Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See
Francoise Mouly
Thames & Hudson, HB, 9781419702099
In an era of amped-up political speech and proliferating news outlets magazine covers still have the power to influence public opinion and even change minds. New Yorker covers under the art direction of Francois Mouly since 1993 have broken through the clutter of journalistic cliches using traditional means; hand-drawn illustrations, satire and caricature. In Blown Covers M ouly takes us behind ... More/Buy
Brion Gysin: Here to Go: Interviews and Texts
Terry Wilson, Brion Gysin
Solar Books, PB, 9780983248033
Brion Gysin is a legend. As an artist, author, filmmaker, and long-term collaborator of William S. Burroughs, Gysin helped to develop the so-called Beat aesthetic from the beginning, influencing one of the most important American art movements of the last century and helping to shape decades of literature and art across the world. In "Brion Gysin: Here to Go", Terry Wilson ... More/Buy
Edvard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works Revised Ed
Gerd Woll
I B Tauris, HB, 9780856676994
Munch's graphic works have fascinated people all over the world for more than a century. He himself arranged a number of exhibitions of his prints, and was represented in many print rooms and important private collections in Europe before World War II. His total output amounted to between 20,000 and 25,000 print impressions. The author's extensive research and the enormous attention ... More/Buy
Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art
TRACEY
I B Tauris, PB, 9781780762548
Target is 120 words with no para breaks or 80 words with max 2 breaks. In hyperdrawing: beyond the lines of contemporary art, authors and artists come together to explore the potential of what drawing in contemporary art theory and practice might become. In this follow up to 2007's drawing now: between the lines of contemporary art, the editors of ... More/Buy
John Heartfield and the Agitated Image: Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise of Avant-Garde Photomontage
Andres Mario Zervigon
University of Chicago Press, HB, 9780226981772
Working in Germany in the interwar era, John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld, 1891 and ndash;1968) developed an innovative method of appropriating and reusing photographs to powerful political effect. A pioneer of modern photomontage, he assembled images that transformed the meaning of the mass-media photos from which they were taken. In John Heartfield and the Agitated Image, Andres Mario Zervigon explores this ... More/Buy
Jun Kaneko: Magic Flute
Jun Kaneko
Laurence King, HB, 9781856698870
This is an in-depth overview of the creation and development of Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" by artist and ceramicist Jun Kaneko. In 2009 the "San Francisco Opera" commissioned Kaneko to create a contemporary "The Magic Flute" which took him on a three-year journey to realize this new hightech production. The book documents this process from the very first artist sketches ... More/Buy
Kimberley Rock Art: 1 Mitchell Plateau Area
Michael Donaldson
Wildrocks Publications, HB, 9780980589023
Kimberley rock art is characterised by ancient Bradshaw or ‘Gwion Gwion’ figures at least 17500 years old and perhaps much older, and awesome Wandijinas up to 5 metres in length and dating back at least 4000 years. Based on a vast photographic collection by geologist Michael Donaldson, author of the previous Burrup Rock Art, this new title is equally definitive and ... More/Buy
Puss in Books: A Celebration of Cat Illustration Through the Ages
Catherine Britton
Mark Batty, PB, 9781935613510
From as far back as ancient Egypt, cats have been the subject of illustrations in artwork and books. Notoriously finicky, wonderfully independent, and fabulously fun, cats serve us as companions, muses, and foils. The best evidence of these myriad roles filled by cats can be found in books. From the Cheshire Cat to Krazy Kat, "Puss in Books" tracks the inclusion ... More/Buy
Sanctuary: British Artists and Their Studios
Hossein Amirsadeghi et al (eds)
Thames & Hudson, HB, 9780500977071
"Sanctuary: British Artists and their Studios" gives a rare and privileged insight to the studios and inspirations of nearly 120 of Britains greatest living artists working today, both in Britain and abroad. Sanctuary's stellar cast of artists encompasses many different ways of thinking about and making art. This lavish, large-format book brims with specially commissioned photographs portraits, images at work, places ... More/Buy
Shapes for Sounds: Why alphabets look like they do, what has happened to them since printing was invented, why they won't ever change, and how it might have been
Timothy Donaldson
Mark Batty, PB, 9781935613435
"Shapes for sounds" examines one of humankind's fundamental creations: alphabets. In a culture that is overrun by the image, it is easy to forget that alphabets are the origin of gleaning understanding through images. Typographer, graphic designer, and teacher Timothy Donaldson has compiled a history of the Latin alphabet, consolidating his research into twenty-six informative and innovative charts that make clear ... More/Buy
Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape Painting in Europe 1880-1910
Richard Thomson
Thames & Hudson, HB, 9780500238912
A groundbreaking collaboration between the National Galleries of Scotland, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Finnish National Gallery, this catalogue accompanies the first exhibition dedicated to landscapes by the Symbolists, the innovative movement whose artists took a more imaginative and emotional approach to painting and embraced themes such as music, nationalism, science and modernity. It covers a wide range ... More/Buy