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Be-Bomb The Transatlantic War of Images and All That Jazz. 1946-1956

Guilbaut Serge

ISBN: PB: 9788489771475, Bookport, MACBA, December 2007
784 pp., 21.6x17.1 cm

French historian, Serge Guilbaut, explores the aesthetic quarrels between Paris and New York of the 40s and 50s, analysing the art that became cultural and commercial icons, with works by Picasso, de Kooning, Dubuffet, Gorky, Kandinsky, Matisse, Newm...

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Making a Home Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York

Shiner Eric C., Tomii Reiko

ISBN: HB: 9780300126341, Yale University Press, November 2007
250 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

Since the 1950s, many Japanese artists have made their homes and careers in New York, some for enhanced exposure to the international art world or to challenge themselves to take their artwork in new directions, and others to escape restrictions face...

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Other Criteria Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art

Steinberg Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226771854, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
448 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 295 halftones

Leo Steinberg's classic "Other Criteria" comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from "Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public" and the "flatbed picture plane" to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and...

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Anarchist Modernism Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde

Antliff Allan

ISBN: PB: 9780226021041, ISBN: HB: 9780226021034, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
314 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 4 colour plates, 84 halftones

The relationship of the anarchist movement to American art during the World War I era is most often described as a "tenuous affinity" between two distinct spheres: political and artistic. In "Anarchist Modernism" – the first in-depth exploration of t...

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Political Economy of Socialist Realism

Dobrenko Evgeny

ISBN: HB: 9780300122800, Yale University Press, October 2007
410 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For decades Stalinist literature, film, and art was almost exclusively deemed political propaganda imposed from on high, devoid of any aesthetic significance. In this book, Evgeny Dobrenko suggests an entirely new view: socialism did not produce Soci...

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Phantasmagoria Specters of Absence

Richards Judith Olch

ISBN: HB: 9780916365769, DAP, Independent Curators International, October 2007
72 pp., 24.8x22.2 cm, 32 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The 12 artists in "Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence" – Christian Boltanski, Jim Campbell, Michel Delacroix, Laurent Grasso, Jeppe Hein, William Kentridge, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Teresa Margolles, Oscar Munoz, Julie Nord,...

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John Sloan's New York

Schiller Joyce K., Campbell Coyle Heather, Hutton Molly S., Fillin-Yeh Susan, Manthorne Katherine Emma, Boylan Alexis L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300126198, Yale University Press, August 2007
224 pp., 30.5x25.1 cm, 128 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

John Sloan (1871-1951) began his career as a commercial newspaper artist in Philadelphia where he studied with Robert Henri. Following Henri to New York, Sloan joined a small circle of eight talented artists whose dissatisfaction with the dominating...

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Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mintz Messinger Lisa, Tinterow Gary

ISBN: HB: 9780300122527, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2007
176 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 100 colour illus.

This beautiful book features 63 paintings, sculptures, and drawings from "The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection", which was recently given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it will be exhibited beginning in September 2007. Long recogni...

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Window – Interface

Eckmann Sabine, Koepnick Lutz

ISBN: PB: 9780936316222, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, August 2007
96 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 40 colour plates

Windows both connect and divide interior and exterior, public and private spaces. Interfaces update the function of the window in today's world of omnipresent screens and digital information".Window's Interface", based on a forthcoming exhibition at...

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Escultura Social A New Generation of Art from Mexico City

Rodrigues Widholm Julie, Schmelz Itala

ISBN: PB: 9780300134278, Yale University Press, July 2007
224 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 130 colour illus.

Mexico City has emerged as a thriving centre of contemporary art. "Escultura Social" features recent work by a group of artists whose influence has already extended far beyond Mexico and focuses on how they have contributed to an international dialog...

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