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Contemporary Art

What is Contemporary Art?

Garcia Duttmann Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9783035801453, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
104 pp., 16.9x11 cm, 8 halftones

Art today is often practiced in perfect conformity with the neoliberal zeitgeist, often even denying its own radical potential".What is Contemporary Art?" lucidly examines the relationship between art and politics in our time. Addressing the heart of...

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Maarten Vanden Eynde Digging up the Future

Gregos Katerina

ISBN: HB: 9780300253962, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2020
224 pp., 27.9x22.5 cm, 200 colour illus.

Belgian artist Maarten Vanden Eynde (b. 1977) has established a research-based practice, which spans diverse social, economic, environmental, and anthropological perspectives. His work covers some of the most important subjects of our time from extra...

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Women Studies

Citizen Woman An Illustrated History of the Women's Movement

Gerhard Jane, Tucker Dan

ISBN: HB: 9783791385303, Prestel Publishing, May 2020
256 pp., 26x21.5 cm, 180 colour illus.

One hundred years ago American women fought for and won an equal voice at the ballot box with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. This happened thanks to the unrelenting activism of women in the US and around the rest of the world, who shif...

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Catlady A Love Letter to Women and Their Cats

Goren Leah

ISBN: HB: 9783791385990, Prestel Publishing, April 2020
224 pp., 22.2x16.5 cm, 80 colour images

There's no question that cats rule the world – ask any cat owner and they'll tell you how these balls of fur insert themselves into our lives and establish dominion over the household. In this book, Leah Goren brings together smart, funny essays by b...

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Value of Critique Exploring the Interrelations of Value, Critique, and Artistic Labour

Graw Isabelle, Menke Christoph

ISBN: PB: 9783593510101, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"The Value of Critique" casts its gaze on the two dominant modes of passing judgment in art – critique and value (or evaluation). The act of critique has long held sway in the world of art theory but has recently been increasingly abandoned in favor...

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Sterling Ruby

Gartenfeld Alex, Respini Eva

ISBN: HB: 9783791358796, Prestel Publishing, November 2019
240 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 120 colour and black&white illus.

From his sublime abstract paintings to his soft sculpture "vampires" comprising American flags, Sterling Ruby is "one of the most interesting artists to emerge in this century", according to The New York Times. Accompanying Ruby's first US museum sur...

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Contemporary Art

Thinking 3D Books, Images and Ideas from Leonardo to the Present

Green Daryl, Moretti Laura

ISBN: HB: 9781851245253, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2019
200 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 80 colour illus.

During the Renaissance, artists and illustrators developed the representation of truthful three-dimensional forms into a highly skilled art. As reliable illustrations of three-dimensional subjects became more prevalent, they also influenced the way i...

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Warhol Women

Gopnik Blake, Tillman Lynne, Gingeras Alison M.

ISBN: HB: 9781944379308, DAP, Levy Gorvy, October 2019
192 pp., 33.7x25.4 cm, 118 colour illus., 41 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Dedicated to Andy Warhol's (1928-87) portraits of women from the early 1960s through the 1980s, and featuring five trifolds and a tipped-on cover, "Warhol Women" explores the artist's female subjects and his complex relatio...

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Elliott Green At the Far Edge of the Known World

Green Elliott

ISBN: HB: 9781733355506, DAP, Pierogi Press, October 2019
224 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 116 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The autodidact painter Elliott Green (born 1960) came to New York City at age 21 to learn how to paint from scratch. Eight years later, an unsolicited envelope of 35mm slides he sent to an Upper East Side gallery resulted i...

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Adam Green War and Paradise

Green Yasmin

ISBN: PB: 9781945711107, DAP, Pioneer Works Press, October 2019
160 pp., 26.9x20.3 cm, 133 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! In "War and Paradise", a graphic novel by creative polymath and Moldy Peaches founder Adam Green (born 1981), the internet meets the Middle Ages and satire becomes the most logical response to our own wildly confusing, nons...

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