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Mar Magdalena Campos-Pons Everything is Separated by Water

Freiman Lisa D., Enwezor Okwui

ISBN: HB: 9780300123456, Yale University Press, February 2007
160 pp., 29.8x24 cm, 80 colour illus.

With a diverse oeuvre ranging from painting to mixed-media installations to performance, video, and photography, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons is one of the most significant artists to emerge from post-Revolutionary Cuba. Her evocative works probe ques...

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Robert Rauschenberg Cardboards and Related Pieces

Helfenstein Josef, Bois Yve-Alain, Elliott Clare

ISBN: HB: 9780300123784, Yale University Press, February 2007
160 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 40 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.

Robert Rauschenberg (b. 1925) began to investigate the boundaries between painting and sculpture in the 1950s, working with a variety of found objects in his Combine paintings and freestanding Combines. Later, in his "Cardboard" series (1971-72), he...

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Versions and Inversions Perspectives (vs. Essays) on Avant-garde Art in Latin America

Olea Hector, Ramirez Mari Carmen, Marzio Peter C., Peluffo Linari Gabriel, Giunta Andrea, Camnitzer Luis, Lippard Lucy R., Salzstein Sonia, Smith Terry, Storr Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300116526, Yale University Press, January 2007
272 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 50 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

In the twentieth century, avant-garde artists from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean created extraordinary and highly innovative paintings, sculptures, assemblages, mixed-media works, and installations. This innovative book present...

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[Grid< >Matrix]

Eckmann Sabine, Koepnick Lutz

ISBN: PB: 9780936316208, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, January 2007
80 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 27 colour plates

"[Grid < > Matrix] "is the first publication in the Screen Arts and New Media Aesthetics series, a series of exhibitions and publications that explore the interpenetration of different screens of representation in contemporary culture – from the canv...

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Models and Prototypes

Manchanda Catharina

ISBN: PB: 9780936316192, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, January 2007
64 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 61 colour plates

"Models and Prototypes" is the first exhibition in the Focus series, a collection-based series of publications and exhibitions intended to examine significant works from the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum's collection within the context of contempora...

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Gego Defying Structures

Bois Yves-Alain

ISBN: PB: 9788489771291, Bookport, MACBA, November 2006
181 pp., 26.5x22 cm

The work of Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt, 1912-1994) relatively unknown outside of Latin America is an extraordinary example of the decisive changes that influenced modern culture after WWII. Born in Hamburg, she studied Architecture and engineering and...

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Socrates Sculpture Park

Baker Alyson, Mestrovic Ivana, Di Suvero Mark, Hanrahan Thomas, Kastner Jeffrey, Sandler Irving

ISBN: HB: 9780300120981, Yale University Press, November 2006
256 pp., 28.6x22.9 cm, 175 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

Socrates Sculpture Park is one of the most acclaimed public art spaces in the country. The Park opened in 1986 and has been an outdoor studio to over 500 artists, a venue presenting more than 40 exhibitions of large-scale sculpture, and a vital park...

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Lee Lozano Drawings

Rosen Barry, van Liere Jaap

ISBN: HB: 9780300119626, Yale University Press, November 2006
192 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 60 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

Lee Lozano (1930-1999) brought a potent voice to the 1960s New York art scene. Equipped with an extraordinary intellectual reach and demonstrating an unusually expressive and mature sexuality, Lozano's art, which includes paintings, drawings, and con...

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Politics of Urban Beauty New York and Its Art Commission

Bogart Michele H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226063058, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
352 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 85 halftones

Since its founding in 1898, the Art Commission of the City of New York (ACNY) has served as the city's aesthetic gatekeeper, evaluating all works of art intended for display on city property. And over the years, the commission's domain has expanded d...

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Imagining Childhood Themes in the Imagery of Childhood

Langmuir Erika

ISBN: HB: 9780300101317, Yale University Press, October 2006
256 pp., 27x20.4 cm, 45 colour images, 55 black&white illus.

The images of children that abound in Western art do not simply mirror reality; they are imaginative constructs, representing childhood as a special stage of human life, or emblematic of the human condition itself. In a compelling book ranging widely...

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