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Jay DeFeo A Retrospective

Miller Dana, Duncan Michael, Keller Corey, Mancusi-Ungaro Carol, Marcus Greil

ISBN: HB: 9780300182651, Yale University Press, November 2012
320 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 300 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

Jay DeFeo (1929-1989) was part of a vibrant community of avant-garde artists, poets, and musicians in San Francisco during the 1950s and 1960s. Her circle included Wallace Berman, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Edward Kienholz, Wally Hedrick, and Michael...

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Contemporary Art

Gyula Kosice in Conversation with Gabriel Perez-Barreiro

Giunta Andrea

ISBN: HB: 9780982354483, DAP, Fundacion Cisneros, November 2012
180 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 41 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Gyula Kosice (born 1924) is an innovative Argentine artist and poet. His constructions and sculptures were inspired as much by local discussions and disputes in the cafes of 1940s Buenos Aires as by the international avant-...

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Caro Close Up

Bryant Julius, Droth Martina, Storr Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300176032, Yale University Press, October 2012
250 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.

With a career spanning more than sixty years, Anthony Caro (b. 1924) is one of Britain's most acclaimed and best-known sculptors. "Caro: Close Up" accompanies the first survey exhibition of his work in an American museum since his retrospective at th...

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Computer Science & Internet

Islands of Benoit Mandelbrot Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking

Samuel Nina

ISBN: PB: 9780300186437, Yale University Press, October 2012
176 pp., 22.2x15.9 cm, 160 colour and black&white illus.

Over the last few decades, the "pictorial turn" in the natural sciences, prompted by the computer's capacity to produce visual representations, has generated considerable theoretical interest. Poised between their materiality and the abstract level t...

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Full Spectrum Prints from the Brandywine Workshop

Fine Ruth E., Langdale Shelley R., Edmunds Allan L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300185485, Yale University Press, October 2012
76 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 110 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

Since its founding in 1972, the Brandywine Workshop has become an internationally recognized centre for printmaking and a vital part of the Philadelphia community. In 2009 the workshop donated one hundred prints to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in m...

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Dan Graham. Video – Architecture – Television Writings on Video and Video Works 1970-1978

Buchloh Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9783037783009, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2012
96 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 113 illus.

This title, published in 1979 and long since out of print, now appears as a reprint from Lars Muller Publishers. The original book was released in the series of publications Source Materials of the Contemporary Arts initiated by Kasper Konig and prod...

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Lovely, Human, True, Heartfelt The Letters of Alina Szapocznikow and Ryszard Stanislawski, 1948-1971

Jakubowska Agata

ISBN: PB: 9788393381869, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, October 2012
380 pp., 19x14 cm, 12 facsimiles and drawings, 81 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! Although she is only now just coming into much deserved global renown, the Polish sculptor Alina Szapocznikow has long been recognized in her country as one of the most accomplished female artists of the twentieth century. C...

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Philosophy

Sewn in the Sweatshops of Marx Beuys, Warhol, Klein, Duchamp

de Duve Thierry

ISBN: PB: 9780226922386, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
96 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 35 halftones

Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Yves Klein, and Marcel Duchamp form an unlikely quartet, but they each played a singular role in shaping a new avant-garde for the 1960s and beyond. Each of them staged brash, even shocking, events and produced works that c...

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Thinking Contemporary Curating

Smith Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780916365868, DAP, Independent Curators International, October 2012
256 pp., 20.1x14 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. These include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimaginatio...

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Design

Contemporary Art

40 Under 40 Craft Futures

Bell Nicholas R., Bryan-Wilson Julia, Herman Bernard L., Prokopow Michael J., Coupland Douglas

ISBN: HB: 9780300187977, Yale University Press, September 2012
256 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 220 colour illus.

In this beautifully illustrated volume, published in celebration of the Renwick Gallery's fortieth anniversary, author Nicholas Bell highlights forty artists (all under the age of forty) actively engaged in creating objects that are transforming cont...

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