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Francis Alÿs

This is an illustrated survey of Francis Alys's entire career. It includes interviews and essays by leading international writers. It also presents descriptions of Alys's work by the man himself, as well as responses from a wide range of critics and commentators."

A Story of Deception

Sheena Wagstaff

James Rondeau

Clare Bell

Roy Lichtenstein

The most iconic works of Roy Lichtenstein are widely known, reproduced, copied and even parodied. This book gives consideration to Lichtenstein's work, complemented with photographs of the artist and his seminal exhibitions.

A Retrospective

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

This exhibition is the ninth commission in the Unilever Series: an annual art commision.

TH.2058

Published to accompany the opening of a major new expansion to Tate Modern in summer 2016, this handbook offers a fascinating look at the gallery's acclaimed and growing collection of international modern and contemporary art. An essay by Frances Morris summarises the history of the collection offering a unique insight into the considerations involved in building and shaping a national collection. Matthew Gale describes some of the changing themes in the gallery displays. The A-Z section of artists includes, not only many of the most popular works in the collection, such as Matisse's 'The snail' or Dalí's 'Lobster telephone', but also features recent acquisitions from across the world. More than simply a guide to one of the most important museums in its field, the book is also an invaluable tool to the understanding of modern art and artists.

Tate Modern: The Handbook

Paul Gauguin

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Belinda Thomson

Tamar Garb

Philippe Dagen

This illustrated book, focuses on Gauguin's use of narrative, both as inspiration and fuel for his work and as a tool to create a personal mythology around himself as an artist

Maker of Myth

Gauguin

Clarrie Wallis

Christine van Assche

Born in Beirut to a Palestinian family, artist Mona Hatoum came to Britain as a student in the mid-1970s, settling in London in 1975. Her art - whether video, performance, sculpture or installation - is concerned with confrontational themes including violence, oppression and voyeurism, often in reference to the human body; and with the juxtaposition of opposites such as beauty and horror, desire and revulsion. With 250 colour images covering the whole of Hatoum's ouevre, this is the essential book on a distinctly powerful voice in contemporary art.

Mona Hatoum

John Elderfield

Elizabeth Cowling

Anne Baldassari

This work accompanies an exhibition organised, in partnership, by Tate Modern, the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, and the Museum of Modern Art. It examines the crucial relationship between Matisse and Picasso.

Matisse Picasso

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

A celebration of surrealism focuses on the works of Duchamp, Magrritte, Ernst, Dali, de Chirico, Giacometti, Bellmer, Tanning, Claude Cahum, and many others.

Desire Unbound

Surrealism

Constantin Brancusi

Published to accompany the exhibition held at Tate Modern, London, 29 January - 23 May 2004 and Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, 10 June - 19 September 2004.

The Essence of Things

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Klaus Peter Biesenbach

Mark Benjamin Godfrey

Francis Alys, born in Belgium in 1959, is one of the world's leading contemporary artists. After studying architecture in Venice, in 1986 he moved to Mexico City, where he has lived ever since. Alys works at scales ranging from the humblest drawing to the creation of epic events involving hundreds of participants, in media including video, photography, painting and performance. With an introductory essay by Mark Godfrey and comments on over sixty key works by Alys and Cuauhtemoc Medina, this book features a dictionary of quotes from the artist as well as responses to his work from a range of international contributors, including artists, critics, poets and urban theorists.

Andrew Marr

Michael Craig-Martin

Introducing readers to the architecture of the art gallery Tate Modern, this book examines the part Tate Modern plays in British and global cultural life. It includes entries on over 120 artists and explanations of key terms in art and museology, and provides an introduction to the business of displaying contemporary art.

The Handbook

Tate Modern

"The photographic portrait has two parallel histories that run side by side, from the birth of photography to the twenty-first century; one of portraits made in the studio, the other of those taken in the street. The advent of small, easily concealed cameos allowed photographers to capture subjects in the street unaware. In contrast, the studio offered the opportunity to present carefully composed images to the world, making use of the elaborate staging and technical devices at the photographer's disposal." "With celebrities today expected to pose for the paparazzi in the street, and the studio being used increasingly for informal and intimate shots, these traditions have been subverted. Accompanying a major exhibition at Tate Modern, Street & Studio explores the fascinating contrasts, tensions and connections between these two traditions."--BOOK JACKET.

An Urban History of Photography

Street and Studio

Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum

Marlene Dumas

Issued in connection with an exhibition held at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 6 September 2014-4 January 2015; Tate Modern, London, 5 February-10 May 2015; Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 30 May-13 September 2015.

The Image as Burden

Damien Hirst

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Damien Hirst, Tate Modern, 4 April - 9 September 2012.

Marco Livingstone

Michael Bracewell

Ben Borthwick

Gilbert & George

Vicente Todoli

Jan Debbaut

Accompanying a major retrospective exhibition opening at Tate Modern February 2007, and touring to five venues across the globe. This book reproduces all the works in the exhibition, including previously unpublished material.

Ester Cohen

Centre Pompidou (Paris)

Scuderie Papali al Quirinale

Tracing the roots of Futurism back to the Cubist paintings produced in Paris by Braque, Picasso & their contemporaries this book also tracks the influences of Futurism on French art, on the Rayonists & Cubo-Futurists in Russia & the Vorticists in London, establishing it as a key source for much of the output of the 20th century.

Futurism

Frida Kahlo

Gannit Ankori

Christina Burrus

Raquel Tibol

Oriana Baddeley

Presents a catalog of an exhibition of the artist's major and lesser known works.

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

"For the first time, the friendships that existed between this triumvirate are examined in depth, revealing the way their mutual admiration inspired and sustained their creative output at different stages during their careers. All three were fascinated with new technologies that evolved during their lifetimes, including photography, film, mechanisation and mass production. All three lampooned the pretensions of high art, employing humour, eroticism and word play to great effect."--Back cover.

Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia

Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France)

Annotation. Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso have long been seen as the twin giants of modern art, as polar opposites but also as complementary figures. Between them they are the originators of many of the most significant innovations of 20th-century painting and sculpture, but their relationship has rarely been explored in all of its closeness and complexity. In spite of their initial rivalry, the two masters eventually acknowledged one another as equals, becoming, in their old age, increasingly important to one another both artistically and personally. From the time of their initial encounters in 1906 in Gertrude and Leo Stein's Paris studio until 1917, they individually produced some of the greatest art of the 20th century and maintained an openly competitive relationship brimming with intense innovation. Matisse Picasso presents the artists' oeuvres in groupings that reveal the affinities but also the extreme contrasts of their artistic visions. Published to accompany the landmark exhibition (a joint effort of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Tate Modern, London; the Reunion des musees nationaux/Musee Picasso, and the Musee national d'art moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris), Matisse Picasso is the first major examination of the fascinating relationships between their art, their careers, and their lives. Thirty-four essays, each by a member of the exhibition's curatorial team, focus on a particular moment in the artists' evolving relationship. These texts are accompanied by an introductory history, commentary on the public perception of important artistic relationships, and an extensive chronology.

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