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Deep in the sea lives a happy school of fish. Their watery world is full of wonders, but there is also danger, and the little fish are afraid to come out of hiding . . . until Swimmy comes along. Swimmy shows his friends how—with ingenuity and team work—they can overcome any danger.
Whether fear, anguish, or unrequited desire, Symbolist painters believed that art should reflect an emotion or idea rather than a realistic representation of the natural world. This book brings together some of the most important images from their mysterious, spiritual, and seductive visual language. For more information click here
An accomplished French cook offers 80 classic recipes to be prepared or tasted as a couple. “The love of food, when it is shared, is conducive to a blissful love life.” —Brillat-Savarin, 18th-century French writer and epicurean Anticipating pleasures of the table with a loved one only heightens the delights in cooking together—particularly because…
This is the first book in English to introduce this key figure of Europe’s postwar avant-garde and cultural underground. Through new essays and primary sources, it foregrounds the artist’s influence in contemporary art since the 1960s.
Tando the Tooth Mouse of Muizenberg. Written by Sybrandus Adema, with illustrations by well-respected artist, Liza Grobler, is a bilingual children’s book is about the most famous mouse in Africa who is on a massive mission to combat plaque. The book is written in Afrikaans and English
Since Tate Modern opened in London in 2000, its Turbine Hall has hosted some of the world’s most memorable works of contemporary art. The annual Hyundai Commission, now in its fourth year, gives artists an opportunity to create new work for this unique context. The most recent commission is by Cuban artist Tania Bruguera (b. 1968), who is world-renowned for her complex and absorbing installations and performance pieces that pivot around issues of authority, power, and control and events in Cuban history. For this new installation, Bruguera explores the vital issue of immigration and examines how that expands into notions of community and “the neighborly.” Bruguera, who lives in New York and Havana, has works in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, among others.
Neil Roake’s new installment is as much funny to page through as it is informative.
This book is a comprehensive introduction to the life and work of the important British abstract painter William Scott (1913 – 1989). After studying at Belfast College of Art and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Scott began his painting career in 1946 while teaching at Bath Academy of Art, concentrating on still lifes…
A central figure in pop art, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was one of the most significant and influential artists of the later twentieth century. In the 1960s he began to explore the growing interplay between mass culture and the visual arts, and his constant experimentation with new processes for the dissemination of art played a pivotal role in redefining access to culture and art as we know it today.
Bring modern art to life for young readers with this art activity book based on 10 major modern and contemporary artworks.
Suitable for ages 6+
Born in Bangor, Wales, in 1949, Richard Deacon has been at the forefront of sculpture for the last 35 years and was awarded the Turner Prize in 1987.
The Tate Triennial is a snapshot of the state of contemporary art in Britain today. Featuring 30 artists the 2006 Triennial will explore a significant strand in contemporary art practice: the borrowing or recasting of cultural material.
Jafta’s father is coming home. He has been away for a very long time, but things are changing in his country and now he can return. Jafta will be able to tell him about all the things that he has missed,
Joyce Townsend and Tony Smibert have used their considerable expertise to develop a book with a breadth of content suitable for anyone who wants to become a painter in watercolour.
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