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Ion Grigorescu In the Body of the Victim
ISBN: PB: 9788392404415, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
312 pp., 23.5x18 cm, 177 halftones, 20 colour illus.
Not for sale in Poland! The book "Ion Grigorescu. In the body of the victim" is an attempt to read the works of one of the most charismatic and original artists from the former Eastern bloc, who until 1989 worked in relative isolation, and whose ar...
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£22,00
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1968-1989. Political Upheaval and Artistic Change
ISBN: PB: 9788392404408, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
504 pp., 23x18 cm, 278 halftones
Not for sale in Poland! "1968-1989. Political Upheaval and Artistic Change" is a selection of texts and presentations from the seminar "1968-1989" organized in Warsaw, July 2008, by the Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with Claire Bishop. The...
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£19,00
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Alina Szapocznikow Awkward Objects
ISBN: PB: 9788392404460, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
288 pp., 19x14 cm, 85 colour illus.
Not for sale in Poland! The volume entitled, "Alina Szapocznikow" is a collection of materials from the international conference "Alina Szapocznikow. Works. Documents. Interpretations". (May 15-16, 2009), which accompanied the exhibition organised...
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£22,00
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As Soon As. Open My Eyes. See a Film Experiments in Yugoslav art in the 60s and 70s
ISBN: PB: 9788392404439, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
344 pp., 23.5x18 cm, 120 halftones, 40 colour illus.
Not for sale in Poland! "As soon as I open my eyes I see a film – Experiments in Yugoslav art in the 60s and 70s", edited by Ana Janevski, discussed the key moments in the history of the Yugoslav art scene. In the late 60s and 70s, artists rejected...
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£22,00
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Jan Koblasa Intaglio Prints
ISBN: PB: 9788024618111, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2011
264 pp., 28x23 cm, 473 halftones, 40 colour illus.
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jan Koblasa has ranked among the leading figures of Czech and European art since the1960s. His sculptures have been integrated into many European cities, sacred spaces, and sculptors' park...
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£30,00
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Afterall Summer 2011, Issue 27
ISBN: PB: 9781846380808, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm
"Afterall" is a journal of art, context, and inquiry that not only offers in-depth consideration of contemporary art from around the world, but also insightful contextualization of works from a diverse array of artists. Articles on art history and cr...
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£7,50
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Bookwork Medium to Object to Concept to Art
ISBN: HB: 9780226773919, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
272 pp., 28.4x22.4 cm, 68 halftones, 12 colour illus.
"There they rest, inert, impertinent, in gallery space – those book forms either imitated or mutilated, replicas of reading matter or its vestiges. Strange, after its long and robust career, for the book to take early retirement in a museum, not as r...
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£65,00
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Sharon Lockhart Lunch Break II
ISBN: PB: 9780936316314, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, May 2011
96 pp., 30x20.8 cm, 125 halftones
This book evolved from an archive of images collected by artist Sharon Lockhart while researching her project "Lunch Break" – a series of films and photographs she produced from a long-term collaboration with the workers of Bath Iron Works in Maine,...
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Afterall Spring 2011, Issue 26
ISBN: PB: 9781846380754, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 100 colour plates
"Afterall" is a journal of art, context, and inquiry that offers in-depth consideration of the work of contemporary artists from around the world, along with essays that set the work in a broader context. Articles on art history and critical theory a...
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Gutai Decentering Modernism
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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£34,50
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