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America

Art of Return The Sixties and Contemporary Culture

Meyer James

ISBN: HB: 9780226521558, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
302 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 94 colour plates, 38 halftones

More than any other decade, the sixties capture our collective cultural imagination. And while many Americans can immediately imagine the sound of Martin Luther King Jr. declaring "I have a dream!" or envision hippies placing flowers in gun barrels,...

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Lenore Tawney Mirror of the Universe

Patterson Karen

ISBN: HB: 9780226664835, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
304 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 200 colour plates

Recent years have seen an enormous surge of interest in fiber arts, with works made of thread on display in art museums around the world. But this art form only began to transcend its origins as a humble craft in the late nineteenth and early twentie...

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Let me consider it from here

Ovstebo Solveig

ISBN: PB: 9780941548762, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, September 2019
104 pp., 21.5x17.7 cm, 52 colour plates

Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, "Let me consider it from here" features color reproductions of artworks by Saul Fletcher, Brook Hsu, and Tetsumi Kudo and transcriptions of the audio works of Constance DeJong, alongside newly co...

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Please RSVP Questions on Collaborative Aesthetics, Trans-Subjectivity, and the Politics of Love

Durham April

ISBN: PB: 9781512603682, ISBN: HB: 9781512603453, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It's no secret that working with others, rather than alone, on a creative project can often yield the most unexpected results, a new and surprising sum greater than the whole of its parts. "Please RSVP" presents a bold new theory of just how powerful...

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Alejandro Cesarco Song

Cesarco Alejandro

ISBN: HB: 9780941548748, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, September 2019
112 pp., 26.6x19 cm, 28 colour plates

"Alejandro Cesarco: Song", published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Renaissance Society, brings together both new commissions and existing works. In the exhibition, Cesarco creates rhythm by incorporating silences and withh...

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Allure of Matter Material Art from China

Hung Wu, Cacchione Orianna, Mehring Christine, Smith Trevor

ISBN: HB: 9780935573602, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2019
264 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 257 colour plates

From the 1980s, many Chinese artists have experimented with a range of unconventional materials. Their works–in plastic, paper, silk, ash, and tobacco–form a major trend in Chinese art. "The Allure of Matter" offers the first serious consideration of...

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Guillermo Kuitca

Viveros-Faune Christian, Wiley Chris

ISBN: HB: 9783906915432, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, September 2019
176 pp., 29.7x23.4 cm, 100 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This book debuts two new painting series by Argentinian artist Guillermo Kuitca (born 1961) that feature the artist's distinctive melding of abstraction and figuration – "The Family Idiot" and "Missing Pages". Evoking the c...

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Magdalena Suarez Frimkess

Swallow Ricky

ISBN: PB: 9781942884514, DAP, South Willard Press, September 2019
80 pp., 20.8x16 cm, 80 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This is the first book on the Venice, California-based ceramicist Magdalena Suarez Frimkess (born 1926). Now in her 90s, the Venezuela-born artist is just now getting the recognition she deserves, with her work finding its...

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Something Greater 40 Years

Zuckerman Heidi

ISBN: PB: 9780934324908, DAP, Aspen Art Press, September 2019
154 pp., 29.7x22.9 cm, 100 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Published for the Aspen Art Museum's 40th anniversary, "Something Greater" covers the museum's exhibitions and highlights its recent Pritzker-prize winning Shigeru Ban-designed building. This book is the ultimate guide for...

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Literary Criticism

Anselm Kiefer in Conversation with Klaus Dermutz

Kiefer Anselm, Dermutz Klaus

ISBN: HB: 9780857426031, Seagull Books, September 2019
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 34 colour plates

"I think in pictures. Poems help me with this. They are like buoys in the sea. I swim to them, from one to the other. In between, without them, I am lost. They are the handholds where something masses together in the infinite expanse" – Anselm Kiefer...

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