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Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-Socialist Europe Perspectives in Curating Series
ISBN: PB: 9780692042250, DAP, Independent Curators International, April 2019
250 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm, 40 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Comradeship" collects 16 essays by the forward-thinking Slovenian curator, museum director and scholar Zdenka Badovinac (born 1958). Appointed director of Ljubljana's Museum of Modern Art in 1993 in the wake of Slovenian i...
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£17,50
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Walks to the Paradise Garden A Lowdown Southern Odyssey
ISBN: HB: 9781732848207, DAP, Institute 193, April 2019
352 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 100 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Walks to the Paradise Garden is the last unpublished manuscript of the late American poet, photographer, publisher, Black Mountain alumnus and bon viveur Jonathan Williams (1929-2008). This 352-page book chronicles Williams...
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Ellsworth Kelly Color Panels for a Large Wal
ISBN: HB: 9781944929145, DAP, Matthew Marks Gallery, April 2019
88 pp., 24.7x21.5 cm, 52 colour illus., 12 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In the late 1970s Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) was commissioned by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to create an artwork for the lobby of a new office building underway in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Kelly respond...
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£40,00
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Lee Friedlander Signs
ISBN: HB: 9781881337485, DAP, Fraenkel Gallery, April 2019
120 pp., 31.7x29.8 cm, 144 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! For more than five decades, Lee Friedlander has repeatedly been drawn to the signs that inscribe the American landscape, from hand-lettered ads to storefront windows to massive billboards. Incorporating these markings with...
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£65,00
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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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Place and Signs
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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£40,00
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Ai Weiwei Life Cycle
ISBN: HB: 9780999221525, DAP, Marciano Art Foundation, March 2019
64 pp., 23.4x18.4 cm, 25 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Ai Weiwei (born 1957) is recognized around the globe for his conceptual installations that generate dialogue between the contemporary world and traditional Chinese modes of thought and production. Ai's multifaceted installa...
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£27,00
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Ralph Eugene Meatyard Stages for Being
ISBN: HB: 9781882007004, DAP, University of Kentucky Art Museum, March 2019
112 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 50 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Stages for Being" examines the photography that Ralph Eugene Meatyard created in and around Lexington, Kentucky, where he found abandoned houses in the countryside to use as sets, and directed friends and family members in...
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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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Art Work Conserving and Restoring Contemporary Art
ISBN: PB: 9788831729451, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2019
304 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 107 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! To speak of "restoration" in relation to contemporary art seems almost oxymoronic. On the one hand, it is commonly assumed that the art produced in our own time is still too new to need conservation. On the other hand, with...
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