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Alfred Wallis spent most of his life in the Cornish ports of Newlyn, Penzance and St Ives, and went to sea as a young man. His main occupation was as a dealer in marine supplies and he was in his seventies before he took up painting 'for company'. He sold his works for a few pence, and died in the poorhouse.

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Accompanying the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this catalogue examines the impact of Futurism and Cubism on British modernist printmaking from the beginning of World War I to the beginning of World War II.

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Portraits and texts recover lost queer history: the lives of people who didn't conform to gender norms, from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries.

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The latest issue of the intellectual journal Cahiers d'Art featuring the art of Gabriel Orozco, who works in a diverse range of media such as installation, sculpture, painting, and video

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The first issue to be published since 1960, here is Issue N 1 from highly revered art publisher Cahiers d'Art

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With a tribute to Alexander Calder, this book focuses on the modern artist's long-standing relationship with France, beginning with his years in Paris from 1926 to 1933, during which time the artist firmly established his imprint on the avant-garde scene.

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Work by Rosemarie Trockel as well as Fischli & Weiss, Le Corbusier, Inge Mahn, Absalon and Ricardo Paratore.

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. This book presents the readings of Caravaggio's pictures, which show how he created their drama, immediacy and humanity, and how completely he departed from the conventions of his time.

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This volume brings together new research by some of the world's leading experts, exploring the artistic production and cultural context of Renaissance sculpture from Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise to the small bronzes of Giambologna and his followers.

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Beautiful, varied and with individual personalities, cattle feature far more extensively than one might at first think in the art, mythology and religion of humankind. This book illustrates a wide range of objects, from Paleolithic drawings to the Parthenon Frieze, Pictish carvings and modern prints and drawings.

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Fifty paintings, reproduced in color, by an international array of contemporary artists, show the aptness and relevance of painting in an era of uncertainty.

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Presents an uncensored dish on the author's dating sagas and her bedroom adventures. This book dissects nearly 100 dates over a 25-year span, each one more jaw droppingly outrageous. It reflects the times and the evolution of what she's looking for in a man.

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Chen Zhen was a privileged witness of economic and cultural globalization, and particularly of the gulf dividing China and the Western world. He was a stranger under his own regime at home and a foreigner in France, where he moved in 1986. This book provides new possibilities for analysis and comparison within Chen Zhen's entire oeuvre.

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Includes some of the most historic examples of eastern arts in the western world. With more than 2,000 items distributed among the royal residences in England and Scotland, this collection presents a cross-section of the porcelains, jades, lacquer and other works of art produced in China and Japan and more.

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Beautifully illustrated with an array of Chinese art, this book offers a closer look at the rich variety of styles, decoration, motifs and patterns and the sheer craftsmanship of Chinese culture.

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A catalogue for a collection of Far Eastern ivories - ranging from religious iconography to sculptures produced for nineteenth-century collectors.

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The British painter Chris Ofili was born in Manchester in 1968 and is one of the most notable painters of his generation. This book illustrates works from throughout Ofili's career.

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Through her experiments with extremely light materials, Christina von Bitter has developed an exciting series of three-dimensional translucent objects. This volume provides an insight into the multifaceted work of a sculptress who primarily resorts to paper and wire when creating sculptures which seem to defy gravity.

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Chuck Close immediately liked the idea of a book without words. As a child, his severe dyslexia stood in the way of reading, making images all the more important. This book is a self-portrait that emerges out of the printing process, one plate and one color at a time.

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