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AMMO Unter Waffen. Fire & Forget 2

Blumenstein Ellen, Tyradellis Daniel, Wagner Matthias K.

ISBN: PB: 9783954761739, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, December 2016
144 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, colour illus., language: English / German

Guns exert an ambivalent fascination. Embodiments of power and dominance, they also signify pain and death. Whether they help maintain public order, are used to exercise individual or collective violence, provide personal safety, or are sports or pro...

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Cee Cee Berlin No. 2

Hausherr Sven, Trippel Nina

ISBN: HB: 9783954761531, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, December 2016
288 pp., 27x20 cm, 400 colour illus., language: English / German

Cee Cee is one of Berlin's most widely read online mediums, with almost 30,000 subscribers now reading the Cee Cee newsletter every week. For over five years, Cee Cee has charted and appraised the capital's perpetually changing urban landscape, traci...

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Polonica

Marlena Kudlicka

ISBN: HB: 9783954761722, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, December 2016
128 pp., 21x17 cm, 40 colour illus., language: English

The roots of early modernism are palpable in the works of Marlena Kudlicka (b. Tomaszow Lubelski, 1973; lives and works in Berlin). She adopts the narrative register of the avant-garde to transpose it into a realm that lies beyond anonymous and stand...

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Inventing Downtown Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965

Rachleff Melissa

ISBN: HB: 9783791355580, Prestel Publishing, December 2016
296 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 225 colour illus.

While the achievements of New York City's most renowned postwar artists – de Kooning, Pollock, Rothko, Franz Kline – have been studied in depth, a large cadre of lesser-known but influential artists came of age between 1952 and 1965. Also understudie...

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Picasso and Rivera Conversations Across Time

Govan Michael, Magaloni Diana

ISBN: HB: 9783791355559, Prestel Publishing, December 2016
304 pp., 29x24.8 cm, 268 colour illus.

"Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time" explores the artistic dialogue between Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera that spanned most of their careers. The book showcases nearly 150 iconic paintings, sculptures, and prints by both artists, along wi...

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Strange Worlds The Vision of Angela Carter

Mulvey-Roberts Marie, ? Robinson Fiona

ISBN: PB: 9781908326980, Casemate, Sansom & Co, December 2016
144 pp., 27x21 cm, 70 colour illus.

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1971 A Year in the Life of Color

English Darby

ISBN: HB: 9780226131054, University of Chicago Press, December 2016
312 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 47 colour plates, 26 halftones

In this book, art historian Darby English explores the year 1971, when two exhibitions opened that brought modernist painting and sculpture into the burning heart of United States cultural politics: "Contemporary Black Artists in America", at the Whi...

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Doris Salcedo The Materiality of Mourning

Enriquez Mary Schneider, Salcedo Doris, Khandekar Narayan

ISBN: HB: 9780300222517, Yale University Press, November 2016
196 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 100 colour illus.

A compelling look at Doris Salcedo's works from the past fifteen years, exploring how the artist challenges not only the limits of the materials she uses but also the traditions of sculpture itself Colombian sculptor and installation artist Doris Sal...

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Jorn + Munch

Wildhagen Gjessing Oda, Grogaard Stian, Presler Gerd, Stene Johansen Knut

ISBN: HB: 9780300226584, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2016
240 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.

"Jorn + Munch" is the first publication to examine the enduring impact Edvard Munch (1863-1944) had on Asger Jorn (1914-1973). In Munch's later works, Danish artist Jorn discovered an artist with a direct, spontaneous, and raw form of expression. Alr...

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John McLaughlin Paintings Total Abstraction

Barron Stephanie, Bergman Lauren

ISBN: HB: 9783791355603, Prestel Publishing, November 2016
144 pp., 27x21.6 cm, 92 colour illus.

For decades before his death in 1976, John McLaughlin steadily produced some of the most fascinating paintings coming out of Southern California. Minimal geometric abstractions characterized by clean lines, bold colors, and flat, intersecting forms,...

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