Art

Optic Nerve
Joe Houston and Dave Hickey
Columbus Museum of Art’s in-house curator Joe Houston traces the roots of the Op art phenomenon from twelfth-century Chinese woodcuts to its rapid spread through mainstream Western culture.
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Jim Dine: Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
If Peter Blake can illustrate Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’, then fellow veteran Pop artist Jim Dine can assay this classic Italian fairytale. Brutally, as it turns out.
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Richard Woods
Marco Livingstone and Gordon Burns
A beautifully produced book investigating British artist Richard Woods' work with paint, print, and sculpture.
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How to read a modern painting
Jon Thompson
It might not actually provide any easy methodologies for interpreting modern art but the personal tour of art professor Jon Thompson’s favourite paintings from Gustave Courbet’s ‘The Artist’s Studio’ of 1855 to Andy Warhol’s ‘Camouflage Self-Portrait’ is well worth a read.
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Anri Sala
Mark Godfrey et al
Albanian artist Anri Sala, whose political films, makes the perfect candidate for an early-career monograph.
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Peter Thursby
Vivienne Light
Comprehensive monograph on the short career of American photographic artist Francesca Woodman.
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One Work series
Afterall books
The neat idea behind Afterall’s ‘One Work’ series, which promises to stretch to a hundred volumes, is of dedicating entire books to singular works of art.
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Abu Ghraib Effect Stephen F Eisenman;
Abu Ghraib Botero
Two books responding to the aftermath of the photographs taken by US guards of detainees at Abu Ghraib in 2003.
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What Makes A Great Exhibition?
Ed. Paula Marincola
Don't expect a series of dos and don'ts, rather a series of essays, interviews and sharing of experiences by established curators such as the Whitechapel’s Iwona Blazwick.
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