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8 postcards from Saatchi Gallery archive
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Allotments
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing
ISBN: 9781904587736
There's something about the word 'allotments' that conjures up an image of traditional values, of balmy summer days spent working the land, escaping in honest toil. A rural idylll far removed from our everyday experience. And even though allotments can be found throughout the world, in our minds they still seem to encapsulate a certain Britishness. Andrew Buurman's photographs capture the essence of the allotment and convey the enthusiasm and diversity of today's plot holders.
Price: £20.00
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The Rainy Day Book
Publisher: Guardian Books
ISBN: 9780852651391
'MUUUUUUUMMMMMM....... DAAAAAADDDDD...... I'm BORED!' Whether it's the weekend, half-term or school holidays, these words will likely strike fear into any parent's heart. Thankfully, this delightful collection is at hand, packed full of imaginative ideas that are guaranteed to inspire young minds, and maybe even remind older ones of the best bits of their own childhood. Packed full of thoughtful and inventive ideas, The Rainy Day Book will prove an endless source of inspiration with anyone with children to entertain.
Price: £12.99
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Bedlam: London's Hospital for the Mad
Publisher: Ian Allan Publishing
ISBN: 9780711033870
We all know the word ‘bedlam' as a term of madness and confusion, but few of us really know the story of how this term was coined, or the real history of the notorious Bethlem Hospital in London. The oldest mental health institution in the world, Bethlem Hospital is famous to many only as 'Bedlam', a chaotic mad-house which brutalised its patients. In fact, for much of its history such abuse was a rarity, the exception being between 1700 and 1855 when the hospital, under the dynastic control of the Monro family, implemented a brutal medical programme that soon gave 'Bedlam' an unsavoury reputation. This riveting account focuses upon the Monro dynasty as a central structure, interwoven with the other key elements such as the hospital's ambivalent relationship with London, Londoners and the government, the life and times of its more interesting patients – from political dissenters and religious maniacs, to murderers and female transvestites – and finally, the rise of a powerful reform movement which forced the government to take the issue of Bedlam seriously. Sensitively written and meticulously researched, this book is a compulsively brilliant exploration of an institution that continues to fascinate today.
Price: £19.99
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Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinites
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300149845
Familiar and expected gender patterns help us to understand boys but often constrict our understanding of any given boy. Writing in a wonderfully robust and engaging voice, Ken Corbett argues for a new psychology of masculinity, one that is not strictly dependent on normative expectation. As he writes in his introduction, 'no two boys, no two boyhoods are the same'. Corbett uses case studies to defy stereotypes, depicting masculinity as various and complex. He examines the roles that parental and cultural anxiety play in development, and he argues for a more nuanced approach to cross-gendered fantasy and experience, one that does not mistake social consensus for well-being. Corbett challenges us at last to a fresh consideration of gender, with profound implications for understanding all boys.
Price: £18.99
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A Cultural Dictionary of Punk
Publisher: Continuum Books
ISBN: 9780826427793
A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982 is a bold book that examines punk as a movement that is best understood by placing it in its cultural field. It contains myriad critical-listening descriptions of the sounds of the time, but also places those sounds in the context of history. Drawing on hundreds of fanzines, magazines, and newspapers, the book is-in the spirit of punk-an obsessive, exhaustively researched, and sometimes deeply personal portrait of the many ways in which punk was an artistic, cultural, and political expression of defiance.
Price: £14.99
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Portraits
Publisher: Seagull Books
ISBN: 9781906497170
Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre counted among his friends and associates some of the most esteemed intellectuals, writers, and artists of the twentieth century. In Portraits, Sartre collected his impressions and accounts of many of his notable acquaintances, in addition to some of his most important writings on art and literature during the early 1950s. This new translation by Chris Turner presents these essays in their complete form as originally intended by Sartre and is essential reading for anyone interested in the artistic and intellectual history of the time.
Price: £20.50
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780241143537
We spend most of our waking lives at work - in occupations often chosen by our unthinking sixteen-year-old selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what it might mean for us. Equally intrigued by work's pleasures and its pains, Alain de Botton here heads out into the under-charted worlds of the office, the factory, the fishing fleet and the logistics centre, ears and eyes open to the beauty, interest and sheer strangeness of the modern workplace. Along the way he tries to answer some of the most urgent questions we can ask about work: Why do we do it? What makes it pleasurable? What is its meaning? And why do we daily exhaust not only ourselves but also the planet?
Price: £18.99
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We Did Porn
Publisher: Beautiful Books
ISBN: 9781905636723
Blending memoir with Smith's own drawings and paintings, We Did Porn does for alt porn what Hunter S Thompson did for motorcycle gangs and Tom Wolfe for psychedelia.
Price: £14.99
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The Artist's Contract
Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Koln
ISBN: 9783865604217
Between 1996 and 2005, Maria Eichhorn conducted interviews with artists, gallery owners and others--including Carl Andre, Michael Asher, Paula Cooper, Hans Haacke, Jenny Holzer, Adrian Piper, Robert Ryman, John Weber, Lawrence Weiner and Jackie Winsor--about sales of artworks, speculation, the role of collectors and museums and artists' rights.
