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Gluck Art and Identity

Haye Amy de la, Pel Martin, Horsley Jeffrey, Patrick Andrew Macintosh, Martin Simon, Clarke Gill, Souhami Diana, Wilson Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300230482, Yale University Press, November 2017
208 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 236 colour illus.

Hannah Gluckstein (who called herself Gluck; 1895-1976) was a distinctive, original voice in the early evolution of modern art in Britain. This handsome book presents a major reassessment of Gluck's life and work, examining, among other things, the a...

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Architecture

Contemporary Art

Gordon Matta-Clark Anarchitect

Bessa Antonio Sergio, Fiore Jessamyn, Jordan Cara M., Wrona Xavier

ISBN: HB: 9780300230437, Yale University Press, November 2017
184 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 90 colour illus.

This revealing book looks at the groundbreaking work of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), whose socially conscious practice blurred the boundaries between contemporary art and architecture. After completing a degree in architecture at Cornell Universit...

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Contemporary Art

Artists in Exile Expressions of Loss and Hope

Josenhans Frauke V., Bozovic Marijeta, Koerner Joseph Leo, Luke Megan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300225709, Yale University Press, November 2017
272 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 174 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

This timely book offers a wide-ranging and beautifully illustrated study of exiled artists from the 19th century through the present day, with notable attention to individuals who have often been relegated to the margins of publications on exile in a...

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Contemporary Art

Mark Dion Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist

Erickson Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780300224078, Yale University Press, October 2017
216 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 225 colour illus.

The first book in two decades to consider the entire oeuvre of Mark Dion (b. 1961), this volume examines thirty years of the American artist's pioneering inquiries into how we collect, interpret, and display nature. Part of a generation of artists ex...

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Contemporary Art

William Kentridge Smoke, Ashes, Fable

Koerner Margaret K., Borchert Till-Holger, Buchloh Benjamin H. D., Koerner Joseph Leo, Siegel Harmon

ISBN: HB: 9780300230253, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2017
224 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 300 colour illus.

The well-known South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) has become famous for his time-lapse animation movies and installations, as well as his activities as an opera and theater director. This book offers a unique selection of Kentridge's wo...

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Contemporary Art

From Lascaux to Brooklyn

Rand Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300230925, Yale University Press, October 2017
200 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 60 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Hailed upon its publication as "discriminating, erudite, and eclectic", From Lascaux to Brooklyn is now available to readers once again. First published in 1996, the year of Paul Rand's death, the volume embarks on a wonderful journey from the time b...

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Contemporary Art

Delirious Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980

Baum Kelly, Bradnock Lucy, Ryan Tina Rivers

ISBN: HB: 9781588396334, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2017
224 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 241 colour illus.

Addressing the maniacal, eccentric, and disorienting in artworks made between 1950 and 1980, Delirious situates a fascination with the absurd and irrational within the context of the violence and brutality witnessed during World War II as well as the...

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Contemporary Art

Jasper Johns Redo an Eye

Bernstein Roberta

ISBN: HB: 9780300229356, Yale University Press, October 2017
346 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 374 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

Spanning over 60 years of Jasper Johns's (b. 1930) prolific career, this spectacular publication is the most comprehensive and definitive study of the artist's work to date. Written by noted Johns expert Roberta Bernstein, the book explores the syner...

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Contemporary Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonne of the Monotypes

Dackerman Susan, Roberts Jennifer L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300229370, Yale University Press, October 2017
332 pp., 31.8x24.1 cm, 242 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.

Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is arguably the most important living American artist, and his work is central to any history of postwar art. With extensive new scholarship based on original research and interviews with the artist, "Jasper Johns: Catalogue Ra...

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Contemporary Art

Design, Form, and Chaos

Rand Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300230918, Yale University Press, October 2017
240 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 70 colour illus., 55 black&white illus.

Paul Rand (1914-1996) was a pioneer in the field of advertising design and typography, and his work still exerts a profound influence on the design profession. First published to critical acclaim in 1993, and long unavailable, Design, Form, and Chaos...

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