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minor cosmopolitan Thinking art, politics, and the universe together otherwise
ISBN: PB: 9783035803044, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
In the wake of rapid globalization, many enthusiastically declared cosmopolitanism to be no longer just a philosophical ideal, but a real, existing fact. Across the world, they argued, people were increasingly considering themselves global citizens....
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£24,00
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Suddenly Turning Visible Art and Architecture in Southeast Asia (1969-1989)
ISBN: PB: 9789811406522, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, July 2020
192 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, colour and black&white illus.
In 1981, the Filipino artist and curator Raymundo Albano adopted the expression "Suddenly Turning Visible" to describe the rapid transformation of Manila's urban landscape. The visibility that Albano evoked was aspirational, driven by a desire for ra...
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£28,00
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Projectionists Eadweard Muybridge and the Future Projections of the Moving Image
ISBN: PB: 9783035802894, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 20 halftones
Eadweard Muybridge is among the seminal originators of the contemporary world's visual form. Projectionists examines mostly unknown aspects of Muybridge's work: his period as a touring projectionist who enthralled audiences with unprecedented moving-...
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Still Life Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum
ISBN: PB: 9780226714080, ISBN: HB: 9780226713922, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones, 4 line drawings
How do you keep the cracks in "Starry Night" from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph eternal – or should you attempt it at all? These are some of the questions that...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Tale of Today Nate Young and Mika Horibuchi
ISBN: PB: 9780578657356, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2020
100 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates
The second exhibition in the Driehaus Museum's initiative to bring contemporary art into the Gilded Age era Nickerson Mansion focuses on two Chicago-based artists: Nate Young and Mika Horibuchi, whose works engage our expectations of the 1883 buildin...
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£20,00
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TO LOSE YOUR HEAD (IDOLS) Catalonia in Venice
ISBN: PB: 9788494423444, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 200 halftones
For their 2019 Venice Biennale pavilion, Catalonia presented an exhibition exploring the life of public statues and reflecting on the capacity of artworks to possess agency. The project considers the often-intense relationship that forms between huma...
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Christina Quarles
ISBN: PB: 9783791359120, Prestel Publishing, June 2020
120 pp., 27.5x19.2 cm, 60 colour illus.
A member of the vanguard of artists who are upending the white-male-dominated art scene, Christina Quarles's art is often considered in relation to her identity as a queer, ciswoman of mixed race. Her large-scale, exuberantly colored paintings reflec...
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£19,99
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Made in L.A. 2020
ISBN: PB: 9783791359106, Prestel Publishing, June 2020
208 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
Under the direction of co-curators Myriam Ben Salah and Lauren Mackler and with the help of Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, the Hammer Museum's 2020 Biennial brings together local artists from a variety of disciplines. This book spans sculpture, painting, inst...
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£22,50
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London's New Scene Art and Culture in the 1960s
ISBN: HB: 9781913107109, Yale University Press, June 2020
416 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 80 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.
In the 1960s, London became a vibrant hub of artistic production. Postwar reconstruction, jet air travel, television arts programs, new color supplements, a generation of young artists, dealers, and curators, the influx of international film companie...
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Sean Scully The Shape of Ideas
ISBN: HB: 9780876332955, Yale University Press, May 2020
256 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 195 colour and black&white illus.
In a sustained exploration of the possibilities of abstraction, Sean Scully (b. 1945) has created a rich body of work throughout his 50-year career. "Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas" sets his entire output within a detailed biographical framework, cl...
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