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Contemporary Art

Film Studies

Matt Saunders Parallel Plot

Saunders Matt

ISBN: HB: 9780226736037, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
128 pp., 23x15 cm, 45 colour illus.

Berlin-based artist Matt Saunders has in recent years captured the art world's eye with a striking series of hybrid images and animated films produced using techniques from both photography and painting. Using movie stars such as German actress Herth...

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Contemporary Art

Black Square Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism

Shatskikh Aleksandra, Schwartz Marian

ISBN: HB: 9780300140897, Yale University Press, January 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 41 scattered black&white illus.

Kazimir Malevich's painting "Black Square" is one of the twentieth century's emblematic paintings, the visual manifestation of a new period in artistic culture at its inception. None of Malevich's contemporary revolutionaries created a manifesto, an...

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Contemporary Art

Computer Science & Internet

Islands of Benoit Mandelbrot Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking

Samuel Nina

ISBN: PB: 9780300186437, Yale University Press, October 2012
176 pp., 22.2x15.9 cm, 160 colour and black&white illus.

Over the last few decades, the "pictorial turn" in the natural sciences, prompted by the computer's capacity to produce visual representations, has generated considerable theoretical interest. Poised between their materiality and the abstract level t...

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Contemporary Art

Thinking Contemporary Curating

Smith Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780916365868, DAP, Independent Curators International, October 2012
256 pp., 20.1x14 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. These include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimaginatio...

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Contemporary Art

Be the Worst You Can Be Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue

Saatchi Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781419703737, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, April 2012
160 pp., 21.2x15.2 cm, 175 two-colour illus.

Charles Saatchi founded the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency in 1970, which grew to become the largest of its kind in the world. At the same time he started collecting art and, later, opened his first gallery in London. He championed young Britis...

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Contemporary Art

Baby Ikki at the Museum

Smith Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300181043, Yale University Press, March 2012
28 pp., 17.8x17.8 cm, 14 colour illus.

Michael Smith (b. 1951) is known for his groundbreaking work in performance art as well as his immersive mixed media installations. Since 1979, the majority of his work has centered on his extraordinarily prescient and sympathetic character, Mike. Sm...

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Contemporary Art

Performing Arts

Avant-Garde Race, Religion, War

Sell Mike

ISBN: PB: 9781906497996, Seagull Books, February 2012
464 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 halftones

In "The Avant-Garde", Mike Sell rejects the common idea that the avant-garde is only about art and insists that it is much more than a European phenomenon. In doing so, he redefines the historical, geographical, ideological, disciplinary, and theoret...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Salvador Dali The Reality of Dreams

Schiebler Ralf

ISBN: PB: 9783791346120, Prestel Publishing, October 2011
128 pp., 27x18.5 cm, 62 colour illus., 38 black&white illus.

Now available again, this fascinating look at Dali explores the forces that shaped the life and works of one of the modern art world's most inscrutable and misunderstood figures. Concise yet comprehensive, this elegant volume follows Dali's artistic...

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Contemporary Art

Ellsworth Kelly Reliefs 2009-2010

Storr Robert

ISBN: HB: 9781880146569, DAP, Matthew Marks Gallery, October 2011
48 pp., 33.6x25.4 cm, 24 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This monograph presents 13 paintings and one sculpture that demonstrate a new refinement in Ellsworth Kelly's work. In each of the paintings a rectangular canvas is painted with numerous layers of white paint, on top of whi...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Natalia Stachon Matter Shifted

Strauss Dorothea

ISBN: HB: 9783942405393, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, September 2011
128 pp., 21x21 cm, 65 colour illus., language: English / German

Over the past several years, Natalia Stachon (b. Katowice, Poland, 1976; lives and works in Berlin) has developed a vocabulary of lyrical-minimalist forms that manifest themselves in her objects, sculptures, and installations. After graduating from t...

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