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Silence

Kamps Toby, Seid Steve, Sorkin Jenni

ISBN: HB: 9780300179644, Yale University Press, July 2012
112 pp., 28.6x23.5 cm, 90 colour illus.

Over the last century, many artists have used silence as subject matter and medium, exploring it as symbol, phenomenon, memorial device, and oppressive force. "Silence" examines the ways 29 artists invoke silence to shape space and consciousness, mos...

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Contemporary Art

Sol Lewitt Structures, 1965-2005

Freedman Susan K., Baume Nicholas, Haidu Rachel, Lovatt Anna, Madura Joe, Swenson Kirsten

ISBN: HB: 9780300178616, Yale University Press, November 2011
226 pp., 30.4x25.7 cm, 150 colour illus.

Sol LeWitt (1928-2007), renowned for his role in establishing Conceptualism and Minimalism as dominant art movements in the postwar era, is perhaps best known for his masterful and brilliantly coloured wall drawings. Throughout his career, however, L...

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Salvador Dali The Reality of Dreams

Schiebler Ralf

ISBN: PB: 9783791346120, Prestel Publishing, October 2011
128 pp., 27x18.5 cm, 62 colour illus., 38 black&white illus.

Now available again, this fascinating look at Dali explores the forces that shaped the life and works of one of the modern art world's most inscrutable and misunderstood figures. Concise yet comprehensive, this elegant volume follows Dali's artistic...

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Stieglitz and His Artists Matisse to O'Keeffe

Mintz Messinger Lisa, Dabrowski Magdalena, Michael Cora, Murphy Jessica, Rewald Sabine, Rippner Samantha, Tolles Thayer

ISBN: HB: 9780300175882, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2011
352 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 440 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

A master photographer, Alfred Stieglitz was also a visionary promoter and avid collector of modern American and European art from the first half of the 20th century. This publication is the first fully-illustrated catalogue of works in the unparallel...

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Sharon Lockhart Lunch Break II

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: PB: 9780936316314, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, May 2011
96 pp., 30x20.8 cm, 125 halftones

This book evolved from an archive of images collected by artist Sharon Lockhart while researching her project "Lunch Break" – a series of films and photographs she produced from a long-term collaboration with the workers of Bath Iron Works in Maine,...

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Contemporary Art

Salvador Dali The Late Work

King Elliott H., Teixidor Montse Aguer, Hine Hank, Jeffett William

ISBN: HB: 9780300168280, Yale University Press, August 2010
184 pp., 28.1x21.2 cm, 110 colour illus.

Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the most famous and controversial artists of the twentieth century. Although he was prolific for more than sixty years – creating 1,200 oil paintings, countless drawings, sculptures, theatre and fashion designs, b...

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Contemporary Art

Studio Reader On the Space of Artists

Jacob Mary Jane, Grabner Michelle

ISBN: PB: 9780226389615, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
328 pp., 23x18 cm, 69 halftones

The image of a tortured genius working in near isolation has long dominated our conceptions of the artist's studio. Examples abound: think Jackson Pollock dripping resin on a cicada carcass in his shed in the Hamptons. But times have changed; ever si...

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Contemporary Art

Design

Steve Wolfe on Paper

Foster Carter E., Sirmans Franklin

ISBN: PB: 9780300158984, Yale University Press, November 2009
96 pp., 28.6x19.1 cm, 45 colour illus.

Working in the tradition of trompe l'oeil, Steve Wolfe (b. 1955) creates careful replicas of classic books, worn album covers, and vinyl records, crafted from modeling paste, screenprints, drawings, and many other media. Wolfe's reproductions embrace...

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Contemporary Art

Since 1950 Art and Its Criticism

Harrison Charles

ISBN: HB: 9780300151862, Yale University Press, June 2009
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 colour images, 40 black&white illus.

In a series of compelling and finely argued essays on late twentieth-century art and the critical perspectives it has generated, Charles Harrison offers an acute analysis of the seismic shift that took place when the modernist formalism that had unde...

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Sol Lewitt 100 Views

Cross Susan M., Markonish Denise

ISBN: PB: 9780300152821, Yale University Press, June 2009
272 pp., 25.1x22.4 cm, 93 colour images, 88 black&white illus.

Published to accompany MASS MoCA's landmark installation of LeWitt's innovative wall drawings, this book celebrates the artist and his illustrious 50-year career.

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