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House Style: Five Centuries of Fashion at Chatsworth

Artist/Author: Laura Burlington, Hamish Bowles | Reference: P4293 | ISBN: 978-0-8478-5896-5

Accompanying a major exhibition opening in spring 2017, this stunning volume offers an unprecedented glimpse across five centuries of historic costume and glamorous fashions worn by members of the Cavendish family, from the eighteenth-century fashion leader Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, to the twenty-first-century supermodel Stella Tennant.

Chatsworth has been home to the Cavendish family and the hereditary dukes of Devonshire since the original Elizabethan house was built on the site purchased by Sir William Cavendish in 1549. A famous historic house in England, Chatsworth is renowned as much for its fashionable history as its majestic dresses and tiaras, its magnificent lace and splendid uniforms as its unrivalled collection of art, its palatial gardens, and its celebrated family dynasty. House Style: Five Centuries of Fashion at Chatsworth takes the reader through images of show-stopping ensembles by the most celebrated designers of the day, from the Victorian era’s Jean Philippe Worth to Alexander McQueen, and also features historic examples of ceremonial, military, court costume, fancy dress, and estate liveries, as well as clothing worn by members of the family to ride, hunt, shoot, and fish. New images of the rare surviving garments and gorgeous contemporary photographs are accompanied by new essays from leading historians and fashion critics. An exclusive invitation into the glamorous world of Chatsworth, this book is a true collectible for Anglophiles, fashion-history aficionados, and those fascinated by aristocratic style.

On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century: Revised Edition

Artist/Author: C. Carr | Reference: P4265 | ISBN: 978-0-8195-6888-5 | Type: Publication

Through her engaged and articulate essays in the Village Voice, C. Carr has emerged as the cultural historian of the New York underground and the foremost critic of performance art. On Edge brings together her writings to offer a detailed and insightful history of this vibrant brand of theatre from the late 70s to today. It represents both Carr’s analysis as a critic and her testament as a witness to performances which, by their very nature, can never be repeated.

Lessons of Decal

Artist/Author: Sophie Seita | Reference: P4261 | ISBN: 978-1-7393939-0-8 | Type: Publication

“A love letter to artistic research, Seita’s writing celebrates the desire, disorientation, and discovery to be found in feminist practices of reading. A potent reminder of generative passin thatwe can only wish motivated all critical inquiry.” -Gordon Hall

Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979

Editor: Andrew Wilson | Reference: P2975 | ISBN: 978-1849763684 | Type: Publication

The book explores the textual work of Art & Language, Victor Burgin and others; the New Sculpture being produced by those such as Richard Long and Michael Craig-Martin; and the artists who addressed society and politics, including Stephen Willats and Margaret Harrison. 

On the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, April-August 2016.

Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr.

Artist/Author: Harry Gamboa Jr. | Editor: Chon A. Noriega | Reference: P2859 | ISBN: 978-0816630523 | Type: Publication

Editor Chon A. Noriega collects ephemera gathered from Gamboa’s three-decade-long dadaistic career. The book includes interviews with artists, poetry, fiction, collaged images, documentation of public and staged performances, photographic portraits of Chicano men, and political writings, including an essay on public schools reflecting his son’s first year in kindergarten. 

The Pina Bausch, Sourcebook: The making of Tanztheater

Artist/Author: Various | Editor: Royd Climenhaga | Reference: P1945 | ISBN: 978-0-415-61802-1 | Type: Publication

A compendium of source material and contextual essays that examine Pina Bausch’s history and the development of Tanztheater as a new form.

PPPPPP: Poems Performance Pieces Proses Plays Poetics: Poems Performance Pieces Prose Plays Poetics

Artist/Author: Kurt Schwitters | Editor: Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris | Reference: P1919 | ISBN: 978-1878-972-354 | Type: Publication

The first book of Kurt Schwitters’ writings translated into English.

Atos de Falo documentation

Artist/Author: Various | Reference: P1878 | ISBN: 978-85-65224-00-0 | Type: Publication

Catalogue which documents construction of works and relevant texts from the Atos de Falo festival in Brazil.  In Portuguese and English

Gina Pane, Situation ideale

Artist/Author: Gine Pane | Editor: Blandine Chavanne | Reference: P1822 | ISBN: 9782840664260 | Type: Publication

Catalogue for an exhibition of Pane’s work at the Hangar a Bananes, Nantes in 2009, curated by Blandine Chavanne

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