BOOKS

Jardin des Tuileries, Modern and Contemporary sculptures
"This installation in the heart of Paris is an attempt to reconcile the modern moonstrucks with the thinking-revolt." "The Tuileries invite the strollers to the aesthetic tasting through every sens" Julia Kristeva (translation by elandarts.com)
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"30,000 Years of Art" by Phaidon Editors
"30,000 YEARS OF ART: THE STORY OF HUMAN CREATIVITY ACROSS TIME AND SPACE" is the follow-up to Phaidon's phenomenally successful THE ART BOOK. This is an accessible, fun and informative compendium of world art that offers a fresh perspective on the whole of art history, from 28,000 BC to the present day. It debunks art historical classifications and hierarchies by presenting 1,000 masterworks of art in simple chronological order, demonstrating what was being created all over the globe at the same time.
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Kenneth White/Jorge Camacho: "La Danse du chamane sur le glacier"
Beautiful book, illustrated by 7 colour photographs of a cubic sculpture by Jorge Camacho, Prehistory of the Man, (each one of the 6 sides of the bronze, and its development) and 7 drawings of J. Camacho.
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Paul Gauguin: "Ancien Culte Mahorie" (Ancient Mahorie Worship)
This is the beginning of the fac-simile of the manuscript, signed P. G. O., probably written in 1892 in Tahiti, presented in the Louvre in 1927 and reproduced thanks to the bookseller and collector Pierre Berès : 57 pages (the notebook contained 76 pages) illustrated by 25 drawings, most of them in colour.
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Antoni Tapies, "La Réalité comme Art"
We all have to be artists of the reality, we should all deal with reality, up to the most intimate details of our daily life, with the love and knowledge which are necessary for the creation of a work of art.
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"Advanced Black and White Digital Photography" by John David Beardsworth
Digital photographers can now attain the enduring beauty of black-and-white photography in their own work! There’s more to monochrome than just discarding the color in Photoshop, but many books simply treat it as an afterthought. Not this one! John Beardsworth teaches every major method of making a color picture black and white, and explains what kind of images are best, and why.
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