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Aurelia & Other Writings
ISBN: PB: 9781878972095, DAP, Exact Change, February 2004
240 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! Aurelia is French poet and novelist Gerard de Nerval's account of his descent into madness – a condition provoked in part by his unrequited passion for an actress named Jenny Colon. One of the original self-styled "bohemian...
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Bayamus & Cardinal Polatuo Two Novels
ISBN: PB: 9781878972217, DAP, Exact Change, February 2004
256 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! This is the first U.S. publication of two riotous novels by the Polish-born British writer Stefan Themerson (1910-1988), who with his wife Franciszka ran the Gaberbocchus Press in London. Gaberbocchus published both Kurt Sc...
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Hebdomeros & Other Writngs
ISBN: PB: 9781878972064, DAP, Exact Change, February 2004
280 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! The artist Giorgio de Chirico's novel, "Hebdomeros" is a dream-like book of situations and landscapes reminiscent of his paintings. In his introduction John Ashbery calls the book "the finest work of Surrealist fiction", no...
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Watchfiends & Rack Screams Works From the Final Period
ISBN: PB: 9781878972187, DAP, Exact Change, January 2004
352 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! "Clayton Eshleman's translations are the finest and most authentic which have yet been made from Artaud's writing. Artaud's final work is his strongest and most enduring, and this collection has been wisely selected and mag...
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Everybody's Autobiography
ISBN: PB: 9781878972088, DAP, Exact Change, January 2004
344 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! In 1937, Gertrude Stein wrote a sequel to "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas", but this darker and more complex work was long misunderstood and neglected. An account of her experiences in the wake of having authored a be...
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Postmodernism A Virtual Discussion
ISBN: PB: 9781890761059, DAP, The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, July 2003
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! What is Postmodernism, and is it a useful concept for understanding American art and visual culture of the past 40 years? When and to what extent did Modernism wane as a phenomenon in American art? How have the various libe...
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Strangely Familiar Design and Everyday Life
ISBN: HB: 9780935640755, DAP, Walker Art Center, June 2003
344 pp., 21.6x15.2 cm, 202 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In the past decade, designers have become increasingly engaged with the quotidian. This shift away from more strictly formal and functional concerns has allowed them to freely explore design's contexts and effects. A light...
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Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare A Biography
ISBN: HB: 9780878466443, DAP, MFA Publications, September 2002
368 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 24 colour illus., 64 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare" is not the first full-length biography of Duchamp, but it is the first to present him in all his human contradictions and to take a refreshingly objective look at his real contri...
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Andre Breton Surrealism and Painting
ISBN: PB: 9780878466283, DAP, MFA Publications, September 2002
448 pp., 26.6x20.9 cm, 34 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Originally published in 1928 and augmented throughout the author's life, "Surrealism and Painting" is the single most important statement ever written on Surrealist art. While many pages have been devoted to visual Surreali...
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Zden K Tmej Totaleisatz
ISBN: PB: 9788072151370, DAP, Torst, October 2001
160 pp., 18.4x16.5 cm, 87 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! Published together for the first time are the photographs taken by the Czech photographer Zden Tmej during the years 1942-1944 in Breslau, Prussia, where he and others were taken to perform forced labor for the Nazis. Easil...
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