 FEATURED IMAGEFeatured image, Tracey Emin's "You Forgot to Kiss My Soul" (2001), is reproduced from Hayward Publishing's 2011 exhibition catalog, Love Is What You Want. In his foreword, Hayward Gallery director Ralph Rugoff writes, "From the beginning, her art has intently explored emotional subjects, including love and desire as well as the breaking of faith and trust. Concerns about belonging and displacement, nationality and bigotry, have also served as jumping off points for works that have found new forms for intimately addressing feelings and thoughts that many people prefer to hold at arm's length. Alternately tough, sentimental, desperate, angry, funny, and full of longing, Emin's art makes use of an expansive range of voices and tones, while mining her own personal biography for much of its raw material. Consequently, it is easy to feel that we know her already."
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| FEATURED PUBLISHER IMPRINT Since 1992, Milan-based Charta has been publishing books on contemporary and Modern art, photography, architecture, design, dance, theater and theory. From Marina Abramovic to Howard Zinn, Charta has published more than 800 titles, many of which convey an activist political stance. |  FEATURED STOREPaul Smith is an iconic British fashion designer whose business and reputation is founded upon his menswear; his first menswear collection was shown in 1976 in Paris. The Paul Smith shops reflect the character of Paul and his designs, an unmistakable Englishness augmented by the unexpected. The shops house the Paul Smith collections and an extensive selection of jewelery, books, art, antiques and an array of interesting and beautiful products. Work of British designers is often showcased alongside Paul’s personal collections of art or curios. Paul Smith shops are found in London, Nottingham, Paris, Milan, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, the Philippines, Korea, Kuwait, U.A.E. – and over two hundred throughout Japan.
This week, in honor of artist Gerhard Richer's 80th birthday, Paul Smith's Greene Street, New York, store will feature Walther König's Gerhard Richter Poster Edition in the windows.>>visit store website | FROM THE SHELVES | Staff Selections | FROM THE SHELVES | BestsellersBestselling Books on Art, Photography, Architecture & Design | FEATURED LIBRARY In The Museum of Modern Art's best-selling survey, Drawing Now, the curators write, "It is possible to envision a time when there wasn't oil painting (before the fifteenth century), or video art (before 1964), but drawing seems to have been with us always. Barnett Newman swore that the first man, who happened to be an artist, made a line in the dirt with a stick, creating the first drawing and simultaneously the first artwork." Our Modern and Contemporary Drawing Library features a selection of essentials for both lovers and scholars of the medium. continue
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| NEW RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS High Heels Edited by Ivan Vartanian. Text by Valerie Steele, Tim Blanks, Philip Delamore, Stella Bruzzi. Conversations with Manolo Blahnik, Nicholas Kirkwood, James Crump. The high-heeled shoe conjures self-assured allure and erotic intoxication like no other item of women's wear. Just recently the high heel has undergone a massive resurgence in popularity, in part reinventing itself through an overt >>more
Goliga
ISBN 9781935202691
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 192 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2012 Active/In stock Bob Recine: Alchemy of Beauty Text by René Ricard. Photographs by Mario Sorrenti, Robbie Fimmano, Bob Recine. The man behind some of the most avant-garde hairdos and head dresses worn by Lady Gaga, Recine has taken hair styling to incredibly creative heights-often literally, as he propels the braids and locks of his >>more
Freedman|Damiani
ISBN 9788862082129
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Clth, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 164 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/29/2012 Active/In stock Dzine: Nailed Introduction by Kim Hastreiter. Text by Luis Gispert, Yone, Jamel Shabazz, Fred Brathwaite a.k.a. Fab 5 Freddy. Dzine's fusion of commerce, kustom kulture craft and high art have made him an international sensation in locations as various as the Venice Biennale-where he famously customized an 18-foot boat into a blinged-out multimedia installation-and >>more
Damiani/Standard Press
ISBN 9788862082051
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Hbk, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 216 pgs / 290 color.
Pub Date: 02/29/2012 Active/In stock Frédéric Malle: On Perfume Making Text by Frédéric Malle. Foreword by Catherine Deneuve. Illustrations by Konstantin Kakanias. Perfumier Frédéric Malle was born into the world of fragrances: his grandfather was Serge Heftler, founder of Dior Parfums. However, Malle describes his own role as that of a publisher, likening his label Editions de >>more
Angelika Books
ISBN 9783943287011
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Clth, 12 x 15.75 in. / 112 pgs / 19 color / 10 b&w.;
Pub Date: 01/31/2012 Active/In stock Electrical Banana: Masters of Psychedelic Art Foreword by Paul McCartney.Text by Norman Hathaway, Dan Nadel. From advertising and fashion to music and film, the psychedelic aesthetic defined the look of the 1960s. And yet neither the true scope of psychedelic art nor its key practitioners have ever been the subject >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862082044
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Pbk, 9.5 x 10.25 in. / 208 pgs / illustrated throughout.
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