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Mythology of Forms Selected Writings on Art
ISBN: HB: 9780226464138, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
408 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 78 halftones
The German art historian and critic Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was at the forefront of the modernist movement that defined the twentieth century. One of the most prolific and brilliant early commentators on cubism, he was also among the first authors...
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£38,00
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Ai Weiwei Bare Life
ISBN: HB: 9780936316468, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, December 2019
192 pp., 22.8x26.6 cm, 90 colour plates
Over the past two decades, the Chinese conceptual artist, activist, and exile Ai Weiwei has created art that addresses complex and sensitive themes of political, ethical, and social urgency. His artworks, which call upon both Western and Chinese cult...
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£30,00
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Before or After, at the Same Time Rome, Milan, and Fabio Mauri, 1948-1968
ISBN: PB: 9783906915449, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, December 2019
212 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 40 colour illus., 67 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! This book takes the life of the Italian multimedia artist and writer Fabio Mauri (born 1926) and the history of his family – a publishing dynasty with close connections to radical Italian art, poetry, cinema, philosophy and...
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£40,00
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Theater of Operations The Gulf Wars 1991-2011
ISBN: FLEXI: 9780996893084, DAP, MoMA PS1, December 2019
275 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 100 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The 1991 Gulf War marked the start of a lengthy period of American-led military involvement in Iraq that led to more than a decade of sanctions, the 2003 Iraq War, and ongoing repercussions throughout the region. Though the...
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Cauleen Smith Give It or Leave It
ISBN: PB: 9780884541462, DAP, University of Pennsylvania, October 2019
82 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 125 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Through films, objects, and installation, Chicago-based filmmaker Cauleen Smith (born 1967) offers an emotional axis by which to navigate four distinct universes: Alice Coltrane and her Sai Anantam ashram; a 1966 photo shoo...
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£27,00
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Jonathas de Andrade
ISBN: PB: 9783791358390, Prestel Publishing, April 2019
144 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour illus.
Themes of memory, love, economic inequality, and political upheaval are threaded throughout de Andrade's work, which is often situated in Recife, his hometown in the northeast corner of Brazil. This includes the artist's most recent works, The Fish,...
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£19,99
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Olafur Eliasson Reality Projector
ISBN: HB: 9780999221518, DAP, Marciano Art Foundation, March 2019
56 pp., 23.4x18.4 cm, 25 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In collaboration with Sigur Ros musician Jonsi, Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) conceived a complex installation for his site-specific exhibition at the Marciano Art Foundation. Using projected light and...
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£27,00
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Lotte Laserstein Face to Face
ISBN: HB: 9783791358239, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
192 pp., 28x21 cm, 139 colour illus.
After being one of the first women to graduate from Berlin Art Academy in 1927, Lotte Laserstein began making a name for herself in Weimar era Berlin's thriving art scene. She was a remarkable portraitist, capturing everyday citizens of Berlin from m...
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£45,00
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Collage by Women 50 Essential Contemporary Artists
ISBN: HB: 9788416851775, Hoaki, February 2019
224 pp., 26.2x19.6 cm, fully illustrated in colour
"Collage by Women" presents 50 international women artists working in the field of collage today through a rigorous selection of their works. Curated by the Spanish collage artist Rebeka Elizegi, the book gives space to voices from all backgrounds, o...
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£29,99
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Everything Is Connected Art and Conspiracy
ISBN: HB: 9781588396594, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2018
272 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 222 colour illus.
Shaped by events such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair, and 9/11, conspiracy theories have flourished and influenced our collective worldview. This provocative book examines how artists from...
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