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Fall 2021You want to give the most sophisticated gift. No, the cutest. Wait, no—the one that will most amaze and delight the one you love (or want to impress) the most. And yet, all around, you see disposable, infinitely forgettable junk. Well look no further. A book is a gift for life. Scroll through some of our favorites for the Fall 2021 season below! Frida Kahlo: Her Universe
Text by Jessica Maricarmen Serrano Bandala, Gerardo Estrada, Beatriz Scharer Tamm, Octavio Murillo Álvarez de la Cadena, Martha Romero, Luis Enríquez, Paulina García, Luz Emilia Aguilar Zinser, Jaime Moreno Villareal, Luis Roberto Vera, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Circe Henestrosa, Marta Turok. This compendium presents the rich diversity of themes, ideas, concepts and emotions generated around two fundamental, iconic figures of modern Mexico: painter Frida Kahlo and her husband, muralist Diego Rivera.
More than 300 images from the >>more
RM/Museo Frida Kahlo – Casa Azul
ISBN 9788417975531
US $65.00 CAN $83.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 12.25 in. / 240 pgs / 267 color.
Pub Date: 12/07/2021 In stock
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|  This volume gathers a surprising and engaging sampling of 350 pieces of printed matter: material that circulated between the 1910s and the 1960s, with print runs of anywhere from a thousand to tens of thousands >>more
RM
ISBN 9788417975517
US $35.00 CAN $47.00 TRADE
Clth, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 350 color.
Pub Date: 12/07/2021 In stock
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|  Beatriz Milhazes: Avenida Paulista
Edited with introduction and text by Adriano Pedrosa, Amanda Carneiro, Ivo Mesquita. Text by Estrella de Diego, Isabel Carlos, Jo Applin, Luiza Interlenghi, Yuko Hasegawa. This is the most comprehensive book to date on Beatriz Milhazes, featuring many previously unpublished paintings and prints. Milhazes, a pivotal figure in contemporary art and the history of abstraction, works with a complex repertoire >>more
DelMonico Books/Museu de Arte de São Paulo
ISBN 9781636810034
US $75.00 CAN $95.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8 x 10.75 in. / 370 pgs / 280 color.
Pub Date: 12/07/2021 In stock
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|  Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle
Edited with text by Tracey Bashkoff, Megan Fontanella. Text by Mark Antliff, Patricia Leighten, George E. Lewis. One of the foremost artistic innovators of abstraction in the 20th century, Vasily Kandinsky sought to liberate painting from its ties to the natural world and promote the spiritual in art. This richly illustrated publication >>more
Guggenheim Museum
ISBN 9780892075591
US $45.00 CAN $61.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.75 x 10 in. / 196 pgs / 125 color / 55 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/07/2021 In stock
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|  The Danish artist Kay Nielsen’s luminous interpretations of fairy tales and legends from around the world are among the most celebrated book illustrations of the 20th century, unsurpassed in their dramatic intensity and intricate detail. >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468805
US $45.00 CAN $58.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 168 pgs / 115 color.
Pub Date: 11/02/2021 In stock
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|  Milton Avery
Text by Edith Devaney, Erin Monroe, Marla Price, Waqas Wajahat. Born in 1885 to a working-class family in Connecticut, Milton Avery left school at 16 to work in a factory. Intending to study lettering but soon transferring to painting, he attended evening school for 15 >>more
Royal Academy of Arts
ISBN 9781912520435
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 144 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 11/09/2021 In stock
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|  Matthew Wong: Blue View
Edited with introduction by Julian Cox. Text by Nancy Spector, Winnie Wong. Over the course of his brief career, Matthew Wong was celebrated for his paintings evoking diverse historical references ranging from Chinese scroll painting to Van Gogh and Vuillard. His colorful, dappled vignettes of imaginary landscapes >>more
DelMonico Books/Art Gallery of Ontario
ISBN 9781636810157
US $40.00 CAN $54.50 TRADE
Clth, 10.25 x 10.25 in. / 160 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 11/02/2021 In stock
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|  In 1981 Sophie Calle took a job as a chambermaid for the Hotel C in Venice, Italy. Stashing her camera and tape recorder in her mop bucket, she not only cleans and tidies, but sorts >>more
Siglio
ISBN 9781938221293
US $39.95 CAN $49.95 TRADE
Clth, 6 x 8 in. / 224 pgs / 12 color / 180 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/07/2021 In stock
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|  Masahisa Fukase: Sasuke
Introduction by Masahisa Fukase. Text by Tomo Kosuga. In 1977, photographer Masahisa Fukase turned his lens toward a new companion: his cat, Sasuke. “That year I took a lot of pictures crawling on my stomach to be at eye level with a cat >>more
Atelier EXB/Editions Xavier Barral
ISBN 9782365113106
US $55.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE
Hbk, 7.25 x 10.25 in. / 192 pgs / 115 duotone.
