldon, Kathy Eldon
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"A very special book by a man who literally took my breath away- Dan Eldon. His death was a tragedy but what remains is his amazing life recorded in journals (17 in all) The pages are filled with collages and photographs he took of his family and friends. He lived most of his life in his beloved Kenya, a short time in New York. I cried while reading it and was inspired!"
Fashion & Surrealism By Francois Baudot
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"If he is into arts, this is a GREAT present. Books are the greatest presents on earth in my opinion, which could only be surpassed by bubbles and designer purses. If he is not into arts he certainly is into boobs and other stuff, you know... and art and fashion always have plenty of both."
Recent Wurg - Ashley Bickerton
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"Ashley Bickerton challenges the popular global construction of the tropics as perfection, where surfing, drugs and parties in beachside tourist villas provide a homogenised experience of the exotic. Living on the island of Bali, he parodies this drunken myopia in his photocollages and sculptures, presenting such glut and excess as an artifice. Just as Gauguin ‘sampled’ Polynesian exotica, so do Bi..."
Obey: Supply & Demand, The Art of Shepard Fairey – 20th Anniversary Edition
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"The Art of Shepard Fairey 1989–2009 20th Anniversary Edition Obey: Supply & Demand, The Art of Shepard Fairey – 20th Anniversary Edition expands upon the previous version of this book and adds 100 new pages of illustrations and text to showcase Fairey’s entire body of work, a massive retrospective covering 20 colorful years."
Chasing Clouds: A decade of studies by Emily Cheng
1 recommendation
"How can I describe the works of Emily Cheng? I could say that her drawings and paintings give form to a part of the visual word, which for the most part remains as memories, dreams, visions, and afterimages."
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