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Covers the taboo-breaking work of this influential American artist.

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Definitive monograph on America's most challenging and influential artist

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Inspired by seventeenth-century painting, the author transposes artistic traditions to the present day, toys with the viewer's perceptions and sometimes even blurs the boundaries between the painter and the model.

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Pop artist Peter Blake has an eye for the quirky and the overlooked. As well as being known as a painter, Blake is renowned for his works on paper and as a leading exponent of collage. This work displays the strong graphic sensibility and the love of popular culture for which the artist has long been renowned.

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Peter Panyoczki is at home on two continents and thus his life is that of a perpetual emigrant. He belongs to the 1980s generation of artists who polemically rejected conceptual art yet did not simply return to figurative art. This monograph presents his work, investigating it from various aspects in a series of very different contributions.

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Since Tate Modern opened in 2000, the Turbine Hall has hosted some of the world's most memorable and acclaimed works of contemporary art, reaching an audience of millions.

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This comprehensive volume examines the little- known relationshipboth artistic and personal between two of the greatest avant-garde artists of the twentieth century.

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Delves into various aspects of the artist Pablo Picasso's oeuvre and places the work in a broader social and art-historical context.

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Pablo Picassos modest yet revolutionary cardboard and sheet metal Guitar sculptures (1912 and 1914, respectively) bracket an incandescent period of structural, spatial and material experimentation for the artist. This essay incorporates photographs, correspondence, archival records and accounts, providing insights into Picassos practice.

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Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, under the name "Fatal attraction: Piotr Uklaanski Photographs," March 17-August 16, 2015 in the Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography; and under the name "Fatal attraction: Piotr Uklaanski Selects from the Met Collection," March 17-June 14, 2015 in the Howard Gilman Gallery.

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The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape, with his urgent, splattered drip paintings his most explosive legacy. This essential introduction traces Pollock's work and his fame to understand his masterpieces in the greater modernist story and explore his making as a cultural icon.

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In the late 1940s, the author began experimenting with a new method of painting that involved dripping, flinging and pouring paint onto a canvas laid flat on the ground. "One: Number 31 (1950)", was among the largest of the paintings he produced by this method. This title offers an exploration of the painting.

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Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumerism, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork. Epitomized by Warhol's Campbell's soup cans, Pop Art drew on mass-market sources and products as well as the banal and kitsch.

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Small, smart, essential an accessible introduction to the Pop Art movement, offering a new perspective on canonical works and highlighting its international reach.

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Less a distinct style than the concrete expression of being in a particular era, Pop art is regarded as one of the most influential movements in modern art. From Lichtensteins comic book aesthetics to Allen Joness much-contested female figure furniture, this overview examines the origins, pioneers, and stand-out pieces of a movement which...

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A timely reexamination of European engagements with Indigenous art--and the presence of Indigenous art in the contemporary art world.

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A comprehensive and authoritative publication on one of the most popular periods of international design and decorative arts.

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In the juxtaposition of so-called Salon painters and Reformers of painting this volume offers a discriminating look at the controversial styles in French painting between 1820 and 1880 and the developments within the traditional genres.

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The paintings of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood are widely known and loved. This book presents a comprehensive survey of the intimate world of the Pre-Raphaelites drawings.

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The complete, revelatory illustrations of Egyptologist mile Prisse d'Avennes, one of the first European explorers to fall obsessively in love with the realm of the pharaohs. This unsurpassed collection covers Egyptian architecture, drawing, sculpture, and painting in a visual and archaeological feast of symmetry and complexity, mystery and opulence.

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An essential guide to how the power of art has been harnessed to effect political change across the modern world, from the struggle for universal suffrage to Black Lives Matter.

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Born in Tikrit, Iraq, Rafa Nasiri (1940-2013) studied painting at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad. In 1959, he went to study printmaking at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, where he was introduced to Chinese woodcut and watercolor techniques. This book deals with his work.