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Serra Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226748801, University of Chicago Press, August 1994
286 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 32 halftones

One of the most important sculptors of this century, Richard Serra has been a spokesman on the nature and status of art in our day. Best known for site-specific works in steel, Serra has much to say about the relation of sculpture to place, whether u...

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Memories That Smell Like Gasoline

Wojnarowicz David

ISBN: HB: 9780963109507, DAP, Artspace Books, September 1992
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Not content to be a tremendous photographer, painter, filmmaker, performance artist and activist David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was also the author of three classic books: "Close to the Knives", "The Waterfront Journals" and...

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Object of Performance The American Avant-Garde since 1970

Sayre Henry M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226735580, University of Chicago Press, February 1992
324 pp., 23x16 cm, 4 colour plates, 91 halftones

Sayre defines for the first time the apparently diffuse avant-garde art of the past two decades in terms of its distinctly postmodern concerns. The range of arts discussed here encompasses contemporary dance, photography, oral poetics, performance ar...

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Transformation of the Avant-Garde The New York Art World, 1940-1985

Crane Diana

ISBN: PB: 9780226117904, University of Chicago Press, July 1989
204 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 32 halftones

With the rise of Abstract Expressionism, New York City became the acknowledged center of the avant-garde. Diana Crane documents the transformation of the New York art world between 1940 and 1985, both in the artistic styles that emerged during this p...

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William D Berry 1954-1956 Field Sketches

Berry Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780912006369, ISBN: HB: 9780912006345, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 1989
304 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm

This book offers a unique glimpse of Alaska and its creatures, rendered on paper by a man who loved and respected them. William D. Berry was nationally known as a wildlife artist, but to many Alaskans, he was also a kind of state treasure and certain...

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Contemporary Art

How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art

Guilbaut Serge

ISBN: PB: 9780226310398, University of Chicago Press, April 1985
288 pp., 23x15.2 cm

Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction 1. New York, 1935-1941: The De-Marxization of the Intelligentsia 2. The Second World War and the Attempt to Establish an Independent American Art 3. The Creation of an American Avant-Garde, 1945-1947 4. Su...

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History of Art

Meaning in the Visual Arts

Panofsky Erwin

ISBN: PB: 9780226645513, University of Chicago Press, March 1983
384 pp., 22.9x14.7 cm, 64 pages of illus.

Since its original publication, Erwin Panofsky's "Meaning in the Visual Arts" has been standard reading for students of art history. It is both an introduction to the study of art and, for those with more specialized interests, a profound discussion...

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