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Polonica

Art in a Disrupted World Poland 1939–1949

Pietrasik Agata

ISBN: PB: 9788364177750, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, June 2021
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 colour plates

Not for sale in Poland! With Art in a Disrupted World, art historian Agata Pietrasik presents a study of artistic practices that emerged in Poland during and after World War II. Pietrasik highlights examples of artworks by a number of Polish-born a...

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Photography

John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 6: 2011-2019

Pardo Patrick, Dean Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300253801, Yale University Press, November 2020
616 pp., 29.2x25.1 cm, 507 colour illus.

The sixth and final volume of this exceptional catalogue raisonne project features over 360 works made by John Baldessari (1931-2020) between 2011 and 2019. Here, Baldessari continues his longstanding tradition of borrowing from artists as varied as...

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History of Art

Modernism for the Masses Painters, Politics, and Public Murals in 1930s New York

Patterson Jody

ISBN: HB: 9780300241396, Yale University Press, October 2020
248 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 72 colour illus., 43 black&white illus.

A mural renaissance swept the United States in the 1930s, propelled by the New Deal Federal Art Project and the popularity of Mexican muralism. Perhaps nowhere more than in New York City, murals became a crucial site for the development of abstract p...

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Going There Black Visual Satire

Powell Richard J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300245745, Yale University Press, September 2020
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 76 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.

In this groundbreaking study, Richard J. Powell investigates the visual forms of satire produced by black artists in 20th- and 21st-century America. Underscoring the historical use of visual satire as antiracist dissent and introspective critique, Po...

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James Prosek Art, Artifact, Artifice

Prosek James, Devaney Edith

ISBN: HB: 9780300250794, Yale University Press, August 2020
144 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 150 colour illus.

Award-winning artist, writer, and naturalist James Prosek (b. 1975) has gained a worldwide following for his deep connection with the natural world, which serves as the basis for his art and numerous popular books. In this cross-disciplinary catalogu...

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Hannah Ryggen Woven Manifestos

Paasche Marit, Schlicht Esther

ISBN: HB: 9783791359267, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
132 pp., 30x24 cm, 60 colour illus.

Hannah Ryggen created numerous monumental tapestries in her lifetime. Originally trained as a painter, Ryggen began weaving on a standing loom on her self-sufficient farm on the West coast of Norway. She challenged the formal traditions of Norwegian...

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City Beneath A Century of Los Angeles Graffiti

Phillips Susan A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300246032, Yale University Press, November 2019
320 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 139 colour illus., 56 black&white illus.

Graffiti written in storm drain tunnels, on neighborhood walls, and under bridges tells an underground and, until now, untold history of Los Angeles. Drawing on extensive research within the city's urban landscape, Susan A. Phillips traces the hidden...

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JR: Chronicles

Pasternak Anne

ISBN: HB: 9782954226699, DAP, Maison CF + Brooklyn Museum, November 2019
240 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 90 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Over the past two decades, French artist JR has massively expanded the impact of public art through his ambitious projects that give visibility and agency to people around the world. Showcasing the full scope of the artist'...

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Mike Kelley Timeless Painting

Porter Jenelle

ISBN: HB: 9783906915456, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, November 2019
200 pp., 33x26.7 cm, 157 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Featuring paintings from series that span a 15-year period, 1994 through 2009, this volume traces Mike Kelley's (1954-2012) engagement with the medium through bodies of work including "The Thirteen Seasons (Heavy on the Win...

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Djanira Picturing Brazil

Pedrosa Adriano, Rjeille Isabella, Moura Rodrigo

ISBN: HB: 9788531000652, DAP, MASP, October 2019
312 pp., 28.2x21.3 cm, 206 colour illus., 106 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Largely self-taught and coming from a working-class background, Djanira da Motta e Silva (1914-79) emerged on the Brazilian art scene in the 1940s, working in paint, woodcut and engraving to depict everyday life in Brazil,...

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