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Street Art Anthology From Graffiti to Contextual Art

Danysz Magda

ISBN: PB: 9788416504459, Hoaki, October 2016
239 pp., 23.1x17 cm, richly illustrated

What is behind the tidal wave of street art that is sweeping through the cultural scene today? What are its artistic features? What are its codes and its language? How has its production, which was originally almost exclusively centered in the urban...

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Contemporary Art

Sigmar Polke

Geuna Elena, Tosatto Guy

ISBN: PB: 9788831723794, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
266 pp., 24.8x19.8 cm, 152 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The artist who dared put into question the parameters of ordinary vision. One of the main exponents of Capitalist Realism – a current that arose in the 1970s in opposition to both the Socialist Realism widespread in the cou...

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Contemporary Art

Sensory Systems

Skrebowski Luke, Parry Richard

ISBN: PB: 9781910221105, Casemate, Anomie Publishing, March 2016
64 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 30 illus.

"Sensory Systems" documents an engaging group exhibition presented at the Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, in autumn 2015. The exhibition is the first in a new annual programme by the gallery each autumn that will revolve around the theme of light, and...

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Contemporary Art

St. Petersburg Paradox

Marta Karen, Castets Simon

ISBN: HB: 9781942607151, DAP, Swiss Institute, February 2016
168 pp., 22.2x15.2 cm, 37 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! In the "St. Petersburg gamble", the house offers to flip a coin until it comes up heads. The payoff doubles each time tails appears. By conventional definitions, the St Petersburg gamble has an infinite potential return; no...

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Contemporary Art

Surrealism in Belgium The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Verpoorten Frank

ISBN: HB: 9782930117430, DAP, Marot, October 2015
160 pp., 31.1x26 cm, illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Estonia! From the start, the Belgian Surrealists – among them Rene Magritte, Paul Delvaux, Paul Nouge, E.L.T. Mesens and Marcel Marien – distinguished themselves from their Parisian counterparts with their dry wit, brilliant concept...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Sybil Andrews and the Grosvenor School Linocuts

Leaper Hana

ISBN: HB: 9780993078644, Casemate, Osborne Samuel Gallery, September 2015
90 pp., 24.5x19.5 cm, colour illus.

Sybil Andrews was a printmaker first and foremost and, like her Grosvenor School colleagues, was encouraged by their mentor and teacher Claude Flight (1881-1955). They adopted a Cubist-Futurist-Vorticist pictorial language that discarded the outrageo...

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Contemporary Art

Stephen Irwin

Aletti Vince, Ribal Pilar, Goodrow Gerard A., Needleman Risa, Tischer Benjamin, Irwin Stephen, Brown Melvin

ISBN: HB: 9783000479977, DAP, re projects, May 2015
144 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 110 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Artist Stephen Irwin (1959-2010) worked in sculpture, drawing and installation, but he is best known for his work altering vintage pornography: using steel wool to rub off a magazine page's shiny coating and taking most of...

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Contemporary Art

Strange Eggs

Oldenburg Claes, White Michelle

ISBN: HB: 9780300197853, Yale University Press, February 2015
56 pp., 35.6x27.9 cm, 18 black&white illus.

In 1957-1958, after he moved to New York's Lower East Side, Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) began making collages he has described as "mostly done in an uncontrolled and intuitive dream mode". Made from found, printed photographic imagery, the "Strange Egg...

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Film Studies

Contemporary Art

Soho Chronicles 10 Films by William Kentridge

Kentridge Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780857421760, Seagull Books, February 2015
438 pp., 22x22 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Over the last twenty years, William Kentridge has built a worldwide reputation as a contemporary artist, best known for his series of ten animated films created from charcoal drawings. The films introduced a significant character in contemporary fict...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Sculptures of Jeddah An Encounter with a Rare Collection of 20th-Century Public Art

ISBN: HB: 9781861543387, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2014
192 pp., 27.9x23.3 cm, full-colour illus.

When Mohamed Said Farsi became Mayor of Jeddah in 1972, at a pivotal moment in the Saudi Arabian city's history, he set himself the task of not only creating a modern city, but also to include in the concept a plan for public art: "To bring delight t...

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