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Distant Early Warning Marshall McLuhan and the Transformation of the Avant-Garde
ISBN: PB: 9780226753454, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 56 halftones
Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) is best known as a media theorist – many consider him the founder of media studies – but he was an important theorist of art, too. A near-household name for decades, McLuhan remains a fascinating and even cultish figure i...
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£24,00
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Ducks on Parade!
ISBN: HB: 9781684580415, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 76 colour plates
Inspired by Robert McCloskey's beloved children's book of the same name, the iconic bronze Make Way for Ducklings sculpture in Boston's Public Garden has come to serve as something of a record of the recent decades of life in the city itself. In a se...
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£12,00
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Drawings of Al Taylor
ISBN: HB: 9783791359496, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
176 pp., 27.5x24 cm, 192 colour illus.
This book investigates important and illuminating aspects of Al Taylor's drawings, which numbered over five thousand at the time of his death. It includes a chronological survey of Taylor's drawings from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s, highlighting...
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Drawing Is Everything Founding Gifts of the Menil Drawing Institute
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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£50,00
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Designs for Different Futures
ISBN: PB: 9780876332900, Yale University Press, October 2019
272 pp., 30x23 cm, 191 colour and black&white illus.
"Designs for Different Futures" records the concrete ideas and abstract dreams of designers, artists, academics, and scientists exploring how design might reframe our futures, socially, ethically, and aesthetically. Encompassing nearly 100 contempora...
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£30,00
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Dike Blair Drawings
ISBN: HB: 9781949172331, DAP, Karma, New York, October 2019
104 pp., 31.1x26 cm, 46 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! This book from New York-based artist Dike Blair (b. 1952) showcases his drawings from the past two years. Exploring the same imagery as his oil paintings and gouaches – ash trays, cups, mugs – allowed Blair to make his draw...
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£35,00
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Djanira Picturing Brazil
ISBN: HB: 9788531000652, DAP, MASP, October 2019
312 pp., 28.2x21.3 cm, 206 colour illus., 106 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Largely self-taught and coming from a working-class background, Djanira da Motta e Silva (1914-79) emerged on the Brazilian art scene in the 1940s, working in paint, woodcut and engraving to depict everyday life in Brazil,...
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£45,00
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Drawing the Curtain Maurice Sendak's Designs for Opera and Ballet
ISBN: HB: 9783791358550, Prestel Publishing, June 2019
208 pp., 27.3x25 cm, 125 colour illus.
Maurice Sendak is well-known for his acclaimed children's books, but he was also an avid opera lover and designed a number of sets for opera and ballet productions, among them Mozart's "The Magic Flute", Janacek's "The Cunning Little Vixen", Prokofie...
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Disappearing – California c. 1970 Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Jack Goldstein
ISBN: PB: 9783791358543, Prestel Publishing, April 2019
176 pp., 27x21.5 cm, 100 colour illus.
In 1971, Chris Burden disappeared for three days without a trace. This book, also entitled Disappearing, examines the theme of disappearance in the works of Burden and his contemporaries, Bas Jan Ader and Jack Goldstein, in 1970s Southern California....
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£35,00
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David Lynch Someone is in my House
ISBN: HB: 9783791384702, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
304 pp., 30x24.3 cm, 250 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
David Lynch has always been in the spotlight as a filmmaker, directing some of the most iconic movies ever made, but as a visual artist, he is less widely known. Lynch delights in the physicality of painting and likes to stimulate all the senses in h...
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£49,99
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