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Literary Criticism

Decision Between Us Art and Ethics in the Time of Scenes

Ricco John Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226717777, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 9 halftones

"The Decision Between Us" combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy are spaces of sharing, they are also spaces of separation. John Paul Ricco shows that this tension inform...

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Polonica

Alicja Kwade Grad der Gewissheit

Martin Sylvia

ISBN: HB: 9783954760510, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, February 2014
160 pp., 28x21 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English / German

The sculptures, video works, and installations of Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, Poland, 1979; lives and works in Berlin) explore economic, scientific, and socio-cultural systems and their inherent uncertainties. For example, the artist traces the flows...

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Value of Art Money, Power, Beauty

Findlay Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783791349138, Prestel Publishing, February 2014
208 pp., 23x17 cm, 53 colour illus.

Now available in an updated paperback edition, this fascinating and critically acclaimed book explains the market for art – and art's value for all of us. In straightforward prose that doesn't mystify art or deny its special allure, prominent art de...

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Ecology

Gyre The Plastic Ocean

Decker Julie

ISBN: HB: 9781861543554, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, February 2014
200 pp., 21x19.5 cm, fully Illustrated

A flip-flop discarded in Thailand finds its way to Hawaii, and a bottle cast off from Japan's tsunami is soon Alaska's beach litter. With stunning visual impact and an astonishing array of ocean trash, internationally recognized artists create works...

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Architecture

Stretching Thoughts

Karam Nadim

ISBN: HB: 9781861543417, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, February 2014
304 pp., 21x15 cm, fully Illustrated

Lebanese artist and architect Nadim Karam is renowned for his public art and work in urban regeneration and his interventions have been seen in cities as diverse as Melbourne, Prague, Dubai, Beirut, London and Nara, Japan. These interventions often t...

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In the Aftermath of Trauma Contemporary Video Installations

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: PB: 9780936316383, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2014
112 pp., 23.9x16.5 cm, 58 colour plates

The history of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is one that is scarred by incomprehensibly violent events with far-reaching effects. It is an era of world wars, totalitarian mass terror, social and ethnic cleansing, revolutions, civil w...

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Fischli & Weiss: Rock on Top of Another Rock Valdresflya & Kensington Gardens

Ulekleiv Line

ISBN: HB: 9788275475426, DAP, Forlaget Press, February 2014
176 pp., 22.2x15.8 cm, 60 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! In 2013, the Serpentine Gallery in London presents Fischli & Weiss' first public sculpture in the United Kingdom, "Rock on Top of another Rock", installed in Hyde Park, near the Gallery. This work was undertaken in tandem w...

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Place by Place

Varini Felice

ISBN: HB: 9783037784051, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2014
402 pp., 24x30 cm, 615 illus.

"Place by Place" is the latest publication by the artist Felice Varini, constituting a re-examination of his complete oeuvre based on his most recent works. His fascinating spatial installations make use of urban landscapes, walls, and rooms as "scre...

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Tony Oursler/Vox Vernacular

Busine Laurent, Gielen Denis, Oursler Tony

ISBN: HB: 9780300204483, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2014
256 pp., 22.2x29.2 cm, 190 colour images, 10 black&white illus.

American artist Tony Oursler (b. 1957) gathers inspiration from the way people's desires are extended through interaction with mass media, specifically cinema, television and the internet, and creates fascinating video installations that combine word...

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Babble

Saatchi Charles

ISBN: HB: 9781861543370, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, January 2014
310 pp., 21.1x16.3 cm, full-colour illus.

Charles Saatchi – famously – refuses to be interviewed, but his 60+ essays in "Babble" give a revealing insight into his forthright and often controversial views on a wide-ranging number of topics. Saatchi has been one of the moving forces of the mod...

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