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Contemporary Art

Damien Hirst

Beard Jason

ISBN: HB: 9781861542120, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2002
192 pp., 27.7x21.5 cm, full-colour illus.

Reputed to have initiated the young British art movement Hirst is considered the pre-eminent artist of his generation. This project brings together for the first time all of the artist's works in the collection of Charles Saatchi, his most prolific a...

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Contemporary Art

Venus in Exile The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art

Steiner Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780226772400, University of Chicago Press, November 2002
354 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 43 halftones

In "Venus in Exile" renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner explores the twentieth century's troubled relationship with beauty. Disdained by avant-garde artists, feminists, and activists, beauty and its major symbols of art – the female subject and or...

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Contemporary Art

Stick "Em Up"

Dorrian Mike, Recchia David, Farrelly Liz

ISBN: PB: 9781861542472, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, October 2002
256 pp., 20x16 cm, full-colour illus.

Stickers are the new flyers, and a major means of street-based communication, used by the hippest advertising agencies and the most underground messengers alike. Spurred on by groundbreaking innovation from a coterie of underground artists worldwide,...

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Contemporary Art

Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare A Biography

Goldfarb Marquis Alice

ISBN: HB: 9780878466443, DAP, MFA Publications, September 2002
368 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 24 colour illus., 64 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare" is not the first full-length biography of Duchamp, but it is the first to present him in all his human contradictions and to take a refreshingly objective look at his real contri...

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Contemporary Art

At Memory's Edge After-images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture

Young James E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300094138, Yale University Press, February 2002
256 pp., 23.4x17.8 cm, 56 black&white illus., 47 colour illus.

How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? James E. Young, the only foreigner and the only Jew to serve on the German commission to select a design for a national Holocaust memorial, tells the inside story of t...

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Photography

Helen Mirra Sky-wreck

Bervin Jen, Marcus Ben, Walker Hamza

ISBN: BOX: 9780941548441, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2002
72 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm

"Is a non-remote horizon always a concealment? If a portion of sky has been carved and set loose to rest upon land, is it the result of an illegal language spoken in the town?" – Ben Marcus, from A Horizon Grammar A hybrid of artist's book and catal...

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Contemporary Art

Toni Grand

Diserens Corrine

ISBN: HB: 9780941548434, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2002
60 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 10 colour plates, 13 halftones

This catalogue is the first English-language monograph on the work of this French sculptor, who gained critical recognition as a member of the French movement Supports-Surfaces, founded in 1970. This group viewed the formal relationships between the...

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