Tony White, Steve Beard, Jeni Walwin, Oliver Bennett, Mark Waddell, Tracy Warr
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Initiated by Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson, the UK artist group London Fieldworks sets out to fuse experiences of the real and re-presented. This book captures their "Syzygy" and "Polaria" projects, which focus on the crossover between art and science, examining light and weather effects.
Gabor Palotai claims that graphic design occupies a space between ourhoughts and reality which could otherwise be empty. This title showcasesalotai's powerful imagery, derived from simple elements and textures.
Brings together research in textiles in an academic forum. Representing a set of critical practices, this book provides a platform for points of departure between art and craft; gender and identity; cloth, body and architecture; labour and technology; techno-design and practice - all situated within the contexts of material and visual culture.
"100 Best Paintings in New York is an essential guide to the best of the great collections of art open to the public in New York." "Each of the 100 chosen paintings is reproduced in full color with a vivid description that provides both appreciation and analysis and includes fascinating details of how ...
Following the success of his On Creativity, John Tusa's new book draws on his acclaimed BBC Radio 3 series of interviews with a range of internationally distinguished artists.
This volume presents Mark Dion's work on "digs" he has been concerned with in Italy, Switzerland, and London. The book provides a preface to each of project by the artist. A text frames his ongoing projects. Further texts from the lecture programme in the Tate Gallery elucidate the artist's work.
Takes a critical look at public sculpture and the author's place within, and outside of, its limits. This book examines the psychological and physical origins of the author's practice, and relates her work to the history and meaning of public sculpture.
Pauline Van Mourik Broekman, Niru Ratnam, Julian Stallabrass
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"Locus Solus" borrows its title from a book by Raymond Roussel and combines the work of artists in the Locus+ initiative. The sections deal with the power within boundaries and the specificity of site, identity and its demarcation, and the crossing of borders by technology and its mutations.
Dutch artist Marcel van Eeden has completed a drawing a day since 1993. This book features a collection of approximately 140 virtuoso drawings, in which he provides a fictitious biography of K M Wiegand, who, history verifies, was actually a botanist.
At last, the broader movements of twentieth-century Swiss art--and the individual artists behind them--are tracked through the present day in one standard-setting publication. Swiss Made: Precision and Madness sets the famous Swiss tendency toward precision and order alongside the tendency toward obstinacy ...