Pub Date: 09/07/2021 In stock
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|  Featuring new photographs by Brad Wilson in a stunning landscape format design, plus an introduction by Wilson about his philosophy and process, and an essay by Dan Flores, author of the New York Times bestseller >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862087476
US $65.00 CAN $88.00 TRADE
Hbk, 14 x 11 in. / 164 pgs / 93 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2021 In stock
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|  In January 1974, David Godlis, then a 22-year-old photo student, took a ten-day trip to Miami Beach, Florida. Excited to visit an area he had frequented a decade earlier as a kid, Godlis set his >>more
Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526846
US $39.95 CAN $53.95 TRADE
Hbk, 7.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/09/2021 In stock
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|  In 1978, Time magazine estimated that around 80 percent of professional American comics were Jewish, and Jewish humor remains a foundation stone of American popular culture and humor. This book is not intended as a >>more
Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526839
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Hbk, 6.75 x 8.25 in. / 160 pgs / 70 color / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/19/2021 In stock
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|  Sue Kwon: RAP IS RISEN
Foreword by Harry Allen. Introduction by Jeff Mao. The last decade of the 20th century into the first decade of the 21st represent a High Renaissance age of hip hop—an era in which rap music had reached critical mass and was exploding, and >>more
Testify Books
ISBN 9781732062917
US $50.00 CAN $68.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 272 pgs / 200 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/16/2021 In stock
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|  This unique large-format book features hundreds and hundreds of unique and stunning record sleeve designs from Nigeria that span a period from the country’s independence in 1960 through much of the second half of the >>more
Soul Jazz Books
ISBN 9780957260078
US $50.00 CAN $68.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11.75 x 11.75 in. / 208 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 07/05/2022 Awaiting stock
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|  William Mullan’s obsession with apples began when he saw his first Egremont Russet at a Waitrose grocery store outside of London. Fascinated by its gnarled, potato-like appearance and shockingly fresh, nutty flavor, Mullan began searching >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775751124
US $20.00 CAN $27.00 TRADE
Hbk, 6 x 7.5 in. / 128 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 10/05/2021 In stock
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|  Sunset Cocktails
Text by Guillaume Aubry, Sterling Hudson. Afterword by Ryoko Sekiguchi. This book is an invitation to transform the simple contemplation of a well-mixed cocktail into a sensory experience of “drinking the sunset.”
In 2020, French artist and architect Guillaume Aubry (born 1982) asked the celebrated Paris-based >>more
JBE Books
ISBN 9782365680509
US $25.00 CAN $34.00 TRADE
Hbk, 5 x 7.75 in. / 90 pgs / 24 color.
