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Vivan Sundaram Disjunctures

ISBN: HB: 9783791357751, Prestel Publishing, July 2018
200 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 115 colour illus.

This generously illustrated survey of the acclaimed Indian artist Vivan Sundaram offers a comprehensive and wide ranging examination of his multi-media practice extending over a period of five decades. Vivan Sundaram's eclecticism is a distinctive f...

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Shizuko Yoshikawa

ISBN: HB: 9783037785676, Lars Muller Publishers, July 2018
248 pp., 28x25 cm, 236 illus., language: English / Japanese

This publication is the first monograph on the Japanese-born, constructive-concrete artist Shizuko Yoshikawa. Her work combines the rational concepts of European modern art with the poetry and ease of the intuitional Japanese Zen tradition. As a memb...

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Artists and Their Books, Books and Their Artists

Reed Marcia, Phillips Glenn

ISBN: HB: 9781606065730, Getty Publications, July 2018
200 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 184 colour illus.

Ever innovative and predictably diverse in their physical formats, artists' books occupy a creative space between the familiar four-cornered object and challenging works of art that effectively question every preconception of what a book can be. Many...

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Ed Ruscha Course of Empire

Riopelle Christopher, McCarthy Tom, Herrmann Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9781857096323, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, July 2018
48 pp., 31.1x24.8 cm, 30 colour illus.

Over the span of his six-decade career, Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) has created a distinctively stylized vision of the modern American landscape of gas stations, highways, and industrial buildings. Incorporating text, stark typography, and commercial logos,...

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Blind Faith Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art

Schneider Anna

ISBN: PB: 9783791357782, Prestel Publishing, July 2018
208 pp., 28.5x21.5 cm, 169 colour illus.

Engaging the visceral and the cognitive, this timely book assembles 28 international artists who deploy a variety of media in order to interrogate logics of truth, authenticity, opinion, and faith. At a time when society seems to have given up belie...

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Lee Lozano Not Working

Applin Jo

ISBN: HB: 9780300223279, Yale University Press, July 2018
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 108 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

An illuminating study of an overlooked artist from the 1960s whose work has recently returned to the limelight This is the first in-depth study of the idiosyncratic ten-year career of Lee Lozano (1930-1999), assuring this important artist a key place...

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Huma Bhabha: We Come in Peace The Roof Garden Commission

Jhaveri Shanay, Halter Ed, Wagstaff Sheena

ISBN: PB: 9781588396464, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 40 colour illus.

Often described as "post apocalyptic", the work of Pakistani sculptor Huma Bhabha (b. 1962) responds to the violence and turmoil in the world around her through depictions of anthropomorphic figures that often appear to be dismembered, melted, or dis...

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Biography & Memoires

Sophie Taeuber-Arp and the Avant-Garde A Biography

Mair Roswitha

ISBN: HB: 9780226311210, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 colour plates, 38 halftones

Sophie Taeuber-Arp was a quiet innovator whose fame has too often been yoked to that of her husband, Jean Arp. Over time, however, she has slowly come to be seen as one of the foremost abstract artists and designers of the twentieth century. The Swis...

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10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art We Don't Need Another Hero

Conde Maryse, Mombaca Jota, Piesche Peggy, Wainaina Binyavanga

ISBN: PB: 9783954762354, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, June 2018
400 pp., 28x22 cm, 180 colour illus., language: English / German

The 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art will take place at multiple venues throughout Berlin from June 9 until September 9, 2018. It invites the public to engage the artists and other contributors in an open exchange of ideas. "I want to rethin...

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North East

Jung Simone, Langer Heiderose, Malycha Christian

ISBN: HB: 9783954762385, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, June 2018
176 pp., 27x20 cm, 114 black&white illus., language: English / German

The sculptures of Axel Anklam (b. Wriezen, 1971; lives and works in Berlin) captivate the beholder with their clarity and power. Dynamic and calmly flowing sections alternate, giving rise to forms filled with restrained energy. Although Anklam often...

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