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Modern Sculpture Reader

Wood Jon, Hulks David, Potts Alex

ISBN: PB: 9781606061060, Getty Publications, August 2012
544 pp., 24x16.9 cm

This title presents a critical collection of writings on the creation, display, and interpretation of sculpture. In many anthologies of art, sculpture is given short shrift in relation to other media, if it is treated at all. "Modern Sculpture Reader...

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Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba

Ramirez Mari Carmen, Pacheco Marcelo E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300181005, Yale University Press, May 2012
156 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 70 colour illus.

In 2001, Eduardo Costantini, the founder of the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), began collecting artworks from across Latin America. Today, the renowned "Costantini Collection" consists of more than two hundred works, encompass...

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Machine Art, 1934

Marshall Jennifer Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780226507156, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 61 halftones

In 1934, New York's Museum of Modern Art staged a major exhibition of ball bearings, airplane propellers, pots and pans, cocktail tumblers, petri dishes, protractors, and other machine parts and products. The exhibition, titled "Machine Art", explore...

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Marieta Chirulescu

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783942405416, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2012
152 pp., 21x21 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English / German

The first monograph created by Marieta Chirulescu (b. Sibiu, Romania 1974; lives and works in Berlin) is published in conjunction with her solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel, which opened in September 2010. Printed in the A4 format and designed to l...

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Mary Webb Journeys in Colour

Bartholomew Sarah, Geitner Amanda, Winner Calvin

ISBN: PB: 9780946009619, Casemate, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, June 2011
72 pp., 24.5x24.5 cm, 65 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.

Mary's career has been dedicated to the exploration of abstract form though painting and printmaking. This exhibition catalogue supporting Mary Webb's exhibition, Journeys in Colour contains images of more than 60 of Mary's paintings, along with a co...

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Migrant's Time Rethinking Art History and Diaspora

Mathur Saloni

ISBN: PB: 9780300134148, Yale University Press, May 2011
256 pp., 25x15 cm, 75 black&white illus.

In the 21st century, the experience of leaving home and crossing national boundaries belongs to ever-growing numbers of persons. Whether escaping persecution or seeking work, fleeing hopelessness or striving for creative opportunities, each migrant –...

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Michelangelo Pistoletto From One to Many, 1956-1974

Basualdo Carlos

ISBN: HB: 9780300166163, Yale University Press, November 2010
320 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 100 black&white illus., 130 colour illus.

One of Europe's most influential contemporary artists, Michelangelo Pistoletto (born 1933) has persistently investigated and expanded the role of the spectator in art since the 1950s through painting, sculpture, and performance. His present standing...

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Mark Bradford You're Nobody ('til Somebody Kills You)

Bedford Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300163582, Yale University Press, July 2010
256 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 66 black&white illus., 175 colour illus.

Mark Bradford is best known for dazzling large-scale abstract collages that incisively examine class, race, and the gender-based economies that structure urban society in the United States. A recipient of a 2009 MacArthur Foundation Award (nicknamed...

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Maria Lassnig

Friedel Helmut

ISBN: HB: 9783899554021, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2010
150 pp., 27x21 cm, 130 colour illus., language: English / German

Maria Lassnig is one of the most radical women artists of our time: her self-portraits depict her with sagging breasts, wearing a pot on her head or even as a dumpling. She calls her works "body-consciousness paintings", and what they show is rarely...

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Maurizio Cattelan Is There Life Before Death?

Sirmans Franklin

ISBN: HB: 9780300146882, Yale University Press, March 2010
128 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 50 colour illus.

The subversive, often jarringly direct sculptures of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan (b. 1960) are acclaimed for their seemingly absurd juxtapositions and uncanny photorealism. Reflecting deep suspicions of religious and political authorities, these...

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