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Contemporary Art

Neolithic Childhood Art in a False Present, c. 1930

Holert Tom

ISBN: HB: 9783035801064, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, September 2018
400 pp., 26.7x17.1 cm, 400 colour plates

Resonating at the heart of "Neolithic Childhood: Art in a False Present, c. 1930" is the question whether art has present, past, and future functions. The modernist assertion of the autonomy of art was intended to render superfluous art's social and...

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Contemporary Art

Nicolas Combarro Interventions

ISBN: HB: 9788417047573, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, July 2018
127 pp., 24.8x17.1 cm

This book explores a process of research and creation carried out through the interaction between art and architecture. Interventions reflect on constructed space by the observation and analysis of its various forms and expressions, its patterns and...

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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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Contemporary Art

Nicolas Schoffer Space, Light, Time

Pierre Arnauld

ISBN: HB: 9780300233247, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, April 2018
240 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

Hungarian-born French artist Nicolas Schoffer (1912-1992), though relatively unknown today, was during his lifetime a significant presence in the art world. His 1956 piece CYSP 1 is considered the first cybernetic sculpture, making use of motors, mic...

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Notes Towards a Conditional Art

Simms Matthew, Irwin Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781606065501, Getty Publications, October 2017
352 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Robert Irwin began his career in the 1950s as an abstract painter. As a pioneer of the Light and Space movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s and early '80s, Irwin focused on exploring aesthetic perception as the fundamental feature of art, culminating...

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Nothing and Everything Seven Artists, 1947-1962

Dreishpoon Douglas

ISBN: PB: 9783952446171, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, July 2017
104 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 3 black&white illus., 96 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Nothing and Everything" examines the synergistic relationship between artists and composers living in New York City between the end of World War II and the early 1960s. It features seven artists and composers – Louise Bour...

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Nick Cave Until

Markonish Denise

ISBN: HB: 9783791356051, Prestel Publishing, February 2017
192 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 200 colour illus.

This generously illustrated book takes readers inside Nick Cave's newest work: an enormous, elaborate journey through the workings of the artistic mind. Nick Cave's "Soundsuits" – exuberant, brightly colored wearable sculptures adorned with buttons,...

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No New Kind of Duck Would I Know How to Say What I Do?

Verwoert Jan

ISBN: PB: 9783037349465, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
384 pp., 19x13.3 cm, 90 colour plates

What do we learn by making art? What do we discover by discussing our art with other people? These are the questions at the heart of "No New Kind of Duck", which documents an exchange between Jan Verwoert and artists, critics, and other researchers a...

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Nicholas Krushenick Electric Soup

Berry Ian, Cooper Harry, Schwabsky Barry

ISBN: HB: 9783791356181, Prestel Publishing, January 2017
280 pp., 29x24 cm, 196 colour illus., 41 black&white illus.

The first comprehensive monograph on American painter Nicholas Krushenick (1929-1999) considers his important career and presents an expansive selection of his paintings and studies. Nicholas Krushenick is a key figure in the history of late 20th-ce...

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No Limits Zao Wou-Ki

Walt Melissa, Yun Michelle, Weitz Ankeney

ISBN: HB: 9780300220186, Yale University Press, October 2016
184 pp., 29.9x23.5 cm, 141 colour illus.

The Chinese-French painter Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013) developed a distinctive abstract style blending the visual poetry of Chinese painting and calligraphy with European pictorial traditions. This stunning volume presents a richly woven narrative of the...

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