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Claudia Wieser Generations
ISBN: HB: 9780935573633, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, January 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 157 colour plates
Claudia Wieser's artistic practice draws from history, architecture, and design, often playing with time and space. Influenced by artists who embraced spirituality – such as Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee – she considers abstraction...
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£23,00
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Strict Beauty Sol LeWitt Prints
ISBN: HB: 9780300253825, Yale University Press, September 2020
288 pp., 26x22.2 cm, 416 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.
The conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) is best known for his programmatic wall drawings and modular structures, but alongside these works he generated more than 350 print projects, comprising thousands of lithographs, silkscreens, etchings, aqu...
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£45,00
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TO LOSE YOUR HEAD (IDOLS) Catalonia in Venice
ISBN: PB: 9788494423444, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 200 halftones
For their 2019 Venice Biennale pavilion, Catalonia presented an exhibition exploring the life of public statues and reflecting on the capacity of artworks to possess agency. The project considers the often-intense relationship that forms between huma...
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£20,00
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Homer | Remington
ISBN: HB: 9780300246100, Yale University Press, April 2020
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 150 colour illus.
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) and Frederic Remington (1861-1909) represent a distinct artistic strain of the American mythos: both were celebrated in their day as homegrown, self-taught artists whose work offered a vision of American identity rooted in s...
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£40,00
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Sanford Biggers Codeswitch
ISBN: HB: 9780300248647, Yale University Press, April 2020
192 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 129 colour illus.
Sanford Biggers (b. 1970) is a Harlem-based artist working in various media including painting, sculpture, video, and performance. He describes his practice as "code-switching" – mixing disparate elements to create layers of meaning – to account for...
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£35,00
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Mark Bradford End Papers
ISBN: HB: 9783791359724, Prestel Publishing, March 2020
132 pp., 32x29 cm, 50 illus.
Drawing on the diverse cultural and geographic makeup of his South Los Angeles community, Mark Bradford is known for his wall-size collages and installations from scavenged materials. These artworks are responses to the impromptu networks – undergrou...
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£45,00
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Elias Sime Tightrope
ISBN: HB: 9783791358819, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
192 pp., 28.5x26.6 cm, 100 colour and black&white illus.
Sime's brightly-colored sculptural tableaus feature found objects including thread, buttons, electrical wires, and computer detritus. This book highlights the artist's work from the last decade, much of which comprises the series entitled "Tightrope"...
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Jan Hendrix Landfall
ISBN: PB: 9788417047948, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, November 2019
288 pp., 22x16 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.
Since Dutch artist Jan Hendrix (born 1949) moved to Mexico in 1975, he has been a key figure in that country's art scene, building a bridge between Mexican and Dutch traditions of thinking about nature. This first retrospective covers Hendrix's two-...
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Cruising the Dead River David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront
ISBN: PB: 9780226603759, ISBN: HB: 9780226603612, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones
In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers' se...
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£26,00
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£74,00
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Jonathan Monk Restaurant Drawings
ISBN: HB: 9781949172218, DAP, Karma, New York, August 2019
552 pp., 23.6x19 cm, 531 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! This new book collects the English artist's (born 1969) drawings and paintings on receipts which are later sold at the price of the meal, an example of his spontaneous appropriationist gestures. On these bills, Monk recreat...
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