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Contemporary Art

Strict Beauty Sol LeWitt Prints

Areford David S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300253825, Yale University Press, September 2020
288 pp., 26x22.2 cm, 416 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.

The conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) is best known for his programmatic wall drawings and modular structures, but alongside these works he generated more than 350 print projects, comprising thousands of lithographs, silkscreens, etchings, aqu...

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Swing Landscape Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural

McComas Jennifer, Patterson Jody

ISBN: HB: 9780300250671, Yale University Press, September 2020
164 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 78 colour illus., 63 black&white illus.

In 1936 the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project commissioned Stuart Davis (1892-1964) to paint a mural for the Williamsburg Houses, a New York City housing project. Though the mural, "Swing Landscape", was never installed in its inten...

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Going There Black Visual Satire

Powell Richard J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300245745, Yale University Press, September 2020
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 76 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.

In this groundbreaking study, Richard J. Powell investigates the visual forms of satire produced by black artists in 20th- and 21st-century America. Underscoring the historical use of visual satire as antiracist dissent and introspective critique, Po...

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Moiremotion

Kurashima Takahiro

ISBN: HB: 9783037786574, Lars Muller Publishers, August 2020
96 pp., 23x17 cm, 39 illus.

Following the worldwide success of his Poemotion trilogy, Takahiro Kurashima presents a title that is in no way inferior to the previous ones in terms of surprise and viewing pleasure. On the contrary: here, the motifs are combined to form a visual n...

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Heather Phillipson

Hasham Leila

ISBN: HB: 9783791359526, Prestel Publishing, August 2020
240 pp., 28x21 cm, 200 illus.

Contemporary British artist Heather Phillipson works across video, sculpture, online projects, music, drawing, and poetry. She has been selected as the next artist for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square and for the 2020 Duveen Galleries commission...

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James Prosek Art, Artifact, Artifice

Prosek James, Devaney Edith

ISBN: HB: 9780300250794, Yale University Press, August 2020
144 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 150 colour illus.

Award-winning artist, writer, and naturalist James Prosek (b. 1975) has gained a worldwide following for his deep connection with the natural world, which serves as the basis for his art and numerous popular books. In this cross-disciplinary catalogu...

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minor cosmopolitan Thinking art, politics, and the universe together otherwise

Xiang Zairong

ISBN: PB: 9783035803044, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

In the wake of rapid globalization, many enthusiastically declared cosmopolitanism to be no longer just a philosophical ideal, but a real, existing fact. Across the world, they argued, people were increasingly considering themselves global citizens....

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Suddenly Turning Visible Art and Architecture in Southeast Asia (1969-1989)

Hussain Mustafa Shabbir

ISBN: PB: 9789811406522, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, July 2020
192 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, colour and black&white illus.

In 1981, the Filipino artist and curator Raymundo Albano adopted the expression "Suddenly Turning Visible" to describe the rapid transformation of Manila's urban landscape. The visibility that Albano evoked was aspirational, driven by a desire for ra...

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Projectionists Eadweard Muybridge and the Future Projections of the Moving Image

Barber Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9783035802894, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 20 halftones

Eadweard Muybridge is among the seminal originators of the contemporary world's visual form. Projectionists examines mostly unknown aspects of Muybridge's work: his period as a touring projectionist who enthralled audiences with unprecedented moving-...

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Still Life Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum

Dominguez Rubio Fernando

ISBN: PB: 9780226714080, ISBN: HB: 9780226713922, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones, 4 line drawings

How do you keep the cracks in "Starry Night" from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph eternal – or should you attempt it at all? These are some of the questions that...

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