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Mrs Delany A Life

Campbell Orr Clarissa

ISBN: HB: 9780300161137, Yale University Press, August 2019
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 50 colour illus.

Mrs Delany is best remembered for her captivating paper collages of flowers, but her artistic flourishing came late in life. This nuanced, deeply researched biography pulls back the lens to place Delany's art in the broader context of her family life...

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A is for Archive Warhol's World from A to Z

Wrbican Matt, Franzen-Sheehan Abigail, Gopnik Blake, Printz Neil

ISBN: HB: 9780300233445, Yale University Press, August 2019
320 pp., 27.9x26 cm, 420 colour illus.

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) remains an icon of the 20th century and a leading figure in the Pop Art movement. He also was an obsessive collector of things large and small, ordinary and quirky. Since 1994, The Andy Warhol Museum has studied and safeguarde...

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I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like The Art of Bill Viola

Hanhardt John, Carlson Thomas, Perov Kira

ISBN: PB: 9780300244755, Yale University Press, July 2019
192 pp., 27.3x22.9 cm, 125 colour illus.

Bill Viola (b. 1951) is one of today's premier video installation artists whose apparently straightforward imagery belies a decades-long investigation into the human imagination and its various states of consciousness. This unique and accessible guid...

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Alicja Kwade: ParaPivot The Roof Garden Commission

Baum Kelly, Wagstaff Sheena

ISBN: PB: 9781588396679, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2019
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 58 colour illus.

Contemporary artist Alicja Kwade (b. 1979) has received international acclaim for her minimalist, large-scale sculptures and installations intended to parse, but not resolve, various scientific and metaphysical conundrums. Kwade's site-specific insta...

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Ai Weiwei Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

Baume Nicholas, Palmer Daniel S., Stathopoulou Katerina

ISBN: HB: 9780300243796, Yale University Press, June 2019
304 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, 570 colour illus.

Internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) transformed over 300 sites across New York City into a compelling, ambitious public art exhibition concerned with the global refugee and migration crises. "Good Fences Make Good...

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Cy Twombly, Treatise on the Veil, 1970

White Michelle, Dervaux Isabelle, Rothenberg Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300244571, Yale University Press, May 2019
80 pp., 35.6x27.9 cm, 42 colour illus.

One of the most important American postwar artists, Cy Twombly (1928-2011) engaged with mythological and poetic source material, setting him apart from other artists of his generation. In 1970, Twombly revisited his 1968 painting Treatise on the Veil...

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Matthew Barney Redoubt

Franks Pamela, Hodermarsky Elisabeth, Lepecki Andre, Middleton Arthur, Nesbit Molly, Pinchot Gifford, Raab Jennifer, Rember John

ISBN: PB: 9780300243277, Yale University Press, May 2019
368 pp., 24.4x16.5 cm, 414 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.

"Matthew Barney: Redoubt" is a comprehensive catalogue of the artist's newest project, which centers on a two-hour film that creates a complex portrait of the American landscape by layering classical, cosmological, and American myths about humanity's...

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Sophie Whettnall (at) Work

Abramovic Marina, Battista Emiliano, Fol Carine, Samuelson Scott, Whettnall Sophie

ISBN: PB: 9780300233278, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, May 2019
208 pp., 31.8x22.9 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

This unconventional publication explores the process of making art through the work and studio practice of Sophie Whettnall (b. 1973), a contemporary Belgian artist whose works range from video art, installation, and performance to sculpture and draw...

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Biography & Memoires

Contemporary Art

Alfred Stieglitz Taking Pictures, Making Painters

Rose Phyllis

ISBN: HB: 9780300226485, Yale University Press, May 2019
272 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 89 black&white illus.

Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of artists even though his career is often overshadowed by his role as Georgia O'Keeffe's husband. This new book from celebrated biographer Phyllis Rose reconsiders Stiegl...

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Photography

Long Light Photographs by David Lebe

Barberie Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780876332887, Yale University Press, April 2019
144 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 120 colour and black&white illus.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, David Lebe (b. 1948) pushed the boundaries of photography, creating nuanced and visually complex images using innovative techniques. Often enhancing his prints with hand-coloring, Lebe made experimental pinhole photogr...

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