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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Alicja Kwade Materia Prima

ISBN: HB: 9783942405584, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2012
256 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 215 colour illus., language: English / German

Few positions in art currently attract more attention than the works of the young sculptor Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, 1979; lives and works in Berlin). They show how easy it would be to lift our construction of reality off its hinges. In her installa...

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Photography

Boris Mikhailov Time is out of Joint

ISBN: HB: 9783942405645, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2012
176 pp., 27.5x23 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English / German

Since starting out as a photographer in the mid-1960s, Boris Mikhailov (b. Kharkov, Ukraine, 1938; lives and works in Kharkov and Berlin) has built a wide-ranging and strikingly multifaceted oeuvre. A virtuoso of his art, he has explored a great vari...

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Contemporary Art

Marieta Chirulescu

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783942405416, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2012
152 pp., 21x21 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English / German

The first monograph created by Marieta Chirulescu (b. Sibiu, Romania 1974; lives and works in Berlin) is published in conjunction with her solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel, which opened in September 2010. Printed in the A4 format and designed to l...

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Contemporary Art

Walter De Maria Trilogies

Elliott Clare, Helfenstein Josef, Wakefield Neville

ISBN: HB: 9780300175783, Yale University Press, March 2012
104 pp., 25.4x24.8 cm, 61 colour illus.

Walter De Maria (b. 1935) is known for the expansive and perfectly ordered land art and installations he created in the 1970s. From constructing minimalist spare wooden boxes to using the earth itself as a site for, and element of, his sculpture, his...

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Children's Books

13 Painters Children Should Know

Heine Florian

ISBN: HB: 9783791370866, Prestel Publishing, March 2012
48 pp., 28x24 cm, 60 colour illus.

A colorful, accessible and engaging introduction to art history that children will remember for years to come. It's never too early to introduce children to art. Featuring thirteen painters from a variety of historical periods and styles, this book...

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Photography

Reset. Beyond Fukushima Will the Nuclear Catastrophe Bring Humanity to Its Senses?

Obara Kazuma

ISBN: PB: 9783037782927, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2012
216 pp., 29.7x23 cm, 130 illus., language: English / Japanese

Ever since the first days following the disastrous events that took place in Japan in March 2011, photojournalist Kazuma Obara has been visiting the sites and the people affected. He even visited the Fukushima power plant itself, where he talked to t...

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History of Art

Reading the Pre-Raphaelites

Barringer Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780300177336, Yale University Press, March 2012
192 pp., 23.4x16.5 cm, 98 colour images, 21 black&white illus.

Noted for its vivid colours, elaborate use of symbols, and dedication to close observation of the natural world, the work of Pre-Raphaelite artists combines a deep engagement with the past and a modern realism that exemplifies the concerns of the age...

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Photography

50 Series

50 Photos You Should Know

Finger Brad

ISBN: PB: 9783791346113, Prestel Publishing, March 2012
160 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 150 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

This collection of world-renowned photographs offers a stunning visual history of photography and photojournalism. The birth of photography opened the doors to a new kind of art, one that recorded events with the immediacy not possible with painting...

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History of Art

Titian A Fresh Look at Nature

Mazzotta Antonio

ISBN: PB: 9781857095449, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, March 2012
80 pp., 21x21 cm, 60 colour illus.

Titian is acknowledged as the greatest of the sixteenth-century Venetian painters, best known for his portraits, mythological pictures and religious subjects. Yet his first great achievement as a painter, schooled in the workshop of Giovanni Bellini,...

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Design

World Without Words

Morrison Jasper

ISBN: PB: 9783037782071, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2012
112 pp., 15.4x10.8 cm, 104 illus.

What feeds the inspiration of the designer? Observation. In Jasper Morrison's collection of pictures, icons of design history meet up with the unassuming objects of everyday life, and curious findings with the archetypes of modernism. Every picture t...

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