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Distant Early Warning Marshall McLuhan and the Transformation of the Avant-Garde

Kitnick Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780226753454, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 56 halftones

Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) is best known as a media theorist – many consider him the founder of media studies – but he was an important theorist of art, too. A near-household name for decades, McLuhan remains a fascinating and even cultish figure i...

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Ecology

Picture Ecology Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

Kusserow Karl

ISBN: PB: 9780300254266, Yale University Press, February 2021
256 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 170 colour illus.

Seeking a broad reexamination of visual culture through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and animal studies, this compendium offers a diverse range of art-historical criticism formulated within an ecological context. "Picture Ecolog...

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Moiremotion

Kurashima Takahiro

ISBN: HB: 9783037786574, Lars Muller Publishers, August 2020
96 pp., 23x17 cm, 39 illus.

Following the worldwide success of his Poemotion trilogy, Takahiro Kurashima presents a title that is in no way inferior to the previous ones in terms of surprise and viewing pleasure. On the contrary: here, the motifs are combined to form a visual n...

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Vera Lutter Museum in the Camera

King Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9783791358277, Prestel Publishing, March 2020
136 pp., 27x24 cm, 100 illus.

Vera Lutter's work has taken her and her pinhole camera all over the world, most recently to LACMA as its artist in residence. Stationing a mobile camera obscura outside the museum, Lutter captured the exterior of the campus buildings in images that...

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Education

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Activity-Based Teaching in the Art Museum Movement, Embodiment, Emotion

Kai-Kee Elliott, Latina Lissa, Sadoyan Lilit

ISBN: PB: 9781606066171, Getty Publications, January 2020
184 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, illus.

An essential resource for museum professionals, teachers, and students, the award-winning "Teaching in the Art Museum" (Getty Publications, 2011) set a new standard in the field of gallery education. This follow-up book blends theory and practice to...

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Drawing Is Everything Founding Gifts of the Menil Drawing Institute

Kopp Edouard, Elderfield John, Shiff Richard, Winters Terry

ISBN: HB: 9780300247121, Yale University Press, January 2020
256 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 224 colour illus.

Featuring outstanding 20th-century drawings promised or bequeathed to the Menil Collection for the opening of the Menil Drawing Institute, this elegant volume is a testament to the growing significance of drawings as stand-alone artworks over the pas...

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Yves Zurstrassen Free. 2009-2019

Kaeppelin Olivier, Barre Francois, Pontegnie Anne, Lauwers Sophie, Leclercq Sophie

ISBN: HB: 9780300246568, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2019
264 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 160 colour illus.

The decade of work produced between 2010 and 2019 by Belgian abstract painter Yves Zurstrassen (b. 1956) is the focus of this beautifully designed and illustrated book. Although he originally studied graphic art, Zurstrassen was inspired by Abstract...

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With Pleasure Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1985

Katz Anna

ISBN: HB: 9780300239942, Yale University Press, November 2019
328 pp., 27.9x22.2 cm, 300 colour illus.

The Pattern and Decoration movement emerged in the 1970s as an embrace of long-dismissed art forms associated with the decorative. Pioneering artists such as Miriam Schapiro (1923-2015), Joyce Kozloff (b. 1942), Robert Kushner (b. 1949), and others a...

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Suki Seokyeong Kang Black Mat Oriole

Klein Alex, Kraczon Kate, Lee Yongwoo

ISBN: PB: 9789492811547, DAP, University of Pennsylvania, October 2019
240 pp., 27.3x20.3 cm, 143 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Black Mat Oriole" is the result of five years of research by South Korean artist Suki Seokyeong Kang (born 1977), who has combined sculpture, painting and video to create a multi-site installation that explores the power a...

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Sounds

Kandinsky Wassily, Napier Elizabeth R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300238495, Yale University Press, September 2019
152 pp., 21x18.7 cm, 12 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian pioneer of abstract painting whose work has influenced generations of artists. His "Sounds" ("Klنnge") of 1912 is one of the earliest, most beautiful examples of a 20th-century artist's book. Its "sound poe...

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