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Machine Art, 1934

Marshall Jennifer Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780226507156, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 61 halftones

In 1934, New York's Museum of Modern Art staged a major exhibition of ball bearings, airplane propellers, pots and pans, cocktail tumblers, petri dishes, protractors, and other machine parts and products. The exhibition, titled "Machine Art", explore...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Spring 2012, Issue 29

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Roelstraete Dieter

ISBN: PB: 9781846380877, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm

"Afterall", a journal of art, context and enquiry, offers in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists along with essays that broaden how to understand it. "Issue 29" looks at the artistic economy and the different means that artists...

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Photography

Media Studies

Touching Photographs

Olin Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780226626468, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
288 pp., 25.1x17.8 cm, 84 halftones, 37 colour illus.

Photography does more than simply represent the world. It acts in the world, connecting people to form relationships and shaping relationships to create communities. In this beautiful book, Margaret Olin explores photography's ability to "touch" us t...

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Photography

Europe

Images in Spite of All Four Photographs from Auschwitz

Didi-Huberman Georges

ISBN: PB: 9780226148175, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
248 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 30 halftones

Of one and a half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. "Images in Spite of All" reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clan...

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Photography

Culture Studies

Cruel Radiance Photography and Political Violence

Linfield Susie

ISBN: PB: 9780226482514, ISBN: HB: 9780226482507, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

In "The Cruel Radiance", Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues passionately that looking at such images – and lea...

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History of Art

Pataphysical Essays

Daumal Rene

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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Photography

Literary Criticism

Kind of Touching Beauty Photographs of America by Pedro Meyer, Text by Jean-Paul Sartre

Meyer Pedro, Sartre Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780857425843, Seagull Books, May 2012
160 pp., 24x24 cm, 100 halftones

Photographer Pedro Meyer is one of the pioneers of contemporary photography and was an early leader in its digital revolution. In "A Kind of Touching Beauty" his lens is focused on the American city, capturing its growth and transition through the 19...

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Design

Follow Me 2 Wayfinding & Signage System

ISBN: HB: 9789881562517, Bookport, SendPoints, April 2012
296 pp., 28x21 cm, colour illus.

For sale in Balkans only! "Follow Me 2" is a collection of the exceptional signage and wayfinding system designs from all over the world. They effectively resolve the communication problem between human and environment through a visually pleasant w...

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Design

UNLIMITED Graphic Design Studios

ISBN: HB: 9789881562425, Bookport, SendPoints, April 2012
336 pp., 25x21 cm, colour illus.

For sale in Balkans only! The studios included manage to fulfill clients brief while maintaining their own design styles, achieving a good balance between artistic pursuit and commercial value. Recording their pathways to success, this book is esse...

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Decorative Arts

Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection

Clark Garth, Strauss Cindi, Adamson Glenn, Vecchio Mark, Shales Ezra, Veiteberg Jorunn, Burrows Keelin, Elliot Rebecca, Houston Laura, Zooey Martin Elliott

ISBN: HB: 9780300169973, Yale University Press, April 2012
576 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 702 colour illus.

As gallerists and collectors, Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio have helped shape the field of ceramics by expanding notions of the medium's possibilities. This comprehensive catalogue features, for the first time in its entirety, their esteemed colle...

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