Price: £30.00
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Global Art
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
ISBN: 9783775722018
Will globalization change art forever? This highly topical theme is presented through a series of interviews with insiders from the international art scene: artists, collectors, museum directors, gallerists, exhibitors and businesspeople from all over the world give their views and opinions, shedding light on the opportunities and dangers offered by the globalization of art.
Price: £35.00
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Inside the Painter's Studio
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568988528
Inside the Painter's Studio collects twenty-four remarkable artist interviews, as well as exclusive visual documentation of their studios. Featured artists were asked a wide range of questions about their day-to-day creative life, covering everything from how they organize their studios to what painting tools they prefer. Artists open up about how they set a creative mood, how they choose titles, and even whether they sit or stand to contemplate their work. Also included are a selection of Fig's meticulously detailed miniatures. In this context Fig's diminutive sculptures-reproducing minutiae of the studio, from paint-tube labels and paint splatters on the floor to the surface texture of canvases-become part of a fascinating new form of portraiture as diorama.
Price: £22.50
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The Quick and the Dead
Publisher: Walker Art Center
ISBN: 9780935640939
The Quick and the Dead takes stock of the 1960s and 70s legacy of experimental, or "research" art by pioneers like George Brecht and Lygia Clark. In a series of encounters with art made strange by its expansions, contractions, inversions and implosions in time and space, The Quick and the Dead surveys more than 80 works by a global, multigenerational group of 50 artists, scientists and musicians.
Price: £33.00
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The Secret Lives of Buildings
Publisher: Portobello Books
ISBN: 9781846271274
Edward Hollis tells the stories of thirteen buildings, beginning with the ‘once upon a time' when they first appeared, through the years of appropriation, ruin and renovation, and ending with a temporary ‘ever after'. In spell-binding prose, Hollis follows his buildings through time and space to reveal the hidden histories of the Parthenon and the Alhambra, visiting churches that have been carried through the air by angels and ancient palaces recreated by vainglorious dictators, and exploring the monuments of our own day, from souvenir chunks of the Berlin Wall to the fibre-glass theme parks of Las Vegas.
Price: £25.00
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John Stezaker
Publisher: Rubell Family Collection
ISBN: 9780500342541
This, John Stezaker's first solo show in a U.S. public institution, brings together 17 works that span 28 years of his production and illustrates the variable relation, over these many years, between ground image and insert image. Living in a time where we are, in many ways, the grandchildren of pop-psychology, Stezaker brings together strange, unsettling combinations of images. Combing the aisles of flea markets, used-book stores, postcard vendors, etc., Stezaker's anthropological search filters and selects images that often have a strong sense of deja vu: Hollywood film stars of a bygone age, postcards of the top-of-the-pops of historical monuments, nature scenes and curiosities. All the work in this exhibition is drawn exclusively from the collection of the Rubell family.
Price: £21.95
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Unbuilt Masterworks of the 21st Century
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500342541
100 of the best projects to have been proposed since the turn of the millennium. Includes projects by by the world's greatest architects, from UN Studio, Foreign Office Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Zaha Hadid to such up-and-coming stars as J. Mayer H. Architects and Asymptote.
Price: £32.00
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The Contemporary Art Book
Publisher: Goodman
ISBN: 9781847960054
Without doubt, the international contemporary art stage increases annually, drawing new crowds and new interest. Whilst enticing, contemporary art can be bewildering. This accessible and beautifully produced guide will pinpoint key artists and events, and so help demystify a generation of rapid change in the art world. The A-Z listing (by artist's name) will feature 200 of the most widely exhibited and remarkable artists who have made substantial contributions over the past 40 years; with biographies, insights into their key works and cross-referencing to linked artists, themes and movements. This essential directory will clarify new art developments for a wide audience and highlight international venues and events to visit.
Price: £30.00
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Art and Text
Publisher: Black Dog Publishing
ISBN: 9781906155650
The use of written language has been one of the most defining developments in visual art of the twentieth century. Art and Text is a unique and timely survey of this most contemporary and relevant artistic tool.
Price: £24.95
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Henry Darger
Publisher: Prestel International
ISBN: 9783791342108
Self-taught and working in isolation until his death in 1973, Henry Darger realized an elaborate fantasy world of remarkable beauty and strangeness, through hundreds of paintings and an epic written narrative. Angel-like Blengins with butterfly wings, natural catastrophes, innocent girls, and murderous soldiers all appear in Darger‘s scenes, which are reproduced in this book in double-page and gatefold spreads. The book also includes for the first time the text of Darger's "History of My Life," the artist's autobiography. The only book of its kind, Henry Darger offers an authoritative, balanced, and insightful look at an American master.
Price: £50.00
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Pure Beauty
Publisher: Prestel International
ISBN: 9783791343457
A major figure in contemporary art, John Baldessari is widely considered one of the most influential artists to emerge since the mid-1960s. More than 400 illustrations are presented in full color in this monograph published in conjunction with a major exhibition organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Tate Modern in London. Eleven essays by critics, curators, art historians, and an artist and former student of Baldessari's round out this volume. Few contemporary artists have achieved the range and relevance of Baldessari's oeuvre, which is finally given its due in this elegant retrospective book.
