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This publication spotlights Piet Mondrian's early career, a prolific period that saw the artist focus on figurative landscape painting during his time spent in Amsterdam.

This volume draws together over 20 works by leading British minimalist Bob Law (1934-2004), providing a concise overview of the artist's career.

Richly illustrated catalogue from an exhibition that brought together works by Op artist Bridget Riley with the Pointillist and Post-Impressionist painter Georges Seurat, examining his influence on her abstract art.

From Bauhaus jewelry and West African textiles to contemporary portraiture and sculpture, this unique exhibition and accompanying full color catalog curated by celebrated fashion designer/curator Duro Olowu (b. 1965) explores the rituals of making that underpin an artists work. Olowu selected material by over 70 artists, including rarely seen works

This catalogue features three new paintings by Bridget Riley that bring the artist's exploration of the circle from the wall to the canvas, and from black and white to colour.

With an interview with the artist, this richly illustrated volume catalogues British Conceptual artist John Stezaker's ongoing series of film still collages, first begun in 1979 and for which he is widely recognised.

Through interviews and personal accounts, this publication provides an intimate portrait of renowned Abstract Expressionist artist Arshile Gorky, accompanied by key illustrations and introduced by his biographer Matthew Spender.

Tracks a shift in Op artist Bridget Riley's career from use of the vertical stripe to increasingly complex diagonal compositions, seen in studies on paper from 1984 to 1995.

A leading voice on Dada, Surrealist and Latin American art, the art historian

Lavishly illustrated volume showcasing nearly 200 objects from the collection of George Loudon relating to the nineteenth-century life sciences, revealing the artistic expression of these historic curiosities.

Documents the history of the influential Stockwell Depot - an industrial building reclaimed by artists that heralded the emergence of the London artists' studio movement and gained international recognition as a centre for abstraction in Britain.

Recounting an art dealer's recuperation from major surgery in the famous Claridge's Hotel in London, this idiosyncratic novel interweaves reality with fantasy. Room 225-6 follows the author-character 'The Protagonist' around London's Mayfair as he hosts endless art world gatherings, tea parties for twenty and visits a multitude of local galleries and stores. Incorporating multi-layered voices and devices, the distinctive narrative introduces the reader to a memorable host of characters - from the 'The Political Prisoner' to 'The Little Mondrian' - in a tale filled with humour of observation and incident. Bringing to life this frightening yet extraordinary period in one man's life, it is at once honest, satirical, idiotic and bold.

Eight never-before-seen gouache studies are at the centre of this volume, illustrating Bridget Riley's dynamic approach to colour. This volume documents a group of gouache studies by Bridget Riley from 1969 to 1972 that reflects a major reconfiguration of Riley's style. The shapes formed in these gouaches are arranged from a limited selection of colours - namely violet, green and pink - to explore the visual relationship between 'contrast and harmony'. Accompanying full colour illustrations, a conversation between the artist and Robert Kudielka from 1972 posits the works within the context of Bridget Riley's oeuvre.

Paul Winstanley, who works from photographic material, creates

The second edition of this indispensable collection, Talking Art 1 is

Among the many pictorial devices Bridget Riley has deployed over

Arguably one of Americas most unconventional art/cultural critics

Comprising 41 works in verse, shape poems and abstract pieces written over a 20-year period, the volume's design is sensitive to the unique visual look of each poem. To introduce the book, editors Jeremy Akerman and Eileen Daly discuss with Peake the relationship between art and writing.

John Stezaker is renowned for his innovative approach to found photographic imagery. This artist book focuses on his 'Crossing Over' series, which reframes image fragments from postcards to stimulate new readings.

Critic, novelist and cultural voyeur Michael Bracewell is not a writer who's easy to classify. Born in 1958, a veteran of the British punk scene, he is a shockingly wide-ranging intellect whose influences range from Oscar Wilde to Patti Smith to electronic music artist Goldie. One of the most influential commentators on modern and contemporary art, a regular contributor to Frieze since its inception, Bracewell also has won awards for fashion writing. In an engaging collection from the outstanding British art publisher Ridinghouse, Bracewell explores connections between the visual arts, pop music, modern iconography and various sub-cultures. These finely crafted essays appraise the vision and ideas of individual artists and the relation of their work to its broader cultural context. Bracewell has written extensively on artists including Gilbert & George, Richard Hamilton, Bridget Riley, Wolfgang Tillmans, Anish Kapoor, Keith Coventry, John Stezaker, Glenn Brown and Damien Hirst. Reading Bracewell is sheer pleasure. His British colleagues describe his work as "lyrical" and "inspired." One critic calls him "the poet laureate of late capitalism," while another says his prose "shimmers with metaphysical warmth." Even allowing for critical exaggeration, there's no question this is a writer of huge talent, with a lot to say.

Photographing white single squares and rectangles found in urban areas, David Batchelor's Found Monochromes project expands the artist's interrogation of colour, skill and the cityscape. Since 1997, David Batchelor has been photographing single square and rectangle planes of uninterrupted white that he passes as he walks through London and places he visits. The images are informal and impromptu; shot from a uniform distance the white planes are seen on a diversity of backdrops: brick walls, car doors, metal fences and more. Batchelor began this body of work after considering the history of the monochrome in painting, and the lack of skill associated with them in the work of Yves Klein and Ad Reinhardt, amongst others. Bringing together the largest group of photographs from this series, a conversation between the philosopher Jonathan Rée and the artist focuses on the importance of monochromes to ideas of modernity, artificiality and the city.

Made across a 32-year span, the works in Tabula Rasa unite the central themes in the art of celebrated British artist John Stezaker, from the capacities of collage to the current flow in an age of mass media. This volume brings silkscreens on canvas from the early 1990s and film still collages from the 1990s and 2009 together for the first time. Accompanying full-colour illustrations and a series of installation views of Stezaker's work at The Approach, London, an essay by art critic and cultural commentator Michael Bracewell looks at the connections within Stezaker's practice, centering on notions of screens, voids and cut-outs.

From the opening of The Louvre to the launch of Tate Modern and beyond, this accessible publication traces the development of the museum and its evolving role within society.

Bringing together over 20 gouache studies by celebrated British Op artist Bridget Riley, along with an artist interview, this catalogue explores Riley's process and the effects of her decision making.

Famous for destroying everything he owned, this first major monograph of Michael Landy's work surveys both his large-scale installations and lesser-known sculpture to illustrate the artist's joyful inventiveness. Richly illustrated in full colour, this book surveys his earliest work, including lesser-known sculptures - such as Sovereign shown at Freeze in 1988 - to large-scale installations Market, Closing Down Sale and Scrapheap Services. Other works discussed in detail include the infamous Break Down, where Landy destroyed all 7,227 of his possessions in a department store on Oxford Street, London; Semi-detached, where Landy constructed a full-scale model of his family home at Tate Britain, London; and the project H2NY where Landy made 168 drawings based on a Jean Tinguely sculpture. With over 800 colour illustrations and four newly commissioned texts, this volume provides a comprehensive insight into Landy's work

Art historian Penelope Curtis examines the relationship between sculpture and architecture in the mid-twentieth century to explore how modernist architecture affects the display of sculpture, as well as how sculpture enhances those spaces.