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Adel Abdessemed Otchi Tchiornie / L'Antidote

Gielen Denis, Raspail Thierry, de Chassey Eric, Grau Donatien, Nash Mark, Ardenne Paul, Daoud Kamel, Robecchi Michele, Zaya Octavio

ISBN: PB: 9780300236880, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, June 2018
256 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 85 colour illus.

The Algerian-born French artist Adel Abdessemed (b. 1971) works in a wide variety of media including animation, installation, performance, sculpture, and video; through his art he addresses contemporary themes and he reflects the bleak picture of the...

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Tomma Abts

Rondeau James, Carey-Thomas Lizzie, Nesin Kate, Rebentisch Juliane

ISBN: HB: 9780300233872, Yale University Press, June 2018
204 pp., 34.3x22.9 cm, 100 colour illus.

With a rigorous approach and self-imposed limitations to both scale and composition, Tomma Abts (b. 1967) has reinvigorated painterly abstraction and its relevance within contemporary art. Using a fixed canvas size and a vertical format, Abts deploys...

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Manuel Neri The Human Figure in Plaster and on Paper

Reynolds Jock

ISBN: HB: 9780300233025, Yale University Press, June 2018
124 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 87 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

This engaging publication examines the prodigious body of work of American sculptor Manuel Neri (b. 1930) through the unique perspective of one of Neri's former students. A near-contemporary of other notable California-based artists Richard Diebenkor...

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Keith Sonnier Until Today

Grove Jeffrey, Sultan Terrie

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791357324, Prestel Publishing, June 2018
160 pp., 30.5x25.5 cm, 33 colour illus.

A monograph on Keith Sonnier, the revolutionary pioneer of the Process Art movement, this book documents five decades of the artist's prolific and ever-evolving exploration of three-dimensional art. One of the first artists to use light, specificall...

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Ambitious Alignments New Histories in Southeast Asian Art, 1945-1990

Whiteman Stephen H., Abdullah Sarena, Low Yvonne, Scott Phoebe

ISBN: PB: 9780909952921, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, June 2018
400 pp., 24.4x17.3 cm, illustrations throughout

Ten essays by emerging scholars draw upon unexplored archives and works of art, bearing witness to rich local histories and uncovering complex artistic exchanges across Southeast Asia and beyond. This volume sheds new light on the significance of arc...

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Made in L.A. 2018

Ellegood Anne, Christovale Erin

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791357416, Prestel Publishing, June 2018
208 pp., 24x14.5 cm, 200 colour illus.

This book presents work featured in the 2018 edition of Made in L.A., the Hammer Museum's biennial exhibition. Since its inception in 2012, Made in L.A. has been bringing together regional artists from every discipline and has been curated by some o...

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Plato in L.A. Contemporary Artists' Visions

Grau Donatien

ISBN: PB: 9781606065747, Getty Publications, June 2018
112 pp., 22.9x19.1 cm, 20 colour illus.

No thinker in the West has had a wider and more sustained influence than the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. From philosophy to drama, religion to politics, it is difficult to find a current cultural or social phenomenon that is not in some aspect i...

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Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art

Fanning Leesa, Akbarnia Ladan, Gilchrist Stephen, Heartney Eleanor, Jacob Mary Jane, Russell Karen Kramer, Milbourne Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300233650, Yale University Press, June 2018
312 pp., 29.2x23.5 cm, 150 colour illus.

The spiritual is everywhere evident in contemporary art, and this publication fulfills a long-awaited need. "Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art" addresses the subject in depth for the first time in over three decades. It significantly bro...

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Electra 2 Stupidity

ISBN: PB: 9789728909611, Prestel Publishing, Monade, June 2018
181 pp., 27x20 cm, illus.

"There is stupidity in every era, but each era has its own kind of stupidity" – Flaubert. This subject is approached in this edition by Yves Michaud, Philosophy professor and art critic, with an essay about the impact of mass and surplus of informati...

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Fin de Siecle

Marta Karen

ISBN: HB: 9780999505908, DAP, Swiss Institute, June 2018
184 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 91 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! In Eugene Ionesco's absurdist play "The Chairs", chairs stand in for characters at the brink of the world's end. Artist and curator Andreas Angelidakis pays homage to Ionesco at Swiss Institute with "Fin de Siecle", a fanta...

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