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In this second book in the Aboriginal Arts and Knowledge series, the cooperative art process called Wamulu is explored through the work of 4 artists: Ted Egan Tjangala, Dinny Nolan Tjampitjinpa, Johnny Possum Tjapaltjarri and Albie Morris Tjampitjinpa. Text in English and French.

A survey of contemporary artists who use cut paper - from small-scale intricate cuttings to monumental architectural interventions and sculpture - as an art form.

In the spring of 2022, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will present the first exhibition in Canada devoted to the Swiss artist Nicolas Party, whose unique visual language both challenges and celebrates the conventions of pictorial representation. Text in English and French.

This catalogue for the 5th Art Brut Biennial at the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne highlights the museum's holdings with a selection of works that address belief in its many manifestations, including religion, spirit, and the occult.

This book presents the roughly 63 statues of the Bari tribe that are known today and provides both historical context and current scholarship for these works, their use and their stylistic diversity. Text in English and French.

Stunning, colour-saturated, studio photographs by a Senegalese photographer whose costumed portraits and self-portraits reflect on the history of Black Africans and the African diaspora. Text in English and French.

This catalogue for an exhibition at the Fondation Baur brings together paintings by French artist Pierre Soulages and sculpture by the Japanese bamboo master, Tanabe Chikuunsai IV. Text in English and French.

Italian artist Maria Lai's best-known large-scale collective art project, a 3-day event in her small hometown in Sardinia in 1981, carried out entirely by the residents and photographed by Piero Berengo Gardin.

This book offers a review of Matteo Pugliese's art over the past 20 years. The figures the Milanese sculptor creates are distinguished by their great power, revealing an inner torment that can no longer be disguised. Text in English and Italian.

This volume is a continuation of the first instalment of the editorial project Canova | In Four Tempos.

Gathered together for the first time in one book, an exceptional collection of handmade notebooks, sketchbooks, and journals by 60 remarkable visionary artists, including Aloeise Henry Darger, Dan Miller, Charles Dellschau, James Castle, and Adolf Woelfli, among others. Text in English and French.

In Kuyu, part of the Visions of Africa series, the reader will find a wide range of authentic objects belonging to a traditional Equatorial African culture, as well as a reconstruction of the migration routes that would explain such a seemingly motley collection of objects.

For the first time African headrests are brought to life with detailed information on their carvers, and the stories of their creation, ownership, and use.

This publication sets out to acquaint a European public with the Yidaki, commonly known as the didgeridoo, a captivating music instrument, and with the unique culture who produced it and with the land where it originated.

This book celebrates the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm designed and furnished by Gio Ponti. Text in English and Italian.

The book is dedicated to two major large collaborative canvases by male and female artists of the APY (Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara) Lands and the Kulata Tjuta installation by artists of that same region. Text in English and French.

Collects the best works from the Ceil Pulitzer Collection of African Art, put together over more than 30 years.

A 4,000-kilometre journey exploring a little-known network uniting highways, back roads, forests, parks, rivers, and nature reserves throughout the Italian peninsula. Text in English and Italian.

The aim of this first volume is to catalog the works in the collection, whose decorative aspects are every bit as important as their narrative content.

This monograph on Susanna Bauer presents the artist's work to an international audience for the first time in book form. The essential ingredients of Bauer's artistic production are leaves, stones, twigs...

This fully illustrated book was planned in collaboration with Archivio Maria Lai and its ambition is to become forthwith the standard reference work for those wishing to learn more about Maria Lai and to explore her links with the Italian and international art historical context in which she operated.

Contemporary Aboriginal and Western artwork from two important private collections on view at the Fondation Opale.

A collection of black and white images of hidden artefacts from Pompeii, held at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples

Over the years, the cosmic ideas of distant foreign lands were incorporated in the Hausas' system of thought and the allo kafii gida have thus turned into cosmological time capsules impressed on wooden panels.

Carlo Zinelli is one of the leading figures in Art Brut, along with Aloise Corbaz and Adolf Woelfli. The book devoted to him by Collection de l'Art Brut, in Lausanne - the public institution that possesses the largest body of work by the Italian artist - gathers together a series of articles on Zinelli by experts in different disciplines.

The book is a new take on perception and preconceptions about the unclothed body and how, through art, the naked becomes the nude.

The theatre is the central theme of this fourth volume in our series titled 'Art Brut - The Collection', published to coincide with the fourth Art Brut Biennale.

This book presents the Josette and Jean-Claude Weill Collection. Expanded over the decades under the enthusiastic stewardship of their son Jean-Pierre, the collection now includes over 120 works of the very highest order, covering Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.

This book is the most important monograph devoted to the Swiss artist-photographer Beatrice Helg. Text in English and French.