1921 products
Gaby Bazin
David Zwirner, 2023
Combining science, art, and history, Meet the Lithographer showcases a centuries-old printing practice that evolved into the process used today to print books, magazines, newspapers, and posters. This enchanting behind-the-scenes tour of the lithographer’s workshop offers an inside look at the tools, techniques, and stories that define lithography. The second children’s book from David Zwirner Books, Meet the Lithographer continues our mission to illuminate different elements of the art industry. The playful illustrations, printed in three striking colors, offer a unique experience of the printed medium and showcase the magic of the lithographer’s world.
English - 40 Pages - 20 x 25 cm - 0,3 Kg
ISBN: 9781644231104
Memento Mori
Katharina von Flotow
Till Schaap, 2021
In her book Memento Mori, Katharina von Flotow offers a meditation on fragility, the ephemeral, and beauty. For in these flowers that wilt, bend and retract, in this slow metamorphosis of color, in this decomposition, there is beauty.
Remember that you are mortal, a reminder to not forget the inexorability of the end, brings us back to Carpe diem! Because everything grows dark and all will disappear: seize the day. Release light from darkness, reveal the grace of obscure clarity. In this confrontation between Memento mori and Carpe Diem we find the most beautiful metaphor for our human condition. The artist invites us to a daydream, allowing us access to poetry and escape sadness and death.
Six texts complete the work; in the midst of this herbarium, they offer an original path that completes this visual emotion tinged with anxiety.
Français/English - 160 Pages - 24 cm x 33 cm – 1.2 Kg
ISBN: 9783038780663
Marc J. Ratcliff, Laurence-Isaline Stahl Gretsch
Suzanne Hurter, 2011
Soucieux de restituer les pratiques et les savoir-faire des hommes aux prises avec les savoirs techniques et scientifiques, Mémoires d’instruments relate les parcours des savants, fabricants et ingénieurs genevois, et leur insertion dans la société allant de l’Ancien Régime au seuil du XXe siècle.
253 Pages - French - 23 cm x 29 cm - 1.5 Kg
ISBN: N/A
Meret Oppenheim, Mein Album, My Album
Lisa Wenger, Martina Corgnati
Scheidegger & Spiess, 2022
The complex, enigmatic work of Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) has lost nothing of its fascination to the present day. Much has been written about her career and her art. Yet very little is known about the real person Meret Oppenheim, who always remained secretive about herself and banned publication of any personal documents until 20 years after her death. In 1958, Oppenheim put together an album that she titled Von der Kindheit bis 1943 (From Childhood to 1943). It has a dual identity of a diary and a work of art in itself. It assembles photos, objects, notes and brief texts, as well as ideas and concepts for art works, and offers very personal insights into Oppenheim's private life and thought. This book features the entire album in true-size colour reproductions and, for the first time ever, with the full text translated into English. This is supplemented with a previously unpublished autobiographical text by Oppenheim, which she wrote in 1957-58 on the request of the French scholar Yves Poupard-Lieussou for his never completed project of a bio-bibliographical history of Dada and Surrealism. An introduction by the editors Lisa Wenger and Martina Corgnati rounds out this beautiful book that offers entirely new perspectives on one of the most distinguished woman artists.
ISBN 9783039420933
Metalwork from the Arab World and the Mediterranean
Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Thames & Hudson, 2021
A remarkable collection of metalwork from the Mediterranean, Iraq, Iran, and the Indian subcontinent, published here for the first time. This volume, the latest in the series on the treasures of The Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, presents metalwork made in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Yemen from the early Islamic period through the end of the Ottoman era in the nineteenth century. The pieces include exquisite platters, serving vessels, candlesticks, and pen boxes produced for royal courts, but also many beautifully decorated bronze domestic items, such as bowls, lunch boxes, door knockers, buckets, and lamps.
Rooted in earlier artistic traditions from the Mediterranean, Iraq, Iran, and the Indian subcontinent, the metalwork traditions in this book reflect the complex history of the Arab world following the advent of Islam. This beautifully illustrated volume features many important unpublished pieces and is essential reading for specialists, but it will fascinate and inform anyone with an interest in Islamic culture and history, metalwork, and the decorative arts of the Arab world.
English - 340 Pages – 22 x 27.6 cm – 2 Kg
ISBN: 9780500971116