art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

On Becoming an Artist Isamu Noguchi and His Contemporaries, 1922-1960
ISBN: HB: 9780970931047, DAP, The Noguchi Museum, December 2010
144 pp., 22.9x22.9 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! "On Becoming An Artist" illuminates the friendships, mentorships and collaborations of Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), in celebration of the artist's experimentations and influences. It opens with an account of Noguchi's earlygu...
HB:
£27,00
QTY:
Arnold Scaasi American Couturier
ISBN: HB: 9780878467587, DAP, MFA Publications, November 2010
192 pp., 29.8x22.9 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! Barbra Streisand, Natalie Wood, Arlene Francis, Diahann Carroll, Joan Rivers, Mamie Eisenhower, Barbara Bush, Louise Nevelson... What these women have in common is that all were dressed by Scaasi. From his meteoric rise on...
HB:
£50,00
QTY:
Masterpieces Restored
ISBN: HB: 9788831798112, DAP, Marsilio Editori, November 2010
300 pp., 29.8x24.8 cm, 188 colour illus., 43 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Extraordinary works of art by major Venetian masters seen for the first time in all their restored splendor. This book presents a number of wonderful art masterpieces housed at the Accademia Galleries in Venice and recently...
HB:
£45,00
QTY:
Jewelry by Artists In the Studio, 1940-2000
ISBN: HB: 9780878467501, DAP, MFA Publications, November 2010
280 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Studio jewelry is defined not by an aesthetic or philosophy, but by its makers and their work process. Studio jewelers are independent artists in small workshops, directly handling their materials and producing one-of-a-kin...
HB:
£50,00
QTY:
Charles Ray
ISBN: PB: 9781880146477, DAP, Matthew Marks Gallery, October 2010
80 pp., 28.5x22.8 cm, 35 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Ever since the early 1970s, sculptor Charles Ray's protean practice has yielded some of the most memorable objects and experiences in contemporary art, causing us to confront, as Peter Schjeldahl has written, "elegant, dead...
PB:
£40,00
QTY:
PPPPPP Poems Performances Pieces Proses
ISBN: PB: 9781878972354, DAP, Exact Change, September 2010
288 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! Kurt Schwitters' stated goal was to "erase the boundaries between the arts". This collection, culled from the five-volume German edition of Schwitters' writings, introduces the total work of art that is Merz through Schwitt...
PB:
£15,99
QTY:
Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
ISBN: PB: 9780984115525, DAP, Wakefield Press, September 2010
72 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday – "what happens", as he put it, "when nothing happens". His choice of locale was Place Sa...
PB:
£10,99
QTY:
Book of Disquiet
ISBN: PB: 9781878972279, DAP, Exact Change, September 2010
304 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! The eternal mystique of Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) stems largely from his practice of writing under "heteronyms". More than just nom de plumes, Pessoa's heteronyms came with distinct biographies, careers,...
PB:
£15,99
QTY:
Lee Friedlander America by Car
ISBN: HB: 9781935202080, DAP, Fraenkel Gallery, June 2010
200 pp., 45.7x44.4 cm, 190 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! Enduring icons of American culture, the car and the highway remain vital as auguries of adventure and discovery, and a means by which to take in the country's vast scale. Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make th...
HB:
£415,00
QTY:
Pop Revolution How an Unlikely Concatenation of Artists, Aficionados, Businessmen, Critics, Curators, Collectors, Dealers, and Hangers-On Radically Transformed the Art World
ISBN: HB: 9780878467440, DAP, MFA Publications, April 2010
222 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 16 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "This book is a social history of Pop art, a group portrait of both the artists and the people who made some of them rich and famous in just a few years, while setting in motion the drastically altered way art has been mark...
HB:
£27,00
QTY: