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Contemporary Art

Alex Katz This is Now

Rooks Michael, Graham Margaret, Godfrey John, Katz Vincent, Salle David

ISBN: HB: 9780300215717, Yale University Press, August 2015
176 pp., 25.4x30.5 cm, 100 colour illus.

Over the course of a seven-decade career, American artist Alex Katz (b. 1927) has conveyed his singular vision of the world through paintings that fuse realism and abstraction, allowing details to dissolve into bold swaths of color. Though perhaps be...

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Art and Contemporaneity

Ruda Frank, Voelker Jan

ISBN: PB: 9783037342091, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2015
176 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm

Art is often said to be timeless, but specific works of art always take place within time and maintain a dynamic balance between their conditions of production and reception. Art and Contemporaneity features contributions from leading scholars, inclu...

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Between Action and the Unknown The Art of Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga

Ritter Gabriel, Kawasaki Koichi, Kunimoto Namiko, Sawayama Ryo, Nakajima Izumi

ISBN: HB: 9780300211696, Yale University Press, April 2015
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 150 colour illus.

This comprehensive book is the first in English to examine two of the most successful and important postwar Japanese artists, Kazuo Shiraga (1924-2008) and Sadamasa Motonaga (1922-2011). During an 18-year engagement with the Gutai Art Association, bo...

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Cubism The Leonard A. Lauder Collection

Rabinow Rebecca, Braun Emily F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208078, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2014
448 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

This groundbreaking new history of Cubism, based on works from the most significant private collection in the world today, is written by many of the field's premier art historians and scholars. The collection, recently donated to The Metropolitan Mus...

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Something Flashed, Something Broke, Something Remained Consciousness Neue Bieremiennost

Redzisz Kasia, Sienkiewicz Karol

ISBN: PB: 9788364177187, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2014
236 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 68 colour plates, 120 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! Consciousness Neue Bieremiennost was an art group formed in the mid 1980s in Poland by three sculptors: Miroslaw Balka, Miroslaw Filonik, and Marek Kijewski. Their collaborative exhibitions, which included action art, perfor...

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Jeff Koons A Retrospective

Rothkopf Scott, Damasio Antonio, Deitch Jeffrey, Graw Isabelle, Hochdorfer Achim, Kuo Michelle, Kushner Rachel, Lee Pamela M., Nagel Alexander, Surowiecki James

ISBN: HB: 9780300195873, Yale University Press, July 2014
288 pp., 33x27.9 cm, 200 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

Examining the breadth and depth of thirty-five years of work by Jeff Koons (b. 1955), one of the most influential and controversial artists of the 20th century, this highly anticipated volume features all of his most famous pieces. In an engaging ove...

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Literary Criticism

Decision Between Us Art and Ethics in the Time of Scenes

Ricco John Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226717777, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 9 halftones

"The Decision Between Us" combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy are spaces of sharing, they are also spaces of separation. John Paul Ricco shows that this tension inform...

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History of Art

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Antonio Berni Juanito and Ramona

Ramirez Mari Carmen, Pacheco Marcelo E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300196481, Yale University Press, December 2013
464 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 270 colour illus.

Argentinian figurative artist Antonio Berni (1905-1981) is known for his aesthetic originality and for art steeped in social commentary. In the 1950s, he inaugurated a series of works that documented the lives of two fictional characters, Juanito Lag...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

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Way of the Shovel On the Archaeological Imaginary in Art

Roelstraete Dieter

ISBN: HB: 9780226094120, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
328 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 80 colour plates, 40 halftones

Contemporary art is often obsessed with the new, but it has recently begun to turn to projects centering on research and delving into archives, all in the name of seeking and questioning historical truth. From filmmakers to sculptors to conceptualist...

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Between Reality and Dream The Aesthetic Vision of K. G. Subramanyan

Richardson Margaret

ISBN: HB: 9780857420060, Seagull Books, August 2013
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour illus.

K. G. Subramanyan is one of the most influential Indian artists, teachers, and theorists of the twentieth century. Born in 1924, Subramanyan has lived and worked during a transformative period in Indian history, one shaped by the contradictions of co...

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