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Jasper Johns Light Bulb
ISBN: HB: 9780934418690, DAP, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, November 2008
96 pp., 24.1x19 cm, 37 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The underlying subject matter of Jasper Johns' work is not the object represented, but the investigation of how we perceive, label and categorize objects. Published to accompany a traveling exhibition of the same name with...
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£40,00
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Composition in Retrospect
ISBN: PB: 9781878972118, DAP, Exact Change, October 2008
184 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! Written in his characteristic "mesostics" (lines of prose poetry linked by a central vertical acrostic), "Composition in Retrospect" is a statement of methodology in which composer John Cage examines the central issues of h...
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£13,99
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Josef Sudek Still Lifes
ISBN: HB: 9788072153435, DAP, Torst, October 2008
96 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 76 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! From the mid-1920s until his death in 1976, Czech photographer Joseph Sudek shot Gothic and Baroque architecture, street scenes and still lifes – usually leaving the frame free of people and capturing a poetic and highly in...
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£53,00
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Ed Ruscha Industrial Strength
ISBN: HB: 9780972455640, DAP, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, August 2008
60 pp., 29.8x26 cm, 36 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Ed Ruscha: Industrial Strength" is published on the occasion of the artist's completion of "Industrial Strength Sleep", a 23-foot by 9-foot tapestry created at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia and based on hi...
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£22,00
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Puppet Show
ISBN: PB: 9780884541134, DAP, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, May 2008
128 pp., 25.4x18.4 cm, 100 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! At first glance, "The Puppet Show" seems a flip title. Organized by Philadelphia ICA Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner and Carin Kuoni, this exhibition catalogue focuses – with both humor and gravity – on the surprisingly pro...
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£30,00
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Bohumil Krcil
ISBN: PB: 9788072153091, DAP, Torst, March 2008
120 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 76 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! The work of the legendary late photographer and samizdat publisher Bohumil "Bob" Krcil, who was born in 1952, is little known in his native country. He left Czechoslovakia in 1969, and for the next 23 years, traveled extens...
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£17,50
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Josef Sudek Portraits
ISBN: HB: 9788072153190, DAP, Torst, March 2008
96 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 86 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Although the Czech photographer Josef Sudek was mildly reclusive by temperament, and although his photography is commonly characterized as unpeopled (in favor of what he termed "the inanimate life of objects"), a sizable po...
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£53,00
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Carolee Schneemann Split Decision
ISBN: PB: 9780939784264, DAP, CEPA Gallery, February 2008
96 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 16 black&white illus., 2 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! This volume collects works from two recent Schneemann exhibitions. Buffalo's CEPA Gallery focused on the themes of War, Erotics and Felines, while featuring Schneemann's best-known works, including "Interior Scroll", "Vulva...
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£27,00
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Last Nights of Paris
ISBN: PB: 9781878972057, DAP, Exact Change, January 2008
192 pp., 21x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! Written in 1928 by one of the founders of the Surrealist movement, and translated the following year by William Carlos Williams (the two had been introduced in Paris by a mutual friend), "Last Nights of Paris" is related to...
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£12,50
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