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The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2 A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island Hardcover Kent Monkman 9780771006470 $44.00 ART Nov 28, 2023

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his longtime collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America.For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego of sorts, a shape-shifting, time-travelling elemental being named Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Though we have glimpsed her across the years, and on countless canvases, it is finally time to hear her story... + Read More
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The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1 A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island Hardcover Kent Monkman 9780771061226 $48.00 ART Nov 07, 2023

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America.For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego of sorts, a shape-shifting, time-travelling elemental being named Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Though we have glimpsed her across the years in films and on countless canvases, it is finally time to hear ... + Read More
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Where the Falcon Flies A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic Hardcover Adam Shoalts 9780735241015 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 03, 2023

From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastness of Canada’s landscape and history.Looking out his porch window one spring morning, Adam Shoalts spotted a majestic peregrine falcon flying across the neighbouring fields near Lake Erie. Each spring, falcons migrate from southernmost Canada to remote arctic mountains. Grabbing his backpack and canoe, Shoalts resolved to follow the falcon’s route north on an astonishing 3,400-kilometre journey to the Arctic.Along the way, he faces a huge variety ... + Read More
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Son of Elsewhere A Memoir in Pieces Paperback Elamin Abdelmahmoud 9780771002243 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 03, 2023

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of the most beloved media personalities of his generation comes a one-of-a-kind reflection on Blackness, faith, language, pop culture, and the challenges and rewards of finding your way in the world.Professional wrestling super fandom, Ontario’s endlessly unfurling 401 highway, late nights at the convenience store listening to heavy metal—for writer and podcast host Elamin Abdelmahmoud, these are the building blocks of a life. Son of Elsewhere charts that life in wise, funny, and moving reflections on the many thr... + Read More
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Becoming a Matriarch Hardcover Helen Knott 9780385697774 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 29, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWhen matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behind, or to craft a new space.Helen Knott’s debut memoir, In My Own Moccasins, wowed reviewers, award juries, and readers alike with its profoundly honest and moving account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, resilience, and survival. Now, in her highly anticipated second book, Knott returns with a chronicle of grief, love, and legacy.Having lost both her mom and grandmother in just over six months, forced to navigate the fin... + Read More
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It Stops Here Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People Hardcover Rueben George 9780735242807 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 29, 2023

A personal account of one man’s confrontation with colonization that illuminates the philosophy and values of a First Nation on the front lines of the fight against an extractive industry, colonial government, and threats to the life-giving Salish Sea.It Stops Here is the profound story of the spiritual, cultural, and political resurgence of a nation taking action to reclaim their lands, waters, law, and food systems in the face of colonization. In deeply moving testimony, it recounts the intergenerational struggle of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation... + Read More
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Paper Trails From the Backwoods to the Front Page, a Life in Stories Hardcover Roy MacGregor 9781039000735 $38.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 01, 2023

One of Canada’s greatest journalists shares a half century of the stories behind the stories.From his vantage point harnessed to a tree overlooking the town of Huntsville (he tended to wander), a very young Roy MacGregor got in the habit of watching people—what they did, who they talked to, where they went. He has been getting to know his fellow Canadians and telling us all about them ever since.From his early days in the pages of Maclean’s, to stints at the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, National Post and most famously from his perch on page tw... + Read More
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The Road Years A Memoir, Continued . . . Hardcover Rick Mercer 9780385688901 $36.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 31, 2023

Rick Mercer is back—again!—with the eagerly awaited sequel to his bestselling memoirAt the end of his memoir, Talking to Canadians, Rick Mercer was poised to make the biggest leap yet in his extraordinary career. Having overcome a serious lack of promise as a schoolboy and risen through the showbiz ranks—as an aspiring actor, star of a surprisingly successful one-man show about the Meech Lake Accord, co-founder of This Hour Has 22 Minutes, creator and star of the dark-comedy sitcom Made in Canada—he was about to tackle his biggest opportunity y... + Read More
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First to Leave the Party My Life with Ordinary People... Who Happen to be Famous Hardcover Salah Bachir 9780771006111 $36.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 17, 2023