Price: £50.00
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100 Girls on Cheap Paper
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811867191
From sultry nudes to fashion pinups, quick sketches to romantic portraits, artist Tina Berning's paintings and drawings of women are by turns playful, particular and provocative. As expressive as it is beautiful, 100 Girls on Cheap Paper is a stunning collection of mysterious, chic and bold women.
Price: £16.99
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Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2009 -10
Publisher: Frieze
ISBN: 9780955320149
An essential publication for anyone interested in contemporary visual art, the Yearbook profiles almost 300 emerging and established artists from around the world with a critical text and a colour image of their work. The book also contains insightful interviews with artists from Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair's critically acclaimed programme of commissions. The Yearbook provides a wealth of information comprising details of all the galleries participating at Frieze Art Fair and a global directory of over 2,000 leading contemporary artists.
Price: £19.99
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The Sartorialist
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9781846142505
Scott Schuman just wanted to take photographs of people on the street who looked great. His now famous blog was an attempt to showcase the wonderful and varied sartorial tastes of real people - not only those of the fashion industry. The book is a beautiful anthology of Scott's favourite shots from around the world. They include photographs of well-known fashion figures as well as those shots of the anonymous passerby whose imagination and taste delight the viewer.
Price: £19.99
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Auggie Wrens Christmas story
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 97805712497700
Paul Auster's charming Christmas fable has found new life in this beautifully illustrated edition. An utterly beguiling story - involving a blind woman, a lost wallet and a Christmas dinner - in which everything is turned upside down.
Price: £9.99
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Swept away
Publisher: Prion Books
ISBN: 9781853757341
This title features love, lust and desire in three classic tales of passion from the 60s, 70s and 80s. In "Swept Away", three of the best-selling novels from three of the most popular authors, one each from the sixties, seventies and eighties, are brought together in one breathtaking volume to take you back in time to a more innocent world. Even then, however, the path of true love never ran smoothly...The books are "Lucifer's Angel" by Violet Winspear, "Desert Barbarian" by Charlotte Lamb, and "Summer Fire" by Sally Wentworth.
Price: £12.99
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Seasonal suicide notes
Publisher: Short Books
ISBN: 9781906021764
My Life as it is Lived. For some years, the biographer Roger Lewis has been entertaining his friends with a letter at Christmas. Here for the first time is a book-length version of this 'cult classic', a hilarious collection of diaries and memoirs - highlights of which include a trip up the Amazon River with countless ants and Maureen Lipman, his eldest son Tristan training to be a juggler at Zippo's Circus ('Frankly, where did Magdalen College, Oxford, ever get me, eh?'), the humiliation of not being invited to the premiere of his very own movie at Cannes, and the way the Dell call-centre people keep thinking he's a woman...
Price: £12.99
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Red Book
Publisher: Redstone Press
ISBN: 9781870003346
Features 220 drawings from the artist David Shrigley.
Price: £11.95
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Visual aid 2 - You can never know enough stuff
Publisher: Black dog publishing
ISBN: 9781906155834
If you've ever asked yourself these questions- 'When did man start to walk upright?', 'Where's the language of Xhosa spoken?' or 'How many positions are there in yoga?' then this is the book for you. Visual Aid 2 presents these facts in a colourful, engaging and distinctly visual way. You won't be able to put it down!
Price: £7.95
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The Artists' yearbook 2010/11
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
ISBN: 9780500288337
The Artists' yearbook is the only comprehensive up to date reference guide to getting ahead in today's art world. Offering advice, inspiration and information in one fact-packed volume, it features carefully vetted information on and contact details for more than 3,000 visual-arts businesses and organizations. New to this edition are a full update on Arts Council England funding and programmes plus new advice from Elinor Olisa of Degree Art.com on how artists can promote themselves and work with galleries.
Price: £16.95
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Younger than Jesus
Publisher: Phaidon Press Limited
ISBN: 9780714849812
"Younger than Jesus: The Artists Directory" is the product of some of the most wide-ranging research in the field of contemporary art in years: the first 'Younger than Jesus' triennial at the New Museum. Working with a team of 200 'insiders' (curators, writers, teachers, critics, bloggers and artists) scattered across the globe, curators Massimiliano Gioni , Lauren Cornell and Laura Hoptman have selected the 500 best international artists under the age of 33, from which they will curate the exhibition component of the triennial in spring 2009. While most generational exhibitions are retrospective, this one will be predictive, anticipating the future and revealing upcoming trends. "Younger than Jesus: The Artists Directory" will therefore be an unparalleled resource for curators, collectors, dealers and critics. By serving as a handbook to currrent artistic innovation, it will also appeal to artists, designers and anyone curious about the latest developments in visual culture.
Price: £29.95
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Be a nose
Publisher: McSweeney's
ISBN: 9781934781142
Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, creator of Wacky Packs and the Garbage Pail Kids, and father of the modern graphic novel (though he's still demanding a blood test), presents this warts-and-all reproduction of his private sketchbooks - and the results are as candid, sharp, and funny as the relentlessly innovative man behind them. Be a Nose! is a rare glimpse into the secret scribblings of an American original.
