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Royal Kilmainham Bookshop

The bookshop in the Irish Museum of Modern Art offers an exciting, up-to-date range of modern and contemporary art books and magazines. It stocks an eclectic selection, reflecting international trends in all aspects of the visual arts. The emphasis is, however, on modern Irish art and artists. The bookshop carries all publications and catalogues produced by the Museum. The shop also carries some unique and original art-related gift items. There is also a fabulous range of irresistible posters and a wide selection of postcards.

The following is a selection of what is available in the bookshop :

IMMA Collection Book

IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART - THE COLLECTION
The first full-colour publication on the Museum’s Collection presents more than 180 artworks selected to give a sample of the quality, range and international nature of the works acquired by the Museum since its foundation in 1991.  Short texts accompany each work, together with an introduction on IMMA’s collecting policy by Director Enrique Juncosa, and essays on the history of the Collection and the Royal Hospital building by Catherine Marshall, Senior Curator: Head of Collections.  The publication is designed to give the Museum visitors, sister institutions at home and abroad, scholars and the ever-increasing number of groups and individuals interested in the Museum’s work a greater insight into the treasures it contains
IMMA ISBN 1-903811-48-1
Price: €25.00

IMMA Catalogues

HOWARD HODGKIN
A major retrospective of the work of Howard Hodgkin, one of Britain’s leading post-war painters, is a comprehensive survey of the artist’s work, presenting recent works alongside those from earlier decades. It brings together paintings, from the 1960s to date, which epitomise the qualities which have made Hodgkin one of the most popular painters of his time.  An illustrated book with new texts by the Irish novelist Colm Tóibín and Enrique Juncosa, Director, IMMA, plus specially selected existing texts by novelists Julian Barnes, William Boyd and Alan Hollinghurst, critic Anthony Lane, travel writer and novelist Bruce Chatwin, essayist Susan Sontag and poets Bruce Bernard and James Fenton, accompanies the exhibition.
Irish Museum of Modern Art and Tate Publishing ISBN 1-85437-674-8
Sale Price €8.00 (Orginally  €21.95)

MAGNUM IRELAND
Magnum Ireland comprises some 150 photographs taken over almost 60 years by some of Magnum’s best known photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, Josef Koudelka, Martin Parr, Eve Arnold and many others. The exhibition presents an evocative and arresting visual history of Ireland, North and South, with particular emphasis on the strong influence of rural life in the earlier decades, the Northern Troubles of the 1970s and ‘80s, the rapidly-growing confidence and prosperity of the past decade and, throughout, the hidden lives of ordinary Irish men and women. An illustrated book, published by Thames & Hudson, with an introduction by John Banville, award-winning novelist and former Literary Editor of The Irish Times, and essays by Anthony Cronin, Nuala O’Faolain, Eamonn McCann, Fintan O’Toole, Colm Tóibín and Anne Enright, accompanies the exhibition. 
Thames & Hudson ISBN 0-500-54303-8
Price  €29.95


LUCIAN FREUD
A fully-illustrated catalogue of the work of the celebrated British artist Lucian Freud, regarded by many as the most important figurative painter working today, includes texts by curated by Catherine Lampert, specialist on the work of Freud, a friend of the artist and former Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery; art critic and writer, Martin Gayford and Freud’s son, Frank Paul.
Publisher: IMMA. ISBN 978-1-903811-75-7
Price €24.00

Art Calendars and Diaries

TENEUES ART CALENDARS AND DIAIRES

Dublin’s largest selection of teNeues art calendars and diaries from Hokusai’s beautiful woodprints of 17th-century Japan through Andy Warhol’s many and varied cats to the wonders of modern architecture.
Price: €16.00

General Art Books

ANTONY GORMLEY
A survey by John Hutchinson
Recipient of the 1994 Turner Prize, Antony Gormley is an internationally-acclaimed artist whose public sculptures have delighted us all. This monograph focuses on Gormley’s revitalization of the human figure in sculpture, updated with over 50 additional pages documenting the artist’s work since 1995, including ambitious site-specific projects such as The Angel of the North.
Phaidon Books ISBN 0714839523
Price: €39.95