A marvelous and compulsively readable collection of stories from the life of Salah Bachir — philanthropist, art collector, movie industry insider — who, through his sheer joy of life, art, giving back, and human interaction, has endeared him to some of the most famous and creative people in recent times.Salah Bachir’s encounters with stars who have passed through his beloved Toronto over the years opens on a backyard garden barbecue with Marlon Brando, and bread continues to be broken with icons as fascinating and seemingly disparate as Muhamma... + Read More
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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology Are You Ready to Be Un-Settled? Paperback Shane Hawk 9781039003798 $25.00 FICTION Sep 19, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to be un-settled?” Featuring stories by:Norris Black • Amber Blaeser-Wardzala • Phoenix Boudreau • Cherie Dimaline • Carson Faust • Kelli Jo Ford • Kate Hart • Shane Hawk • Brandon Hobson • Darcie Little Badger • Conley Lyons • Nick Medina • Tiffany Morris • Tommy Orange • Mona Susan Power • Marcie R. Rendon • Waubgeshig Rice • Rebecca Roanhorse • Andrea L. Rogers • Morgan Talty • D.H. Trujillo • Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. • Richard... + Read More
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Empty Spaces Hardcover Jordan Abel 9780771002014 $30.00 FICTION Aug 29, 2023

From the acclaimed, boundary-breaking author of NISHGA comes a hypnotic and mystifying exploration of land and legacy.Reimagining James Fenimore Cooper’s nineteenth-century text The Last of the Mohicans from the contemporary perspective of an urban Nisga’a person whose relationship to land and traditional knowledge was severed by colonial violence, Jordan Abel explores what it means to be Indigenous without access to familial territory and complicates popular understandings about Indigenous storytelling. Engaging the land through fiction and me... + Read More
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The Circle Hardcover katherena vermette 9780735239654 $32.00 FICTION Sep 05, 2023

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant and unwavering epic told from a constellation of Métis voices that consider the fallout when the person who connects them all goes missing.The concept was simple. You sit a bunch of people in a circle—everyone who hurt, everyone who got hurt, all affected—and let them share. Some people, it helped them heal, for sure. Others went in angry and left a different kind of angry. Learned how the blame belonged on the system, the history, the colonizer, th... + Read More
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The Color Purple A Novel Paperback Alice Walker 9780735248755 $23.00 FICTION Aug 01, 2023

The inspiration for the new film adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical.Alice Walker’s iconic modern classic, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardA powerful cultural touchstone of modern literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence.Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the si... + Read More
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Peace and Good Order The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada Paperback Harold R. Johnson 9780771048746 $22.00 HISTORY Aug 29, 2023

A Globe and Mail Best Book of the YearAn urgent, informed, intimate condemnation of the Canadian state and its failure to deliver justice to Indigenous people by national bestselling author and former Crown prosecutor Harold R. Johnson. Now with brand new Afterword.“The night of the decision in the Gerald Stanley trial for the murder of Colten Boushie, I received a text message from a retired provincial court judge. He was feeling ashamed for his time in a system that was so badly tilted. I too feel this way about my time as both defence counse... + Read More
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I Love Russia Reporting from a Lost Country Hardcover Elena Kostyuchenko 9781039008816 $38.00 HISTORY Oct 17, 2023

“Elena Kostyuchenko is an important guide to the 21st century.” —Timothy Snyder, author of The Road to Unfreedom“A fascinating, frightening, compulsively readable chronicle of life in Putin’s Russia.” —Carol Off, author of All We Leave BehindTo be a journalist is to tell the truth.I Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenko’s fearless attempt to document Putin’s Russia as experienced by those it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer provinces; patients and doctors in a Ukrainian maternity w... + Read More
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Burning Questions Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004-2022 Paperback Margaret Atwood 9780771096426 $26.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 05, 2023

From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes an brilliant collection of essays—funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient— which seek answers to Burning Questions such as:Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?How can we live on our planet?Is it true? And is it fair?What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaste... + Read More
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From the Lost and Found Department New and Selected Poems Paperback Joy Kogawa 9780771005138 $24.00 POETRY Nov 07, 2023

