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The first publication covering the practice of Toronto-based artist Abbas Akhavan, examining a large body of his work over the course of his career.

Written by Lü Peng, this book is both a biography of Zhang Xiaogang¿s fascinating life story and an authoritative insider¿s perspective of his most celebrated works. A luxuriously illustrated narrative, over four decades, it provides an authentic and world-first contextual analysis of Zhang¿s earliest years, family life, art studies, intellectual conflicts, European experiences, and his ¿Bloodline¿ work.

A landmark publication systematically incorporating records from the studio, dealers, auction houses, museums, collectors and any other possible sources to compile by far the most comprehensive record of the artist¿s oeuvre.

An unsurpassed master of post-war Japanese realist photography and a reference for amateur photographers even today. The breadth and diversity of this Renaissance man¿s oeuvre reveals untiring attention to and interest in the culture, art, faces, society, and politics of his country. With over 70,000 pictures taken between the 1920s and the 1980s, Domon Ken is considered the supreme master of Japanese photography as well as the main exponent of realism as the only approach possible. Over the years he honed his craft, shifting from propaganda photography during the war to photography as a life¿s mission, in search of his own Japan: a fascinating and silent Japan of ancient temples, Buddhist sculptures, puppet theatres (where he took refuge during the war); the seductive and expressive faces of celebrities alongside the modest ones of street urchins; up to the poorest Japan of mining villages and finally his most disturbing and modern work portraying Hiroshima and its unhealed wounds

Being a photographer at the time when Santu Mofokeng (b. 1956, Johannesburg) decided to become one was not an unmotivated act. A psychological, moral and sometimes physical war was being fought and South Africa was its arena. Photography could not afford to be an artistic abstraction. It was both a political and intellectual commitment. It was anger, it was revolt. But it remained, in spite of everything, a form of writing and that is how Mofokeng approached it. Not like his country¿s freedom fighters who denounced the iniquity of the ideology behind apartheid, but as the very special witness of a story which, until then, had been suppressed. By photographing his people, the places, the faces and the streets, Mofokeng speaks to us about himself. Because all stories always begin with the person who tells them. And they come back to the teller in the end.

A discussion of the cultural value of fashion through an interdisciplinary dialogue involving the languages of contemporary art and culture.

Through a selection of approximately one hundred photographs by Ercole Colombo, the famous Formula 1 photographer, this monograph aims to narrate the career as well as the most intimate aspects of the Brazilian car racer¿s life.

The first monograph on the husband and wife artistic team, Igor Kozlovsky and Marina Sharapova.

Over 500 archaeological objects from the Egyptian collections of two important museums in Europe.

This monograph offers a selection of over 100 photos by Ljubodrag Andric, taken from 2008 to today, featuring landscapes, walls, facades, and interiors of medieval and modern buildings.

With more than 600 images, this is primarily an art book, with priority given to the reproduction of high quality images selected from the artist¿s sketch books dating from 1963 to the present. Even so, the book includes contextual essays and interviews with the artist by the author, as well as a timeline and comprehensive bibliography of the artist.

A fully illustrated book that plays a key role in shaping our understanding of the work of Thai Contemporary Artists, and provides a gateway to the wider culture of their homeland.

The first monograph dedicated to the work of Cuban artist Yoan Capote.