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Art Happens Here Net Art Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9780692173084, DAP, Rhizome, April 2019
400 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 325 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! This richly illustrated volume retells the history of net art from the 1980s to the present day through thematic essays and interview extracts. It centers around the 100 works selected, restored and presented as part of the...
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£30,00
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Lucio Fontana On the Threshold
ISBN: HB: 9781588396822, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2019
236 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 156 colour illus., 74 duotone illus.
A major figure of postwar European art and a binational resident of Argentina and Italy, Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) blurred numerous boundaries in his life and art, crossing borders both literally and figuratively. This volume takes a fresh look at th...
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£35,00
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Spielraum
ISBN: HB: 9783954762545, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, December 2018
352 pp., 21.5x20 cm, 200 colour illus., language: English
The Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic (b. Ljubljana, 1979; lives and works in London) exemplifies a young generation of creative minds born in the former Yugoslavia whose works address social, political, and historical themes. In 2013, she represented h...
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£32,50
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Sonic Flux Sound, Art, and Metaphysics
ISBN: PB: 9780226543178, ISBN: HB: 9780226543031, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones
From Edison's invention of the phonograph through contemporary field recording and sound installation, artists have become attracted to those domains against which music has always defined itself: noise, silence, and environmental sound. Christoph Co...
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£23,00
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£75,00
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Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press Selected Writings by Dick Higgins
ISBN: PB: 9781938221200, DAP, Siglio, November 2018
336 pp., 24.7x18.4 cm, 95 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! There are few art-world figures as influential – and as little known – as Dick Higgins (1938-1998), cofounder of Fluxus, "polyartist", poet, scholar, theorist, composer, performer and, not least, the publisher of the legend...
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£30,00
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Kay Sage Catalogue Raisonne
ISBN: HB: 9783791357850, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
520 pp., 26x24.8 cm, 179 colour illus.
Encompassing the entire career of the American surrealist painter Kay Sage, this catalogue raisonne features all her known mature works and the latest scholarship on a brilliant artist. While her career as a painter was often eclipsed during her lif...
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£120,00
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Learning from Madness Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art
ISBN: HB: 9780226556284, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 61 halftones
Throughout the history of European modernism, philosophers and artists have been fascinated by madness. Something different happened in Brazil, however, with the "art of the insane" that flourished within the modernist movements there. From the 1920s...
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£34,00
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10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art We Don't Need Another Hero
ISBN: PB: 9783954762354, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, June 2018
400 pp., 28x22 cm, 180 colour illus., language: English / German
The 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art will take place at multiple venues throughout Berlin from June 9 until September 9, 2018. It invites the public to engage the artists and other contributors in an open exchange of ideas. "I want to rethin...
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£27,50
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2017 California-Pacific Triennial Building as Ever
ISBN: PB: 9783791356761, Prestel Publishing, March 2018
144 pp., 33x21.6 cm, 88 colour illus., 12 black&white illus.
Featuring the work of 25 artists from diverse backgrounds, this triennial addresses the topic of architecture and permanence by exploring history and preservation, the concept of home and displacement, and the influence of power, economics, and polit...
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Mr Chow 50 Years
ISBN: HB: 9783791357362, Prestel Publishing, February 2018
192 pp., 28x23 cm, 160 colour illus.
Celebrating 50 years of fine food and great company, this sumptuously illustrated book takes readers on a fabulous journey through the Chow Dynasty. In the mid-sixties, armed with desire and passion, M (aka Michael Chow) established his vision of br...
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£35,00
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