LOUISE BOURGEOIS
Paulo Herkenhoff, Robert Storr, Allan Schwartzman
Critic Paulo Herkenhoff has for many years been in discussion with this extremely reclusive artist, discussing her conflicted relationship with her father, her views on Marcel Duchamp and many other topics. Herkenhoff chronicles the unique trajectory of Bourgeois’ work and her life from a highly personal point of view. Unique to this book is a group of artworks, selected by the artist, which all incorporate the written word and which together form a style of writing unique to Bourgeois.
Phaidon Books ISBN 0714841226
Price: €39.95

WOMEN ARTISTS IN THE 20TH & 21ST CENTURY
Uta Grosenick
Many of the past century’s greatest artistic talents grace the pages of this definitive publication, each represented by six pages of illustrations and photographs covering the various phases of her life and work, including biographical portraits and text. Women Artists is an indispensable reference guide and a joy to browse through.
Tasheu Books ISBN 3822858544
Price: €33.00

Design and Architecture

LE CORBUSIER: ARCHITECT OF A NEW AGE
Jean Jenger
From Bahaus to your house, architecture is the new rock and roll. Don’t be in the dark about Le Corbusier’s “cannons of light”. Find out how the most influential architect of the 20th-century has shaped the way we live.
Thames & Hudson/New Horizons ISBN 0500300674
Price: €11.30

THE FUTURE IS NOW…
Architecture Now! Volume 2
The crème de la crème of today’s most influential architects and architecture firms – the definitive reference guide to contemporary architectural design. Find out all you need to know about familiar names, such as O’Gehery, Meier, Ando, Foster and Starck, as well as a host of brilliant future stars.
Tashen Books ISBN 3822815942
Price: €33.00

For Children

THE LITTLE PRINCE
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
The quintessential edition of one of the world’s best-loved classics. A pilot makes a forced landing in the Sahara Desert, where he meets the little Prince, who tells him wise and enchanting stories. Illustrated with Saint-Exupéry’s original artwork.
Egmont ISBN 0749743859
Price: €14.50

PIGLET HAS A BATH
Enter the magical world of Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends, with this delightful bath book. Piglet must end his busy day, for it is bath time. Scrub, Scrub, Scrub! Poor Piglet!
Egmont ISBN 0749858249
Price: €7.20

SUPER SUE
Cressida Cowell
Pull the super tabs and lift the super flaps to see all the things that Super Sue can do! There’s even a super certificate for readers who are just as super as Sue!
Walker Books ISBN 074458860X
Price: €10.50

MIFFY AT THE GALLERY
Dick Bruna
Join the intrepid Miffy as she embarks on her first gallery visit! Bruna’s series of storybooks were first created in 1953 and their simple illustrations and bright colours ensure that the books remain hugely popular today.
Egmont ISBN 140520981X
Price: €5.80

General Gifts

FLORA
An illustrated History of the Garden Flower.
See how adventurers, botanists, plant hunters and aristocratic garden lovers set about recording flora and fauna down the ages. Leaf through more than 300 artworks from the Royal Horticultural Society collection and marvel at these beautiful illustrations from all the major floral categories, as well as some fascinating rare varieties.
Thames & Hudson ISBN 1902686330
Price: €14.50

“I CAN’T GO ON, I MUST GO ON, I’LL GO ON” THE BECKETT ON FILM BOX SET
A comprehensive cinematic interpretation of all of Samuel Beckett’s major plays, including Waiting for Godot, Happy Days and Krapp’s Last Tape by leading directors such as Neil Jordan, David Mamet and Damien Hirst.
“Commendably ambitious and remarkably successful. This is a truly unique collection” Michael Dwyer, The Irish Times
The box set contains four DVDs and a souvenir book from the Beckett on film project.
Blue Angel Films/Tyrone Productions, running time 10hrs 47mins
Price: €127.00

JAZZ
Mervyn Cook
Louise Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday and Miles Davies….Jazz….Yeah….
This invaluable guide covers the whole history of jazz from its early influences through New Orleans, the big bands, be-bop, hard bop, cool, free and modal jazz. The music is set in its social and political context and the key personalities are all considered.
Thames & Hudson ISBN 0500203180
Price: €12.50

DEREK JARMAN’S GARDEN
A description in photographs, diary entries and poetry of how this renowned film-maker created a garden from the bleak expanse of shingle that faces the nuclear power station in Dungeness. A poignant visual record of the creation of a garden. Colour throughout.
Thames & Hudson ISBN 0500016569
Price: €21.50

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