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Artist as Author Action and Intent in Late-Modernist American Painting

Noel Robbins Christa

ISBN: HB: 9780226752952, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 colour plates, 45 halftones

With Artist as Author, Christa Noel Robbins provides the first extended study of authorship in mid-20th century abstract painting in the US. Taking a close look at this influential period of art history, Robbins describes how artists and critics used...

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Hollywood Arensberg Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A.

Nelson Mark, Sherman William H., Hoobler Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9781606066669, Getty Publications, October 2020
448 pp., 0x0 cm

This comprehensive reconstruction and interpretation of Louise and Walter Arensberg's groundbreaking collection of modern and pre-Columbian art takes readers room by room, wall by wall, object by object through the couple's Los Angeles home in which...

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Basquiat Boom For Real

Nairne Eleanor, Buchhart Dieter

ISBN: PB: 9783791359502, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
296 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 312 illus., 237 in colour

Basquiat first came to prominence when he collaborated with Al Diaz to spray-paint enigmatic statements under the pseudonym SAMO. He went on to work on collages, Xerox art, postcards, performances, and music before establishing his reputation as one...

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Merce Cunningham After the Arbitrary

Noland Carrie

ISBN: PB: 9780226541242, ISBN: HB: 9780226541105, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 17 colour plates, 54 halftones

One of the most influential choreographers of the twentieth century, Merce Cunningham is known for introducing chance to dance. Far too often, however, accounts of Cunningham's work have neglected its full scope, focusing on his collaborations with t...

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Same River Twice Contemporary Art in Athens

Norton Margot, Bell Natalie

ISBN: PB: 9786185039356, DAP, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, August 2019
248 pp., 26.4x21.1 cm, 132 colour illus., 12 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Published on the occasion of the 2019 exhibition "The Same River Twice", organized by the DESTE Foundation and the New Museum in collaboration with the Benaki Museum in Athens, this catalog features the work of over 30 Athe...

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William Forsythe Choreographic Objects

Neri Louise, Respini Eva

ISBN: HB: 9783791357966, Prestel Publishing, October 2018
240 pp., 30.5x25 cm, 200 colour illus.

This stunning and comprehensive book presents acclaimed artist William Forsythe, whose work is at the intersection of performance, sculpture, and installation. Since the 1990s, parallel to his stage productions, Forsythe has developed a body of work...

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Hairy Who? 1966-1969

Nichols Thea Liberty, Goldstein Ann, Pascale Mark, Blackwell Tyler, Hull Richard, Mullen Lydia, Owens Laura, Pocock Antonia

ISBN: HB: 9780300236903, Yale University Press, October 2018
256 pp., 29.2x20.3 cm, 220 colour and black&white illus.

This generously illustrated catalogue explores the history and significance of the Hairy Who, a group of six Chicago artists who transformed imagery from popular culture into highly personal works of art in a variety of media. New scholarship based o...

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Ideas Have No Smell: Three Belgian Surrealist Booklets Transfigured Publicity / Abstractive Treatise on Obeuse / For Balthazar

Nouge Paul, Colinet Paul, Scutenaire Louis

ISBN: PB: 9781946433138, DAP, Ugly Duckling Presse, October 2018
60 pp., 14.6x12 cm, 1 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The Belgian surrealist movement, like its contemporary French cousin, included both visual artists – Rene Magritte most famously – and writers, who were also its theorists. They shared with the Parisians a fierce commitment...

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Vija Celmins

Nickas Bob

ISBN: HB: 9781944929138, DAP, Matthew Marks Gallery, March 2018
144 pp., 26x22.8 cm, 70 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The Latvian-born, New York-based artist has been rendering nature imagery from black-and-white photographic sources since the 1960s, exploring the same subjects repeatedly in paintings, drawings and prints. Here, she focuse...

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Vigeland + Munch Behind the Myths

Nielsen Trine Otte Bak

ISBN: HB: 9780300220032, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, July 2016
304 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 275 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

"Vigeland + Munch" is the first publication to thoroughly outline the parallels between two monumental figures of Norwegian art, painter and printmaker Edvard Munch (1863-1944) and sculptor Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943). With only a six year difference...

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