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Mona Hatoum Terra Infirma

White Michelle, Chave Anna C., Shibli Adania, Solnit Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780300233148, Yale University Press, February 2018
192 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 289 colour and black&white illus.

The work of London-based artist Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) addresses the growing unease of an ever-expanding world that is as technologically networked as it is fractured by war and exile. Best known for sculptures that transform domestic objects such as...

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Mark Dion Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist

Erickson Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780300224078, Yale University Press, October 2017
216 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 225 colour illus.

The first book in two decades to consider the entire oeuvre of Mark Dion (b. 1961), this volume examines thirty years of the American artist's pioneering inquiries into how we collect, interpret, and display nature. Part of a generation of artists ex...

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Michael Rakowitz Backstroke of the West

Kholeif Omar

ISBN: PB: 9783791357478, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
144 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 119 colour illus., 109 black&white illus.

This first monograph of the acclaimed Iraqi-American artist, Michael Rakowitz, takes a historical, scholarly, and in-depth look at his politically charged work. Iraqi-American Michael Rakowitz's provocative multimedia projects confront popular polit...

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Making Art Concrete Works from Argentina and Brazil in the Coleccion Patricia Phelps Cisneros

Gottschaller Pia, Learner Tom, Perchuk Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781606065297, Getty Publications, August 2017
192 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

In the years after World War II, artists in Argentinaand Brazil experimented with geometric abstractionand engaged in lively debates about the role of theartwork in society. Some of these artists used novelsynthetic materials, creating objects that o...

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Mel Bochner Voices

Sigler Jeremy

ISBN: HB: 9780300230352, Yale University Press, August 2017
96 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 43 colour illus.

Mel Bochner (b. 1940) is recognized as one of the leading figures in the development of Conceptual art in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. He pioneered the introduction of the use of language in the visual, probing the way they relate to one another...

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Moscow Vanguard Art 1922-1992

Tupitsyn Margarita

ISBN: HB: 9780300179750, Yale University Press, July 2017
288 pp., 27.7x22.6 cm, 148 colour illus., 129 black&white illus.

Ambitious and interdisciplinary, "Moscow Vanguard Art: 1922-1992" tells the story of generations of artists who resisted Soviet dictates on aesthetics, spanning the Russian avant-garde, socialist realism, and Soviet postwar art in one volume. Drawing...

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Metamorphosis

Schnetkamp Monika, Felix Zdenek

ISBN: HB: 9783954761920, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, June 2017
80 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, 50 colour illus., language: English / German

"Metamorphosis" means transformation, modification, mutation. Ovid's epic poem of the same title (ca. 8 CE) recounts stories of the transformations of gods, heroes, humans, plants, and animals. The book Metamorphosis presents works by five internat...

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Mike Kelley Memory Ware

Rugoff Ralph

ISBN: HB: 9783952446140, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, April 2017
250 pp., 32.4x24.8 cm, 144 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Over the course of his four-decade career, Mike Kelley (1954-2012) critically questioned aesthetic conventions and examined all forms of culture. The approximately 100 "Memory Ware" and associated works were made during the...

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Machine Project The Platinum Collection

Allen Mark, Seligman Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9783791356198, Prestel Publishing, February 2017
304 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 275 colour illus.

Still going strong after more than a decade, the Los Angeles-based Machine Project is profiled in this encyclopedic book that explores unconventional ways of seeing and thinking about the world. New essays and images capture the quirky essence of Ma...

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Marisa Merz

Butler Connie

ISBN: HB: 9783791355672, Prestel Publishing, January 2017
294 pp., 27.3x22 cm, 300 colour illus.

This generously illustrated book offers readers the chance to appreciate the full range of works by Marisa Merz, winner of the 2013 Golden Lion lifetime achievement award at the Venice Biennale. This volume traces Merz's artistic evolution from early...

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