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Contemporary Art

Robert Grosvenor

Ovstebo Solveig

ISBN: HB: 9780941548724, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, October 2018
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 67 colour plates

Over a fifty-year career, Robert Grosvenor has produced a body of work that is at once solidly physical and conceptual, muscular and fluid. Grosvenor frequently uses industrial materials and found objects as he experiments with texture and scale, res...

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Andy Warhol, Publisher

Mulroney Lucy

ISBN: HB: 9780226542843, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
176 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 43 halftones

Although we know him best as a visual artist and filmmaker, Andy Warhol was also a publisher. Distributing his own books and magazines, as well as contributing to those of others, Warhol found publishing to be one of his greatest pleasures, largely b...

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Art in Chicago A History from the Fire to Now

Taft Maggie, Cozzolino Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780226168319, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
448 pp., 29.2x24.6 cm, 160 colour plates, 29 halftones

For decades now, the story of art in America has been dominated by New York. It gets the majority of attention, the stories of its schools and movements and masterpieces the stuff of pop culture legend. Chicago, on the other hand... well, people here...

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Film Studies

Artificial Darkness An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media

Elcott Noam M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226597751, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
312 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 145 halftones

Darkness has a history and a uniquely modern form. Distinct from night, shadows, and artificial light, "artificial darkness" has been overlooked – until now. In fact, controlled darkness was essential to the rise of photography and cinema, science an...

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Louise Bourgeois To Unravel Torment

Wei Rales Emily, Nemerov Ali

ISBN: HB: 9780999802915, DAP, Glenstone Museum, October 2018
208 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 95 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Celebrated for her singular contributions to 20th-century sculpture, drawing, painting, printmaking, installation and writing, French-born American artist Louise Bourgeois' (1911-2010) explorations of the human condition or...

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Lygia Pape

Alberro Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9783906915142, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, October 2018
144 pp., 32.3x24.1 cm, 94 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! A founding member of Brazil's Neoconcrete movement, Lygia Pape (1927-2004) pioneered a unique approach to abstraction and valued art that favored the primacy of viewers' sensorial experiences. This catalog, published on the...

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Charles Ray

Wei Rales Emily

ISBN: HB: 9780980108651, DAP, Glenstone Museum, October 2018
52 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 14 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! In his sculptural practice, American artist Charles Ray (born 1953) has long been fascinated by the concept of representation, the depiction of the human form and questions of scale. Known for his keen sense of – and respec...

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Cy Twombly

Wei Rales Emily, Nemerov Ali

ISBN: HB: 9780980108699, DAP, Glenstone Museum, October 2018
64 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 21 colour illus., 7 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Though perhaps best known for his paintings, Cy Twombly (1928-2011) developed a singular body of sculpture over the course of his 60-year career. These sculptures are made from quotidian materials such as wood, metal and fo...

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Ideas Have No Smell: Three Belgian Surrealist Booklets Transfigured Publicity / Abstractive Treatise on Obeuse / For Balthazar

Nouge Paul, Colinet Paul, Scutenaire Louis

ISBN: PB: 9781946433138, DAP, Ugly Duckling Presse, October 2018
60 pp., 14.6x12 cm, 1 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The Belgian surrealist movement, like its contemporary French cousin, included both visual artists – Rene Magritte most famously – and writers, who were also its theorists. They shared with the Parisians a fierce commitment...

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Bauhaus

Berg Stefan

ISBN: HB: 9783954762316, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, September 2018
128 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 90 black&white illus., language: English / German

The Bauhaus will celebrate its centenary in 2019. It was founded in Weimar in 1919 and moved to Dessau in 1925 and then to Berlin in 1932, where it was shut down by the Nazis in 1933. Designed by Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus building in Dessau was des...

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