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<b>Featuring more than 450 awe-inspiring images curated by Stephen Ellcock, <i>Ark</i> is a celebration of the living wonders of this planet.</b><br/> <br/> Stephen Ellcock - renowned curator and author of <i>The Cosmic Dance</i>, <i>Underworlds</i> and <i>Elements</i> - brings together an amazing selection of images from a broad range of cultures and eras, depicting living wonders from all five kingdoms of nature.<br/> <br/> This visual treasury also features a foreword by Robert Macfarlane, an essay on the stories of the ark by acclaimed author Sarah Perry, and three inspiring essays on the natural world by tree scientist Harriet Rix, marine biologist Helen Scales and birder Stephen Moss. Each writer guides readers through some of the intricate, life-sustaining relationships that populate nature's elemental realms of earth, water and air, and outlines some of the threats that climate change and human actions pose. Symbols throughout pinpoint which of the species pictured are critically endangered or vulnerable. <br/> <br/> <i>Ark</i> is a celebration of the myriad lifeforms inhabiting our planet and a powerful environmental call to arms.

<b>A special, fiftieth-anniversary edition of David Hockney's witty, candid and revealing account of his life and work.</b><br/> <br/> <i>David Hockney by David Hockney</i> was first published in 1976 and grew out of twenty-five hours of recorded conversation with the artist. A carefully crafted, collaborative memoir, this special full-colour edition marks the fiftieth anniversary of the book's first publication. <br/> <br/> Hockney recounts his early years in Bradford, where he was born, grew up and first went to art school; his years at the Royal College of Art in London, during which he had his breakthrough; his sojourn in California, which inspired some of his best-known paintings, drawings and prints; and his subsequent phase in Paris, where an exhibition at the Louvre established him as a 'continental master'.<br/> <br/> The book's fascination lies not only in the fact that the text is entirely Hockney's own - so that his life-story is given full clarity - but also that it reproduces his paintings, graphic work and drawings. The story, presented more or less chronologically, is informative and humorous, full of descriptions of his work, anecdotes about himself, other artists and friends, his thoughts about art and his ambiguous relationship with other styles. Above all, it is the story of an artist who is ceaselessly striving to improve his craft and to portray the world around him imaginatively.

<b>Travel alongside Claude Monet to twenty destinations where he created his most famous work - including Venice, Rouen, Etretat, Antibes and London - all of which nourished his mastery of light.</b><br/> <br/> Claude Monet was a lifelong traveller. For more than fifty years, he made his way through Europe, looking for remarkable scenes, reflections, nuances and transparencies of light to capture through his painting - the result of patient, obsessive observation. From Normandy to Venice, via London, Brittany, the Mediterranean and the banks of the Seine, his travels were far more than mere journeys: they were an incessant quest for visual sensations. Florence Gentner retraces his artistic and personal trajectory, showing how twenty destinations profoundly influenced some 250 of his major works, as well as the evolution of his palette.<br/> <br/> Extracts from more than 100 letters, numerous sketches, notebook excerpts and reproductions reveal the circumstances of his journeys and convey the painter's state of mind while he was away from home. His travel paintings constitute an exceptional body of work, enriched, for each trip, by an insightful analysis from Marine Kisiel.<br/> <br/> Part artistic biography, part travelogue, and presented in a beautiful printed cloth hardcover binding, <i>Monet Abroad</i> reveals the modernity and insatiable curiosity of a painter constantly in search of new horizons and new subjects.

<b>A close-up study of Francis Bacon's paintings, magnifying details and looking at underlying themes.</b><br/> <br/> Francis Bacon famously resisted explaining his work, often claiming not to know what it meant. Yet this refusal has tended to discourage close looking, with critics favouring theoretical abstraction or biographical interpretation instead. Francis Bacon: Closer sets out to reverse that tendency. Rather than reducing Bacon's imagery to familiar tropes - violence, distortion, the 'screaming popes' - it explores the variety and complexity of his visual language. The book centres on detailed studies of eighty paintings, organized around motifs such as heads, mouths, wounds, pigment and abstraction, revealing the anatomical and psychological preoccupations embedded in the work. While aimed at scholars, it will also appeal to anyone interested in how Bacon's paintings were made and what they mean.

Teresa Margolles [Bok / Inbunden]

Brancusi [Bok / Inbunden]

<b>Highlighting powerful new paintings and sculptures by Michael Armitage, this catalogue showcases the artist's poignant, timely, and profoundly humanistic works.</b><br/><br/> Kenyan British artist Michael Armitage's work weaves real and imagined histories into powerful reflections on contemporary social and political life. <i>Michael Armitage: Crucible</i> presents a selection of recent works exploring journeys across borders and the broader experience of displacement. Many of the artist's paintings on Lubugo bark cloth-a traditional Ugandan textile used in funerary rituals, which he has employed for more than a decade-depict scenes from a migration route stretching from the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea toward Europe. These works, both intimate and epic, consider migration not only as movement across geography but as a condition that shapes identity, memory, and belonging.<br/><br/> The volume also features a series of bronze-relief sculptures inspired by the Stations of the Cross, reimagined to center migrants and the displaced-figures often marginalized within contemporary society-within a shared cultural and spiritual narrative. Armitage's direct, emotionally charged imagery invites viewers to reflect on how migrants are seen, represented, and understood today.<br/><br/> Published to accompany the exhibition at David Zwirner New York, the catalogue includes an essay by Marina Warner on the role of myth in Armitage's depictions of arduous journeys. Two poems by Warsan Shire, including a newly commissioned work, offer lyrical responses to the themes of the artist's practice.