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Contemporary Art

Making Memory Matter Strategies of Remembrance in Contemporary Art

Saltzman Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226734088, ISBN: HB: 9780226734071, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
128 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 23 halftones

In an ancient account of painting's origins, a woman traces the shadow of her departing lover on the wall in an act that anticipates future grief and commemoration. Lisa Saltzman shows here that nearly two thousand years after this story was first to...

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Contemporary Art

Mother Stone The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture

Middleton Wagner Anne

ISBN: HB: 9780300106855, Yale University Press, September 2005
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 60 colour images, 110 black&white illus.

In "Mother Stone" Anne Middleton Wagner looks anew at the carvings of the first generation of British modernists, a group centered around Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and Jacob Epstein. Wagner probes the work of these sculptors, discusses their sha...

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Contemporary Art

Minimalism Art and Polemics in the Sixties

Meyer James

ISBN: PB: 9780300105902, Yale University Press, August 2004
340 pp., 25.8x19.8 cm, 30 colour images, 130 black&white illus.

The simple question "What is minimalism?" has defied simple answers. Artists known as minimalists have distinctively different methods and points of view. This highly readable history of minimalist art shows how artists as diverse as Carl Andre, Dona...

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Culture Studies

Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade

Nelson Robert S., Olin Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780226571584, ISBN: HB: 9780226571577, University of Chicago Press, January 2004
353 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 83 halftones

How do some monuments become so socially powerful that people seek to destroy them? After ignoring monuments for years, why must we now commemorate public trauma, but not triumph, with a monument? To explore these and other questions, Robert S. Nelso...

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Contemporary Art

Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare A Biography

Goldfarb Marquis Alice

ISBN: HB: 9780878466443, DAP, MFA Publications, September 2002
368 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 24 colour illus., 64 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare" is not the first full-length biography of Duchamp, but it is the first to present him in all his human contradictions and to take a refreshingly objective look at his real contri...

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Monumental Propaganda

ISBN: PB: 9780916365424, DAP, Independent Curators International, February 1995
96 pp., 29x21.6 cm, 75 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Edited by Dore Ashton, and instigated by Komar & Melamid projects to salvage Russia's remaining monuments to totalitarianism, "Monumental Propaganda" mixes levity and seriousness, presenting 26 proposals by among others Arm...

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Contemporary Art

Memories That Smell Like Gasoline

Wojnarowicz David

ISBN: HB: 9780963109507, DAP, Artspace Books, September 1992
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Not content to be a tremendous photographer, painter, filmmaker, performance artist and activist David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was also the author of three classic books: "Close to the Knives", "The Waterfront Journals" and...

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History of Art

Meaning in the Visual Arts

Panofsky Erwin

ISBN: PB: 9780226645513, University of Chicago Press, March 1983
384 pp., 22.9x14.7 cm, 64 pages of illus.

Since its original publication, Erwin Panofsky's "Meaning in the Visual Arts" has been standard reading for students of art history. It is both an introduction to the study of art and, for those with more specialized interests, a profound discussion...

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