A career-spanning volume that brings together new and selected works by an iconic voice in Canadian literature.From the Lost and Found Department, by the trailblazing Joy Kogawa, is a profound work of spare, trenchant, and haunting poems that lets us stay with the quietest qualities of beauty and the sublime.This essential volume brings together thrilling new work with selected poems from The Splintered Moon (1967), A Choice of Dreams (1974), Jericho Road (1977), Woman In the Woods (1985), and A Garden of Anchors: Selected Poems (2003).Kogawa’s... + Read More
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Modern Painting A Concise History Paperback Simon Morley 9780500204894 $33.95 ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES Oct 17, 2023

This new concise history of modern painting offers an indispensable reference to the complexities and characteristics of this medium, which now exists alongside many other contemporary practices that embrace radically expanded ideas about art.While acknowledging the legacy of Herbert Read’s classic 1959 study A Concise History of Modern Painting in the World of Art series, academic and artist Simon Morley places the foundation of modern art much earlier than Read, at the emergence of Romanticism and the dawn of the industrial age. Structured lo... + Read More
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100 Twentieth Century Shops Hardcover Twentieth Century Society 9781849947701 $55.00 ARCHITECTURE Nov 21, 2023

A showcase of Britain’s most significant shops throughout the twentieth century and beyond.100 20th-Century Shops is a fascinating insight into the heritage of Britain’s changing high street and the diverse architectural styles of the twentieth century. Entries in this book showcase 100 often instantly recognizable shops from across the county, from throughout the twentieth century and stretching into the twenty-first, capturing the changing architectural styles of our beloved and rapidly disappearing retail shops. Each shop is accompanied by s... + Read More
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The Japanese House Since 1945 Hardcover Naomi Pollock 9780500343739 $112.00 ARCHITECTURE Nov 14, 2023

A complete sourcebook revealing the evolution of the Japanese modern dwelling during eight decades that transformed Japan.Imagine a rowhouse whose courtyard separates the kitchen from the bedroom. Or a tiny, triangular tower of rooms stacked one above another. Quirky, experimental, and utterly fascinating, the houses produced in Japan since the end of World War II are among the most exceptional in the world, and they are also family homes. The Japanese House Since 1945 is a cohesive chronology of iconic Japanese houses, presenting the most comp... + Read More
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The Iconic British House Modern Architectural Masterworks Since 1900 Hardcover Dominic Bradbury 9780500343746 $86.00 ARCHITECTURE Oct 10, 2023

A definitive survey of the finest examples of residential architecture in Britain from 1900 to the present, featuring both major architects and more recent emerging talents.A comprehensive survey of fifty of Britain’s most architecturally significant houses from 1900 to the present, featuring established names alongside the work of fresh emerging talents in the twenty-first century. Covering the major design movements of the past 120 years, including art deco, modernism, and postmodernism, this book also offers a unique insight into changing ta... + Read More
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Series: PELICAN BOOKS Architecture From Prehistory to Climate Emergency Paperback Barnabas Calder 9780141978208 $21.99 ARCHITECTURE Aug 29, 2023

At first glance, the Great Pyramid of Giza might seem to share little in common with a concrete and glass building on a modern university campus. Whilst one was built for a powerful Egyptian pharaoh and was the tallest building in the world for nearly 4,000 years, the other is remarkable only because there are so many other buildings just like it. However, as architectural historian Barnabas Calder explains, the Great Pyramid took only half the energy to build as the modern campus building that is a tiny fraction of its size.In this highly orig... + Read More
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Academia Collegiate Gothic Architecture in the United States Hardcover William Morgan 9780789214683 $65.95 ARCHITECTURE Oct 24, 2023

A spectacularly illustrated survey of the architectural style that defined the American college campus The Collegiate Gothic style, which flourished between the Gilded Age and the Jazz Age, was intended to lend an air of dignified history to America’s relatively youthful seats of higher learning. In fact, this mash-up of Oxbridge quaintness with piles of new money gave rise—at schools like Princeton and Vassar, Yale and Chicago—to unprecedented architectural fantasies that reshaped the image of the college campus. Today the ivy-covered monument... + Read More
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Studio Malka Habitats of the Twenty-First Century Hardcover Stéphane Malka 9780847873227 $100.00 ARCHITECTURE Sep 12, 2023

