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Berend Strik Deciphering the Artist's Mind
ISBN: HB: 9780300250459, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, May 2020
304 pp., 27.9x22.2 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
Berend Strik (b. 1960) is an internationally acclaimed Dutch visual artist whose oeuvre ranges from two-dimensional works to sculpture and architecture. He is best known for his embroidered found objects, including photographs. Since 2012, Strik has...
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Sanford Biggers Codeswitch
ISBN: HB: 9780300248647, Yale University Press, April 2020
192 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 129 colour illus.
Sanford Biggers (b. 1970) is a Harlem-based artist working in various media including painting, sculpture, video, and performance. He describes his practice as "code-switching" – mixing disparate elements to create layers of meaning – to account for...
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Homer | Remington
ISBN: HB: 9780300246100, Yale University Press, April 2020
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 150 colour illus.
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) and Frederic Remington (1861-1909) represent a distinct artistic strain of the American mythos: both were celebrated in their day as homegrown, self-taught artists whose work offered a vision of American identity rooted in s...
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Transmissions
ISBN: PB: 9780300246841, Yale University Press, April 2020
160 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.
Over the past decade, Nick Mauss (b. 1980) has pursued a hybrid mode of working that melds the roles of curator, artist, and scholar. This catalogue leans heavily into the scholarship side of his practice, building on his 2018 Whitney Museum exhibiti...
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Making The Met, 1870-2020
ISBN: HB: 9781588397096, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2020
278 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 275 colour and black&white illus.
Published to celebrate the Museum's 150th anniversary, "Making The Met" examines the institution's evolution from an idea – that art can elevate anyone who has access to it – to one of the most beloved encyclopedic collections in the world. Focusing...
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Bill Brandt - Henry Moore
ISBN: HB: 9780300251050, Yale University Press, March 2020
264 pp., 33x24.7 cm, 285 colour and black&white illus.
"The camera", said Orson Welles, "is a medium via which messages reach us from another world". It was the camera and the circumstances of the Second World War that first brought together Henry Moore (1898-1986) and Bill Brandt (1904-1983). During the...
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Chinati The Vision of Donald Judd (New Edition)
ISBN: HB: 9780300251456, Yale University Press, March 2020
352 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 184 colour illus., 68 black&white illus.
The Chinati Foundation, a world-famous destination for large-scale contemporary art, was founded by Donald Judd (1928-1994) to preserve and present a select number of permanent installations that were inextricably linked to the surrounding landscape...
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Gerhard Richter Painting After All
ISBN: HB: 9781588396853, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2020
280 pp., 26.6x24.1 cm, 230 colour illus.
Over the course of his acclaimed 60-year career, Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) has employed both representation and abstraction as a means of reckoning with the legacy, collective memory, and national sensibility of post–Second World War Germany, in both...
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Think of Them as Spaces Brice Marden's Drawings
ISBN: FLEXI: 9780300233131, Yale University Press, February 2020
128 pp., 24.7x19.6 cm, 120 colour illus.
In 1979, Brice Marden (b. 1938) asked that his drawings be thought of "as spaces", reflecting the idea that drawing is a medium that is much more than its two physical dimensions. Looking closely at six series of drawings that span nearly the entiret...
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Vida Americana Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945
ISBN: HB: 9780300246698, Yale University Press, February 2020
264 pp., 30.4x24.7 cm, 139 colour illus., 57 black&white illus., including 2 gatefolds
The first half of the 20th century saw prolific cultural exchange between the United States and Mexico, as artists and intellectuals traversed the countries' shared border in both directions. For U.S. artists, Mexico's monumental public murals portra...
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