"Hussein Chalayan", Groninger Museum, 2005

Yilmaz Dziewior, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Beatrix Ruf, Kunsthalle Zürich, Sadie Coles and Martin Prinzhorn, 2005Publisher: Hatje Cantz This monograph features an extensive overview of the unusual photographs, sculptures and installations by Sarah Lucas, which often appear raw and aggressive. In her works, the artist frequently unmasks the chauvinism of slang. Even though it might seem acceptable to describe a young woman as a "chick", Lucas's provocative work entitled Chicken Knickers, however, reveals hidden associations and, with true dry British humour, irrevocably strips the expression of any cuteness. Another significant element of Lucas's oeuvre are her androgynous self-portraits, in which the artists, with challenging gaze and a cigarette dangling from her lips, undermines the cool male pose she often adopts by using accessories...

Published by MOCA in Collaboration with Steidl, 1st edition, 2005 Could there ever have been more enigmatic artist than Raushenberg, much like Cocteau and Picasso he appears to ha...

First Edition, published by Éditions Xavier Barral, Paris, 2005. An acknowledged master of fashion, photography and eroticism, Guy Bourdin was an expert at merging glamour with a ...

First edition, published by Scalo Verlag & Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2005. A scarce retrospective monograph showing 30 years of Bill Henson’s photographic works. One of the gr...

Red painted wooden houses have long occupied a special standing in The Red Houses - Margareta Kjellin 1st Edition 2005 Swedish architectural tradition and have done much to shape t...

First edition, published by Contrasto, Rome, 2005. Text in English and Italian. This English and Italian language photobook from William Klein sees him revisit the Rome that he im...

Visit the world’s most comprehensive and compelling museum in a single book – the ultimate gallery in your own home Housing the finest art collection ever assembled, this classic ...

Vatican Museums, Rome. New York: Newsweek, Inc.,1968. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 172 pp. A beautiful book by Newsweek as part of a series called 'Great Museums of the World.' It illustrates the Papal treasures in the museums and galleries that make up the Vatican Museums. It includes marble statues, frescoes, Medieval manuscripts...

Stiftung Insel Hombroich: Museum und Raketenstation by Museum und Raketenstation. Published by Stiftung Insel Hombroich, 1999. 1st Ed hardcover. The Museum Insel Hombroich (Museum Island Hombroich), Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, is both a park and a museum combining architecture, art and nature on over 62 acres of meadowland. The park includes the "Kirkeby-Feld" and the "Raketenstation" ("rocket station"), a disused NATO missile base. The museum located on the Museum Island is called "Museum Insel Hombroich". It presents both antique art from Asia...

Shaanxi History Museum Shaanxi History Museum, by Feng Gengwu. Published by Shaanxi Tourism Publishing House, 2005. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Shaanxi History Museum, which i...

Christie's: The Medici Piamontini July 2005. Softcover auction catalogue with results. 47 pages with color photos. By Giuseppe Piamontini (1664-1742), he was an Italian sculptor, born and active in Florence. He initially trained with Giovanni Battista Foggini...

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The Trustees, 1978. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. The book consi...