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Kara Walker Dust Jackets for the Niggerati
ISBN: HB: 9780982681367, DAP, Gregory R. Miller & Co., September 2013
144 pp., 31.1x23.4 cm, 78 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! African-American artist Kara Walker (born 1969) has been acclaimed internationally for her candid investigations of race, sexuality and violence through the lens of reconceived historical tropes. She had her first solo show...
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£40,00
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Glamour Is Theft A User's Guide to General Idea: 1969-1978
ISBN: HB: 9780921972662, DAP, Art Gallery of York University, May 2013
256 pp., 26x20.3 cm, 8 colour illus., 71 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! From its origins in the mail art movement through to its "destruction" of "The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion" in 1977, the Canadian collective General Idea constructed a comprehensive body of work as a performative ficti...
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£10,00
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Frantisek Skala Headlands, The Land of Heads
ISBN: HB: 9788087164907, DAP, Arbor Vitae, March 2013
152 pp., 22.9x22.6 cm, 163 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Headlands" is Czech artist Frantisek Skala's (born 1956) homage to the Headlands of Marin County, north of San Francisco, where he lived in the 1990s. It contains his journal entries and reproduces his sculptural heads mad...
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Frantisek Skala
ISBN: PB: 9788074670046, DAP, Arbor Vitae, March 2013
228 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 405 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Heir to the postwar Surrealist traditions of his native Czechoslovakia, Frantisek Skala (born 1956) has made remarkable objects, installations and paintings since the early 1980s, while also working in children's illustrati...
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£45,00
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Adolf Wolfli Creator of the Universe
ISBN: HB: 9788087164952, DAP, Arbor Vitae, March 2013
372 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! Adolf Wolfli is the original outsider artist. Before Darger, Rizzoli and Rodia, there was Wolfli: orphan, laborer, criminal, artist and the subject of a 1921 monograph titled "A Psychiatric Patient as Artist", authored by h...
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£50,00
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Goshka Macuga A Exhibit
ISBN: HB: 9781938922107, DAP, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, March 2013
112 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 32 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Goshka Macuga: A Exhibit", accompanies the first museum survey exhibition of the work of Polish-born, London-based artist Goshka Macuga (born 1967). Macuga's practice is located at the intersection of two strands that have...
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£27,00
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Gyula Kosice in Conversation with Gabriel Perez-Barreiro
ISBN: HB: 9780982354483, DAP, Fundacion Cisneros, November 2012
180 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 41 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Gyula Kosice (born 1924) is an innovative Argentine artist and poet. His constructions and sculptures were inspired as much by local discussions and disputes in the cafes of 1940s Buenos Aires as by the international avant-...
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£22,00
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Thinking Contemporary Curating
ISBN: PB: 9780916365868, DAP, Independent Curators International, October 2012
256 pp., 20.1x14 cm, 25 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. These include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimaginatio...
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£17,50
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Jim Denevan Lake Baikal
ISBN: HB: 9781934435434, DAP, Radius Books, November 2011
176 pp., 31.1x24.1 cm, 90 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In March of 2010, land artist Jim Denevan (born 1961) and his crew journeyed to the world's largest lake – Lake Baikal in southwestern Siberia – where they created the world's largest artwork on the frozen surface of the wa...
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£57,00
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Ellsworth Kelly Wood Sculpture
ISBN: HB: 9780878467662, DAP, MFA Publications, October 2011
72 pp., 29.2x21 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! Ellsworth Kelly describes the 30 wood sculptures he created over the span of four decades between 1958 and 1996 as his "totems". This body of work, although only a small proportion of the artist's lifetime sculpture and far...
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