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Against the Avant-Garde Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism

Merjian Ara H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226655277, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 36 colour plates, 139 halftones

Recognized in America chiefly for his films, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) in fact reinvented interdisciplinarity in postwar Europe. Pasolini self-confessedly approached the cinematic image through painting, and the numerous allusions to early mode...

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Ileana Sonnabend and Arte Povera

Celant Germano

ISBN: HB: 9781944379193, DAP, Levy Gorvy, January 2020
348 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Estonia! This two-volume publication accompanies the exhibition "Ileana Sonnabend and Arte Povera" held at Hauser & Wirth New York in 2017. The larger of the two books includes a comprehensive chronology, including every exhibition...

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Edward Hopper and the American Hotel

Mazow Leo G.

ISBN: PB: 9780300246889, Yale University Press, December 2019
216 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 267 colour illus., 2 maps

The painter, draftsman, and illustrator Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is one of America's best-known and most frequently exhibited artists. Hotels, motels, and tourist homes are recurring motifs in his work, along with streets, lighthouses, and gas stati...

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Ai Weiwei Bare Life

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9780936316468, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, December 2019
192 pp., 22.8x26.6 cm, 90 colour plates

Over the past two decades, the Chinese conceptual artist, activist, and exile Ai Weiwei has created art that addresses complex and sensitive themes of political, ethical, and social urgency. His artworks, which call upon both Western and Chinese cult...

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Before or After, at the Same Time Rome, Milan, and Fabio Mauri, 1948-1968

Eastham Ben

ISBN: PB: 9783906915449, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, December 2019
212 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 40 colour illus., 67 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This book takes the life of the Italian multimedia artist and writer Fabio Mauri (born 1926) and the history of his family – a publishing dynasty with close connections to radical Italian art, poetry, cinema, philosophy and...

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Theater of Operations The Gulf Wars 1991-2011

Eleey Peter, Katrib Ruba

ISBN: FLEXI: 9780996893084, DAP, MoMA PS1, December 2019
275 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 100 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The 1991 Gulf War marked the start of a lengthy period of American-led military involvement in Iraq that led to more than a decade of sanctions, the 2003 Iraq War, and ongoing repercussions throughout the region. Though the...

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Soto The Forth Dimension

Soto Jesus Rafael

ISBN: HB: 9788417769185, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, November 2019
176 pp., 24.5x20.5 cm, colour and black&white illus.

Jesus Rafael Soto (1923-2005) is one of the main representatives of kinetic and optical art. This book includes the most interesting works he has produced, from the organic forms of his early period to his abstract works at the start of the sixties a...

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Artist Speaks Lim Cheng Hoe

Siew Sara

ISBN: PB: 9789811167973, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, November 2019
70 pp., 23x16 cm, colour and black&white illus.

One of Singapore's most prominent watercolour artists, Lim Cheng Hoe devoted his life and practice to painting his country, weaving scenes that resonate with evanescent beauty. The reticent artist's personal writings speak of a man's quiet, fervent d...

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Jan Hendrix Landfall

Adria Miquel, Brotton Jerry, Heaney Seamus, Lopez Colome Pura, Medina Cuauhtemoc

ISBN: PB: 9788417047948, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, November 2019
288 pp., 22x16 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.

Since Dutch artist Jan Hendrix (born 1949) moved to Mexico in 1975, he has been a key figure in that country's art scene, building a bridge between Mexican and Dutch traditions of thinking about nature. This first retrospective covers Hendrix's two-...

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Julie Mehretu

Hockley Rujeko, Kim Christine Y.

ISBN: HB: 9783791358741, Prestel Publishing, November 2019
320 pp., 26.9x25 cm, 455 colour and black&white illus.

Over the past twenty-five years Julie Mehretu has emerged as a major force in American art. Known mostly for her enormous abstract paintings, she also produces exquisite drawings, often created as studies for larger works. This sumptuous volume accom...

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