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Robert Irwin Site Determined
ISBN: HB: 9783791356716, Prestel Publishing, February 2018
120 pp., 25.5x19.5 cm, 10 black&white illus., 66 colour illus.
Over the course of a storied career, Robert Irwin has come to regard art as site determined, or something that works in and responds to its surroundings. This book opens with his projects on college campuses between 1975 and 1982. These are followed...
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£35,00
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40 Years Just Talking About Art
ISBN: PB: 9783791357409, Prestel Publishing, January 2018
340 pp., 29.5x24.8 cm, 114 colour illus., 76 black&white illus.
Michael Auping, one of America's foremost curators of contemporary art, explores process and technique through conversations he has had over the past four decades with many of the most significant artists of our time. At the Modern Art Museum of For...
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£45,00
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James Rosenquist Painting as Immersion
ISBN: HB: 9783791357249, Prestel Publishing, November 2017
336 pp., 29x25.3 cm, illus.
A monograph on the great Pop Art master, James Rosenquist, this book shows how the artist's large-scale works and their source materials remain powerful and relevant as cultural and political commentary. With a background in advertising and painting...
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Prospect.4 The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp
ISBN: HB: 9783791356792, Prestel Publishing, November 2017
192 pp., 28.5x23 cm, 144 colour illus.
Now in its fourth iteration, Prospect New Orleans draws its inspiration from the city itself, a place of graceful beauty that thrives in adverse conditions. By positioning itself in the city of New Orleans, the Prospect triennial aims to echo the cit...
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£45,00
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A. BANDIT A Secret Has Two Faces
ISBN: HB: 9783791355641, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
256 pp., 30.5x23 cm, 200 colour illus.
A. Bandit is an experimental performance art group started by conceptual artist Glenn Kaino and magician Derek DelGaudio. Together they have exhibited and performed their work in venues that span a diverse range of cultural activities. The book intro...
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£75,00
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Kinesthesia Latin American and Kinetic Art, 1954-1969
ISBN: HB: 9783791356730, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
240 pp., 28.5x27 cm, 200 colour illus.
"Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art, 1954-1969" examines the influential and visually stunning work of South American kinetic artists. While Southern California was becoming the North American epicenter for Light and Space art in the 1960s, sepa...
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£45,00
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Axis Mundo Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.
ISBN: HB: 9783791356693, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
414 pp., 32x23 cm, 500 colour illus., 42 black&white illus.
Working between the 1960s and early 1990s, the artists profiled in this compendium represent a broad cross section of L.A.'s art scene. With nearly 400 illustrations and ten essays, this volume presents histories of artistic experimentation and revea...
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£45,00
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Barbara Takenaga
ISBN: HB: 9783791357003, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
128 pp., 28.7x25.1 cm, illustrations throughout
At once conceptual and decorative, Barbara Takenaga's swirling, patterned paintings have been called "psychedelic" and "cosmic". Takenaga's approach to painting is both highly structured and disciplined. In this collection of seventy paintings, the e...
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£27,50
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Sheila Pepe Hot Mess Formalism
ISBN: HB: 9783791357010, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
128 pp., 27x21 cm, 110 colour illus.
Shoelaces, nautical ropes, bits of string. For two decades Sheila Pepe has been transforming these items into transcendent works that can fit on a lap or fill a room. Her versatility, humor, and feminist perspective are on brilliant display in this b...
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£29,99
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Join Us!
ISBN: HB: 9788417048235, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, September 2017
312 pp., 26.7x19 cm, illus.
The Venice Biennale is one of the most important contemporary art events in the world, with the participation of dozens of countries through their national pavilions and its open-mindedness towards avant-garde approaches. This catalogue presents the...
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£27,00
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