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Designs for Different Futures
ISBN: PB: 9780876332900, Yale University Press, October 2019
272 pp., 30x23 cm, 191 colour and black&white illus.
"Designs for Different Futures" records the concrete ideas and abstract dreams of designers, artists, academics, and scientists exploring how design might reframe our futures, socially, ethically, and aesthetically. Encompassing nearly 100 contempora...
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£30,00
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Allure of Matter Material Art from China
ISBN: HB: 9780935573602, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2019
264 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 257 colour plates
From the 1980s, many Chinese artists have experimented with a range of unconventional materials. Their works–in plastic, paper, silk, ash, and tobacco–form a major trend in Chinese art. "The Allure of Matter" offers the first serious consideration of...
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£34,00
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Whitney Biennial 2019
ISBN: PB: 9780300242751, Yale University Press, August 2019
320 pp., 26x20 cm, 500 colour illus., 85 black&white illus.
Since its introduction in 1932, the Whitney Biennial – the Museum's signature exhibition – has charted new developments in contemporary art. The 2019 Biennial is curated by members of the museum's curatorial staff Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta, wel...
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£43,00
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I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like The Art of Bill Viola
ISBN: PB: 9780300244755, Yale University Press, July 2019
192 pp., 27.3x22.9 cm, 125 colour illus.
Bill Viola (b. 1951) is one of today's premier video installation artists whose apparently straightforward imagery belies a decades-long investigation into the human imagination and its various states of consciousness. This unique and accessible guid...
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£30,00
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Sea Star Sean Scully at the National Gallery
ISBN: PB: 9781857096453, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, April 2019
128 pp., 30.5x24.4 cm, 50 colour illus.
Sean Scully (b.1945) is an Irish-born, American-based painter and printmaker, best known for his monumental oil paintings which draw on the traditions of Abstract Expressionism. This beautiful catalogue showcases a new body of work inspired by the...
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£20,00
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Calder / Kelly
ISBN: HB: 9781944379261, DAP, Levy Gorvy, February 2019
208 pp., 29.2x27.9 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! Accompanying Levy Gorvy's exhibition "Calder / Kelly", this superbly produced catalog reveals the artists' friendship and their shared pursuit of abstraction. A timeline authored by Veronica Roberts traces the history of th...
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£62,00
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Ecologies, Agents, Terrains
ISBN: PB: 9780300233162, Yale University Press, October 2018
300 pp., 24.1x17.8 cm, 150 colour illus.
The newest volume in the acclaimed Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, this collection of essays explores the intrinsic connection between art and the environment. The romance and rejection of "nature" have always occupied places at the heart of...
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£22,50
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Neolithic Childhood Art in a False Present, c. 1930
ISBN: HB: 9783035801064, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, September 2018
400 pp., 26.7x17.1 cm, 400 colour plates
Resonating at the heart of "Neolithic Childhood: Art in a False Present, c. 1930" is the question whether art has present, past, and future functions. The modernist assertion of the autonomy of art was intended to render superfluous art's social and...
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£49,00
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Pope.L Proto-Skin Set
ISBN: PB: 9780998631219, DAP, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, April 2018
80 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 48 colour illus., 1 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Pope.L: Proto-Skin Set" explores early works the artist (William) Pope.L (born 1955) made between 1979 and 1994 exploring materiality and language. Published in this volume for the first time are the artist's "Proto-Skin S...
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£35,00
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Inventory of Shimmers Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art
ISBN: HB: 9783791356112, Prestel Publishing, March 2018
104 pp., 30.5x20 cm, 40 colour illus.
Compiling the work of 15 international artists, this generously illustrated book provides a multi-faceted lens through which to explore ideas of affect and intimacy. Affect is an essentially indefinable, largely non-conscious quality that correlate...
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£27,50
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