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Rejecting society's standards and burrowing into deepest desires, Surrealism sought to attain a whole new realm of both art and experience. This introduction covers the key players and practices of one of the most influential and all-encompassing movements of the 20th century.

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Small, smart, essential an incisive overview of Surrealism, introducing the movements key artists and capturing its essential and enduring concepts.

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An absorbing group biography revealing how exiles from war-torn France brought surrealism to America, sparking the movement that became abstract expressionism.

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A reference guide to fifty of the most frequently occurring symbols in global art history

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John Constable is best known for his idyllic paintings of the English countryside. Yet he was also a brilliant innovator who brought a new vivacity to the observation of nature.

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Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) was one of the most influential artists of his generation. Hailed as the 'greatest living realist painter', Freud's commitment to realism, and particularly to the human figure, was often controversial.

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Terry Frost was one of Britain's great abstract painters. His career spanned seven decades, starting with his introduction to art in a prisoner of war camp, and stretching into the twenty-first century. Chris Stephens presents Frost's art within a historical context and in relation to the work of his international contemporaries.

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An indispensable introduction to one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Part of the pioneering Tate Introductions series.

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Selected and coedited by Jarrett Earnest, a frequent Rail contributor, with Lucas Zwirner, the book includes a new introduction to the project by Phong Bui as well as many of the hand-drawn portraits he has made of those he has interviewed over the years. This combination of verbal and visual profiles offers a rare and personal insight into contemporary visual culture.

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Dedicated to contemporary art from Thailand, this book focuses on a collection of artworks from emerging Thai artists. It provides a wide-ranging survey of contemporary art in Thailand, showcasing seventy-five of the most cutting-edge Thai contemporary artists and their works.

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The story of the scroll is of fascinating historical interest and this accessible and beautifully illustrated book really gets to the heart of it.

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A revised edition of a classic title, now with digitally restored photographs, showcasing the finest surviving examples of ancient Buddhist art.

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Featuring a selection of unpublished interviews, this is a revelatory road trip through twentieth-century art

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A comprehensive survey of post-1960 American printmaking, published to accompany the first major UK exhibition on the subject at the British Museum, London.

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The Museum Wiesbaden is one of three important Hessian state museums and holds world-class collections in the fields of art and naturalhistory. This book provides an introduction to the museum's art collections, which span the period from the Middle ages to contemporary art with an emphasis on the art of the nineteenth and twentieth century.

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Drawing on his unique experience at the helm of three major British art institutions, Charles Saumarez Smith traces how art museums across the world have changed over the past eighty years.

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A redefinition of contemporary Chinese art of the last forty years in the context of unprecedented cultural, political and urban transformation.

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Dedicated to the entire history of feminist artworks on an international scale, this comprehensive survey traces the ways in which feminists have shaped art and visual culture from the mid nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

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Mary Ellen Miller's rich visual and scholarly survey of pre-Hispanic art and architecture, including the most recent archaeological finds.

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This book brings readers detailed instructions of tools and paper, and practice techniques for paper quilling Providing 25 examples of elegant and exquisite style, from potted plants to flowers, Yi Xin, an experienced quilling teacher tells you how to make the wonderful quilled artworks step-by-step.

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