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Zvi Goldstein The Limits of My Knowledge: Works 1969-2013
ISBN: HB: 9783954760725, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, December 2014
344 pp., 30x23.5 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English
Zvi Goldstein (b. Transylvania, 1947; lives and works in Jerusalem) is a conceptual artist who creates object-like sculptures of great sensual and intellectual radiance. Living in Milan from 1969 until 1978, he made art that combined an analytical-sy...
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£40,00
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Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonne of the Works on Paper, Volume 1: 1956-1976
ISBN: HB: 9780300209495, Yale University Press, December 2014
350 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 1040 colour images, 20 black&white illus.
This highly anticipated book – the first in a series of three – comprehensively chronicles the first two decades of Ed Ruscha's work on paper, which comprises the largest component of his production of original works. Over 1,000 works on paper are do...
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£120,00
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Pope. L Showing Up to Withhold
ISBN: HB: 9780226200064, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
208 pp., 25.4x22.8 cm, 150 colour plates
Iconoclast and artist Pope. L uses the body, sex, and race as his materials the way other artists might use paint, clay, or bronze.   His work problematizes social categories by exploring how difference is marked economically, socially, and political...
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£36,00
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Mortality Immortality? The Legacy of 20th-Century Art
ISBN: PB: 9780892365289, Getty Publications, November 2014
272 pp., 28.6x26.8 cm, 111 illus.
Which objects or events will define the art of our time? Who will decide what is to be preserved for posterity and how that will be done? If an artist chooses ephemeral materials, should the work be allowed to deteriorate? These are among the questio...
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£30,00
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Keith Haring The Political Line
ISBN: HB: 9783791354101, Prestel Publishing, November 2014
256 pp., 30.5x25.5 cm, 150 colour illus.
Exuberant, profane, witty, and provocative, the images in this book reveal the political dimension of Keith Haring's artistic concerns. Through his graffiti-inspired drawings, paintings, sculptures, murals, and other works, Keith Haring created an i...
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£49,99
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Pop Departures
ISBN: PB: 9780300208733, Yale University Press, November 2014
104 pp., 31.8x23.5 cm, 80 colour illus.
Pop Art's influence continues to be felt more than a half century since its advent, as this engaging book deftly shows. Early Pop artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and Andy Warhol adopted alternately critical, embracing or ambivalent...
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£25,00
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Picasso's Animals
ISBN: HB: 9783791349909, Prestel Publishing, November 2014
120 pp., 18.5x14 cm, 40 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
This beautifully designed book is filled with illustrations and photographs of the many animals in Picasso's life – those he painted and drew, as well as those he loved. One of the few under-examined aspects of Picasso's life and work was his love o...
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£14,99
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Sculptures of Jeddah An Encounter with a Rare Collection of 20th-Century Public Art
ISBN: HB: 9781861543387, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2014
192 pp., 27.9x23.3 cm, full-colour illus.
When Mohamed Said Farsi became Mayor of Jeddah in 1972, at a pivotal moment in the Saudi Arabian city's history, he set himself the task of not only creating a modern city, but also to include in the concept a plan for public art: "To bring delight t...
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Le Mouvement Performing the City
ISBN: HB: 9783954760831, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, October 2014
296 pp., 28x21 cm, 220 colour illus., language: English / German / French
he 12th iteration of the Swiss sculpture exposition "Le Mouvement" writes a brilliant new chapter in the project's sixty-year history with the most radical presentation the format has yet seen. In keeping with its tradition of thought-provoking inter...
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£37,50
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Olafur Eliasson Contact is Content
ISBN: HB: 9783954760848, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, October 2014
416 pp., 34x30 cm, 220 colour illus., language: English
Over the years, Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson (b. Copenhagen, 1967; lives and works in Berlin and Copenhagen) has continually returned to Iceland to investigate its landscape with his camera. The ambitious, ongoing venture – almost cartogra...
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£115,00
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