Price: £19.99
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All known metal bands
Publisher: McSweeney's
ISBN: 9781932416923
This volume contains the names of over fifty thousand metal bands. If one presumes that each of these bands had an average of four members, and multiplies that by the bands, one might figure that at least a quarter of a million humans have pledged allegiance to one of these groups of wandering beasts. These names are invisible tokens to be spoken aloud, each representing a human quest for superhuman spectacle: shaking floorboards and quivering walls, split ears leaking blood, with faces painted and ornaments pointy, voices uttering eternal truths shunned by woman and man alike.
Price: £14.99
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How to be an explorer of the world
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780399534607
From the author of "Wreck This Journal" comes an interactive guide for exploring and documenting the art and science of everyday life. Smith encourages people to observe the world around them as if they've never seen it before, take notes, and focus on one thing at a time.
Price: £10.99
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This is not a book
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780399535215
A curious, engaging, and creative rethinking of what a book can be, from the creator of Wreck this Journal. In this uniquely skewed look at the purpose and function of "a book," Keri Smith offers an illustrated guide that asks readers to creatively examine all the different ways This Is Not a Book can be used. This Is Not a Book will engage readers by having them define everything a book can be by asking, "If it's not a book, what is it then?"-with a kaleidoscope of possible answers.
Price: £9.99
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The snow tourist - A search for the world's purest, deepest snowfall
Publisher: Portobello books
ISBN: 9781846270642
Price: £8.99
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The Christmas pocket bible
Publisher: Crimson Publishing
ISBN: 9781907087004
This handy book is crammed with answers to everything that matters for the festive period including tips for a thrifty Christmas, words to popular carols, creative ways to decorate your home, everything you ever wanted to know about mistletoe and much more.
Price: £9.99
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This Will Kill You
Publisher: Griffin
ISBN: 9780312540623
This book explores the multitude of ways in which we bite the dust in a very matter of fact manner. This well researched book will keep you entertained to the last page with its unique death rating system and quirky illustrations.
Price: £9.99
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Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780141014593
From the author of the bestselling The Tipping Point comes a book that explores the fundamentals of snap decision making, uncovering the deceptive power of our sub-conscious mind. Gladwell takes the mystery out of quick decision making and gives us a concise and informative prose about our instinct and intuition. This highly entertaining book will change the way you think about thinking forever.
Price: £9.99
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3rd Place: A Children's Colouring Book by Richard Prince
Publisher: Buchhandlung Walther Konig
ISBN: 9783865604927
this colouring book for grown-ups, readers will find 72 messy, funny, sometimes rude black-and-white line drawings of people, monsters, pirates and flowers.
Price: £9.99
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Art London: A Guide to modern and contemporary art (Paperback)
Publisher: Quadrille
ISBN: 9781844005949
This unique city guide focuses on modern and contemporary art, filling a genuine gap in the art and travel market. Never before has the contemporary art scene of London been so comprehensively researched and presented. The guide follows a sound formula - opening with an essay on the current contemporary art scene by a local art expert, followed by an introduction which presents the art in the context of the city's history and geography to give the reader a feel for the places they might like to visit. The central portion of the book is a fact-packed, stunning, visual A-Z guide to 100 artists, each featuring a representative piece of that artist's work, with an expert commentary and details of everywhere their art can be seen. Whether you are planning a weekend break, a longer trip or just want to get to know the contemporary art scene in your own city better this book has something for everyone.
Price: £9.99
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art / shop /eat London (Paperback)
Publisher: Blue Guides
ISBN: 9781905131259
Relaunched in a new contemporary look, the art/shop/eat pocket guides combine a great look with the thoroughness of research expected from a Blue Guides publication, making them the perfect choice for the weekend or short break tourist.
Price: £4.99
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The London Market Guide (Paperback)
Publisher: Metro Publications
ISBN: 9781902910307
Fully revised and expanded, "The London Market Guide" tells shoppers all they need to know to explore the street markets. The book also lists all the city's best car trunk sales. First, this guide will get you there, with details of bus, train, or tube routes to each market. Full details of every market are offered, explaining what you can expect to find and when are the best times to visit. Honest reviews tell shoppers what to avoid--warning is given if a market is more tackfest than treasure chest. More than 140 cafes and restaurants are listed for shoppers to eat, drink, and take a break after a hard day's bargain hunting. Lastly, for those interested in seeing the market from the other side, details are given for every market reviewed on how to get a stall.
Price: £7.99
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London Architecture (Paperback)
Publisher: Metro Publications
ISBN: 9781902910184
From the remains of the Roman amphitheatre to the soaring glass structures of the 21st century city, London offers a unique architectural experience. This new and authoritative guide takes the reader through almost two thousand years of a architectural achievement in the capital.
Price: £8.99
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Bargain Hunters London (Paperback)
Publisher: Metro Publications
ISBN: 9781902910277
A comprehensive guide to finding bargains in London, including the best charity shops, auctions, designer sales, dress agencies, second-hand bookshops, factory outlets, independent designers and manufacturers and much more. Within its pages can be found: Travel details for each entry, detailed reviews of each outlet, general and subject indexes as well as detailed maps of all the best areas in London for a days' bargain hunting.
