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Local History Castellani, Judd, Stella
ISBN: PB: 9780986060632, DAP, Dominique Levy, July 2016
144 pp., 30.2x23.6 cm, 78 colour illus., 5 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! "Local History" brings together rarely seen works from the 1950s through the early 1970s by Enrico Castellani, Donald Judd and Frank Stella, juxtaposing these with later examples that reveal each artist's distinct evolution...
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Roberto Burle Marx Brazilian Modernist
ISBN: HB: 9780300212150, Yale University Press, June 2016
224 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 185 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
The modernist parks and gardens of Brazilian landscape architect and garden designer Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) earned him awards, widespread acclaim, and international fame. Over a 60-year career, he designed more than 2000 gardens worldwide, th...
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Concave Thoughts 256 Digital Drawings
ISBN: PB: 9783037345344, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
512 pp., 20.3x14 cm, Illustrated in halftones throughout
The digital drawings of Yves Netzhammer invite viewers into a fascinating world of figures that appear both human and animal, while simultaneously blurring the distinction between object and living thing. By turns nightmarish or playful and cartoon-l...
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Jan Koblasa Grafika Prints
ISBN: PB: 9788024625218, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2014
328 pp., 28.4x23.3 cm, Illustrated in colour throughout
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A key personality in Czech modern art, Jan Koblasa works in diverse media, including sculpture, painting, drawing, and printmaking, and he also makes costumes for the stage and screen, wri...
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Cy Twombly's Things
ISBN: HB: 9780300190113, Yale University Press, April 2014
224 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 50 colour images, 50 black&white illus.
Cy Twombly (1928-2011) is widely acknowledged as one of the postwar period's most influential American artists, yet his sculptures are little known. From 1946 onward, he made hundreds of rarely exhibited found-object assemblages, often painted or pla...
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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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To Make a World George Ault and 1940s America
ISBN: HB: 9780300172393, Yale University Press, May 2011
156 pp., 28.4x26.7 cm, 35 black&white illus., 55 colour illus.
An American painter usually associated with the Precisionist movement, George Copeland Ault (1891-1948) created works that provide a unique window on to the uncertainty and despair of the Second World War. Despite early commercial success in the 1920...
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Max Neuhaus
ISBN: HB: 9780300151671, Yale University Press, November 2009
144 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 40 colour images, 30 black&white illus.
In 1977, Max Neuhaus turned a triangle of pedestrian space between 45th and 46th Streets in Times Square into an island of harmonic sound. The rich textures of that sound continue today, emanating from beneath the sidewalk grating, to anonymously rea...
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Modern West American Landscapes, 1890-1950
ISBN: HB: 9780300114485, Yale University Press, October 2006
352 pp., 31.2x25.7 cm, 200 colour images, 25 black&white illus.
Drawing extensively from various disciplines including ethnology, geography, geology, and environmental studies, this groundbreaking book addresses shifting concepts of time, history, and landscape in relation to the work of pioneering American artis...
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Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade
ISBN: PB: 9780226571584, ISBN: HB: 9780226571577, University of Chicago Press, January 2004
353 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 83 halftones
How do some monuments become so socially powerful that people seek to destroy them? After ignoring monuments for years, why must we now commemorate public trauma, but not triumph, with a monument? To explore these and other questions, Robert S. Nelso...
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