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Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners for Use in Educational Establishments
ISBN: PB: 9780984115518, DAP, Wakefield Press, February 2010
76 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! A bestselling author in his time, Pierre Louys (1870-1925) was a friend of, and influence on, Andre Gide, Paul Valery, Oscar Wilde and Stephane Mallarme among others. He achieved instant notoriety with "Aphrodite" and "The...
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£10,99
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On Curating Interviews with Ten International Curators
ISBN: PB: 9781935202004, DAP, January 2010
144 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 50 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "On Curating", Carolee Thea's second volume of interviews with ten of today's leading curators, explores the intellectual convictions and personal visions that lay the groundwork for the most prestigious and influential exh...
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£27,00
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Automatic Cities The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art
ISBN: HB: 9780934418713, DAP, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, November 2009
160 pp., 23.5x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The "architectural imaginary" describes architecture in its broadest sense: images of cities drawn from collective experience and imagination. Hailing from 11 countries, each of the 14 artists who have contributed to "Autom...
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£28,99
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Heresiarch & Co
ISBN: PB: 9781878972033, DAP, Exact Change, September 2009
168 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! A collection of outrageous short stories about heretics, renegade mystics and criminal religious fanatics, "The Heresiarch & Co." was Apollinaire's first book, and reportedly remained his favorite. Making full use of his en...
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£12,50
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John Cage Book of Days 2010 Calendar
ISBN: PB: 9781935202011, DAP, The John Cage Trust, August 2009
120 pp., 15.2x11.4 cm, 52 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Few twentieth-century artists have been as quotable as the ever-pithy composer, writer, philosopher and artist John Cage, and his aphorisms have become the mantras of fans the world over. "I have nothing to say/and I am say...
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£22,00
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Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese Rivals in Renaissance Venice
ISBN: HB: 9780878467396, DAP, MFA Publications, May 2009
304 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 160 colour illus., 10 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! For nearly four decades in the sixteenth century, the careers of Venice's three greatest painters – Titan, Tintoretto and Veronese – overlapped, producing mutual influences and bitter rivalries that changed art history. Ven...
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£57,00
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Jindrich Pribik
ISBN: PB: 9788072153473, DAP, Torst, April 2009
120 pp., 18.4x16.5 cm, 64 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! Born in 1944, Prague photographer Jindrich Pribik makes supremely complicated work. Over more than 50 years, he has created 40 overlapping series, an intricate web of mutual references and quotations. Many of the works incl...
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£17,50
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Shanghai Dancing
ISBN: PB: 9781885030429, DAP, Kaya Press, April 2009
468 pp., 22.9x15.9 cm, 44 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! After 40 years in Australia, Antonio Castro packs a bag and walks out of his old life forever. The victim of a restlessness he calls "Shanghai Dancing", Antonio seeks to understand the source of his condition in his family'...
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£16,99
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Eva Fukova
ISBN: PB: 9788072153060, DAP, Torst, April 2009
128 pp., 17.8x15.8 cm, 80 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! After the Second World War, Czech avant-garde photographer Eva Fukova and her first husband, Vladimir Fuka, were close to the artists of Skupina 42. In 1967, they emigrated to the United States, where Eva Fukova has continu...
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£17,50
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Jasper Johns Light Bulb
ISBN: HB: 9780934418690, DAP, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, November 2008
96 pp., 24.1x19 cm, 37 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The underlying subject matter of Jasper Johns' work is not the object represented, but the investigation of how we perceive, label and categorize objects. Published to accompany a traveling exhibition of the same name with...
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£40,00
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