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Mechanical Fantasy Box The Homoerotic Journal of Patrick Cowley
ISBN: PB: 9781942884545, DAP, Dark Entries Editions, October 2019
128 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 4 colour illus., 32 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Patrick Cowley (1950-82) was one of the most revolutionary and influential figures in electronic dance music. Born in Buffalo, Cowley moved to San Francisco in 1971 to study music at the City College of San Francisco. By th...
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£22,00
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Magdalena Suarez Frimkess
ISBN: PB: 9781942884514, DAP, South Willard Press, September 2019
80 pp., 20.8x16 cm, 80 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! This is the first book on the Venice, California-based ceramicist Magdalena Suarez Frimkess (born 1926). Now in her 90s, the Venezuela-born artist is just now getting the recognition she deserves, with her work finding its...
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£22,00
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Wild Beads of Africa Old Powderglass Beads from the Collection of Billy Steinberg
ISBN: HB: 9780692907108, DAP, Steinberg, May 2019
216 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 180 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! This is the first book dedicated to African powderglass beads, with over 180 photographs of gorgeous pieces from a collection assembled by songwriter Billy Steinberg (co-writer of Madonna's "Like a Virgin"). Most of the pi...
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£50,00
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Looking at Tintoretto with John Ruskin A Venetian Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9788831790000, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2019
176 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 89 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! For John Ruskin (1819-1900), the discovery of Tintoretto's (1519-1594) works in 1845 was revelatory. His visit to the Scuola Grande di San Rocco that year would inspire Ruskin to write "The Stones of Venice", beloved by wri...
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£22,00
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Ann Craven
ISBN: HB: 9781949172010, DAP, Karma, New York, September 2018
560 pp., 22.8x18.4 cm, 550 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The latest in Karma's series of comprehensive overviews of artist practices, this substantial, 560-page volume collects 20 years of work by New York painter Ann Craven (born 1967), covering her series of moons, birds, palet...
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£45,00
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Tania Bruguera Talking to Power / Hablandole al Poder
ISBN: PB: 9780982678992, DAP, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, August 2018
200 pp., 22.9x15.9 cm, 6 duotones, 80 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Talking to Power / Hablandole al Poder" surveys Bruguera's artworks for the public sphere created between 1985 and 2017, all of which position art as a resource for social change. This collection of works offers the reader...
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£22,00
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Renate Aller Mountain Interval
ISBN: HB: 9781942185383, DAP, Radius Books, July 2018
164 pp., 38.1x27.9 cm, 65 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The latest project from New York – based photographer Renate Aller includes mountain peaks from six continents. These photographs were taken from locations as high as 22,500 feet (adjacent to Mount Everest) to the European...
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£53,00
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Arshile Gorky: The Plow and the Song A Life in Letters and Documents
ISBN: PB: 9783906915081, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, June 2018
600 pp., 22.8x15.8 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! Author of "From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky", Matthew Spender presents a new expanded edition of his 2010 publication "Arshile Gorky: Goats on the Roof", with never-before-published material, including diary entri...
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£45,00
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Hashish
ISBN: PB: 9781939663313, DAP, Wakefield Press, April 2018
184 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 13 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Encountering the enigmatic dandy Count Vittorio Alta-Carrara in a Parisian eatery, the narrator finds himself invited to a "Hashish Club", where in the dim light of red-filtered candles, a roomful of "recumbent wanderers" e...
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£13,99
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Children's Crusade
ISBN: PB: 9781939663351, DAP, Wakefield Press, March 2018
56 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! Marcel Schwob's 1896 novella "The Children's Crusade" retells the medieval legend of the exodus of some 30,000 children from all countries to the Holy Land, who traveled to the shores of the sea, which – instead of parting...
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£9,99
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