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Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare A Biography

Goldfarb Marquis Alice

ISBN: HB: 9780878466443, DAP, MFA Publications, September 2002
368 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 24 colour illus., 64 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare" is not the first full-length biography of Duchamp, but it is the first to present him in all his human contradictions and to take a refreshingly objective look at his real contri...

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At Memory's Edge After-images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture

Young James E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300094138, Yale University Press, February 2002
256 pp., 23.4x17.8 cm, 56 black&white illus., 47 colour illus.

How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? James E. Young, the only foreigner and the only Jew to serve on the German commission to select a design for a national Holocaust memorial, tells the inside story of t...

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Helen Mirra Sky-wreck

Bervin Jen, Marcus Ben, Walker Hamza

ISBN: BOX: 9780941548441, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2002
72 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm

"Is a non-remote horizon always a concealment? If a portion of sky has been carved and set loose to rest upon land, is it the result of an illegal language spoken in the town?" – Ben Marcus, from A Horizon Grammar A hybrid of artist's book and catal...

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Toni Grand

Diserens Corrine

ISBN: HB: 9780941548434, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2002
60 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 10 colour plates, 13 halftones

This catalogue is the first English-language monograph on the work of this French sculptor, who gained critical recognition as a member of the French movement Supports-Surfaces, founded in 1970. This group viewed the formal relationships between the...

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Contact

Taylor-Wood Sam

ISBN: PB: 9781861542236, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2001
160 pp., 28.8x24 cm, full-colour illus.

One of the more widely discussed and inventive exponents of contemporary British art, Sam Taylor-Wood has spent a decade creating film and photographic works that extend the boundaries of their media. She has worked closely with Bruce Mau Design on t...

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Battle for Realism Figurative Art in Britain During the Cold War, 1945-1960

Hyman James

ISBN: HB: 9780300090895, Yale University Press, October 2001
264 pp., 27x21.7 cm, 150 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

Art historian James Hyman takes a fresh look at the crucial years after the Second World War when attempts were made to revive European culture and debates about the future of art were fierce. The author proposes that realism in Europe during the ear...

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Ecology

Ecologies Mark Dion, Peter Fend, Dan Peterman

Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780935573329, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, July 2001
96 pp., 22.8x16.4 cm, 32 colour plates, 80 halftones

Since the 1960s, many artists have incorporated ecological concerns into their work, an endeavor that has required new strategies in art-making. To explore recent American manifestations of these interests, the David and Alfred Smart Museum commissio...

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Louise Bourgeois' Spider The Architecture of Art-Writing

Bal Mieke

ISBN: HB: 9780226035758, University of Chicago Press, June 2001
88 pp., 22x16.8 cm, 25 colour illus.

The sculptor Louise Bourgeois is best known for her monumental abstract sculptures, one of the most striking of which is the installation "Spider" (1997). Too vast in scale to be viewed all at once, this elusive structure resists simple narration. It...

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Ambition and Love in Modern American Art

Weinberg Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300081879, Yale University Press, April 2001
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 175 illus.

Freud wrote that the artist "desires to win honour, power, wealth, fame, and the love of women". In this engrossing book, Jonathan Weinberg investigates how an artist's ambition interacts with his or her art, how wealth and celebrity play a role in t...

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Guide to Chicago's Murals

Lackritz Gray Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226305998, University of Chicago Press, April 2001
520 pp., 19.7x15.6 cm, 204 colour plates, 35 halftones

Chicago is a city known for its fabulous architecture and public sculpture by artists such as Picasso and Calder, but anyone who has seen the gorgeous lunettes in the Auditorium Theater or the South Side's Wall of Respect, which inaugurated the city'...

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