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Contemporary Art

Maria Lassnig

Friedel Helmut

ISBN: HB: 9783899554021, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2010
150 pp., 27x21 cm, 130 colour illus., language: English / German

Maria Lassnig is one of the most radical women artists of our time: her self-portraits depict her with sagging breasts, wearing a pot on her head or even as a dumpling. She calls her works "body-consciousness paintings", and what they show is rarely...

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Contemporary Art

2010 Whitney Biennial

Bonami Francesco, Carrion-Murayari Gary

ISBN: HB: 9780300162424, Yale University Press, March 2010
256 pp., 23.5x19.3 cm, 150 colour illus.

Since its inauguration in 1932, the Whitney Biennial has showcased contemporary artistic innovation, becoming a highly anticipated event in the art world. The 2010 Biennial is curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari and features works b...

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Contemporary Art

Time Out of Joint Recall and Evocation in Recent Art

Fassi Luigi, Gallun Lucy, Schillinger Jakob

ISBN: PB: 9780300159028, Yale University Press, March 2010
120 pp., 21x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.

This engaging publication explores the artistic practices that employ evocation – the calling forth of past emotions, desires, frustrations, and memories – as a mode of connecting past and present. Featuring the work of emerging artists working in a...

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Your Chance Encounter

Eliasson Olafur

ISBN: HB: 9783037782118, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2010
216 pp., 20x24 cm, 200 illus.

The acclaimed Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson developed a sequence of spatial experiments for his Your Chance Encounter exhibition in the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan. His piece challenges visitors to move around a...

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Age of Reptiles The Art and Science of Rudolph Zallinger's Great Dinosaur Mural at Yale, Second Edition

ISBN: PB: 9780912532769, Yale University Press, March 2010
84 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 pullouts, 90 colour illus.

Rudolph Zallinger's 110-foot fresca secco painting of "The Age of Reptiles" is one of the largest natural history murals in the world. Completed in 1947, it is an overview of prehistoric life told through the principal features and concepts of "The A...

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Maurizio Cattelan Is There Life Before Death?

Sirmans Franklin

ISBN: HB: 9780300146882, Yale University Press, March 2010
128 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 50 colour illus.

The subversive, often jarringly direct sculptures of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan (b. 1960) are acclaimed for their seemingly absurd juxtapositions and uncanny photorealism. Reflecting deep suspicions of religious and political authorities, these...

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Harry Smith The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular

Perchuk Andrew, Singh Rani

ISBN: PB: 9780892367351, Getty Publications, March 2010
296 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 39 colour illus., 53 black&white illus.

This title presents a superbly illustrated and insightful examination of the life and works of Harry Smith, one of America's most significant post-war creative talents. Filmmaker, musicologist, painter, ethnographer, graphic designer, mystic, and col...

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American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago World War I to 1955

Barter Judith A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300117387, Yale University Press, A+D Series, February 2010
376 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 140 black&white illus., 250 colour illus.

The first publication to focus on the Art Institute's outstanding collection of American modernism, this volume includes over 175 important paintings, sculptures, decorative art objects, and works on paper made in North America between World War II a...

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Charles Ray Log

ISBN: HB: 9781880146545, DAP, Matthew Marks Gallery, February 2010
36 pp., 28.5x22.8 cm, 25 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Charles Ray writes: "Ten years ago, while driving up the central coast of California, I spotted a fallen tree in a meadow just off the highway. I was instantly drawn to it... [and] was inspired to make a sculpture". In "Log...

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