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They Seek a City Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910-1950
ISBN: HB: 9780300184532, Yale University Press, A+D Series, March 2013
112 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 85 colour images, 10 black&white illus.
In the first half of the 20th century, thousands of newcomers – Eastern European emigres, Mexican immigrants, and Southerners both black and white – flocked to Chicago. These new residents included artists who made significant contributions to the vi...
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£25,00
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James Turrell A Retrospective
ISBN: HB: 9783791352633, Prestel Publishing, March 2013
304 pp., 30x24.5 cm, 250 colour illus.
Published in conjunction with a major retrospective, this comprehensive volume illuminates the origins and motivations of James Turrell's incredibly diverse and exciting body of work – from his Mendota studio days to his monumental work-in-progress R...
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£55,00
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Matt Saunders Parallel Plot
ISBN: HB: 9780226736037, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
128 pp., 23x15 cm, 45 colour illus.
Berlin-based artist Matt Saunders has in recent years captured the art world's eye with a striking series of hybrid images and animated films produced using techniques from both photography and painting. Using movie stars such as German actress Herth...
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£28,00
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Frantisek Skala Headlands, The Land of Heads
ISBN: HB: 9788087164907, DAP, Arbor Vitae, March 2013
152 pp., 22.9x22.6 cm, 163 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Headlands" is Czech artist Frantisek Skala's (born 1956) homage to the Headlands of Marin County, north of San Francisco, where he lived in the 1990s. It contains his journal entries and reproduces his sculptural heads mad...
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£17,50
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Frantisek Skala
ISBN: PB: 9788074670046, DAP, Arbor Vitae, March 2013
228 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 405 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Heir to the postwar Surrealist traditions of his native Czechoslovakia, Frantisek Skala (born 1956) has made remarkable objects, installations and paintings since the early 1980s, while also working in children's illustrati...
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£45,00
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Adolf Wolfli Creator of the Universe
ISBN: HB: 9788087164952, DAP, Arbor Vitae, March 2013
372 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! Adolf Wolfli is the original outsider artist. Before Darger, Rizzoli and Rodia, there was Wolfli: orphan, laborer, criminal, artist and the subject of a 1921 monograph titled "A Psychiatric Patient as Artist", authored by h...
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£50,00
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Goshka Macuga A Exhibit
ISBN: HB: 9781938922107, DAP, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, March 2013
112 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 32 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Goshka Macuga: A Exhibit", accompanies the first museum survey exhibition of the work of Polish-born, London-based artist Goshka Macuga (born 1967). Macuga's practice is located at the intersection of two strands that have...
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£27,00
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American Dream
ISBN: HB: 9788415118411, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, February 2013
160 pp., 26x22.9 cm, illustrations throughout
For Artemio Rodri guez, the art of printmaking is an everyday activity in which form and idea, personal experience and historical concept harmoni- ously participate. His work bespeaks the mestizo artist who fuses the American indigenous spirit with E...
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£28,00
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Pablo Picasso
ISBN: PB: 9783791348162, Prestel Publishing, February 2013
128 pp., 24x19.3 cm, 100 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
Now available again, this lively and accessible introduction to one of the world's most beloved artists is filled with color illustrations, fascinating biographical information, and insight into Picasso's artistic development. What did Spain look li...
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£10,99
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Eva Hesse, 1965
ISBN: HB: 9780300196658, Yale University Press, February 2013
240 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 89 colour images, 8 black&white illus.
In 1964, Eva Hesse and her husband Tom Doyle were invited by the industrialist Friedrich Arnhard Scheidt to a residency in Kettwig an der Ruhr, Germany. The following fifteen months marked a significant transformation in Hesse's practice. Eva Hesse 1...
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