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Afterall Autumn/Winter 2016, Issue 42

Vilalta Helena, Kreuger Anders, Morris David, Stankievech Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781846381706, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 80 colour plates

Issue 42 of "Afterall" addresses the crisis of representation in contemporary art through the work of Pierre Huyghe and Tania Bruguera, reflecting on how they each intervene into biological and political systems. We also put a spotlight on the contri...

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Albert Oehlen Woods Near Oehle

Thuring Reto, Oehlen Albert, Wertmuller Michael, Williams Christopher

ISBN: SET: 9780300218404, Yale University Press, January 2017
104 pp., 30.5x23.8 cm, 70 colour illus.

This multimedia boxed set presents a sweeping look at work by pioneering German painter Albert Oehlen (b. 1954), one of the most energetic and significant artists working today. Deeply influenced by literature, music, film, and graphic design, Oehlen...

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Aleksandr Zhitomirsky Photomontage as a Weapon of World War II and the Cold War

Wolf Erika

ISBN: HB: 9780300219180, Yale University Press, A+D Series, January 2017
368 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 300 colour illus.

The first comprehensive study in English of the Soviet propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, who conceived and deployed his striking photomontages as a political weapon The leading Russian propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky (1907-1993) made p...

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Absurd Thinking Between Art and Design

Wexler Allan

ISBN: HB: 9783037785164, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2017
296 pp., 28x21 cm, 427 illus.

This book features projects, developed during the artist Allan Wexler's forty-five-year career, which mediate the gap between fine and applied art using the mediums of architecture, sculpture, photography, painting, and drawing. Wexler's production c...

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AMMO Unter Waffen. Fire & Forget 2

Blumenstein Ellen, Tyradellis Daniel, Wagner Matthias K.

ISBN: PB: 9783954761739, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, December 2016
144 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, colour illus., language: English / German

Guns exert an ambivalent fascination. Embodiments of power and dominance, they also signify pain and death. Whether they help maintain public order, are used to exercise individual or collective violence, provide personal safety, or are sports or pro...

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Arts Club of Chicago at 100 Art and Culture, 1916-2016

Mileaf Janine, Rossen Susan F.

ISBN: HB: 9781891925467, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
176 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Founded in 1916 in the wake of the scandalous Armory Show, the Arts Club of Chicago aimed to present the city with new images, sounds, and ideas. Conceived as an exhibition and social space that would cultivate sophisticated conversations around a...

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Arts of Wonder Enchanting Secularity: Walter De Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, Andy Goldsworthy

Kosky Jeffrey L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226411804, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 colour plates, 15 halftones

"The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by 'the disenchantment of the world'". Max Weber's statement remains a dominant interpretation of the modern condition: the increasing capabilities of...

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Artist and Empire (En)Countering Colonial Legacies

Sze Wee Low

ISBN: HB: 9789811106088, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, September 2016
164 pp., 26.9x21 cm, illus.

Organised by National Gallery Singapore with Tate Britain, Artist and Empire critically examines the effects of the British Empire via the prism of art. Through essays, key artworks and comprehensive timelines, this catalogue underscores the fluidity...

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As Essential as Dreams Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither

White Michelle, Adele Lynne, Anderson Brooke Davis, Breslin David, Espinosa Victor M., Gomez Edward M., Hernandez Jo Farb, Kogan Lee, Rhodes Colin, Umberger Leslie

ISBN: HB: 9780300218411, Yale University Press, September 2016
112 pp., 24.8x29.2 cm, 114 colour illus.

This stunning book examines the collection of works by self-taught artists assembled by Stephanie and John Smither over the last thirty-odd years. A team of prominent curators, writers, critics, and art historians focuses on key works by twelve artis...

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Europe

Art of the Multitude Jochen Gerz-Participation and the European Experience

Vickery Jonathen P., Manus Mechtild

ISBN: PB: 9783593505640, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2016
200 pp., 21.6x17.1 cm, 50 colour plates

Contemporary European public art often addresses the past and future of European unity, democracy, immigration, and civil rights".The Art of the Multitude" explores how participation in art works affects the formation of public memory, the commemorat...

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