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Joe Brainard I Remember
ISBN: PB: 9781887123488, DAP, Granary Books, February 2001
192 pp., 17.1x12.1 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! This volume offers the most comprehensive overview in print – and the first substantial English-language monograph in decades – on the great 17th-century Spanish painter Zurbaran. It spans his entire career, from his earlie...
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£12,99
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Exhibiting Experimental Art in China
ISBN: PB: 9780935573336, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 2000
224 pp., 28.1x18.6 cm, 111 colour plates, 29 halftones
In his new book, Wu Hung raises timely questions about artistic freedom and censorship. Here, as in the Smart Museum's exhibition "Canceled: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China", Wu uses the government's cancellation of the exhibition It's Me (Beiji...
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£32,00
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Space/Sight/Self
ISBN: PB: 9780935573220, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, July 1999
76 pp., 22.3x16.5 cm, 10 colour plates, 24 halftones
The exhibition "Space/Sight/Self" was designed to study the role of portraiture in contemporary art as a nexus of three issues – identity, vision, and place. The goal was to produce a portrait, as it were, of contemporary portraiture. This catalog do...
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£11,50
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Joseph Beuys Drawings Based On The Codices Madrid By Da Vinci
ISBN: HB: 9780944521342, DAP, Dia Art Foundation, May 1999
200 pp., 31.8x24.1 cm, 98 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia!
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£53,00
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Struggle for Utopia Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946
ISBN: PB: 9780226505169, University of Chicago Press, June 1998
276 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 107 halftones
Following World War I, a new artistic-social avant-garde emerged with the ambition to engage the artist in the building of social life. Through close readings of the works of Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy whose careers cov...
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£25,50
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Arts Club of Chicago The Collection 1916-1996
ISBN: PB: 9780964344037, University of Chicago Press, January 1998
136 pp., 29.7x23.4 cm, 31 colour plates, 44 halftones
Founded in 1916, the "Arts Club of Chicago" has long been committed to innovation in the visual and performing arts. Through the years, important commissions, purchases, and gifts from artists and patrons have formed an impressive collection of moder...
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£19,00
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Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art
ISBN: PB: 9780226063089, ISBN: HB: 9780226063072, University of Chicago Press, November 1997
444 pp., 24.6x16.8 cm, 93 halftones
Norman Rockwell and Andy Warhol, J. C. Leyendecker and Georgia O'Keeffe, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Pepsi-Cola, the avant garde and the Famous Artists Schools, Inc. : these are some of the unexpected pairings encountered in "Artists, Advertis...
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£28,50
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£58,00
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Transforming the Crown African, Asian, and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966-1996
ISBN: PB: 9780965408202, University of Chicago Press, March 1997
160 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 73 colour plates, 175 halftones
Transforming the Crown is the catalog for a landmark exhibition organized by the Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute in New York City. The exhibition chronicles the aesthetic production of artists of African and Asian descent in the...
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£30,00
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Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism
ISBN: HB: 9780226159423, University of Chicago Press, June 1995
462 pp., 22.8x15.3 cm, 137 halftones
In this acclaimed revisionist study, Erika Doss chronicles an historic cultural change in American art from the dominance of regionalism in the 1930s to abstract expressionism in the 1940s. She centers her study on Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Poll...
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£76,00
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Monumental Propaganda
ISBN: PB: 9780916365424, DAP, Independent Curators International, February 1995
96 pp., 29x21.6 cm, 75 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Edited by Dore Ashton, and instigated by Komar & Melamid projects to salvage Russia's remaining monuments to totalitarianism, "Monumental Propaganda" mixes levity and seriousness, presenting 26 proposals by among others Arm...
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£17,50
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