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Architecture

Automatic Cities The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art

Clark Robin

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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Catalogue Raisonne

Nexus New York Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis

Cullen Deborah, Saborit Antonio, Manthorne Katherine Emma, Fuentes Elvis, Wechsler James, Rogers Katy, Greet Michele

ISBN: PB: 9780300158960, Yale University Press, October 2009
272 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 60 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

Between 1900 and 1942, New York City was the site of extraordinary creative exchange where artists could share ideas in a global context. The swiftly-changing urban landscape before and between the World Wars inspired the erosion of artistic boundari...

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Sol Lewitt 100 Views

Cross Susan M., Markonish Denise

ISBN: PB: 9780300152821, Yale University Press, June 2009
272 pp., 25.1x22.4 cm, 93 colour images, 88 black&white illus.

Published to accompany MASS MoCA's landmark installation of LeWitt's innovative wall drawings, this book celebrates the artist and his illustrious 50-year career.

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For Reasons of State Independent Study Program

Campens Angelique, Cooke Erica, Lam Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780300146943, Yale University Press, January 2009
48 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 35 black&white illus.

"For Reasons of State" examines how our ability to function as a democracy is compromised by governmental secrecy. Looking at contemporary art, the book explores notions of institutional concealment through the work of such artists as the Bureau of I...

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Art and China's Revolution

Chiu Melissa, Shengtian Zheng

ISBN: HB: 9780300140644, Yale University Press, October 2008
280 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 150 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Although numerous books on the Cultural Revolution have been published, they do not analyze the profound shift in aesthetic values that occurred in China after the Communists took power. This fascinating book is the first to focus on artwork produced...

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On the Margins

Colangelo Carmon

ISBN: HB: 9780936316253, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2008
64 pp., 33x22.9 cm, 36 colour plates

The iconography of war and disaster have shaped the first years of the twenty-first century, both in the United States and throughout the world".On the Margins" brings together a culturally diverse group of international artists whose work engages th...

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One Way or Another Asian American Art Now

Chiu Melissa, Higa Karin M., Min Susette S., Machida Margo, Zia Helen

ISBN: PB: 9780300120592, Yale University Press, October 2006
124 pp., 23.1x22.6 cm, 50 colour images, 15 black&white illus.

Contemporary Asian American artists, with a strong sense of being American and an acute critical consciousness of world matters, grapple with issues of identity in a way that sets them apart from their predecessors. Whereas many Asian American artist...

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Imagining America Icons of 20th-century American Art

Carlin John, Fineberg Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300109979, Yale University Press, October 2005
208 pp., 29.8x22.8 cm, 400 colour illus.

How did artists of the twentieth century use their work to respond to their unique personal experiences and moment in history? This provocative question is explored in this engaging new book on American art. By focusing on broad, defining themes, emb...

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Art and Utopia

Chevrier Jean-Francois, Borja-Villel Manuel

ISBN: PB: 9788495951816, Bookport, MACBA, September 2005
350 pp., 21.6x18 cm

In 1970, Marcel Broodthaers claimed that Mallarma is the source of all contemporary art. Those words serve as a departure point for the exhibition and catalogue, Art and Utopia. Based on Marcel Broodthaers's interpretation of and Mallarma's influence...

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Annus Mirabilis? Art in the Year 2000

Cork Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300095111, Yale University Press, May 2003
200 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 72 black&white illus.

The fourth and final part of a four-volume set of art criticism by Richard Cork, written over a 30-year period. It offers a chronicle of a turbulent period as well as an overview and survey of British art and its reception at this time. This particul...

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