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Yves Zurstrassen Free. 2009-2019
ISBN: HB: 9780300246568, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2019
264 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 160 colour illus.
The decade of work produced between 2010 and 2019 by Belgian abstract painter Yves Zurstrassen (b. 1956) is the focus of this beautifully designed and illustrated book. Although he originally studied graphic art, Zurstrassen was inspired by Abstract...
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£40,00
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Creative Chicago An Interview Marathon
ISBN: PB: 9780932171672, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, November 2019
192 pp., 22.8x17.1 cm, 100 colour plates
On September 29, 2018, before a live audience at Navy Pier in Chicago, international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted his first US Marathon interview session as part of Art Design Chicago, a yearlong celebration of Chicago's art and design legacy...
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Cruising the Dead River David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront
ISBN: PB: 9780226603759, ISBN: HB: 9780226603612, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones
In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers' se...
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£26,00
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£74,00
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Jaroslav Malina in Scenography and Painting
ISBN: HB: 9788024642697, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
450 pp., 26x23.4 cm, 125 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Although Czech scenographer and painter Jaroslav Malina (1937-2016) lived in turbulent times, he won international respect for his work. Spanning Malina's entire life – from his early year...
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£34,00
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Aesthetic Theory
ISBN: PB: 9783035801460, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2019
240 pp., 22x13.9 cm, 15 colour plates, 20 halftones
Theodor Adorno's famous aesthetic theory was not merely a theory of the aesthetic; it also made a wider claim about the aesthetic implications of all theory. At the same time we have to deal with aesthetic objects and events in which an aesthetic the...
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£30,00
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Cao Jun Hymns to Nature
ISBN: PB: 9781892850300, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, November 2019
125 pp., 35.6x30.5 cm, 64 colour plates, 8 halftones
No contemporary artist has succeeded so thoroughly in blending classical Chinese art and modern abstract art as Cao Jun, who has exhibited widely in China, as well as at the Louvre. Accompanying an exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston Col...
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£28,00
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Christine Corday Relative Points
ISBN: PB: 9780997736410, DAP, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, November 2019
86 pp., 25.9x21.3 cm, 54 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! This book accompanies New York – based artist Christine Corday's (born 1970) site-specific installation at CAM St. Louis. Corday's 12 monumental sculptures – made from 10,000 pounds of compressed elemental metal – are arran...
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£27,00
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Conversations with Artists II
ISBN: PB: 9780934324892, DAP, Aspen Art Press, November 2019
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! In Volume II of "Conversations with Artists", Heidi Zuckerman, CEO and Director of the Aspen Art Museum, continues to explore the critical practices, daily lives and philosophical interests of artists working today. Her ins...
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£22,00
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Genealogies of Art, or the History of Art as Visual Art
ISBN: HB: 9788470756610, DAP, Fundacion Juan March, November 2019
450 pp., 33.7x28.6 cm, 500 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Genealogies of Art" analyzes the visual representations of art history made by artists, critics, designers, theorists and poets alike, from the genealogical trees of the 12th through the 15th centuries and the Renaissance...
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£65,00
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JR: Chronicles
ISBN: HB: 9782954226699, DAP, Maison CF + Brooklyn Museum, November 2019
240 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 90 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Over the past two decades, French artist JR has massively expanded the impact of public art through his ambitious projects that give visibility and agency to people around the world. Showcasing the full scope of the artist'...
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£39,99
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