Price: £7.99
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Museums & galleries of London (Paperback)
Publisher: Metro Publications
ISBN: 978190290314
This full colour guide contains the following:* Floor plans of all major museums & galleries* Detailed reviews of all the museums & galleries in London and the surrounding area.* Reviews of all the major commercial galleries* Details of the capital's archives, libraries and art degree shows. Completely up to date this remains the only comprehensive guide to both museums and galleries in the capital.
Price: £8.99
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London's City Churches (Paperback)
Publisher: Metro Publications
ISBN: 1902910249
The sanctity of the church has prevented London's churches from being redeveloped or altered in any significant way and so they remain historical islands while the environment around them has changed beyond recognition. This book includes some of the capital's finest architecture.
Price: £6.99
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London's Monuments (Paperback)
Publisher: Metro Publications
ISBN: 1902910257
London has over 300 monuments which are easily walked past unnoticed but have fascinating tales to tell. Using this book the reader can walk among the statuary of the capital and bring history to life, from Queen Boudicca's fight against the Romans to Nelson Mandela's struggle against apartheid.
Price: £7.99
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Exactitude: Hyperrealist Art Today
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500238639
Published to accompany an exhibition at the Plus One Gallery in London, this astonishing book presents a selection of contemporary artists working in a figurative, hyperrealist style.
Price: £35.00
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Andy Warhol Giant Size (Hardback)
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN: 9780714849805
The fascinating and all encompassing world of Andy Warhol is bought together in this lavishly illustrated volume. An artist who continues to intrigue those inside and outside of the art world Gaint Size covers all the major events, people, works, and moments in the life of the Warhol. Tracing Warhol's origins as a sickly child in working-class Pittsburgh to his transformation into New York's dark prince of Pop and finally into the world's most successful business artist, More than 2,000 illustrations culled from rarely seen archival material, documentary photography, and artwork not only provide a full picture of the artist's life but a telling look at late twentieth-century popular culture.
Price: £24.95
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ART NOW Vol3 (Paperback)
Publisher: Taschen
ISBN: 9783836505116
The third volume in the highly successful series of ART NOW books presents a cutting edge selection of today's most exciting artists. With numerous illustrations of their most important works and an informative introductory text, ART NOW Vol 3 is an indispensable reference for anyone wishing to gain an overview of the latest developments in art and on the art market.
Price: £24.99
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Sensation Special Edition (Hardback)
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500238646
First published in 1997 to accompany the now infamous Sensation exhibition, held at the Royal Academy of Arts this catalogue has now been re-printed in a new hardback special edition. Turner Prize winning artist Mark Wallinger, whose work was included in the exhibition, has created an exclusive cover to commemorate the reprint. Inside you'll find a collection of penetrating essays alongside extensive documentation of some of the iconic works of the 90's including Tracey Emin's 'Tent' and Damien Hirst's 'Shark'.
Price: £40.00
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Terence Koh Love for Eternity 1980 -2008 (Hardback)
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
ISBN: 9783775723084
With his sensational performances, objects, and installations, Terence Koh has within only a few years succeeded in becoming a well-respected Gesamtkunstwerk. Seemingly effortlessly transferring influences from Postminimalism and seventies' Body Art into his own cosmos, where decadence and deliberate excess reign. Life and death, beauty and decay, sexuality and gender, and cultural and personal identity are the themes of Koh's Minimalist yet Baroque works. This comprehensive monograph is the first to offer an overview of the "asianpunkboy's" artistic career, including his most recent installations, produced for the MUSAC in Spain and an in depth discussion with Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Price: £35.00
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Altermodern (Paperback)
Publisher: Tate
ISBN: 9781854378170
Few books introduce a word into the language as this one. The term 'altermodern' has been coined by leading critical theorist and curator Nicolas Bourriaud to describe the art that has arrived at the end of the postmodern period. With essays and contributions from prominent writers and art historians Altermodern explores the affects of art being made in a globalized context in reaction to cultural standardization. Featuring a generous selection of works by leading contemporary artists including Peter Coffin, Seth Price and Rachel Harrison.
Price: £19.99
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Sensation Limited Edition (Paperback)
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500600238
In celebration of 60 years of Thames & Hudson publishing this catalogue is now available in a limited edition re-print of 2000 copies. First published in 1997 to accompany the now infamous Sensation exhibition, held at the Royal Academy of Arts, inside you'll find a collection of penetrating essays alongside extensive documentation of some of the iconic works of the 90's including Tracey Emins 'Tent' and Damien Hirsts 'Shark'.
Price: £19.95
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What Makes A Great Exhibition by Paula Marincola (Paperback)
Publisher: University of the Arts, Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative
ISBN: 9780970834614
Rising attendance at museums and 'megashows' plus increased press coverage in the age of the international biennial and blockbuster has translated into a growing interest in how exhibitions are made. In this book, 14 essays by active curators and historians address the issue, what makes an exhibition great, head-on. Including essays by the prolific curator Robert Storr on the plurality encompassed by the words 'exhibition' and 'exhibition-maker'; Studio Museum in Harlem director and chief curator Thelma Golden on issues informing ethnically specific exhibitions; Dia Foundation curator Lynne Cooke on firmly grounding rarified aims; and Iwona Blazwick on a century of trailblazing at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, where she is director; and curator Carlos Basualdo reflects on the need to establish a meaningful critical context for international biennials.
