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Spielraum
ISBN: HB: 9783954762545, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, December 2018
352 pp., 21.5x20 cm, 200 colour illus., language: English
The Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic (b. Ljubljana, 1979; lives and works in London) exemplifies a young generation of creative minds born in the former Yugoslavia whose works address social, political, and historical themes. In 2013, she represented h...
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£32,50
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Cy Twombly: Catalogue Raisonne of Drawings Volumes 1-8 in two boxes
ISBN: SET: 9783829608077, Schirmer-Mosel, November 2018
1952 pp., 0x0 cm
Now completed the "Cy Twombly: Catalogue Raisonne of Drawings" presents a total of 1,890 works on 1,952 pages in 8 volumes. As a student at Black Mountain College in the early 1950s, Cy Twombly had startled his teachers, among them Ben Shahn and Rob...
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£1 300,00
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David Diao
ISBN: HB: 9783791356174, Prestel Publishing, November 2018
308 pp., 27x20 cm, 200 colour illus.
Tracing a remarkably varied career, this monograph on the painter David Diao follows his stylistic evolution – from abstraction to genre-defying and candid self-exploration. This book accompanies the first full-scale retrospective of David Diao's en...
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£45,00
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Deformation Professionnelle
ISBN: HB: 9783791356464, Prestel Publishing, November 2018
320 pp., 28x23.6 cm, 400 colour illus.
Born in Iran and based in Berlin, German artist Nairy Baghramian explores and reflects on formal languages of both modernism and post-minimalism. Over the past two decades, Baghramian has become known for her reflections on minimalism and her context...
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£40,00
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Vija Celmins To Fix the Image in Memory
ISBN: HB: 9780300234213, Yale University Press, November 2018
272 pp., 29.5x24.1 cm, 230 colour illus.
Best known for her striking drawings of ocean surfaces, begun in 1968 and revisited over many years both in drawings and paintings, Vija Celmins (b. 1938) has been creating exquisitely detailed renderings of natural imagery for more than five decades...
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£45,00
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Sonic Flux Sound, Art, and Metaphysics
ISBN: PB: 9780226543178, ISBN: HB: 9780226543031, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones
From Edison's invention of the phonograph through contemporary field recording and sound installation, artists have become attracted to those domains against which music has always defined itself: noise, silence, and environmental sound. Christoph Co...
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£23,00
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£75,00
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Atlas, or the Anxious Gay Science
ISBN: HB: 9780226439471, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
400 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 73 halftones
Aby Warburg's "Mnemosyne Atlas" (1925-1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into startling juxtapositions. Warburg's allusive atlas sought to illuminat...
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£34,00
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Brancusi & Duchamp The Art of Dialogue
ISBN: HB: 9781947232006, DAP, Kasmin, November 2018
272 pp., 31.1x23.4 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! "Brancusi & Duchamp: The Art of Dialogue" explores the aesthetic dialogue between Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) and Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), two of the most inimitable artists of the 20th century. Brancusi and Duchamp...
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£53,00
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Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press Selected Writings by Dick Higgins
ISBN: PB: 9781938221200, DAP, Siglio, November 2018
336 pp., 24.7x18.4 cm, 95 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! There are few art-world figures as influential – and as little known – as Dick Higgins (1938-1998), cofounder of Fluxus, "polyartist", poet, scholar, theorist, composer, performer and, not least, the publisher of the legend...
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£30,00
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Let's Talk Abstract
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783954762453, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, October 2018
232 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 60 colour illus., language: English / German
Time and again, lay people interested in art and professionals alike stand dumbfounded before abstract paintings. Following the invention of photog- raphy in the late 19th century, painting gradually liberated itself from a representational depiction...
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