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Plato in L.A. Contemporary Artists' Visions

Grau Donatien

ISBN: PB: 9781606065747, Getty Publications, June 2018
112 pp., 22.9x19.1 cm, 20 colour illus.

No thinker in the West has had a wider and more sustained influence than the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. From philosophy to drama, religion to politics, it is difficult to find a current cultural or social phenomenon that is not in some aspect i...

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Pope.L Proto-Skin Set

Hoffman Aliza, Simpson Bennett

ISBN: PB: 9780998631219, DAP, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, April 2018
80 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 48 colour illus., 1 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Pope.L: Proto-Skin Set" explores early works the artist (William) Pope.L (born 1955) made between 1979 and 1994 exploring materiality and language. Published in this volume for the first time are the artist's "Proto-Skin S...

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Picasso and the Art of Drawing

Lloyd Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300234800, Yale University Press, February 2018
230 pp., 27x21 cm, 144 colour illus.

In this generously illustrated and lively book, Christopher Lloyd sets out and interprets the lifelong achievement of Picasso (1881-1973) as a draftsman. Although there have been many publications about his drawings that have tended to focus on parti...

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Power of Material / Politics of Materiality

Witzgall Susanne, Stakemeier Kerstin

ISBN: PB: 9783037349878, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2018
256 pp., 21.6x16 cm, 155 colour plates, 2 line drawings, 4 halftones

Materiality has emerged as a new focus for art, design, and architecture. Where there was once the belief that the form of a work offered more capacity to bestow meaning, "New Materialism" asserts the agency of material within the artistic process, e...

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Present of the Future

Witzgall Susanne, Stakemeier Kerstin

ISBN: PB: 9783037349861, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2018
230 pp., 21.6x16 cm, 81 colour plates, 16 halftones

As the world teeters on the brink of crisis and potentially catastrophic change, outlooks for the future have come to be characterized by anxiety. The skepticism that meets utopian visions of the future has given rise to collective nostalgia for seem...

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Photography

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Photography and Sculpture The Art Object in Reproduction

Hamill Sarah, Luke Megan R.

ISBN: PB: 9781606065341, Getty Publications, December 2017
328 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Ever since the mid-nineteenth century, when the new medium of photography was pressed into service to illustrate sculpture, photographs of sculptural objects have directed viewers as to what, in the course of ambling around a sculpture, was the singl...

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Prospect.4 The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp

Schoonmaker Trevor

ISBN: HB: 9783791356792, Prestel Publishing, November 2017
192 pp., 28.5x23 cm, 144 colour illus.

Now in its fourth iteration, Prospect New Orleans draws its inspiration from the city itself, a place of graceful beauty that thrives in adverse conditions. By positioning itself in the city of New Orleans, the Prospect triennial aims to echo the cit...

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Pollock's Modernism

Schreyach Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300223262, Yale University Press, September 2017
344 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 45 colour illus.

"Pollock's Modernism" provides a new interpretation of the art of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), one that is based on a phenomenological investigation of the pictorial effects of particular paintings. Focusing on major works that span the artist's care...

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Prometheus 2017 Four Artists from Mexico Revisit Orozco

McGrew Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9781606065440, Getty Publications, August 2017
244 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Jose Clemente Orozco's 1930 mural, Prometheus, created for the Pomona College campus, is a dramatic and gripping examination of heroism. This thoughtful exhibition catalogue examines the multiple ways Orozco's vision resonates with four artists worki...

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Philip Guston and the Poets

de Baranano Kosme

ISBN: HB: 9783906915005, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, June 2017
182 pp., 30.5x24.9 cm, 82 colour illus., 12 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The book draws parallels between humanist themes reflected in both Guston's paintings and drawings as well as in the language and prose discerned in five of the 20th century's most prominent literary figures: D. H. Lawrence...

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