A cutting-edge blend of contemporary design and art informs the work of architecture’s enfant terrible. This first book on his firm presents an array of immersive spaces for living and working that walk the edge of practicality and imagination.Best known for UNESCO’s Cop22 in Marrakech and the French Embassy extension in Vienna, as well as his daring “guerrilla architecture,” such as Bow-House made from scaffolding and repurposed doors and windows in Holland, architect, urbanist, author, and former graffiti artist Stéphane Malka is at the foref... + Read More
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Le Corbusier Paperback Kenneth Frampton 9780500204887 $34.95 ARCHITECTURE Dec 12, 2023

A revised and updated edition of a best-selling introduction to Le Corbusier, one of the leading architects of the twentieth century.Le Corbusier is one of the most famous architects of the twentieth century. The richness and variety of his work combined with his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture have had an oversized impact on the urban fabric and the way we live. Weaving through his long and prolific life are certain recurrent themes—his perennial drive toward new types of dwelling, from the early white villas to the Unité d’H... + Read More
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Making Architecture The Work of John McAslan + Partners Hardcover Kenneth Frampton 9780500025024 $112.00 ARCHITECTURE Sep 26, 2023

An up-to-date account of the work of John McAslan + Partners, one of Britain’s most respected and dynamic architectural practices.Making Architecture provides an up-to-date account of the work of John McAslan + Partners, one of Britain’s most respected architectural practices, and analyzes the culture of a studio that has made a remarkable contribution to architecture, place-making, and the lives of individuals for four decades. A series of thematic chapters includes fully illustrated descriptionsof many recent and ongoing international project... + Read More
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Campo Baeza Selected Works Hardcover Alberto Campo Baeza 9780847872787 $170.00 ARCHITECTURE Sep 05, 2023

A comprehensive survey of the work of a master of modernist design today.Alberto Campo Baeza, one of contemporary architecture’s most distinguished voices, is renowned for a body of work that exudes the power of radical simplicity. The architectural ideas expressed in his buildings have ranged in scale from such small but beautiful residential structures as the Turégano, Gaspar, and De Blas houses to cultural facilities such as Andalucia’s Museum of Memory in Granada, an addition to his earlier achievement, the Caja General Bank Headquarters. ... + Read More
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Piero Lissoni Environments Hardcover Stefano Casciani 9788891838520 $135.00 ARCHITECTURE Sep 19, 2023

With offices in Milan and New York, Lissoni & Partners has a 30-year history in developing international projects in the fields of architecture, landscape, interior, product, and graphic design, as well as acting as art director for a range of prestigious companies.Led by Piero Lissoni, the practice combines a range of expertise with a tailored approach that sets it apart, establishing a stylistic code and a visual identity that are clearly recognizable. The works are inspired by a sense of rigor and simplicity and are characterized by a regard... + Read More
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Sawyer / Berson Houses and Landscapes Hardcover Brian Sawyer 9780847863723 $85.00 ARCHITECTURE Sep 12, 2023

The first book from SawyerBerson illustrates the award-winning firm’s quintessential pairings of modernism and classicism in seaside houses, metropolitan residences, and spectacular garden retreats.Treating architecture, landscape, and interior design as complementary endeavors, Brian Sawyer and John Berson have been ahead of their time and influential in the world of design since the founding of their eponymous partnership in 1999. SawyerBerson’s prodigious use of traditional and modern vocabularies has gained the firm widespread recognition a... + Read More
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The Art of Timeless Spaces AB Concept Hardcover Henrietta Thompson 9788891837486 $115.00 ARCHITECTURE Nov 07, 2023

Can our surroundings affect our souls? Ed Ng and Terence Ngan from AB Concept believe the answer is a resounding yes.Since the turn of this century, AB Concept has worked as a culture partner of many of the world’s leading hospitality brands, creating compelling interior environments and products that not only win awards and stand every test of time but also inspire powerful emotion in those who experience them. Through an ever-growing portfolio of projects, large and small, Ed and Terence demonstrate the power design has to shape our human exp... + Read More
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Architecture The Definitive Visual Guide Hardcover DK 9780744084986 $66.00 ARCHITECTURE Oct 31, 2023