Price: £10.95
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Ahmed Alsoudani (Hardback)
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
ISBN: 9783775723589
Ahmed Alsoudani is one of the central artists in Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East at the Saatchi Gallery. His violence-filled paintings and drawings that reflect the difficult times and circumstances in Iraq are in a long tradition of visual art on the theme of war and cruelty. Alsoudani's work refers to European works from the 17th and 18th Century, to painters such as Francisco de Goya, Pablo Picasso, George Grosz, Francis Bacon and Philip Guston, and to traditional art, literature and poetry of the Middle East. This monograph on Alsoudani is available for the duration of the Unveiled exhibiton at the special price of £24.
Price: SPECIAL EXHIBITION PRICE £15 (normally £32.50)
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Shape of things to come: New Sculpture (Hardback)
ISBN: 978-0-224-08763-6
This huge book - the largest on contemporary sculpture yet to appear - is itself an object, creating, as its title suggests, an artistic vision of the future.
'Nearly 700 pages of photographs provide an incredible overview of the current scene' HARPER'S BAZAAR
Price: £60.00
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Lucky Kunst: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art by Gregor Muir (Paperback)
Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781845133900
A follow-up to Aurum's very successful $12 Million Stuffed Shark, in ‘Lucky Kunst’ Gregor Muir tells the story of the story of YBA’s up to the seminal Sensation show at the Royal Academy from an insider’s perspective. Muir happened to be in Shoreditch and Hoxton at the time when the White Cube Gallery was founded, and at that unique moment of recent history when a remarkable array of young artists – Damien Hirst, the Chapman brothers, Sarah Lucas, Rachel Whiteread, Sam Taylor-Wood, et al - all came together to shift the landscape of contemporary art. An Ian Sinclair for the modern art world, this is a memorable and unique piece of modern history.
Price: £14.99
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Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton (Hardback)
Publisher: Granta
ISBN: 9781847080370
In Seven days in the Art World, Sarah Thornton takes us on an unusual journey, exploring the most puzzling aspects of buying, selling, creating and exhibiting contemporary art. In a series of beautifully paced, fly-on-the-wall narratives, we witness the drama of a Christie’s auction, the high jinks of Takashi Murakami’s studios, life in a notorious art school seminar, the elite at the Basel Art Fair, the eccentricities of Artforum magazine, the back rooms of the Turner Prize and the watery wonderland of the Venice Biennale.
Price: £15.99
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The Natural history of Unicorns by Chris Lavers (Hardback)
Publisher: Granta
ISBN: 9781847080622
Where did the unicorn come from, and how was it accepted as a part of the animal kingdom for so long? Chris Lavers argues that although the unicorn of our imagination isn’t real, traces of its character can be found in existing species. In this lively and vivid exploration of the natural world, Lavers follows the beast's trail to the plateaus of India and into the jungles of Africa to unearth the Flesh and Blood ancestors of our iconic unicorn.
Price: £18.99
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Has Man a function in Universe? (Strategic Questions #2) by Gavin Wade (Hardback)
Publisher: Book Works
ISBN: 9781870699884
Has Man A Function In Universe? is part of an ongoing project to develop forty projects related to forty questions written by R. Buckminster Fuller. Gavin Wade has commissioned artists and writers to respond to the question, ‘Has man a function in universe?’, using a combination of text and image. The publication will reflect the process of the project—an ‘exquisite corpse’ involving collaboration, dissemination and the combining of works. Contributions from: Neil Chapman, Shezad Dawood, Per Hüttner, Juneau Projects, Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry, Kerry James Marshall, Jessica Spanyol, Lisa Strömbeck, Mark Titchner, Sue Tompkins, Hayley Tompkins, Gavin Wade and Carey Young.
Price: £16.95
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Urban Iran by Karan Reshid and Sina Araghi (Hardback)
Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher
ISBN: 9780979966613
Contemporary Iran is a complex place. The 1979 Revolution incited many changes, influencing how the country was perceived by its residents as well as by the rest of the world. With photographs of contemporary street culture by the artist A1one from graffiti to marketplaces to the underground music scene, ‘Urban Iran’ is a portrait of what daily life looks like in some of Irans larger cities. Written contributions from writers like prominent Iranian novelist Salar Abdoh further the issues and ideas presented in the photographs, revealing an Iran that is as divorced from the American media gaze, as it is inextricably linked.
Price: £16.95
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Iranian Photography Now by Rose Issa (Hardcover)
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
ISBN: 9783775722575
This book offers a surprisingly broad spectrum of artistic expression that outshines the Western mainstream. Among the most renowned photographer-artists are Abbas, Reza Aramesh, Shirin Neshat, Parastou Forouhar, Abbas Kiarostami, Kaveh Golestan, Amiral Ghasemi, and Shadi Ghadirian. Their visual imagery constitutes an exciting and instructive journey for the reader, who may have never had access to these histories before. Each of the thirty-six contributing photographers was asked to supply a statement on his or her life and experience as an artist. It is high time to give a voice and a platform to photographers from Iran.
