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5 BOOKS from the TASCHEN SALE

TASCHEN’s biannual sale opens online and in their Chelsea store (12, Duke of York Square, London SW3 4LY) from tomorrow Thursday 2nd February through to Sunday the 5th.

Art books are discounted from 25-75%

Limited Edition Art Stuff for Christmas

FAD has picked a few limited edition art products for your Christmas list featuring Ai Weiwei, Jeff Koons, Annie Lebowitz, David Hockney and André Butzer – a scarf, a print edition and some books happy shopping.

Welcome to Communist Utopia

Peasant workers, production lines, and eager schoolchildren: this rare and fascinating publication brings together key artworks from Max Gottschalk’s vast collection of… Read More

5 Art Books for August

In these crazy times making the time to sit down with a book is a real luxury. So when you… Read More

Art Books

David Bailey x TASCHEN: Her Majesty The Queen Limited Edition Print

In 2014, England’s greatest portrait photographer David Bailey, shot the world’s most famous monarch, Her Majesty The Queen. Charming her to exude… Read More

An unprecedented insight into Basquiat’s art and work

“I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.” — Jean-Michel Basquiat A compact edition… Read More

Art Books

The Top 5 Art Books to read about Artists and Exhibitions

Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic normally picks five exhibitions to see in London, but as we’re in lockdown in the UK he has switched to books to read.

Top 5 Art Books to buy in TASCHEN’s sale (up to 75% off)

The TASCHEN sale has started with up to a 75% discount here are our Top 5 choices

Art Books

David Hockney: Portrait of an Artist

Published to mark TASCHEN’s 40th anniversary, this special edition is an unprecedented year by year journey through the life and work of David Hockney.

The art of Julian Schnabel

Julian Schnabel makes art out of life. He uses everyday materials in paintings that carry a rich sense of history

Art Books

A Life in Tattoos

Legendary Amsterdam tattoo artist and historian Henk Schiffmacher takes us on a personal journey through the history of tattooing from the 1730s to… Read More

Art Books

Limited Edition Bags and Scarves by Ai Weiwei

Papercutting is a traditional Chinese art going back 2,000 years. The coloured, intricately cut papers are used as a story-telling medium in festivities, for prayers, and as everyday decoration. The bags and scarves take their motifs from a papercut created by Ai Weiwei as part of his Papercut Portfolio published by TASCHEN in 2019.

5 great books to get for Lockdown II and Christmas

5 great books to get for Lockdown II and Christmas featuring Basquiat, Helmut Newton, Star Wars, Ai Weiwei and Wolfgang Tillmans

TOP 5 Basquiat art books & stuff you can buy now

This week we have five great art books & stuff you can get right now featuring or about Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Top 6 Andy Warhol art books and stuff to buy

To celebrate the reopening of Tate Modern and the Andy Warhol exhibition on 27th July, FAD has chosen 6 great Andy Warhol books and stuff you should buy

Andy Warhol Polaroids: Hundreds of Polaroids from late 50’s to 1987

“A picture means I know where I was every minute. That’s why I take pictures. It’s a visual diary.”

– Andy Warhol

ART NEWS

MARIO TESTINO- SIR – over 300 photographs in search of the allure of men.

From Rio to London, Cusco to Seville, Mario Testino is renowned for his free-spirited chronicles of dress and demeanor. In SIR, his largest book to-date, the influential photographer presents over 300 photographs in his search to define the allure of men.

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Partners in life and art Intimate portraits of John and Yoko

This capacity for ease and intimacy is perhaps most poignantly expressed in his beautiful series of photographs of Yoko Ono and John Lennon, shot at Ono’s request for the cover and promotion of the couple’s celebrated 1980 album, Double Fantasy, just three months before Lennon’s untimely death.