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Vladimir Jindrich Bufka
ISBN: PB: 9788072154012, DAP, Torst, September 2014
148 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 78 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Despite a career that was curtailed at the age of 29, Vladimir Jindrich Bufka (1887-1916) was one of the most distinctive early-twentieth-century art photographers in Prague and indeed in all of Austria-Hungary. Bufka drew...
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Jan Svoboda
ISBN: PB: 9788072154241, DAP, Torst, September 2014
140 pp., 17.7x16.5 cm, 92 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! Czech artist Jan Svoboda (1934-1990) spent a lifetime laboring to redefine the language of photography. This catalogue gives an overview of his career, from early still lifes to works that questioned the rules and boundarie...
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Josef Sudek Labyrinths
ISBN: HB: 9788072154371, DAP, Torst, August 2014
96 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 64 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Like the previous volumes "The Window of My Studio" and "Still Lifes", this new Josef Sudek monograph collects a series of photographs made within the confines of the Czech photographer's workspace. Sudek's studio famously...
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Palermo: Works on Paper 1976-1977
ISBN: HB: 9781934435748, DAP, David Zwirner Books, April 2014
134 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 104 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Although it has been linked with distinct twentieth-century art practices – including abstraction, Minimalism and Conceptual art – Blinky Palermo's (1943-1977) diverse body of work defies easy classification. Throughout his...
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£45,00
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Surrealism and the Dream
ISBN: HB: 9788415113461, DAP, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, April 2014
368 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! Can't the dream be used in solving the fundamental problems of life? asked Andre Breton, in the "First Surrealist Manifesto". For the Surrealists, dreams were the ultimate site of possibility, the realm in which the artist...
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£75,00
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Gianni Berengo Gardin Caffe Florian
ISBN: HB: 9788831716444, DAP, Marsilio Editori, March 2014
96 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 52 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! A photographic portrait of the oldest coffeehouse in Italy. Caffe Florian in St. Mark's Square has always been the high-society "drawing room" of Venice. And Gianni Berengo Gardin, an adoptive Venetian, has always had close...
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£22,99
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Fischli & Weiss: Rock on Top of Another Rock Valdresflya & Kensington Gardens
ISBN: HB: 9788275475426, DAP, Forlaget Press, February 2014
176 pp., 22.2x15.8 cm, 60 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In 2013, the Serpentine Gallery in London presents Fischli & Weiss' first public sculpture in the United Kingdom, "Rock on Top of another Rock", installed in Hyde Park, near the Gallery. This work was undertaken in tandem w...
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Andy Warhol and Czechoslovakia
ISBN: PB: 9788074670008, DAP, Arbor Vitae, October 2013
448 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 1230 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Through a wealth of research, and illustrated with more than 1,200 photographs and documents (many published here for the first time), this enormous compendium traces Andy Warhol's relationship to his parents' native Czecho...
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Paul Gauguin Where Do we Come From? What Are We? Where Are we Going?
ISBN: PB: 9780878467938, DAP, MFA Publications, September 2013
56 pp., 20.9x14.6 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! The life of Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) is one of the richest and most mythic in the history of Western art. Abandoning a career in banking, a family and his homeland, in the last decade of the nineteenth century he sailed fro...
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£8,99
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David Salle Ghost Paintings
ISBN: PB: 9781891925382, DAP, The Arts Club of Chicago, September 2013
64 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 14 colour illus., 13 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In the 1980s, American artist David Salle (born 1952) played a crucial role in the formulation of postmodernism in art, helping to reestablish painting as a dominant force. Often thought to use only found imagery, Salle act...
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