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Contemporary Art

Julia Wachtel

Thuring Reto, Burton Johanna, Latimer Quinn, Wachtel Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780300209969, Yale University Press, October 2014
80 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 40 colour illus.

Rising to prominence in the early 1980s, Julia Wachtel's (b. 1956) artistic practice focuses on the visual language of mass culture. Like her Pictures Generation counterparts, Wachtel's work in the early 1980s appropriated popular imagery to critique...

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Make it New Abstract Painting from the National Gallery of Art, 1950-1975

Cooper Harry, Breslin David, Jolly Matt

ISBN: PB: 9780300207903, Yale University Press, October 2014
140 pp., 33x22.2 cm, 60 colour illus.

Featuring thirty-five outstanding abstract paintings made between 1950 and 1975 from the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, this fascinating book casts a new glance at a renowned period in the history of art, including works by Ly...

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Nam June Paik Becoming Robot

Chiu Melissa, Yun Michelle, Digital Kenzo, Godfrey John, Hakuta Ken, Huffman Jon, Jankowski Christian, Joselit David, Maeda John, Kessler Jon

ISBN: PB: 9780300209211, Yale University Press, October 2014
224 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 140 colour illus.

This new, fully illustrated catalogue on the celebrated progenitor of video art, "Nam June Paik (1932-2006)", brings together a host of scholars, artists and Paik's own collaborators to illuminate the work of this innovative artist. An essay by curat...

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Cubism The Leonard A. Lauder Collection

Rabinow Rebecca, Braun Emily F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208078, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2014
448 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

This groundbreaking new history of Cubism, based on works from the most significant private collection in the world today, is written by many of the field's premier art historians and scholars. The collection, recently donated to The Metropolitan Mus...

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Full Circle Works on Paper by Richard Pousette-Dart

Shoemaker Innis Howe, Ash Nancy, Spaulding Eliza

ISBN: PB: 9780300207972, Yale University Press, October 2014
160 pp., 27.3x24.1 cm, 195 colour illus.

Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) is best known as an American painter of mid-twentieth-century Abstract Expressionism, although his work was distinct for its spiritual content and his elaborate layering of materials. His works on paper are remarkabl...

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Premonition Ukranian Art Now

Soloviov Oleksandr

ISBN: PB: 9781861543691, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, October 2014
144 pp., 28x20.5 cm, full-colour illus.

While it is by no means exhaustive, Premonition – aims to provide a broad introduction to the highly diverse and energetic nature of Ukraine's art-scene while exploring movements and trends over the last decade or so. Some of the artists have establi...

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Immersive Life Practices

Tucker Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780982879849, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

Much ink has been spilled on how art intersects with the experiences of everyday life. But what about art grappling with how to live differently? Artists occupy an exceptional space where their livelihood permeates all aspects of life, eroding bounda...

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Picture This! Painting the Women's Movement

Garwa Radhaben

ISBN: HB: 9789381017685, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
200 pp., 21.5x27.9 cm, 200 colour plates

From her home in a small village in the Kutch district of Gujarat, Dalit artist Radhaben Garwa has documented the rural women's movement in Western India and beyond through her drawings. Her images – more than two hundred of them gathered here – tell...

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Jan Koblasa Grafika Prints

Neslehova Mahulena

ISBN: PB: 9788024625218, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2014
328 pp., 28.4x23.3 cm, Illustrated in colour throughout

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A key personality in Czech modern art, Jan Koblasa works in diverse media, including sculpture, painting, drawing, and printmaking, and he also makes costumes for the stage and screen, wri...

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Experimenters Chance and Design at Black Mountain College

Diaz Eva

ISBN: HB: 9780226067988, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
256 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 58 halftones

In the years immediately following World War II, Black Mountain College, an unaccredited school in rural Appalachia, became a vital hub of cultural innovation. Practically every major artistic figure of the mid-twentieth century spent some time there...

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