Published to accompany a landmark exhibition of the art of J.M.W. Turner, this publication will highlight Turner's contemporary imagery, the most exceptional and distinctive aspect of his work throughout his career. Rather than making any claims for Turner's protomodernist credentials, it will explore what constituted modernity, and what it meant to be a modern artist, in his lifetime. Turner's career spanned revolution and the Napoleonic War, Empire, the explosion of finance capitalism, the ...

Written by Musa Meyer - Philip Guston's daughter and President of the Guston Foundation - this book brings Guston's life and his hugely rich and diverse output together into one succinct volume.

Split into three sections covering Guston's early career, his mid-century Abstract Expressionist work, and his controversial but now hugely influential late period, the book offers a complete introduction and overview of a mercurial figure.

Deze publicatie is de eerste grote monografie gewijd aan de Belgische kunstenaar Fabrice Samyn (geb. 1981). Ze is ingedeeld in diverse groepen analogieën (vorm, teken, thema) en verkent een oeuvre dat als een boom is gestructureerd rond het vraagstuk van de identiteit. In Samyns werk, dat zich graag in een ruimte vol verscheidenheid en dualiteit ophoudt, ontdekken we in de eerste plaats de tegenstellingen tussen icoon en idool, licht en schaduw, aanwezigheid en duur, mannelijk en vrouwelijk,...

A Certain Amount of Clarity, dat dezelfde titel draagt als zijn gelauwerde film uit 2014, is de eerste monografie gewijd aan de kunst van Emmanuel Van der Auwera, wiens oeuvre onze beleving van het digitale leven beschrijft op het snijpunt van documentaire, reconstructie en fictie. Zijn werk belicht de impact van opkomende technologieën op onze perceptie en op onze dialoog met anderen, het ontwikkelt platforms voor gemarginaliseerde actoren en doet een beroep op technici en wetenschappers om...

The Covid-19 crisis teaches us how priceless human nearness is. Art and education can't do without it either. Like works of art, people lose their aura when kept at digital arm's length. Art is lifeless when it can't resonate with bodies. In Nearness, Marlies De Munck and Pascal Gielen diagnose a new reality. Only culture marks the difference between surviving and living.

Nearness is also available in Dutch as a separate publication with the title Nabijheid.

This large-format book first appeared in 2001, and then again in 2004. More than fifteen years later, on the occasion of his passing, this third edition once again plunges us into the surreal, imaginative work of Henri Van Herwegen (1940–2019), the Belgian sculptor known by his pseudonym: Panamarenko. Most recognised for his assemblage work, the sculptor had a penchant for aeronautics, and variations on this theme were endlessly revisited throughout his career. None of his whimsical contrap...

Somewhere within the iconic images, carefully-made personae, star-studded milieu, million-dollar price tags and famous quotes lies the real Andy Warhol. But who was he? Robert Shore unfolds the multi-dimensional Warhol, dissecting his existence as undisputed art-world hotshot, recreating the amazing circle that surrounded him, and tracing his path to stardom back through his early career and his awkward and unusual youth. After Warhol, nothing would be the same – he changed art forever. Fin...

Residences occupy a pivotal position in Japanese architecture. As an extension of the residential space, the Japanese courtyard design is unique. This beautifully illustrated book is a collection of stunning residential courtyard designs, providing an inspiring insight into the importance of a courtyard in Japanese culture. Containing more than 30 cases studies and including technical drawings, the book reveals the creativity and beauty of Japanese courtyard design and shines a light on the a...