The definitive global visual history of architectureFrom ancient dwellings to modern high-tech skyscrapers, discover everything there is to know about the history of architecture around the world.Covering more than 6,000 years of human history, Architecture charts the most important developments in building materials, technology, and design, and the social changes that have shaped the architectural landscape. Explore every significant architectural period and style in depth through key examples. Take a tour of some of the world’s most iconic bu... + Read More
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The History of African Art Paperback Suzanne Preston Blier 9780500296257 $24.95 ART Nov 14, 2023

A concise, accessible, and up- to-date overview of the arts of Africa from prehistoric times to the present day.This indispensable introductory guide explores the art of the African continent from its early origins over 150,000 years ago to the contemporary, set in the context of postcolonial debates, the restitution of cultural objects and artifacts, and the challenges of the present. This enormous and complex field of study, once under-appreciated by the Western art world, is now of global importance and an essential subject of education in a... + Read More
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Art & Crime The Fight Against Looters, Forgers, and Fraudsters in the High-Stakes Art World Paperback Stefan Koldehoff 9781644213261 $28.95 ART Dec 26, 2023

Here are stories of high-stakes, brazen art crimes from around the world with new insights on ongoing cases by two journalists counted among the most 100 influential people in the art business.“True crime fans and aficionados of culture will appreciate this dive into the dark side of the art world.” —Publishers WeeklyThe art world is one of the most secretive—and largely unregulated—of global businesses, and the list of its crimes run long and deep. The extent of the economic and cultural damage that results from criminality in the global art s... + Read More
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Japanese Prints From the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Cards Boston Museum Of Fine Arts 9780789254702 $21.95 ART Nov 07, 2023

A quality notecard set featuring great Japanese prints by masters like Hokusai and Hiroshige These notecards illustrate sixteen outstanding Japanese prints from the world-class collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The front of each card features a striking detail of a print, while the back shows the entire print along with a caption. All the best-loved themes of Japanese art are represented, including landscape, nature, and fantasy. Presented in a handsome box, these notecards are the perfect stationery for all art lovers and Japanoph... + Read More
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Staging the Supernatural Ghosts and the Theater in Japanese Prints Paperback Kit Brooks 9781588347206 $24.95 ART Oct 31, 2023

Meet cat demons, skeletal ghosts, and the nine-tailed kitsune in this brilliant and beautifully illustrated volume of ghost imagery in traditional Japanese theater.Staging the Supernatural presents striking, eerie nineteenth-century woodblock prints from Japan that feature ghosts, demons, and other supernatural entities. The book digs into the country’s rich folkloric traditions and how they were brought to life on stage, with insightful essays that explore the depiction of spirits through the centuries, the relationship between printed images ... + Read More
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Shiro Tsujimura Hardcover Axel Vervoordt 9782080294692 $135.00 ART Mar 12, 2024

This monograph on the life and work of iconoclastic Japanese artist Shiro Tsujimura demonstrates how, in his signature self-taught manner, he has reinvented the classic ceramic art form.Shiro Tsujimura is a vanguard contemporary ceramic artist. While his creations and techniques are deeply rooted in traditional Japanese and Korean styles, his independent streak defines his practice with a sense of freedom, playfulness, and self-confidence that results in decidedly unique works. This monograph takes readers inside his studio and home to discover... + Read More
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Cowboy Hardcover Nora Burnett Abrams 9780847873753 $100.00 ART Oct 10, 2023

The Cowboy, Reconsidered: the enduring myth of the cowboy is a richer, more diverse story than most understand. In this survey, some of the most important artists working today take up the cowboy through the lens of queer, Black, Asian, and Latinx perspectives.Perhaps no other figure in the American popular imagination conjures the respect, mystery, and adoration than that of the cowboy. And it’s long been a favorite subject of artists from the early twentieth century to today. In this unique exhibition and accompanying catalogue, the cowboy is... + Read More
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Body in Trouble Paperback Nadia Belerique 9781915609106 $27.00 ART Nov 14, 2023

