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London Paintings by Peter Brown

Brown Peter

ISBN: HB: 9781908326805, Casemate, Sansom & Co, December 2015
200 pp., 27x21.5 cm, 150 illus.

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Le Mouvement Performing the City

Jetzer Gianni, Sharp Chris

ISBN: HB: 9783954760831, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, October 2014
296 pp., 28x21 cm, 220 colour illus., language: English / German / French

he 12th iteration of the Swiss sculpture exposition "Le Mouvement" writes a brilliant new chapter in the project's sixty-year history with the most radical presentation the format has yet seen. In keeping with its tradition of thought-provoking inter...

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Lovely, Human, True, Heartfelt The Letters of Alina Szapocznikow and Ryszard Stanislawski, 1948-1971

Jakubowska Agata

ISBN: PB: 9788393381869, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, October 2012
380 pp., 19x14 cm, 12 facsimiles and drawings, 81 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! Although she is only now just coming into much deserved global renown, the Polish sculptor Alina Szapocznikow has long been recognized in her country as one of the most accomplished female artists of the twentieth century. C...

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Lucio Fontana The Artist's Material

Gottschaller Pia

ISBN: PB: 9781606061145, Getty Publications, July 2012
152 pp., 25.5x19.1 cm, 76 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.

This is the first English language technical study of one of the most important Italian artists of the post-WWII period. Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative post-World War II Italian artists. Bes...

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Legacy The Emily Fisher Landau Collection

Miller Dana

ISBN: HB: 9780300171082, Yale University Press, April 2011
448 pp., 31.8x25.4 cm, 392 colour illus.

In May 2010, New York philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau promised 370 works by more than 85 artists to the Whitney Museum of American Art. This handsome volume highlights each of the artists in the gift, including Carl Andre, Jasper Johns, Willem de...

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Limits of Art Two Essays

Todorov Tzvetan

ISBN: HB: 9781906497620, Seagull Books, December 2010
96 pp., 25x15 cm

Tzvetan Todorov, one of Europe's leading intellectuals, explores the complex relations between art, politics, and ethics in the essays that make up "The Limits of Art". In one essay, "Artists and Dictators", Todorov traces the intimate relationship b...

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Light Club On Paul Scheerbart's "The Light Club of Batavia"

McElheny Josiah

ISBN: HB: 9780226514574, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
104 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 8 halftones

Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) was a visionary German novelist, theorist, poet, and artist who made a lasting impression on such icons of modernism as Walter Benjamin, Bruno Taut, and Walter Gropius. Fascinated with the potential of glass architecture,...

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Lightning Field

Baker Kenneth, Cooke Lynne

ISBN: HB: 9780300138948, Yale University Press, April 2008
192 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm

Walter De Maria's Lightning Field (1977) is one of the twentieth century's most significant works of art. Situated in a remote area of desert in southwestern New Mexico, it comprises 400 polished, stainless-steel poles (spaced 220 feet apart) install...

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Lawrence Weiner As Far as the Eye Can See

De Salvo Donna, Goldstein Ann, Gillick Liam, Leffingwell Edward, Schwarz Dieter, Stemmrich Gregor

ISBN: HB: 9780300126952, Yale University Press, February 2008
288 pp., 27.9x21 cm, 50 black&white illus., 200 colour illus.

Lawrence Weiner (b. 1942) is one of the primary figures associated with the emergence of conceptual art in the 1960s. For over four decades, Weiner has defined art as a representation of relationships in the physical world, "the relationship of human...

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Lee Lozano Drawings

Rosen Barry, van Liere Jaap

ISBN: HB: 9780300119626, Yale University Press, November 2006
192 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 60 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

Lee Lozano (1930-1999) brought a potent voice to the 1960s New York art scene. Equipped with an extraordinary intellectual reach and demonstrating an unusually expressive and mature sexuality, Lozano's art, which includes paintings, drawings, and con...

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