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Miranda July
ISBN: HB: 9783791385211, Prestel Publishing, April 2020
224 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
From her early rarely seen Riot Grrrl-influenced fanzines and performances to a career that has produced seminal films, fiction, sculptures, public art, and even a smartphone app, Miranda July has proven adept at articulating the poignancy and humor...
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£39,99
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Zofia Kulik Methodology, My Love
ISBN: HB: 9788364177590, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, January 2020
360 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 60 halftones
Not for sale in Poland! Zofia Kulik's rich artistic career has a dual nature. Between 1970 and 1987, she worked alongside Przemyslaw Kwiek as a member of the duo KwieKulik, after which she began to develop a successful individual career. While Kwie...
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£28,00
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Mrinalini Mukherjee
ISBN: PB: 9788190472098, DAP, The Shoestring Publisher, May 2019
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 300 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! This revelatory monograph explores the work of Indian sculptor Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949-2015). Committed to sculpture, Mukherjee worked most intensively with fiber, making significant forays into ceramic and bronze toward...
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£53,00
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Progressive Revolution Modern Art for a New India
ISBN: HB: 9783791357683, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
208 pp., 28x23.5 cm, 120 colour illus.
Following the celebration of the 70th anniversary of Indian independence, this book focuses on the Progressive Artists Group, which included artists from different backgrounds and traditions who found common cause at a time of political and social up...
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£49,99
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Huma Bhabha: We Come in Peace The Roof Garden Commission
ISBN: PB: 9781588396464, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 40 colour illus.
Often described as "post apocalyptic", the work of Pakistani sculptor Huma Bhabha (b. 1962) responds to the violence and turmoil in the world around her through depictions of anthropomorphic figures that often appear to be dismembered, melted, or dis...
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£6,95
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North East
ISBN: HB: 9783954762385, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, June 2018
176 pp., 27x20 cm, 114 black&white illus., language: English / German
The sculptures of Axel Anklam (b. Wriezen, 1971; lives and works in Berlin) captivate the beholder with their clarity and power. Dynamic and calmly flowing sections alternate, giving rise to forms filled with restrained energy. Although Anklam often...
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£27,50
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Artists in Exile Expressions of Loss and Hope
ISBN: PB: 9780300225709, Yale University Press, November 2017
272 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 174 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
This timely book offers a wide-ranging and beautifully illustrated study of exiled artists from the 19th century through the present day, with notable attention to individuals who have often been relegated to the margins of publications on exile in a...
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Ellsworth Kelly Last Paintings
ISBN: HB: 9781944929077, DAP, Matthew Marks Gallery, September 2017
64 pp., 26x26 cm, 22 colour illus., 16 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! These final paintings, made in the months leading up to his death in December 2015, further develop the non-compositional strategies he pioneered in the late 1940s and pursued throughout his life, including monochrome paint...
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Global Work of Art World's Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience
ISBN: HB: 9780226291741, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 37 colour plates, 128 halftones
Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists' engagement with large-scale international exhibitions has a much longer history that has influenced the present in important ways. Going back to the earliest world's fairs...
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Experimental Group Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes
ISBN: PB: 9780226317960, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
336 pp., 25.4x21.5 cm, 69 colour plates, 89 halftones, 1 line drawing
A compelling study of unofficial postwar Soviet art, "The Experimental Group" takes as its point of departure a subject of strange fascination: the life and work of renowned professional illustrator and conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov. Kabakov's art –...
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£32,00
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