Pub Date: 09/21/2021 In stock
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|  Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style
Edited with text by Jason Jules. Art direction and design by Graham Marsh. From the most avant-garde jazz musicians, visual artists and poets to architects, philosophers and writers, Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style charts a period in American history when Black men across the country adopted the >>more
Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526822
US $49.95 CAN $64.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 224 pgs / 100 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/21/2021 In stock
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|  Sneakers Unboxed
Edited with introduction by Alex Powis. Foreword by Tim Marlow, Ligaya Salazar. This is the first book to gather leading designers, creators and industry insiders to reflect on sneaker design and its groundbreaking impact on popular culture. Contributors provide insights into the evolution of sneakers from sportswear >>more
The Design Museum
ISBN 9781872005539
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 196 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 08/10/2021 In stock
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|  Automania
Edited by Juliet Kinchin. Text by Paul Galloway, Andrew Gardner, Juliet Kinchin. Drawing on the wealth of automobile-related design, art and architecture in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Automania takes an in-depth look at an industrial object that changed the world. From its first >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451278
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 112 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 08/03/2021 In stock
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|  Auto Erotica
By Jonny Trunk. Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Foreword by Bob Stanley. Over the course of its 240 pages, Auto Erotica covers the gamut of motoring in Britain during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s through rare ephemeral booklets full of unusual graphic ideas and concepts. Their fabulous >>more
FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9781916218444
US $34.95 CAN $46.95 TRADE
Pbk, 7 x 8.75 in. / 240 pgs / 450 color.
Pub Date: 10/05/2021 In stock
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|  Aeroflot: Fly Soviet
By Bruno Vandermueren. Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Despite the borders of the USSR being closed to the majority of its population, Soviet citizens were among the world’s most frequent flyers. Following the 1917 Revolution, Vladimir Lenin made the development of aviation a >>more
FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9781916218468
US $34.95 CAN $46.95 TRADE
Hbk, 5 x 8 in. / 240 pgs / 225 color.
Pub Date: 11/02/2021 In stock
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|  Soviet Seasons
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. In Soviet Seasons, Arseniy Kotov reveals unfamiliar aspects of the post-Soviet terrain in sublime photographs. From snow-blanketed Siberia in winter to the mountains of the Caucasus in summer, these images show how a once powerful, >>more
FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9781916218451
US $34.95 CAN $46.95 TRADE
Hbk, 8 x 6.5 in. / 240 pgs / 215 color.
Pub Date: 10/19/2021 In stock
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|  This richly illustrated volume examines the idiosyncratic phenomenon of social nudism in mid-20th-century Britain, an island nation fabled for its lack of sunshine and its reserved social attitudes.
Structured across three interrelated phases, readers first encounter >>more
Atelier Éditions
ISBN 9781733622066
US $32.00 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 7 x 9.25 in. / 224 pgs / 12 duotone / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/18/2022 Awaiting stock
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|  On the Necessity of Gardening
Edited with text by Laurie Cluitmans. Text by Marieke Barnas, Liesbeth Helmus, Erik de Jong, René de Kam, Alhena Katsof, Jamaica Kincaid, Catriona Sandilands, Patricia de Vries, et al. Organized as an inventive abecedarium, On the Necessity of Gardening tells the story of the garden as a rich source of inspiration.
Over the centuries, artists, writers, poets and thinkers from Capability Brown to Derek Jarman >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789493246003
US $35.00 CAN $47.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 240 pgs / 50 color / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/23/2021 Out of stock
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|  This inspiring volume presents the garden vision of Piet Oudolf and LOLA Landscape Architects. One of the world’s foremost living garden designers, and a leading figure of the "New Perennial" movement, Piet Oudolf (born 1944) >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462086302
US $45.00 CAN $61.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2021 In stock
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|  New Grammar of Ornament
By Thomas Weil. Text by Heinz Schütz, Manuel Will. Ornaments are omnipresent: they can be found on buildings, fabrics, jewelry, tiles, ceramics and wallpaper. Scorned at the outset of the modern age, ornament has long since returned to architecture and influences design drafts as >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786536
US $45.00 CAN $61.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 340 pgs / 390 color.
Pub Date: 12/28/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  Alex Katz: Beauty
Text by Carter Ratcliff, Jarrett Earnest. This handsome clothbound catalog gathers Alex Katz’s recent titular print portfolio. The series of 25 prints features close-up, black-and-white portraits that remove the subjects from any contextual backdrop, emphasizing instead subtle shifts in expression. Rendered >>more
Karma Books, New York/Lococo Fine Art Publisher, St. Louis
ISBN 9781949172546
US $40.00 CAN $54.50 TRADE
Clth, 9.25 x 10 in. / 100 pgs / 21 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/13/2021 In stock
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|  Ellsworth Kelly: Postcards
Edited by Ian Berry, Jessica Eisenthal. Foreword by Ian Berry. Text by Jessica Eisenthal, Ellsworth Kelly, Lynda Klich, Tricia Y. Paik. Over the course of more than 50 years, renowned American artist Ellsworth Kelly made approximately 400 postcard collages, some of which served as exploratory musings and others as studies for larger works in other mediums. >>more
DelMonico Books/Tang
ISBN 9781636810096
US $60.00 CAN $82.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 320 pgs / 230 color.