Price: £35.00
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Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran by Peter Chelkowski and Hamid Dabashi (Hardcover)
Publisher: Booth-Clibborn Editions
ISBN: 9783775722575
A visual survey of the public myths and collective symbols used in the making of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the subsequent war with Iraq. The book traces a remarkable period of history in which the power of words and images successfully challenged the military might of an established state, setting forth an avalanche of public sentiment that led to revolution. The authors uncover the visual and iconographic history of the Islamic revolution of Iran, from the fiery words of Ayatollah Khomeini to revolutionary posters, graffiti, slogans, murals, posters and banners - words and images that unified much of the nation.
Price: £45.00
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Celebration at Persepolis by Michael Stevenson (Hardcover)
Publisher: JRP Ringier
ISBN: 9783905829488
In this beautiful little hardback Michael Stevenson revisits the site of an infamous week-long party held in 1971 by the Shah of Iran among the ruins of the ancient Persian city of Persepolis. Reconstructing part of the temporary architecture built for the celebrations (itself now a ruin), Stevenson looks at this pivotal moment in Iranian history which led toward the subsequent cultural revolution. In June 2007 Stevenson exhibited a reconstruction of one of the guest tents in its current state, at actual scale, at Art Basel 38. The publication is an expanded version of this Basel presentation.
Price: £9.00
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China Art Book: Chinese Art - Now by Uta Grosenick and Caspar H. Schubbe (Flexicover)
Publisher: DuMont
ISBN: 9783832177690
This book, a comprehensive overview of China's current art scene, presents the 80 most important and influential artists working today and predicts the stars of tomorrow. A Who's Who of contemporary Chinese art, introducing the most important artists in China today, among them Cao Fei, Gu Dexin, Yang Fudong and Zhang Huan. It is an essential resource reflecting the rapidly growing international market for and interest in contemporary Chinese art, containing sections on artists that were included in The Saatchi Gallery’s exhibition 'The Revolution Continues: New Chinese Art'.
Price: £24.95
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A Little History of the World by E H Gombrich (Paperback)
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300143324
In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb, delightfully written for younger readers. In between emerges a colourful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science. This is a text dominated not by dates and facts, but by the sweep of mankind’s experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity’s achievements and an acute witness to its frailties.
Price: £6.99
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Andy Warhol's Colors by Susan Goldman Rubin (Board book)
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811857215
Andy Warhol's colors uses images drawn by the master of Pop Art to teach the youngest of children colours, from purple horses to golden monkeys.
Price: £3.99
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A Brief History of Curating by Hans Ulrich Obrist (Paperback)
Publisher: JRP Ringier
ISBN: 9783905829556
This publication is dedicated to pioneering curators and presents a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist: Anne d'Harnoncourt, Werner Hofmann, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, Seth Siegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, Walter Hopps, Pontus Hulten, and Harald Szeemann are thus gathered in this volume. The contributions map the development of the curatorial field, from early independent curating in the 1960s and 1970s and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and in the USA at this time, through Documenta and the development of biennales.
Price: £11.00
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Fancy Action Now: The Art of Team Macho (Paperback)
Publisher: Magic pony Gallery
ISBN: 9780978356804
This monograph documents the first few years of Team Macho's unusual collaboration. The manic, spasms of drawing, fitful bursts of sabotage, and sparks of accidental genius gathered here represent the nascent productivity of Team Macho and set the stage for future explorations.
Price: £14.99
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Relational Aesthetics by Nicholas Bourriaud (Paperback)
Publisher: Les Presse Du Reel
ISBN: 9782840660606
Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting. Relational aesthetics has fast become I mandatory text in art schools the world over. Bourriaud is the founder of le Palais de Tokyo, Paris and Curator of Contemporary Art at Tate Britain, London.
Price: £10.95
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The Revolution Continues catalogue
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
ISBN: 978-0224084994
272 pages of full colour illustrations in Hardback.
This is the catalogue to accompany the inaugural exhibition at the new Saatchi Gallery, a comprehensive survey of contemporary Chinese art.
Price: £30.00
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Unveiled: New Art From the Middle East (Hardback)
Publisher: Booth-Clibborn
ISBN: 978-1861543134
Available to order now is the catalogue for the second exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery's space at the Duke of York's H.Q. in Chelsea, London. 208 pages of full colour illustrations, Unveiled is an extensive survey of new art from the Middle East.
Price: £25.00
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Germania catalogue
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
ISBN: 978-0224084970
272 pages of full colour illustrations in hardback
This innovative publication explores an exciting range of contemporary art from Germany, showcasing work by artists predominantly based out of the cultural hub of Berlin. The artists included in Germania are as robustly diverse as their cities of origin - Cologne, Dortmund, Munich, Hamburg and Leipzig to name a few, but lay claim to an international reach, the full impact of which has yet to unfold. Germania takes the first step forward in recognizing the collective significance, as much as the momentous individual talent of the artists included at this threshold.
Price: £35.00
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Abstract America catalogue
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
ISBN: 978-0224079402
416 pages with full colour illustrations in hardback
Abstract America presents the works of a radical new generation of American abstract painters, whose works surf between fresh cultural expression and postmodernist remix effortlessly, in the face of virtual realities and quicksilver new technologies. The artists grouped together in this publication are daring and inventive, their strategies broad and exhilarating, their exploration of abstract painting at this critical juncture invaluable.
