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The best art books to enjoy in the summer of 2022

Creative Boom

What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter. On the one hand, there's a long-running stereotype of artists and bohemians wearing black, featureless clothing. What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter. Black Artists in British Art: A History since the 1950s by Eddie Chambers. I Paint What I Want to See by Philip Guston.

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Butterflies and Moths Flutter Through J.C. Fontanive’s Automated Flipbooks

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The Cleveland-born artist created a sleek flipbook machine while he was a student at the Royal College of Art back in 2004 and has since crafted myriad designs featuring birds and insects that fly around the small, metallic frame. “Flipping pages make these handmade sculptures live in real sound and space. .

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Butterflies and Moths Flutter Through Juan Fontanive’s Automated Flipbooks

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The Cleveland-born artist created a sleek flipbook machine while he was a student at the Royal College of Art back in 2004 and has since crafted myriad designs featuring birds and insects that fly around the small, metallic frame. “Flipping pages make these handmade sculptures live in real sound and space. .

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“Trans A.M.”: The Superb 3D Surreal Digital Art and VR Sculptures by Elena Romenkova

Design You Trust

Elena Romenkova is a digital artist from St Petersburg, currently based in Vienna. Herzen with a degree in Fine Arts and has participated in art exhibitions in Russia and abroad since 2004. These shape transformations give 3D sculptures a new aesthetic and meaning. She graduated from the University of A.

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Iridescent Waters Subsume Lush, Floral Bunches in Enchanting Photographs

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A collaboration between photographer CheukLun LO, of STUFF Studio , and floral artist bloom bloom FLEUR , Oceania celebrates the mysterious and dreamy qualities of the ocean. The series of photographs is centered on botanical sculptures comprised of jewel-toned petals and thick fronds that float through the dark water.

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In ‘Zoophites,’ Les Lalanne Hybridize Beasts and Botany into Functional Sculptures

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It’s also an apt title for a poetic exhibition of sculptures blending beastly and botanical forms by the late Claude (1925-2019) and François-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008). Having worked as a guard in the Egyptian and Assyrian galleries of the Louvre, the artist often referenced ancient mythology and hybridity in his figures.

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Joel Shapiro’s New Sculptures Radiate Joy and Defy Gravity

Design Milk

My favorite Joel Shapiro sculpture is in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art – an orange dancer-like structure that has made me smile since the first day I arrived in New York, now 23 year ago. Debuting here are three new massive wood sculptures – each taller than any viewer. Joel Shapiro: Out of the Blue.

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