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Contemporary Art

Mersch Dieter, Henke Silvia, Strassle Thomas, Wiesel Jorg, van der Meulen Nicolaj

ISBN: PB: 9783035802207, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2020
128 pp., 29.2x17.7 cm

Since its beginnings in the 1990s, artistic research has become established as a new format in the areas of educational and institutional policy, aesthetics, and art theory. It has now diffused into almost all artistic fields, from installation to ex...

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Carole Solvay To Move Without Noise

Chang Alain, Prum Richard, Turine Roger Pierre

ISBN: HB: 9780300246551, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2020
208 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 115 illus.

This is the first book to explore the oeuvre of contemporary Belgian sculptor Carole Solvay (b. 1954). Using primarily feathers and thin wire, Solvay has over the past 25 years created ethereally beautiful sculptures that seem to defy gravity. This p...

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Drawing Is Everything Founding Gifts of the Menil Drawing Institute

Kopp Edouard, Elderfield John, Shiff Richard, Winters Terry

ISBN: HB: 9780300247121, Yale University Press, January 2020
256 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 224 colour illus.

Featuring outstanding 20th-century drawings promised or bequeathed to the Menil Collection for the opening of the Menil Drawing Institute, this elegant volume is a testament to the growing significance of drawings as stand-alone artworks over the pas...

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Contemporary Art

Activity-Based Teaching in the Art Museum Movement, Embodiment, Emotion

Kai-Kee Elliott, Latina Lissa, Sadoyan Lilit

ISBN: PB: 9781606066171, Getty Publications, January 2020
184 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, illus.

An essential resource for museum professionals, teachers, and students, the award-winning "Teaching in the Art Museum" (Getty Publications, 2011) set a new standard in the field of gallery education. This follow-up book blends theory and practice to...

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Kathe Kollwitz Prints, Process, Politics

Marchesano Louis

ISBN: HB: 9781606066157, Getty Publications, January 2020
140 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

German printmaker Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945) is known for her unapologetic social and political imagery; her representations of grief, suffering, and struggle; and her equivocal ideas about artistic and political labels. This volume explores her most...

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Sidney Nolan The Artist's Materials

Dredge Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781606065945, Getty Publications, January 2020
144 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Sidney Nolan (1917-1992) is renowned for an oeuvre ranging from views of Melbourne's seaside suburb St. Kilda to an iconic series on outlaw hero Ned Kelly. Working in factories from age fourteen, Nolan began his training spray painting signs on glass...

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Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion

Dion Mark, Adler Margaret C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300246193, Yale University Press, January 2020
168 pp., 27.9x23.4 cm, 175 colour illus.

Renowned artist Mark Dion (b. 1961) has a deep passion for history and the natural world. His installations mine the materials of the past to level an institutional critique in the present. Evoking the grand expeditionary journals of the 19th century...

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History of Art

Afterall Autumn/Winter 2019, Issue 48

Bilbao Ana, Meta Bauer Ute, Esche Charles, Kreuger Anders, Morris David, Rujoiu Anca, Stankievech Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781846382116, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
176 pp., 29.8x19 cm

Launched in 1999, Afterall is a journal of contemporary art that offers in-depth analysis of artists' work, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Its academic format differentiates it from popular review magazines. Vol...

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Julia Fish bound by spectrum

Rodrigues Widholm Julie

ISBN: PB: 9780996235037, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, January 2020
120 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 30 colour plates

This exhibition catalog, "Julia Fish: bound by spectrum", presents a fully-illustrated survey of the last decade of Fish's paintings and works on paper. It offers new scholarship around Fish's ongoing project that brings together the disciplines of p...

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Merce Cunningham After the Arbitrary

Noland Carrie

ISBN: PB: 9780226541242, ISBN: HB: 9780226541105, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 17 colour plates, 54 halftones

One of the most influential choreographers of the twentieth century, Merce Cunningham is known for introducing chance to dance. Far too often, however, accounts of Cunningham's work have neglected its full scope, focusing on his collaborations with t...

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