A publication accompanying the exhibition Nadia Belerique: Body in Trouble at the Fogo Island Gallery.This publication accompanies Body In Trouble, an exhibition of work by Nadia Belerique, curated by Claire Shea and Nicolaus Schafhausen and presented at the Fogo Island Gallery from July 29 to September 25, 2022. The publication features critical texts by Tom Engels and Ruba Katrib, a conversation between Nadia Belerique, Claire Shea, and Nicolaus Schafhausen, and is lavishly illustrated with original color photography and installation views.Co... + Read More
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Helen Frankenthaler Drawing within Nature, Paintings from the 1990s Hardcover Thomas E. Crow 9780847873807 $135.00 ART Sep 05, 2023

Helen Frankenthaler: Drawing within Nature documents an exhibition of Frankenthaler’s sumptuous paintings from the early to mid-1990s, many shown in New York for the first time.This catalog documents an exhibition that focuses on Helen Frankenthaler’s paintings on canvas of the early 1990s, along with three large-scale paintings on paper from 1995. In this period, Frankenthaler experimented with new mediums and techniques, resulting in thickly impastoed surfaces that recalibrate our understanding of her practice. A new essay by Thomas Crow exam... + Read More
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Color: A Master Class Art History · Masterpieces · Symbolism · Techniques Paperback Camille Viéville 9782080422002 $29.95 ART Oct 24, 2023

An illustrated guide to the history and symbolism of colors, as used in artworks throughout the ages, from prehistory to the present day.Color, which has the power to impart meaning or express emotion, has fascinated humans for millennia. This comprehensive, illustrated guide demonstrates how color—through different periods, cultures, and artistic movements—has been used in art: from the black, red, and white pigments first used in prehistoric cave paintings to the muted tones of Gabonese Punu masks replete with spiritual significance, or from ... + Read More
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Color in Art Paperback John Gage 9780500297339 $33.95 ART Oct 17, 2023

A wide-ranging and engaging introduction to the place and power of color in life and art by John Gage, author of the award-winning Color and Culture. The complex phenomenon of color has received detailed attention from the perspectives of physics, chemistry, physiology, psychology, linguistics, and philosophy. However, the people who work most closely with color—artists—have rarely been canvassed for their opinions on this mysterious subject. John Gage sets out to address this omission by focusing on the thoughts and practices of artists. Color... + Read More
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Culture Strike Art and Museums in an Age of Protest Paperback Laura Raicovich 9781839767838 $25.95 ART Sep 26, 2023

A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political stormIn an age of protest, cultural institutions have come under fire. Protestors have mobilized against sources of museum funding, as happened at the Metropolitan Museum, and against board appointments, forcing tear gas manufacturer Warren Kanders to resign at the Whitney. That is to say nothing of demonstrations against exhibitions and artworks. Protests have roiled institutions across the world, from the Abu Dhabi Guggenheim to the Akron Art Museum. A po... + Read More
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Art Monsters Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art Hardcover Lauren Elkin 9781784742935 $53.95 ART Aug 29, 2023

’Destined to become a new classic’ Chris KrausA dazzlingly original reassessment of women’s stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them.For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, female bodies, what is their language, what are the materials we need to transcribe it?Exploring the ways in which feminist artists have taken up this challenge, Art Monsters is a landmark intervention in how we think about art and the body... + Read More
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Crypto Art - Begins Hardcover Andrea Concas 9788891836960 $67.50 ART Sep 19, 2023

The first NFT book that tells of the beginning of Crypto Art with 50 of the best artists in the movement.In the last year, crypto art has overwhelmed the world of digital art and beyond, involving collectors, museums, and auction houses, creating a fully-fledged digital revolution. It is guided by visionary artists who have promoted this unprecedented movement, with new rules, overwhelming dynamics, and innovative ways of using art.Crypto Art—Begins, published by Rizzoli Italia and New York, is based on an idea and project by The NFT Magazine, ... + Read More
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Outstanding The Relief - from Rodin to Picasso Hardcover Alexander Eiling 9783791379869 $79.00 ART Aug 01, 2023