Pub Date: 02/15/2022 Awaiting stock
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|  Alexis Rockman: Works on Paper
Edited by Todd Bradway. Text by Helen Molesworth, David Rimanelli. With a career spanning over three decades, internationally acclaimed American artist Alexis Rockman is well known for his complex, large-scale paintings and works on paper depicting the collision between civilization and nature. Rockman synthesizes elements >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862087551
US $55.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE
Clth, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 224 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2021 In stock
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|  Mother! Origin of Life
Edited by Lærke Rydal Jørgensen, Kirsten Degel, Marie Laurberg. Foreword by Poul Erik Tøjner, Kirsten Degel, Marie Laurberg. Text by Marie Laurberg, Neville Rowley, Pia Fris Laneth, Adam Bencard, Marcel Proust, Maggie Nelson, Rachel Cusk, Lydia Davis, Gustave Flaubert, Sylvia Plath, Hans Christian Andersen, et al. Ushering us into the world, our mother is our physical and cultural wellspring. Even if she is lost or absent, we are all sons and daughters. Throughout history and across cultures, the role of the >>more
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 9788793659384
US $35.00 CAN $47.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.5 x 10.25 in. / 128 pgs / 150 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/18/2022 Awaiting stock
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|  The Extreme Self
By Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland, Hans Ulrich Obrist. If you’re wondering why the inside of your head feels so strange these days, this book has the answers. The Extreme Self is a new kind of graphic novel that shows how you’ve been morphing >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960989738
US $18.00 CAN $24.50 TRADE
Pbk, 4.5 x 7.25 in. / 256 pgs / 52 color / 57 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/20/2021 Out of stock
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|  Multicolored cakes, a fluent cascade of cornflakes, jelly molded into witty dishes, grotesque fish and an expanse of steaks glimpsed under a skeleton: these are just a few of the vibrant and hypnotic images to >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862087537
US $25.00 CAN $34.00 SDNR50
Spiral bound, 11.75 x 11.75 in. / 13 pgs / 14 color.
Pub Date: 12/21/2021 Out of stock
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|  Have you ever wondered what a conspiracy menu tastes like? This book compiles major email leaks of the past 15 years through the theme of cooking. Part reportage, part cookbook, it showcases over 50 recipes >>more
JBE Books
ISBN 9782365680318
US $49.95 CAN $67.95 TRADE
Clth, 7.25 x 10.5 in. / 280 pgs / 52 color / 8 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2021 Out of stock
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|  scott b. davis: sonora
Text by Joshua Chuang. Interview by Virginia Heckert. Californian photographer scott b. davis’ (born 1971) recent work uses combinations of in-camera palladium paper negatives and traditional film-based platinum/palladium prints. The images explore the boundaries of visibility in the darkness and overwhelming light of >>more
Radius Books
ISBN 9781942185840
US $55.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE
Hbk, 10.5 x 12 in. / 172 pgs / 80 duotone.
