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Fashion

Fashion and Art Collusion

ISBN: HB + CD: 9781861543271, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, June 2012
144 pp., 29.5x22.5 cm, full-colour illus.

What happens when you invite such luminary fashion designers as Stephen Jones or Hussein Chalayan to collaborate with important contemporary artists such as Cerith Wyn Evans or Gavin Turk and ask them to think about the Olympic values of speed, stren...

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Contemporary Art

Permission to Laugh Humor and Politics in Contemporary German Art

Williams Gregory H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226898957, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
248 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 76 halftones, 12 colour illus.

"Permission to Laugh" explores the work of three generations of German artists who, beginning in the 1960s, turned to jokes and wit in an effort to confront complex questions regarding German politics and history. Gregory H. Williams highlights six o...

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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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Audience of Artists Dada, Neo-Dada, and the Emergence of Abstract Expressionism

Craft Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780226116808, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
336 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 38 halftones, 6 colour illus.

The term "Neo-Dada" surfaced in New York in the late 1950s and was used to characterize young artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns whose art appeared at odds with the serious emotional and painterly interests of the then-dominant movemen...

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Design

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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History of Art

Afterall Spring 2012, Issue 29

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Roelstraete Dieter

ISBN: PB: 9781846380877, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm

"Afterall", a journal of art, context and enquiry, offers in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists along with essays that broaden how to understand it. "Issue 29" looks at the artistic economy and the different means that artists...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Ronald S. Lauder Collection Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century Germany, Austria, and France

Wixom William, Phyrr Stuart, Thaw Eugene

ISBN: HB: 9783791351643, Prestel Publishing, April 2012
540 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 505 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.

Providing a rare glimpse into one of the finest private art collections in the world, this book presents the extraordinary collection of the Neue Galerie's co-founder, Ronald S. Lauder. This book accompanies an exhibition of the Lauder collection at...

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Photography

Contemporary Art

Jindrich Heisler Surrealism Under Pressure, 1938-1953

Witkovsky Matthew S., Toman Jindrich

ISBN: HB: 9780300179699, Yale University Press, A+D Series, April 2012
144 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 80 colour illus.

Czech poet and photographer Jindrich Heisler (1914-1953) joined the Czech Surrealist Group in 1938, just as Nazi occupation of the country was driving the movement and Czech artists underground. Heisler published his first book of poetry a year later...

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Be the Worst You Can Be Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue

Saatchi Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781419703737, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, April 2012
160 pp., 21.2x15.2 cm, 175 two-colour illus.

Charles Saatchi founded the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency in 1970, which grew to become the largest of its kind in the world. At the same time he started collecting art and, later, opened his first gallery in London. He championed young Britis...

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Polonica

Alicja Kwade Materia Prima

ISBN: HB: 9783942405584, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2012
256 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 215 colour illus., language: English / German

Few positions in art currently attract more attention than the works of the young sculptor Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, 1979; lives and works in Berlin). They show how easy it would be to lift our construction of reality off its hinges. In her installa...

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