Is it painting or sculpture? This literally outstanding exhibition catalog deepens our understanding of a genre-bending medium over the course of nearly two centuries.No other artistic medium transcends the boundaries of our vision quite like the relief; this very ambiguity has tempted some of the world’s greatest artists to explore its possibilities. Delving into the subject of reliefs in modern art, this book presents to readers the unique opportunity to do some exploring themselves. From 1800 on, it traces the relief’s fluid aesthetic, and i... + Read More
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Spanish Painting From the Golden Age to Modernism Hardcover Norbert Wolf 9783791379463 $157.00 ART Sep 05, 2023

Beautifully packaged, this lavish volume is certain to become the definitive study of one of the most significant periods in European art history.Coinciding with the rise of the Habsburg dynasty and the expansion of the Spanish Empire, the Spanish Golden Age created a fertile environment for cultural and scientific discovery. Some of the country’s greatest music, literature, and architecture was created in the period between the mid-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—and painting was no exception.Rich in illustrations and fascinating texts, th... + Read More
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Street Art's Rising Stars 24 Artists You Should Know Hardcover Alessandra Mattanza 9783791389929 $53.99 ART Nov 07, 2023

Making their statements on the walls of the world’s major cities, these emerging artists are also making their way to the forefront of an increasingly crowded genre.As street artists move from the fringe to the mainstream, it’s hard to know who is a true talent and who’s just a flash in the pan. Filled with stunning photography and portraits of each artist, this book identifies twenty rising stars whose imaginative and technically brilliant works are bringing them to the forefront of the genre.Each artist is profiled in multiple-page spreads th... + Read More
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The Upside-Down World Meetings with the Dutch Masters Hardcover Benjamin Moser 9781324092254 $53.95 ART Oct 10, 2023

Plunged into a strange land at twenty-five, Benjamin Moser began an obsessive, decades-long study of the Dutch Masters to set his world right again.Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting—casually at first, and then more and more obsessively—the country’s great museums. Inside these old buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Age and began to unearth the strange, inspiring, and terrifying stories of the artists who gave shape to one of the most luminous moments in the history o... + Read More
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An Opera for Animals Hardcover Cosmin Costinas 9783956796418 $43.95 ART May 28, 2024

On the intersection of Western and Chinese opera, performance, power, colonialism, non-human pasts and futures, classical music, technology, and artificial intelligence.An Opera for Animals will take the eponymous exhibition which debuted at Para Site, Hong Kong, and Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai in 2019 as its starting point. The exhibition examined how “opera” has been used as the name to describe various traditions of performance, social arrangement, entertainment, and spiritual work from around the world. By considering the almost perfect c... + Read More
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Very Fantastically Arranged Paperback Caragh Thuring 9780262048453 $78.95 ART Sep 26, 2023

A richly illustrated first monograph of artist Caragh Thuring, whose unique and layered paintings invite a boundless reimagining of her subjects.This dedicated volume is the first to comprehensively document the work of Caragh Thuring, the London-based painter and artist. With over 200 images of Thuring’s work, as well as written contributions by Laura Smith and Helen Marten, and a conversation with Ralph Rugoff, Very Fantastically Arranged offers a deep dive into the themes, obsessions, and slippery subjects the artist investigates in her vibr... + Read More
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Marina Abramovic Nomadic Journey and Spirit of Places Hardcover Marina Abramovic 9783791379951 $66.00 ART Sep 26, 2023

Never before published, this self-curated, intensely personal collection of travel notes and sketches by the world’s most revered performance artist offers readers a kind of iconography of Abramović’s daring and utterly original body of work.An artist’s notebooks are arguably the most authentic means of understanding her process, techniques, and impulses. And, for a performance artist, a rare, permanent record of how she develops her craft. Compiled over the course of four decades on stationery from various hotels, and other temporary residenc... + Read More
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Dis…Miss Gender? Paperback Anne Bray 9780262546447 $53.95 ART Oct 24, 2023

A bold mix of photographs and short essays in which artists, writers, and theorists investigate and celebrate the rapidly evolving world of gender.Discuss. Discover. Disrupt. We dis- a lot in English, particularly with regard to women and queer people. Our understanding of gender is changing, and with it, so are our questions. Dis…Miss Gender? provides thoughtfully considered contributions from an intrepid group of a hundred artists and writers who explore contemporary concepts of gender. Anchored by lavish illustrations and original essays fro... + Read More
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Art in Detail 100 Masterpieces Paperback Susie Hodge 9780500296417 $45.95 ART Oct 17, 2023

