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Victor Burgin, an artist and sophisticated theoretician of the image was born in Sheffield, England, in 1941. He established himself on the international art scene in the late sixties, as one of the fathers of Conceptual Art. This is a compendium of the history of contemporary American art and a testimony of a sincere and active protagonist.

Art and Nature in Melissa Moore's work Land Ends, a selection of photographs taken on the Hornby Island, Canada, where she retired for several times over 13 years

This series offers a complete, up-to-date survey of the phenomena of the 1900s and the first years of the new millennium through an original, transversal and interdisciplinary analysis of artistic culture in the twentieth century. The second volume analyses and presents the hugely diverse world of artistic production between the two world wars, taking into consideration not only the environment that took shape in the immediate wake of the First World War, from the so-called "return to order" to the re-emergence of a figurative approach (The New Objectivity, Novecento Italiano, Magic Realism) that was profoundly anti-avant-garde yet imbued with strong plastic and semantic values, but also the evolution of an avant-garde that was now historicised, with its second-generation artists (Aerial Painting, the second generation of Futurism). Also considered are the codification of certain phenomena, such as Surrealism, changes in taste (from Art Deco to Novecentismo), as well as art as the expression of the totalitarian regimes, and the outbreak of the Second World War, with the embracing of environments outside Europe, particularly the USA. The chronological boundaries are marked by the birth of the Dadaist experience in Germany and the establishment of Metaphysics in Italy (1917- 1920) on one side and by the birth of the great season of U.S. Abstract Expressionism (1943-1945) on the other.

400 plus miles of electronic fencing combined with 5-8 meter high concrete wall slabs make up the wall that separates Palestinians and Israelis. This book covers that wall.

Featuring poetic photographs of landscapes, cityscapes, monuments and ruins together, this title offers the reader a compelling insight into this fascinating country.

The art South African artist Candice Breitz draws on contemporary mass culture, devising new systems for understanding reality. This book documents Breitz's work "Mother + Father". She employs darkly humorous and often disturbing tactics to strike out at stereotypes and visual conventions as presented and accepted in the media and popular culture.

Features an array of Eric Owen Moss' works in over 250 illustrations including the Wedgewood Holly Complex, the Beehive and the Box. This monograph includes an interview with the architect and a bio-bibliography.

Simple, direct, and penetrating, the celebrated photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders portrays his subjects like a painter from another age. Thanks to his 11x14 Fulmer & Schwing, an old wooden box dated 1905, which he uses as if he were using a palette and brush, he produces portraits that are rich in detail without being overly psychological.

Presents a veritable film on paper through 92 plates/frames comprising solely images and drawings, colours and architectural references interspersed with 92 pages where words rule. This title condenses an urban and architectural history of more than two thousand years, suggesting a vision for the cities of tomorrow.

Dedicated to the legendary Casa de Retiro Espiritual, this book accompanies the MoMA exhibition of Ambasz's award-winning project. This illustrated volume includes an essay by Peter Buchanan, over 60 full-color photographs of the house, and an interactive CD Rom including aerial views, exterior and interior shots taken in daylight, and at night.

Artist Mihail Chemiakin's drawn costume sketches, stage sets and production design come to life in this record of the two-act ballet premiered in St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater in 2005. Humorous and engaging, the colorful drawings featured here appeals to ballet fans, costume designers, students of theater and art lovers alike.

Featuring artists such as Leger, Ernst, Picasso, Mattisse, Dali, Fontana, Beuys, Oldenberg, Lichtenstein and Rauschenberg, This book focuses on art, history and culture from 1948 to 1986.

Over the last four decades video art has undergone numerous transformations. In the 80s video took on the form of a projected image that was capable of defining a type of space inside which spectators could move while surrounded by a hypnotic electronic embrace. This title deals with this topic.

Covers the works produced by Arnaldo Pomodoro between 1953 and 2003, supplemented with the a documentary research into the bibliography.

An original catalogue for a travelling exhibition that has already been much talked about. The expressive power of glass emerges from the pages of the Glasstrees catalogue, which travelled from the Venice Biennale to the Museum of Art and Design of New York in February 2012.

Traces the history of the spread of the myth of Egypt and the birth of Egyptology and describe the greatest archaeological discoveries between the first decades of the nineteenth century and those of the early twentieth century, to the gold of Tutankhamen and the silver of the Pharaohs of Tanis.

Bartholomaus Schachman was born on 11th September 1559 in Danzig (nowadays called Gda'nsk), then the autonomys trade city and member of "The Hanseatic League", within the Kingdom of Poland. This title presents his adventures to became one of the greatest travelogues of the sixteenth century.

The first monograph in English devoted to Jean-Michel Othoniel, this book follows the footsteps of a singular and secretive artist. An artist who has a passion for all sorts of metamorphoses, sublimations and transmutations, Jean-Michel Othoniel (Saint-Etienne, 1964) has a predilection for materials with reversible properties. His first gained recognition with a series of sculptures made of sulfur, exhibited at Documenta IX in Kassel in 1992. He is one of the few artists to combine a rigorous artistic approach with a poetic sensitivity. Possessing a rare ability to make use of the beauty of his materials, this volume follows the evolution of Othoniel¿s atypical approach. Beyond the seductiveness of form, he creates a world inhabited by dreams and enchantment, but also haunted by suffering and melancholy. The artist, who entered into popular favour with his ¿Kiosk for Night Birds¿ for the Palais-Royal¿Musée du Louvre metro station in Paris, has exhibited widely and received commissions both in France and abroad.

The vicuna is a small camelid that lives in the high alpine areas of the Andes. This book tells the story of the vicuna, portraying the graceful animal in its natural habitat, underscoring its aura of legend and its role in the life and economy of the local communities, and focusing on the complexities of its existence and the efforts to save it.