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Christo & Jeanne-Claude Fotografien von Wolfgang Volz

ISBN: HB: 9783954762576, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, September 2018
168 pp., 28x22 cm, 134 colour and black&white illus., language: English / German

Christo and Jeanne-Claude (b. Gabrovo, Bulgaria, 1935 / b. Casablanca, 1935, d. New York, 2009) were one of the most popular artist couples of our time. More than virtually any other team of partners in life and art, they succeeded in breaking out of...

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50 Art Movements You Should Know: From Impressionism to Performance Art New Edition

Ormiston Rosalind

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791384573, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
144 pp., 24x19.5 cm, colour illus.

This beautifully produced book, available in a new edition, introduces readers to the major developments in the history of modern art – from Realism to the New Leipzig School. The story of modern art begins with a revolution – when the realists star...

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50 Bauhaus Icons You Should Know New Edition

Strasser Josef

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791384542, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
160 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 70 colour illus.

Published in a new edition, this book offers an introduction to Bauhaus, one of the most influential movements in modern architecture, art, and design. Founded by Walter Gropius in 1919, the Bauhaus School had an enormous impact on the arts and ever...

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I Was Raised on the Internet

Kholeif Omar

ISBN: PB: 9783791358024, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
184 pp., 22.5x16.8 cm, 34 colour illus., 52 black&white illus.

Coinciding with a major exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, this anthology of essays and reflections casts a discursive and critical light on the work of artists engaging with the internet and digital technologies today. Structured...

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William Cordova Now's the Time: Narratives of Southern Alchemy

Ortiz Maria Elena

ISBN: HB: 9783791357676, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
186 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 190 colour illus.

This gorgeously illustrated book explores the three main themes that have inspired William Cordova's work for decades: transmission, alchemy, and transcendence. Growing up in Miami, and of Afro-Peruvian descent, William Cordova's life has been marke...

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Jeffrey Gibson This is the Day

Adler Tracy L.

ISBN: HB: 9783791357652, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
224 pp., 35x26 cm, 205 colour illus.

This generously illustrated book explores new developments in Jeffrey Gibson's recent work. Through painting, sculpture, installation, and film, Jeffrey Gibson brings together overlapping and conflicting cultures, histories, and aesthetics. Most rec...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Kay Sage Catalogue Raisonne

Caws Mary Ann, Robeson Miller Stephen, Sentivan Jessie

ISBN: HB: 9783791357850, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
520 pp., 26x24.8 cm, 179 colour illus.

Encompassing the entire career of the American surrealist painter Kay Sage, this catalogue raisonne features all her known mature works and the latest scholarship on a brilliant artist. While her career as a painter was often eclipsed during her lif...

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Agents of Faith Votive Objects in Time and Place

Weinryb Ittai

ISBN: HB: 9780300222968, Yale University Press, September 2018
384 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 250 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.

Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention of being offered as acts of faith. Common across historical periods, religions, and cultures, they are presented as tokens of gratitude for prayers answ...

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Cy Twombly Fifty Days at Iliam

Basualdo Carlos

ISBN: HB: 9780300233124, Yale University Press, September 2018
160 pp., 33x30 cm, 80 colour illus.

This revelatory publication provides a comprehensive and multifaceted account of Cy Twombly's masterpiece Fifty Days at Iliam (1978), a series of ten paintings based on Alexander Pope's 18th-century translation of Homer's Iliad. Essays by a team of b...

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Progressive Revolution Modern Art for a New India

Jumabhoy Zehra, Hui Tan Boon

ISBN: HB: 9783791357683, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
208 pp., 28x23.5 cm, 120 colour illus.

Following the celebration of the 70th anniversary of Indian independence, this book focuses on the Progressive Artists Group, which included artists from different backgrounds and traditions who found common cause at a time of political and social up...

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