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How to Enjoy Art: A Guide for Everyone
Yale University Press
(2021)
How to Enjoy Art: A Guide for Everyone provides the tools to understand and enjoy works of art. Debunking the pervasive idea that specialist knowledge is required to understand and appreciate art, instead How to Enjoy Art focuses on experience and pleasure, demonstrating how anyone can find value and enjoyment in art. How to Enjoy Art encourages us to rediscover the fundamental pleasure in viewing art.
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How to be an Art Rebel
Thames and Hudson
(2021)
This irreverent introduction to art gives children the confidence to respond to art on their own terms, and - most importantly - to have fun with it. This book shows that art is about having fun, making up your own mind and seeing things from a different angle.
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200 Words to Help You Talk About Art
Laurence King
(2020)
200 Words to Help You Talk About Art is designed to demystify jargon-based art language and make you at ease holding a conversation on the topic. The book is written with digestible text enabling a quick and easy understanding of various topics while broadening your artistic vocabulary.
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Art Unfolded: A History of Art in Four Colours
Ilex Press
(2018)
Trace the history of art through 48 paintings and four colours, woven together to form a fascinating and kaleidoscopic tale.
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New Order II: British Art Today
Saatchi Gallery
(2014)
This book accompanies the exhibition that opened in the Saatchi Gallery in January 2014. The exhibition and the catalogue provide an insight into the work of some of the most promising artists emerging in Britain today.
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Paper
Saatchi Gallery
(2013)
The catalogue showcases the work of 44 artists in collage, drawing, sculpture, painting and installation. This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Paper running in the Saatchi Gallery from June 2013.
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New Order: British Art Today
Saatchi Gallery
(2013)
This book accompanies the exhibition that opened in the Saatchi Gallery in April 2013. The exhibition and the catalogue provide an insight into the work of some of the most promising artists emerging in Britain today.
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Body Language
Saatchi Gallery
(2013)
The exhibition and the catalogue provide an insight into the work of 19 emerging international artists who, across a range of media, explore the physical body and present a variety of reflections on the human form. This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Body Language running in the Saatchi Gallery from November 2013.
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New Painting
Lisson Gallery
(2018)
A new publication produced on the occasion of the first exhibition by Christopher Le Brun with Lisson Gallery, New Painting features full-colour illustrations of works in his show, alongside an essay written by art historian and writer Ben Street, with an introduction by Nicholas Logsdail.
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The Shape of Time
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
(2018)
Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, The Shape of Time presents a group of artworks dating from 1800 to the present day by artists such as Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Claude Cahun, Mark Rothko, Maria Lassnig, Steve McQueen and Peter Doig, each in dialogue with one work of art from the museum. As stepping stones they lead visitors from the point at which the museum collections end, to the present.
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Flying Too Close to the Sun
Phaidon
(2018)
This is the first book to unite myth-inspired artworks by ancient, modern, and contemporary artists, from Botticelli and Caravaggio to Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst. 34 texts by Ben Street, covering Renaissance, Baroque, modern and contemporary art.
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Body of Art
Phaidon
(2015)
Over 400 artists are featured in chapters that explore identity, beauty, religion, absent body, sex and gender, power, the limits of the body, abject body and bodies and space. 66 texts by Ben Street, covering Renaissance, Baroque, modern and contemporary art.
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Joseph Cornell: Wanderlust
Royal Academy of Arts
(2015)
This landmark publication brings together some of the most compelling assemblages and box constructions. Compiled to accompany a major retrospective at the Royal Academy, London, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Complete illustrated chronology by Ben Street.
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Breathless
Anomie
(2015)
The first monograph on this fascinating contemporary British painter. Includes an essay by Ben Street on Senior’s relationship to the art of the past.
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Lucian Freud
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
(2013)
Accompanying an exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, this book presents the highlights of his working life, a period of almost 70 years, and includes many of his most significant and well-known paintings: self-portraits, portraits of his family, friends and fellow artists, commissions, landscapes and still lives. Complete illustrated chronology by Ben Street.
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Jan Fabre: The Years of the Hour Blue
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
(2011)
Written to accompany a major exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, this book focuses on a specific aspect of this major contemporary artist’s practice: the role and function of the colour blue in his work. Includes an essay on Fabre’s relationship to the art of the past.
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