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Ecology

Picture Ecology Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

Kusserow Karl

ISBN: PB: 9780300254266, Yale University Press, February 2021
256 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 170 colour illus.

Seeking a broad reexamination of visual culture through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and animal studies, this compendium offers a diverse range of art-historical criticism formulated within an ecological context. "Picture Ecolog...

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Design

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Principles of Neo-Plastic Art Bauhausbucher 6

van Doesburg Theo

ISBN: HB: 9783037786291, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2020
68 pp., 23x18 cm, illus.

Theo van Doesburg was a jack of all trades: painter, writer, architect, typographer, and art theorist. In this volume of the Bauhausbucher, he attempts to make elementary concepts in the visual arts generally comprehensible. He was addressing the "mo...

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Contemporary Art

Projectionists Eadweard Muybridge and the Future Projections of the Moving Image

Barber Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9783035802894, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 20 halftones

Eadweard Muybridge is among the seminal originators of the contemporary world's visual form. Projectionists examines mostly unknown aspects of Muybridge's work: his period as a touring projectionist who enthralled audiences with unprecedented moving-...

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Contemporary Art

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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Photography

Contemporary Art

Picasso The Photographer's Gaze

ISBN: PB: 9788417769154, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, November 2019
248 pp., 28x21 cm, colour and black&white illus.

Pablo Picasso always maintained a complex and intense relationship with photography and with the photographers in his milieu, something that could be seen when he pretended to be a reporter one summer, when he used his image as an icon, or when he to...

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Contemporary Art

Please RSVP Questions on Collaborative Aesthetics, Trans-Subjectivity, and the Politics of Love

Durham April

ISBN: PB: 9781512603682, ISBN: HB: 9781512603453, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It's no secret that working with others, rather than alone, on a creative project can often yield the most unexpected results, a new and surprising sum greater than the whole of its parts. "Please RSVP" presents a bold new theory of just how powerful...

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Contemporary Art

Pipilotti Rist Open My Glade

Rydal Jorgensen Larke, Colstrup Tine

ISBN: HB: 9788793659148, DAP, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, May 2019
96 pp., 26x21.5 cm, 100 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Over the last three decades, Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist (born 1962) has been an original and impactful voice on the contemporary art scene with her sensuous, colorful and norm-subverting audio and video universes (the arti...

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Contemporary Art

Paul McCarthy Caribbean Pirates

Welchman John C.

ISBN: HB: 9783906915272, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, April 2019
616 pp., 41.3x29.8 cm, illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Estonia! This abundantly illustrated two-volume publication presents the photographic documentation of Frigate and Houseboat, two pirate-themed works by Paul McCarthy and his son Damon McCarthy, alongside a new text by John C. Welch...

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Contemporary Art

Place and Signs

Bethenod Martin, Mekouar Mouna

ISBN: HB: 9788831743815, DAP, Marsilio Editori, March 2019
288 pp., 25.4x17.1 cm, 150 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Taking its title from a painting by Carol Rama, "Place and Signs" gathers works relating to Venice by 30 artists, among them Rebecca Quaytman, Trisha Donnelly, Cinthia Marcelle and Thiago Mata Machado, Martha Wilson, Jennif...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Progressive Revolution Modern Art for a New India

Jumabhoy Zehra, Hui Tan Boon

ISBN: HB: 9783791357683, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
208 pp., 28x23.5 cm, 120 colour illus.

Following the celebration of the 70th anniversary of Indian independence, this book focuses on the Progressive Artists Group, which included artists from different backgrounds and traditions who found common cause at a time of political and social up...

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