Pub Date: 02/01/2022 Awaiting stock
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|  Since moving to New England in 1984, Barbara Bosworth (born 1953) has been photographing the sea and its awe-inspiring ability to transform sky, water and light. The sea evokes calm introspection, romance and poetry, while >>more
Radius Books
ISBN 9781942185918
US $55.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE
Hbk, 10.25 x 12.75 in. / 200 pgs / 30 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/08/2022 Awaiting stock
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|  Following Meghann Riepenhoff's (born 1979) acclaimed 2018 publication Littoral Drift + Ecotone, this volume features unique cyanotype prints made in freezing landscapes, where elements like precipitation, waves, wind and sediment physically etch into the photographic >>more
Radius Books
ISBN 9781942185864
US $60.00 CAN $82.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11.5 x 13.25 in. / 120 pgs / 64 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2022 Awaiting stock
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|  Elizabeth II
Text by Alexandra Shulman. This book highlights the most interesting and important portraits of Queen Elizabeth II that are held in the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. With just under 1,000 portraits of Elizabeth II, the National >>more
National Portrait Gallery, London
ISBN 9781855147430
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Hbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 152 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 03/29/2022 Awaiting stock
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|  This book is an unexpected deep dive into the tenderness and truth of weddings. For 342 Saturdays, John Dolan has quietly pursued emotional and revealing art inside the wedding day itself. He has aimed his >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862087452
US $90.00 CAN $123.00 TRADE
Hbk, 10 x 13 in. / 268 pgs / 58 color / 137 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2021 Out of stock
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|  This collection of 30 photographs by American photographer Peter Kayafas (born 1971) depicts people swimming in the ocean at Coney Island, a location that has long served as a source of inspiration and fascination for >>more
Purple Martin Press
ISBN 9780979776847
US $25.00 CAN $34.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 9 in. / 48 pgs / 30 duotone / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/07/2021 In stock
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|  Erwin Olaf: Strange Beauty
Edited by Roger Diederen. Text by Daniel Hornuff, Anja Huber, Claudia Peppel, Franziska Stöhr, Estelle Vallender. The work of Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf (born 1959) is recognizable for its high-gloss aesthetic value and compositional precision, all staged down to the smallest detail. His large-scale portraiture and genre scenes are by turns >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775749213
US $50.00 CAN $68.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 240 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 07/06/2021 In stock
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|  This volume presents award-winning Pennsylvania-based photographer Lydia Panas’ (born 1958) much-praised series of mesmerizing color portraits of reclining women and girls. In an interesting reversal of roles, the artist's and models' gazes are intertwined, incorporating >>more
MW Editions
ISBN 9781735762920
US $50.00 CAN $68.00 TRADE
Clth, 10 x 12 in. / 112 pgs / 65 color.
Pub Date: 12/07/2021 In stock
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|  A new book by award-winning Minneapolis-based photographer R.J. Kern (born 1978), The Unchosen Ones features portraits of future farmers in America’s heartland. Kern’s subjects are Minnesota 4-H members posing with their farm animals. Each one >>more
MW Editions
ISBN 9781735762937
US $50.00 CAN $68.00 TRADE
Clth, 9.25 x 11.75 in. / 136 pgs / 111 color.
Pub Date: 12/07/2021 In stock
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|  In the tradition of conceptual action books, American artist David Horvitz (born 1982) has created a long-form poem developed initially as a collaboration between the artist and his five-year-old daughter. Change the Name of >>more
JBE BOOKS/YVON LAMBERT
ISBN 9782365680530
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Hbk, 7.75 x 10.5 in. / 80 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/21/2021 In stock
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|  Aya
By Silke and Jeppe Hein, Elisabeth Kierztner. Berlin-based artist Jeppe Hein (born 1974) and his wife, Silke, have collaborated to create an enchanting rite-of-passage story in the form of a poignant children’s picture book. Aya tells the tale of a caterpillar named >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775751001
US $26.00 CAN $35.50 TRADE
Hbk, 7.5 x 10 in. / 88 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/07/2021 In stock
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|  This book brings together the best of Japanese graphic poster design—from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics to the creation of the Issey Miyake logo, and from the Osaka Expo to the official poster for the Pan-Pacific >>more
skira
ISBN 9788857245782
US $70.00 CAN $95.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.25 x 11.5 in. / 500 pgs / 700 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2021 In stock
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|  London-based Chinese Malaysian multidisciplinary producer and DJ Flora Yin-Wong presents her first book, Liturgy, a journey into the uncanny realm of the senses. Divided into nine chapters, the book delves deep into histories of healing >>more
Primary Information/PAN
ISBN 9781736534601
US $16.00 CAN $22.00 TRADE
Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 120 pgs / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/20/2021 In stock
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