A comprehensive yet accessible sourcebook for curators and amateurs alike that examines the finer points of 100 well-known works of artGreat paintings cannot be fully understood in a single encounter. Art lovers want to revisit and reconsider the masterpieces again and again throughout their lives, perceiving in greater depth and possibly modifying their value judgments every time they look at a work. Viewing a painting as a whole is a perfectly acceptable method of interacting with art, but a deeper understanding can only be gained by analyzin... + Read More
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Abstract Painting Contemporary Painters Hardcover Amber Creswell Bell 9781760763633 $66.00 ART Sep 19, 2023

A vivid survey of over forty contemporary abstract painters by curator and bestselling author Amber Creswell Bell.“There is an internal monologue, and a world of decisions and possibilities behind each work that the viewer does not see. Abstraction is akin to learning a new language.” —Ana Young There is no single neat definition of abstract art. It makes no attempt to represent reality; instead, it has its own visual language using shape, color, and form with no rules. An explosion of creative expression and gestural force, Abstract Painting e... + Read More
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Art Unpacked Hardcover Matthew Wilson 9780500025673 $53.95 ART Dec 05, 2023

A down-to-earth, visual guidebook that shows how to “read,” understand, and get the most out of art.For beginners, art history might seem a daunting subject with complex rules and impenetrable technical language. Even for more seasoned art lovers the question of how to think about art is a perennial riddle. Art Uncovered is the perfect resource for both audiences: an engaging, visual primer for the general reader and educators. Designed like an instruction manual, fifty key artworks from around the world are deconstructed with explanations, dia... + Read More
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Treasures of India Hardcover DK 9780744084115 $54.00 ART Sep 26, 2023

The story of India through its greatest treasuresA comprehensive history of India told through 100 objects and monuments.If the captivating bronze dancing girl of the Harappan civilization heralded the dawn of the earliest cities, the stunning Sanchi Stupa symbolized the peak of Buddhist religion in India. If Tipu’s Tiger, an intricate, almost life-sized mechanical toy, represented the king of Mysore’s resistance against the East India Company, Ranjit Singh’s Golden Throne was a testament to the majestic nature of the Sikh empire.Whether it is ... + Read More
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Paris Moderne 1914-1945 Hardcover Jean-Louis Cohen 9782080421944 $85.00 ART Oct 17, 2023

This broad survey of modernism—the most scintillating creative era in Paris—spans all domains: architecture, art, design, entertainment, fashion, film, literature, photography.The lives and works of artists in every creative discipline transformed Paris into a crucible of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century. Profiles of eighty-eight influential artists, designers, photographers, architects, writers, and personalities—including Gabrielle Chanel, Eileen Gray, Jean Prouvé, Pablo Picasso, Tamara de Lempicka, Sonia and Robert Delaun... + Read More
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Clouds and Light Impressionism in Holland Hardcover Ortrud Westheider 9783791379999 $73.00 ART Nov 14, 2023

Discover how painters such as Van Gogh, Mondrian, and Jacoba van Heemskerck drew on the legacy of Dutch landscapes and realism to put their own spin on the Impressionist movement.Impressionism may have originated in France, but artists in late 19th- and early 20th-century Netherlands quickly made it their own.The genre’s vibrant colors and focus on light and atmosphere were a perfect complement to the country’s groundbreaking traditions of landscape painting and realism. This exhibition catalog brings more than a hundred works by nearly forty a... + Read More
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Van Gogh The Essential Paintings Hardcover Valérie Mettai 9783791377049 $53.95 ART Oct 17, 2023

This magnificent boxed-set features stunning, accordion-fold, color reproductions of Van Gogh’s essential works, accompanied by a separate booklet with background and descriptions of each paintingVan Gogh’s brilliant colors and expressive brush strokes come vibrantly to life in this sumptuous book that features approximately fifty of his most important works in generous accordion-fold pages.The large-format reproductions, printed on heavy stock, are presented chronologically, allowing for a close study of Van Gogh’s development as an artist. In... + Read More