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Contemporary Art

Pop Art Is

Francis Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300138993, Yale University Press, January 2008
180 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, more than 100 colour illus.

On January 26, 1957, Richard Hamilton wrote a now-famous letter outlining his definition of what "Pop Art Is". This volume celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Hamilton's prophetic document, presenting the works of more than forty artists from his...

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History of Art

Political Economy of Socialist Realism

Dobrenko Evgeny

ISBN: HB: 9780300122800, Yale University Press, October 2007
410 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For decades Stalinist literature, film, and art was almost exclusively deemed political propaganda imposed from on high, devoid of any aesthetic significance. In this book, Evgeny Dobrenko suggests an entirely new view: socialism did not produce Soci...

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Phantasmagoria Specters of Absence

Richards Judith Olch

ISBN: HB: 9780916365769, DAP, Independent Curators International, October 2007
72 pp., 24.8x22.2 cm, 32 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The 12 artists in "Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence" – Christian Boltanski, Jim Campbell, Michel Delacroix, Laurent Grasso, Jeppe Hein, William Kentridge, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Teresa Margolles, Oscar Munoz, Julie Nord,...

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Contemporary Art

Pop Art Contemporary Perspectives

Wilmerding John, Foster Hal, Burton Johanna, Hatch Kevin, Hudson Suzanne, Kitnik Alex, Robinson Julia, Tuite Diana

ISBN: HB: 9780300122121, Yale University Press, March 2007
160 pp., 26.7x19.1 cm, 93 colour images, 42 black&white illus.

Princeton University Art Museum Monographs is a new series of in-depth explorations of the museum's rich collections. Beautifully designed and produced, these books by leading and emerging scholars offer new insights and perspectives on a single work...

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Politics of Urban Beauty New York and Its Art Commission

Bogart Michele H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226063058, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
352 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 85 halftones

Since its founding in 1898, the Art Commission of the City of New York (ACNY) has served as the city's aesthetic gatekeeper, evaluating all works of art intended for display on city property. And over the years, the commission's domain has expanded d...

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Picasso and American Art

Fitzgerald Michael, Boddewyn Julia May

ISBN: HB: 9780300114522, Yale University Press, September 2006
368 pp., 31x24.7 cm, 150 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

Many American artists throughout the 20th century designated Pablo Picasso as the central figure of the modern movement and defined their own artistic achievements through their absorption, critique, or rejection of his example. "Picasso and American...

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Picasso Architecture and Vertigo

Green Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300104127, Yale University Press, February 2006
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 60 colour images, 60 black&white illus.

The starting point of this exciting new exploration of Picasso is not his life but his work, which is revealed as a series of interventions in the troubled history of early twentieth-century Europe. Christopher Green shows how these interventions are...

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Postmodernism A Virtual Discussion

Leung Simon

ISBN: PB: 9781890761059, DAP, The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, July 2003
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! What is Postmodernism, and is it a useful concept for understanding American art and visual culture of the past 40 years? When and to what extent did Modernism wane as a phenomenon in American art? How have the various libe...

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