Francis Alys: a story of deception

David Whitaker, Matthew Sturgis
Black Dog Publishing

This is the first monograph on the work of David Whitaker, providing a unique insight into his fascinating career as a painter. Over the course of his career, Whitaker extended the range and resonance of Abstract Art. He has established a reputation through investigating the optical effects of colour in paintings of extraordinary technical accomplishment and daring. The ambition and the control of these strikingly beautiful effects were continuously developed throughout his career. He even managed to achieve his minutely graduated effects in watercolour. David Whitaker was granted a Distinction in Painting from the Royal Academy Schools. In 1970 he became one of the first British artists to have a solo exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London. In 1973--on the recommendation of Bridget Riley--he received the Mark Rothko Memorial Award and in 1996 he became one of the first abstract painters to win one of the prestigious Hunting Art Prizes. Whitaker has exhibited worldwide at the Redfern and Hayward galleries, the Barbican, the Groucho Club, the Royal Academy in London, as well as galleries in California, Germany, Sweden and Iceland. With text by writer and journalist Matthew Sturgis, the book is richly illustrated with full-colour images and will inspire anyone with an interest in abstract art and watercolour painting. AUTHOR: Matthew Sturgis is the author of Black Dog Publishing's Paperwork: Peter Clark, and of acclaimed biographies of Aubrey Beardsley and Walter Sickert. He has given lectures at Tate Britain, the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and the Scottish National Gallery, amongst others. He writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph, TLS, Country Life and Burlington Magazine. ILLUSTRATIONS: 120 colour & b/w

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Edizioni Galleria Il Castello

Francesca Alfano Miglietti
Costa & Nolan

Raffaele De Grada
Due Torri

Maurizio Calvesi, Marisa Vescovo
Cataloghi Marsilio

Brian Sholis
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

A survey of a unique archive of ephemera from one of the art world's splashiest events

Since 2007, the library of the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has built an unparalleled archival collection related to the Venice Biennale--a global celebration of contemporary art, complete with national pavilions and thematic exhibitions in grand villas. In Art's Biggest Stage: Collecting the Venice Biennale, 2007-2019, readers can experience these art extravaganzas through related ephemera from the Clark's holdings: artist editions, books, posters, publicity materials, and miscellany (as diverse as pop-up books, tote bags, and wallpaper), much of it illustrated with new photography. By publishing this fascinating and ever-growing trove of memorabilia for the first time, Art's Biggest Stage will serve as an on-going companion to the Biennale and a resource on the Clark's collection. In addition, it uses the objects at the Clark as a lens to explore the same questions of nationhood, identity, and spectacle that are central to the experience of the Biennale itself.

Distributed for the Clark Art Institute

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Roberto Bianci, Marco Tancredi
edizioni di là dal fume e tra gli alberi

Carlo Munari
Vallecchi editore

Achille Bonito Oliva
Uni Editrice

Sergio Risaliti, Caroline Corbetta, John Peter Nilsson
Artout/Maschietto & Musolino

Maurizio Vanni
Carlo Cambi editore

Olafur Eliasson
Lars Müller Publishers