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Cy Twombly's Things

Nesin Kate

ISBN: HB: 9780300190113, Yale University Press, April 2014
224 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 50 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Cy Twombly (1928-2011) is widely acknowledged as one of the postwar period's most influential American artists, yet his sculptures are little known. From 1946 onward, he made hundreds of rarely exhibited found-object assemblages, often painted or pla...

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Niki De Saint Phalle

Weidemann Christiane

ISBN: PB: 9783791349756, Prestel Publishing, April 2014
128 pp., 24x19.3 cm, 100 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Whether you are an ardent follower of this fascinating artist, or just learning about her life and work, this lively volume offers an in-depth portrait of Niki de Saint Phalle's world, turbulent life and extraordinary art. Niki de Saint Phalle's bio...

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Other Primary Structures

Hoffmann Jens

ISBN: PB: 9780300197334, Yale University Press, April 2014
116 pp., 24.1x21 cm, 25 colour images, 51 black&white illus.

The landmark Jewish Museum exhibition "Primary Structures" offered the first presentation of Minimalist sculptures in the United States, in 1966. The accompanying catalogue became a key resource on artists such as Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin,...

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Culture Studies

Art & Energy How Culture Changes

Lord Barry

ISBN: PB: 9781933253916, ISBN: HB: 9781933253930, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, April 2014
320 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 75 colour plates

In "Art & Energy", Barry Lord argues that human creativity is deeply linked to the resources available on earth for our survival. From our ancient mastery of fire through our exploitation of coal, oil, and gas, to the development of today's renewable...

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Palermo: Works on Paper 1976-1977

Mehring Christine, Schreier Christoph

ISBN: HB: 9781934435748, DAP, David Zwirner Books, April 2014
134 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 104 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Although it has been linked with distinct twentieth-century art practices – including abstraction, Minimalism and Conceptual art – Blinky Palermo's (1943-1977) diverse body of work defies easy classification. Throughout his...

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Surrealism and the Dream

Jimenez Jose

ISBN: HB: 9788415113461, DAP, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, April 2014
368 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Estonia! Can't the dream be used in solving the fundamental problems of life? asked Andre Breton, in the "First Surrealist Manifesto". For the Surrealists, dreams were the ultimate site of possibility, the realm in which the artist...

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Jackson Pollock's Mural The Transitional Moment

Szafran Yvonne, Martin Steve

ISBN: HB: 9781606063231, Getty Publications, March 2014
192 pp., 26.2x23.7 cm, colour and black&white illus.

This is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the making of a post-war masterpiece and its restoration. In many ways, "Mural", Jackson Pollock's (1912-1956) first large-scale painting represents the birth of his legend. The controversial artist's c...

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Contemporary Art

John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 2: 1975-1986

Pardo Patrick, Dean Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300198102, Yale University Press, March 2014
496 pp., 29.2x25.1 cm, 500 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

Compiling four-hundred-plus unique works of art, this volume traces the shifts and developments in conceptual artist John Baldessari's work from 1975-1986. It covers his photo-based works such as the "Strobe", "Word Chain" and "Pathetic Fallacy" seri...

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Between the Black Box and the White Cube Expanded Cinema and Postwar Art

Uroskie Andrew V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226842998, ISBN: HB: 9780226842981, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 100 halftones

Today, the moving image is ubiquitous in global contemporary art. The first book to tell the story of the postwar expanded cinema that inspired this omnipresence, "Between the Black Box and the White Cube" travels back to the 1950s and 1960s, when th...

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History of Art

Afterall Spring 2014, Issue 35

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Kreuger Anders, Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9781846381393, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
160 pp., 29.8x19 cm

Since its launching in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a yea...

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