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Max Neuhaus
ISBN: HB: 9780300151671, Yale University Press, November 2009
144 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 40 colour images, 30 black&white illus.
In 1977, Max Neuhaus turned a triangle of pedestrian space between 45th and 46th Streets in Times Square into an island of harmonic sound. The rich textures of that sound continue today, emanating from beneath the sidewalk grating, to anonymously rea...
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£25,00
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Steve Wolfe on Paper
ISBN: PB: 9780300158984, Yale University Press, November 2009
96 pp., 28.6x19.1 cm, 45 colour illus.
Working in the tradition of trompe l'oeil, Steve Wolfe (b. 1955) creates careful replicas of classic books, worn album covers, and vinyl records, crafted from modeling paste, screenprints, drawings, and many other media. Wolfe's reproductions embrace...
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£16,00
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Modern Wing Renzo Piano and the Art Institute of Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780300141122, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2009
160 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 120 colour images, 20 duotone illus.
This handsome book examines the remarkable new addition to the Art Institute of Chicago, designed by Renzo Piano and scheduled to open in May 2009. This expansion to The Art Institute of Chicago, already one of the largest museums in the country, wil...
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£35,00
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Heartland
ISBN: PB: 9780935573473, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, November 2009
176 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 90 colour plates
Throughout the vast interior of the United States, contemporary artists are responding to the world around them and reshaping it in unexpected ways. Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name that first appeared last year in the Nether...
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£22,50
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Automatic Cities The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art
ISBN: HB: 9780934418713, DAP, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, November 2009
160 pp., 23.5x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The "architectural imaginary" describes architecture in its broadest sense: images of cities drawn from collective experience and imagination. Hailing from 11 countries, each of the 14 artists who have contributed to "Autom...
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£28,99
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Nexus New York Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis
ISBN: PB: 9780300158960, Yale University Press, October 2009
272 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 60 colour images, 30 black&white illus.
Between 1900 and 1942, New York City was the site of extraordinary creative exchange where artists could share ideas in a global context. The swiftly-changing urban landscape before and between the World Wars inspired the erosion of artistic boundari...
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£40,00
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What Is Contemporary Art?
ISBN: PB: 9780226764313, University of Chicago Press, October 2009
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 75 halftones
Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today's multifaceted definition, Terry Smith brilliantly shows that an hist...
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£22,00
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Modernologies Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism
ISBN: PB: 9788492505135, Bookport, MACBA, September 2009
256 pp., 24.8x20.3 cm
It is evident that modernity is a popular mountain for analyses and reflection of a largely controversial nature. Numerous theories have also been written about the beginning as well as the end of modernity. The aim of the Modernologies exhibition is...
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£42,95
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Reinventing Ritual Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life
ISBN: PB: 9780300146820, Yale University Press, September 2009
176 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 93 colour images, 10 black&white illus.
A guidebook to the most current trends in contemporary Jewish art and design, "Reinventing Ritual" provides an unprecedented look at the work and thought of contemporary artists as they respond to the needs and practices of traditional culture. Beaut...
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£30,00
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Hanging Fire Contemporary Art from Pakistan
ISBN: HB: 9780300154184, Yale University Press, September 2009
160 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 90 colour illus.
Accompanying the first U.S. museum exhibition devoted to contemporary art from Pakistan, this dynamic catalogue provides a groundbreaking look at recent and current trends in Pakistani art. "Hanging Fire" covers a fascinating range of subjects and me...
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