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A richly illustrated, compelling account of contemporary Brazilian art.

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The first comprehensive publication on the extraordinary ceramics by this important Norwegian artist.

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This collection of highly varied essays by knowledgable experts on Africa ranges from historical and political problems to questions of artistic production and of how to deal with culture and nature in the face of industrialisation and globalisation. Presents a picture of a vigorously alive southern Africa.

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This is a presentation of a selection of Asian art. The book begins by looking at a ceramic vessel from the Middle Jomon period in Japan (c.2500-1500 BC) and concludes with contemporary works. All the pieces are set in their cultural, historical and artistic context.

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This book examines the borderlands of the art world and the relations between art and visual mass culture in modernity. It includes case studies on photocollage, window displays, fashion photography and contemporary fine art. -- .

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Drawing on the author's deep knowledge of the history and ecology of trees, Trees in Art shows that we can learn much about ourselves from the art of trees.

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Explores the contested history of art and nationalism in the tumultuous last decades of British rule in India. With a fascinating array of art works, this book throws much light on a previously neglected strand of modern art and introduces the work of artists who are little known in Europe or America.

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A collection of more than 360 individually crafted tsha-tshas (Tibetan votive offerings) presented to the wider public for the first time.

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The catalogue Tunnel presents works from 2018 to 2023 by ceramicist Johannes Nagel (*1979). Accompanied by essays, the excavated and cast pieces are presented in full-page photographs. Text in English and German.

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To accompany an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Australia in 1996, this book reproduces in colour a selection of Turner's work. The images are presented alongside essays and commentaries from experts, presenting their views and opinions of Turner.

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"The first edition ... was co-published by Project Space and Talonbooks on the occasion of the 2014 Vancouver Art/Book Fair. This second edition is published by Talonbooks"--Colophon.

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Award-winning author, curator and activist Lucy Lippard is one of America s most influential writers on contemporary art, a pioneer in the fields of cultural geography, conceptualism and feminist art; she now turns her eye to the politics of land use.

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The art of Harry Gamboa Jr. encompasses photography, video, performance, essays, fiction, poetry, and lesser-known forms of his own creation. This work gathers Gamboa's diverse creations in a collection that reveals a rich vein of Chicano avant-garde production reaching back to the early 1970s.

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Born in Switzerland in 1972, Magaro seems unwilling to distinguish between inanimate matter and animate living beings in his work. This title presents his works from 2005 to 2009.

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A cross-disciplinary study of art and artists in Vancouver, Canada that situates the city at the centre of one of the world's most intriguing visual arts scenes, and the political, geographic, institutional,and cultural influences which shape it.

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Using a historical analysis of Vermeer's method of production and a close reading of his art, this book explores the originality of Vermeer in the context of 17th-century Dutch painting. It suggests that his confrontation with painting represented a very personal effort to define a new pictorial practice within the classical tradition of his art.

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Celebrating the flowering of female portraiture, mainly in Florence, beginning in the latter half of the fifteenth century, this is an illustrated volume of paintings, sculpture, medals, and drawings. It includes the finest portraits of women by Filippo Lippi, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Botticelli, Verrocchio, and Leonardo da Vinci.