Price: £35.00
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USA Today catalogue
There is a new vitality in American art and this book is the first to offer a comprehensive review of an emerging generation of artists who together represent the challenging variety of work being produced now.
These 250 works from The Saatchi Gallery make a firm case for the claim that the US has regained the right to be considered at the heart of all that is exciting, innovative, subversive and questioning in art today. of imagery from other media. It will demonstrate how painting has absorbed that imagery and reshaped it in its own central domain.
Price: £29.00
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The Triumph of Painting Vol 2
A supplementary volume featuring many key works by 6 important artists with essays by Alison Gingeras and biographies by Patricia Ellis is also available.
Price: £16.50
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The Triumph of Painting Vol 3
Second in a series of supplementary volumes featuring many key works by 6 leading artists. Essay by Meghan Dailey, biographies by Patricia Ellis.
Price: £16.50
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Henrik Olesen: Some Faggy Gestures (Paperback)
Publisher: JRP Ringier
ISBN: 9780300141948
Working with collage Henrik Olesen creates compelling works which question and investigate the social construction of identity and its history. Working with appropriated images taken from a vast array of sources Olesen explores the associations between homosexuality and its criminalization in the past. Bringing together various works from the mid-1990's to present this catalogue intelligently re-accesses homosexual subculture into the broader history of art and culture.
Price: £25.00
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Installation Art in the new Millennium (Paperback)
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500284513
Since its humble beginnings in the 1960's to the present day, installation art's constant evolution and refusal to accept boundaries has enriched our cultural landscape with new dynamics. Throwing into question the relationship between artist, spectator and gallery, its influences seep out into the worlds of club culture, fashion, film and beyond. With extensive documentation and writing Installation art in the new Millennium takes a broad look at the diverse strategies artists have utilized in creating astonishing and challenging environments.
Price: £19.95
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Four Corners Familiars 3, Dracula (Hardback)
Publisher: Four Corners Books
ISBN: 9780954502577
As part of an ongoing project Four Corners Books have published a series of books, in which artists have responded to classic novels and short stories. Illustrator James Pyman has provided his personal response rendered in pencil illustrations to Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Price: £13.95
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Pageant by David Noonan (Hardback)
Publisher: Foxy Productions
ISBN: 9780979953002
Hardback. An artist book by David Noonan contains high quality reproductions of his installation, collage and screen print works. With accompanying text by fiction writer Dan Fox.
Price: £19.99
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The Wizard of Oz illustrated by Graham Rawle (Hardback)
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 99781843546597
'A work of genius.' Neel Mukerjee, The Times 'This book is astounding... William Burroughs let loose with dressmaker's scissors in the hyper-real landscape of an early sixties Ladybird book... Truly wonderful.' Patrick McCabe" Graham Rawle reinterprets the classic tale.
Price: £25.00
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Knitorama by Rachael Matthews (Paperback)
Publisher: MQ Publications
ISBN: 9781840729870
Rachael Matthews' excellent book contains step by step guides on how to knit and a range of patterns such as bakewell tarts, fried egg earmuffs, speakers and a bra!
Price: £12.99
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The World of Coco Chanel by Edmonde Charles-Roux (Hardback)
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
ISBN: 9780500512166
Featuring more than 600 illustrations from an extraordinary collection amassed over the years by Edmonde Charles-Roux, Chanel's official biographer and close friend. An authoritative and practised writer, Charles-Roux, who was editor-in-chief of French Vogue for 12 years has used careful research and vivid eyewitness accounts to set the pictures in their context of time and place.
Price: £29.95
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The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie by Malu Halasa and Rana Salam (Paperback)
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811864589
"The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie" gathers together text and photo essays that introduce and celebrate some of the most outrageous undergarments in the world, and challenge our perceived notions of women, sex, and humour in the Muslim world.
Price: £14.99
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Elmgreen and Dragset; This is the First Day of My Life (Hardback)
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
ISBN: 9783775720502
Since 1995, Elmgreen and Dragset have tackled issues of privatization, gentrification, social alienation and the dismantling of social welfare. They have recreated hospitals and prison cells, and have reconfigured gallery spaces to spatially deter their would-be audience. This monograph is the first extensive survey of their work to date.
Price: £35.00
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Aleksandra Mir; Newsroom 1986 - 2000 (Paperback)
Publisher: Mary Boone Gallery
ISBN: 9780980171501
'News becomes history as soon as it is reported. What fascinates me in talking about history is the paradoxical movement backwards while obviously propelling ahead with a story into the future.' This is an exhibition catalogue of Mir's 'Newsroom' project for which she had 3 assistants copy down New York tabloid Newspapers from a 15 year timespan to be exhibited at Mary Boone Gallery, New York.
Price: £35.00
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Tank Books Tin (Metal tin with Packaged Paperbacks)
Publisher: Tank Form
ISBN: 9780955573262
Stunningly redesigned classic fiction from Conrad, Tolstoy, Kipling, Stevenson, Kafka and Hemingway. Tank Magazines have produced the five books in the style of cigarette packets with flip top cartons and foil packaging inside and all 6 editions are available in a cigarette box style metal tin.
Price: £39.99
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