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William Cordova Now's the Time: Narratives of Southern Alchemy

Ortiz Maria Elena

ISBN: HB: 9783791357676, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
186 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 190 colour illus.

This gorgeously illustrated book explores the three main themes that have inspired William Cordova's work for decades: transmission, alchemy, and transcendence. Growing up in Miami, and of Afro-Peruvian descent, William Cordova's life has been marke...

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William Kentridge Smoke, Ashes, Fable

Koerner Margaret K., Borchert Till-Holger, Buchloh Benjamin H. D., Koerner Joseph Leo, Siegel Harmon

ISBN: HB: 9780300230253, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2017
224 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 300 colour illus.

The well-known South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) has become famous for his time-lapse animation movies and installations, as well as his activities as an opera and theater director. This book offers a unique selection of Kentridge's wo...

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Warhol's Working Class Pop Art and Egalitarianism

Grudin Anthony E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226347776, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 51 halftones

This book explores Andy Warhol's creative engagement with social class. During the 1960s, as neoliberalism perpetuated the idea that fixed classes were a mirage and status an individual achievement, Warhol's work appropriated images, techniques, and...

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What Is a Museum Now? Snohetta and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Snohetta

ISBN: HB: 9783037785072, Lars Muller Publishers, June 2017
288 pp., 28x22 cm, 315 illus.

"What is a Museum Now?" asks for the role of a museum in contemporary society. This book contains a detailed and extensive documentation of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's expansion, conducted by Snohetta. The studio evolved the SFMOMA as a...

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Whitney Biennial 2017

Lew Christopher Y., Locks Mia

ISBN: PB: 9780300223095, Yale University Press, May 2017
256 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 200 colour illus.

Always highly anticipated and beautifully packaged, this book is an essential record of the current trends in contemporary art in America. Since its introduction by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in 1932, the Whitney Biennial has charted new developmen...

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William Kentridge Being Led by the Nose

Taylor Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780226791203, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
224 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 71 colour plates, 6 halftones

South African artist William Kentridge's drawings, films, books, installations, and collaborations with opera and theater companies have established him as a world-class star in contemporary art, media, and theater. In 2010, and again in 2013, he sta...

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Wustungen

Heinlein Anne, Gnaudschun Goran

ISBN: HB: 9783954761814, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2017
176 pp., 28x20.5 cm, 120 colour illus., language: English / German

In their book "Wustungen," Anne Heinlein (b. 1977) and Goran Gnaudschun (b. 1971) delve deep into recent German history. Between 1952 and 1988, the authorities razed more than a hundred villages, farms, hamlets, and homesteads on East German territor...

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Walter Leblanc

Farrell Robyn, Lemoine Serge, Pola Francesca, Wittocx Eva

ISBN: HB: 9780300225969, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2017
208 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.

Little is known about Walter Leblanc (1932-1986), one of the key representatives of kinetic and optical art in the mid-20th century. This comprehensive monograph, the first on this artist for an international audience, includes unpublished materials,...

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Willem de Kooning / Zao Wou-Ki

de Villepin Dominique, Harrist Robert, Swensen Cole, Ward Diane, Walt Melissa

ISBN: HB: 9781944379124, DAP, Dominique Levy, March 2017
192 pp., 33.7x25.3 cm, 30 colour illus., 15 duotones

Not for sale in Estonia! This volume explores the parallel careers of two celebrated postwar painters: Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) and Zao Wou-Ki (1921-2013). Published in conjunction with Dominique Levy's exhibition pairing the artists' abstract...

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WW2

Llewellyn Sasha, Liss Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780993088421, Casemate, Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, September 2016
160 pp., 27x21.5 cm, 130 illus.

This book is published on the eve of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the launch of the War Artists' Advisory Committee and the iconic War Pictures by British Artists series. The scheme, devised by Kenneth Clark, played a vital role in both how the...

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