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Alicja Kwade: ParaPivot The Roof Garden Commission

Baum Kelly, Wagstaff Sheena

ISBN: PB: 9781588396679, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2019
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 58 colour illus.

Contemporary artist Alicja Kwade (b. 1979) has received international acclaim for her minimalist, large-scale sculptures and installations intended to parse, but not resolve, various scientific and metaphysical conundrums. Kwade's site-specific insta...

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Drawing the Curtain Maurice Sendak's Designs for Opera and Ballet

Doona Liam, Federman Rachel, Steinberg Avi, Mattaliano Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9783791358550, Prestel Publishing, June 2019
208 pp., 27.3x25 cm, 125 colour illus.

Maurice Sendak is well-known for his acclaimed children's books, but he was also an avid opera lover and designed a number of sets for opera and ballet productions, among them Mozart's "The Magic Flute", Janacek's "The Cunning Little Vixen", Prokofie...

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Suffering from Realness

Markonish Denise

ISBN: HB: 9783791358192, Prestel Publishing, June 2019
224 pp., 24x18 cm, 172 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

In an age of national divisiveness, artists are creating moments of political resistance while also trying to forge paths towards reconciliation. This exciting and provocative collection shows how fifteen US-based multi-disciplinary artists are addre...

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Ai Weiwei Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

Baume Nicholas, Palmer Daniel S., Stathopoulou Katerina

ISBN: HB: 9780300243796, Yale University Press, June 2019
304 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, 570 colour illus.

Internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) transformed over 300 sites across New York City into a compelling, ambitious public art exhibition concerned with the global refugee and migration crises. "Good Fences Make Good...

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Ribbon of Darkness Inferencing from the Shadowy Arts and Sciences

Stafford Barbara Maria

ISBN: PB: 9780226630519, ISBN: HB: 9780226630489, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 halftones

Over the course of her career, Barbara Stafford has established herself the preeminent scholar of the intersections of the arts and sciences, articulating new theories and methods for understanding the sublime, the mysterious, the inscrutable. Omnivo...

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Louise Nevelson I Must Recompose the Environment

Rubin Caitlin Julia

ISBN: PB: 9781941753231, DAP, Inventory Press, June 2019
88 pp., 22.9x18.4 cm, 30 duotones, 50 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! In 1967, for her first museum retrospective, Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) was given carte blanche to transform the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University into an all-emcompassing, theatrical environment for her sculpture. Ne...

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Eva Hesse: Oberlin Drawings Drawings in the Collection of Allen Memorial Art Museum Oberlin College, Ohio

Rosen Barry

ISBN: HB: 9783906915395, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, June 2019
428 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 391 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This monumental tome contains the entirety of the important German artist's drawings held in the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio. The AMAM was the first museum to purchase a sculpture by H...

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Less Is a Bore Maximalist Art & Design

Medvedow Jill

ISBN: PB: 9780997253849, DAP, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, June 2019
224 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 125 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design" is a multigenerational survey of strategies of pattern and decoration in art and design. Borrowing its ethos from Robert Venturi's infamous retort to Mies van der Rohe's modernist e...

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Cy Twombly, Treatise on the Veil, 1970

White Michelle, Dervaux Isabelle, Rothenberg Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300244571, Yale University Press, May 2019
80 pp., 35.6x27.9 cm, 42 colour illus.

One of the most important American postwar artists, Cy Twombly (1928-2011) engaged with mythological and poetic source material, setting him apart from other artists of his generation. In 1970, Twombly revisited his 1968 painting Treatise on the Veil...

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Matthew Barney Redoubt

Franks Pamela, Hodermarsky Elisabeth, Lepecki Andre, Middleton Arthur, Nesbit Molly, Pinchot Gifford, Raab Jennifer, Rember John

ISBN: PB: 9780300243277, Yale University Press, May 2019
368 pp., 24.4x16.5 cm, 414 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.

"Matthew Barney: Redoubt" is a comprehensive catalogue of the artist's newest project, which centers on a two-hour film that creates a complex portrait of the American landscape by layering classical, cosmological, and American myths about humanity's...

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