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On the Viewing Platform The Panorama between Canvas and Screen
ISBN: HB: 9780300184792, Yale University Press, November 2020
324 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 160 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
This ambitious volume presents a multifaceted account of the legacy of the circular painted panorama and its far-reaching influence on art, photography, film, and architecture. From its 18th-century origins, the panorama quickly became a global mass-...
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£65,00
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original bauhaus
ISBN: HB: 9783791359045, Prestel Publishing, November 2019
224 pp., 30x24 cm, 155 colour illus., 76 black&white illus.
The Bauhaus existed for only 14 years in Germany, but for the past 100 years its ideas have been passed on and its products relaunched, imitated and further developed. Using 14 famous, familiar, or forgotten objects, this book offers 14 case studies....
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£45,00
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Our Bauhaus Memories of Bauhaus People
ISBN: HB: 9783791385280, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
336 pp., 21x13.5 cm, 60 black&white illus.
Although it flourished for only fourteen years, the Bauhaus school remains one of the most influential art and design movements of the 20th century. This collection of personal memories from Bauhaus teachers, students, and friends provides a uniquely...
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£19,99
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Olafur Eliasson Reality Projector
ISBN: HB: 9780999221518, DAP, Marciano Art Foundation, March 2019
56 pp., 23.4x18.4 cm, 25 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In collaboration with Sigur Ros musician Jonsi, Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) conceived a complex installation for his site-specific exhibition at the Marciano Art Foundation. Using projected light and...
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£27,00
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One Day at a Time Manny Farber and Termite Art
ISBN: HB: 9783791357669, Prestel Publishing, October 2018
280 pp., 27x21 cm, colour illus.
A companion to an exhibition inspired by the work of celebrated American painter and critic Manny Farber, this book explores Farber's concept of "Termite Art", an argument for the vital importance of art drawn from the everyday. "Termite Art", in Fa...
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£45,00
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Out of Easy Reach
ISBN: PB: 9780985096069, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, September 2018
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 colour plates, 3 maps
Countering conventional accounts of art history, which have often overlooked the artistic contributions of women of color, the exhibition "Out of Easy Reach" presents the work of twenty-four US-based, female-identifying artists from the black and Lat...
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£19,00
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Other Transatlantic Kinetic and Op Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America
ISBN: PB: 9788364177422, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, February 2018
250 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 20 colour plates, 50 halftones
Not for sale in Poland! "The Other Transatlantic" is attuned to the brief but historically significant moment in the postwar period between 1950 and 1970 when the trajectories of the Eastern European art scenes on the one hand, and their Latin Amer...
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£22,00
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Otto Dix The Evil Eye
ISBN: HB: 9783791356303, Prestel Publishing, March 2017
240 pp., 27x23 cm, 153 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.
Focusing on one of the most intense and productive periods of Otto Dix's career, this richly illustrated book features paintings, watercolors, and graphic works that mark the artist's transformation from Dadaism to New Objectivity. Otto Dix's career...
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£45,00
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Olga Chernysheva Vague Accent
ISBN: PB: 9780942324983, DAP, The Drawing Center, November 2016
80 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 40 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Born in 1962 in Moscow, where she still lives, Olga Chernysheva is one of the most perceptive and sensitive observers of her native country's cultural and geographic landscape. Eschewing simplistic rendering of the post-Sov...
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£17,50
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Ocean after Nature
ISBN: PB: 9780916365936, DAP, Independent Curators International, August 2016
80 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 20 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! "The Ocean after Nature" examines the ocean as a site reflecting ecological, political and economic realities through the work of more than 20 artists and collectives, including Ursula Biemann, Drexciya, Renee Green, Peter...
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£13,50
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