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Book of Monelle
ISBN: PB: 9780984115587, DAP, Wakefield Press, November 2012
136 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! When Marcel Schwob published "The Book of Monelle" in French in 1894, it immediately became the unofficial bible of the French Symbolist movement, admired by such contemporaries as Stephane Mallarme, Alfred Jarry and Andre...
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£10,99
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Gyula Kosice in Conversation with Gabriel Perez-Barreiro
ISBN: HB: 9780982354483, DAP, Fundacion Cisneros, November 2012
180 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 41 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Gyula Kosice (born 1924) is an innovative Argentine artist and poet. His constructions and sculptures were inspired as much by local discussions and disputes in the cafes of 1940s Buenos Aires as by the international avant-...
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£22,00
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Postcard Age Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780878467815, DAP, MFA Publications, October 2012
295 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, 370 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In the decades around 1900, postcards were Twitter, email, Flickr and Facebook, all wrapped into one. A postcard craze swept the world, and billions of cards were bought, mailed and pasted into albums. Many famous artists t...
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£40,00
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Thinking Contemporary Curating
ISBN: PB: 9780916365868, DAP, Independent Curators International, October 2012
256 pp., 20.1x14 cm, 25 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. These include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimaginatio...
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£17,50
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Arcana VI Musicians on Music
ISBN: PB: 9780978833756, DAP, Hips Road - Tzadik, September 2012
316 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 73 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! A major resource for new music theory and practice in the twenty-first century, the acclaimed "Arcana" series looks at the inner workings of the artistic process through manifestoes, scores, interviews, notes and critical p...
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£30,00
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Sophie Calle The Address Book
ISBN: HB: 9780979956294, DAP, Siglio, September 2012
104 pp., 19x14 cm, 2 colour illus., 26 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "The Address Book", a key and controversial work in Sophie Calle's oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. Having found a lost address book on the street in Paris, Calle copied the pages before...
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£27,00
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Gainsbourg The Biography
ISBN: PB: 9780966234671, DAP, TamTam Books, July 2012
400 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! When Serge Gainsbourg died in 1991, France went into mourning: Francois Mitterand himself proclaimed him "our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire". Gainsbourg redefined French pop, from his beginnings as cynical chansonnier and mam...
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£22,00
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Lee Friedlander Mannequin
ISBN: HB: 9781881337324, DAP, Fraenkel Gallery, July 2012
112 pp., 33x22.8 cm, 103 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! Lee Friedlander is one of the few artists in any medium to have sustained a body of influential work over five decades. To make the photographs in "Mannequin", he returned to the hand-held, 35-mm camera that he used in the...
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£44,99
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Pataphysical Essays
ISBN: PB: 9780984115563, DAP, Wakefield Press, May 2012
116 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Pataphysics: the science of imaginary solutions, of laws governing exceptions and of the laws describing the universe supplementary to this one. Alfred Jarry's posthumous novel, "Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pata...
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£12,50
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To Hell with the Ugly Et on Tuera Tous Les Affreux
ISBN: PB: 9780966234664, DAP, TamTam Books, February 2012
200 pp., 21.5x14.4 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! First published in French in 1948, "To Hell with the Ugly" saw Boris Vian's noir-novelist pseudonym Vernon Sullivan take on Vian's own burlesque pop sensibilities. An erotic crime novel with science fiction tendencies, Sull...
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£13,99
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