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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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Treasuring the Gaze Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century Eye Miniatures
ISBN: HB: 9780226309668, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
300 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 53 halftones, 24 colour illus.
The end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes that were exchanged by lovers or family members. Worn as brooches or pendants, these minuscule eyes served the same emotional need as more convent...
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Out of Sight: Political Censorship of the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century France Yale French Studies, Number 122
ISBN: PB: 9780300185287, Yale University Press, January 2013
168 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The English saying that "a picture is worth a thousand words" has often been applied in a perverse manner by ruling authorities, who have frequently feared visual imagery even more than the printed word. This was especially the case in countries, suc...
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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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Richard Artschwager!
ISBN: HB: 9780300185317, Yale University Press, October 2012
256 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 190 colour images, 20 black&white illus.
For nearly sixty years, Richard Artschwager (b. 1923) has undertaken an unrelenting investigation of art's ability to mediate contemporary experience and perception. Although his work, which includes sculpture, painting, prints, and drawing, is often...
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£45,00
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Masters of Art Velazquez
ISBN: PB: 9783791347424, Prestel Publishing, July 2012
160 pp., 21x17 cm, 80 colour illus.
This generously illustrated volume on the work of Diego Velazquez makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. A 17th-century Spanish painter who continues to influence artists today, Velazquez is primarily kno...
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Lucio Fontana The Artist's Material
ISBN: PB: 9781606061145, Getty Publications, July 2012
152 pp., 25.5x19.1 cm, 76 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.
This is the first English language technical study of one of the most important Italian artists of the post-WWII period. Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative post-World War II Italian artists. Bes...
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£40,00
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Photography and Play
ISBN: HB: 9781606061077, Getty Publications, May 2012
112 pp., 22.4x18.7 cm, 89 colour illus
This is a lavishly illustrated look at the fascinating relationship between photography and leisure. Photography and leisure go hand in hand. Although cameras are part of our everyday lives, we are never more likely to take a picture or to be photogr...
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Alighiero e Boetti
ISBN: HB: 9780300148756, Yale University Press, January 2012
256 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 120 black&white illus., 70 colour illus.
Alighiero e Boetti (1940-1994) has emerged as one of the most significant figures of postwar European art whose practice is having an unfolding impact on younger artists. His powerful influence can be attributed to the material diversity of his work,...
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Brush and the Pen Odilon Redon and Literature
ISBN: HB: 9780226280554, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 94 halftones
French symbolist artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916) seemed to thrive at the intersection of literature and art. Known as "the painter-writer", he drew on the works of Poe, Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Mallarme for his subject matter. And yet he concluded t...
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