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Gutai Decentering Modernism

Tiampo Ming

ISBN: PB: 9780226801667, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
264 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 1 map, 69 halftones, 12 colour illus.

"Gutai" is the first book in English to examine Japan's best-known modern art movement, a circle of postwar artists whose avant-garde paintings, performances, and installations foreshadowed many key developments in American and European experimental...

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Roy Lichtenstein Reflected

Bader Graham, Salle David

ISBN: HB: 9780981457864, DAP, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, March 2011
64 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 47 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Roy Lichtenstein Reflected" presents a selection of paintings that treat ideas of reflections and doubling. A strategy that spanned Lichtenstein's career, mirroring was explored in his "Reflections" series of the 1980s, in...

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Independent Eye Contemporary British Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie

Trumble Angus

ISBN: HB + CD: 9780300171396, Yale University Press, February 2011
144 pp., 31.2x25.6 cm, 105 colour illus.

This beautifully illustrated book takes readers inside Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie's dynamic private collection of contemporary British art, an intended gift to the Yale Center for British Art. Spanning the past four decades, the collection includes m...

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Gerhard Richter Early Work, 1951-1972

Mehring Christine, Nugent Jeanne, Seydl Jon

ISBN: HB: 9781606060407, Getty Publications, February 2011
176 pp., 26.1x19.7 cm, 14 colour illus., 67 black&white illus.

This title takes an illuminating look at the unique work and artistic vision of Gerhard Richter. Born in Dresden in 1932, Gerhard Richter was first educated under the prevailing doctrine of Socialist Realism, but retrained after emigrating to West Ge...

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Christian Marclay Festival

Whitney Museum of American Art

ISBN: HB: 9780300169003, Yale University Press, February 2011
200 pp., 28.2x21.1 cm, 250 illus.

Christian Marclay (born 1955) explores the fusion of fine art and audio cultures, transforming sounds and music into a visible, physical form through performance, collage, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Published in a 3-volume magaz...

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Under Destruction

Jetzer Gianni, Basel Chris

ISBN: HB: 9783942405171, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, January 2011
136 pp., 28x24 cm, 100 colour illus., language: English / German

In 1960, the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely was asked to build a sculpture to be installed in the Sculpture Garden of New York's Museum of Modern Art. In collaboration with other artists and engineers, he constructed the self-destructive machine Homage t...

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Juan Munoz at the Clark

Gimenez Carmen

ISBN: PB: 9780300169836, Yale University Press, January 2011
48 pp., 23.1x22.4 cm, 32 colour illus.

"The celebrated Spanish sculptor Juan Munoz (1953-2001) died at the height of his powers, when he was considered 'one of the most complex and individual artists working today'". ("Guardian"). "His challenging, enigmatic works almost inexorably draw i...

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Richard Hawkins Third Man

Dorin Lisa, Subotnick Ali, Baker George

ISBN: HB: 9780300166255, Yale University Press, A+D Series, January 2011
160 pp., 31x23.6 cm, 130 colour illus.

This stunning book offers an important mid-career retrospective of the work of American artist Richard Hawkins (born 1961), whose paintings, collages, and mixed-media pieces are making a crucial contribution to the contemporary art scene. Colour plat...

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Vija Celmins Television and Disaster, 1964-1966

Sirmans Franklin, White Michelle

ISBN: HB: 9780300166125, Yale University Press, January 2011
64 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 36 colour illus.

American artist Vija Celmins (b. 1938) is widely admired and respected for her sublime images of night skies and ocean waves. "Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966" looks closely at Celmins' early work, which is deeply engaged with the Po...

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Dieter Roth Tischmatten

Rosen Barry

ISBN: HB: 9780300170795, Yale University Press, January 2011
150 pp., 27.2x23.1 cm

Dieter Roth's unique and eclectic Tischmatten ("Table Mats") incorporate drawings, paintings, photographs, and ephemeral materials. Roth placed these grey cardboard mats on tables in his apartment, studios, and houses, collecting what he referred to...

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