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Subversion and Subsidy Contemporary Art and Aesthetics

Rochlitz Rainer

ISBN: PB: 9781905422715, ISBN: HB: 9781905422708, Seagull Books, November 2008
240 pp., 18.6x15.2 cm

Art today is in deep crisis. Criticism seems to have abandoned any notion of evaluation, the public has been denied the possibility of understanding, and aesthetics have lost all legitimacy. Formerly, artists claimed their right to decide for themsel...

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Contemporary Art

Solitaire Lee Lozano, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Joan Semmel

Molesworth Helen, Burton Johanna, Meyer Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300125290, Yale University Press, June 2008
164 pp., 23.5x17.1 cm, 84 colour illus.

This compelling book looks at the work of three influential women artists and at the import of feminism in their practices. Painters Lee Lozano (1930-1999), Sylvia Plimack Mangold (b. 1938), and Joan Semmel (b. 1932) are each intensely private and, t...

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Contemporary Art

Socrates Sculpture Park

Baker Alyson, Mestrovic Ivana, Di Suvero Mark, Hanrahan Thomas, Kastner Jeffrey, Sandler Irving

ISBN: HB: 9780300120981, Yale University Press, November 2006
256 pp., 28.6x22.9 cm, 175 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

Socrates Sculpture Park is one of the most acclaimed public art spaces in the country. The Park opened in 1986 and has been an outdoor studio to over 500 artists, a venue presenting more than 40 exhibitions of large-scale sculpture, and a vital park...

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Contemporary Art

Sweet Dreams Contemporary Art and Complicity

Drucker Johanna

ISBN: PB: 9780226165059, ISBN: HB: 9780226165042, University of Chicago Press, September 2006
264 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 16 colour plates, 32 halftones

Johanna Drucker's "sweet dream" is for a new and more positive approach to contemporary art. Calling for a revamping of the academic critical vocabulary used to discuss art into one more befitting current creative practices, Drucker argues that conte...

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Contemporary Art

Situating El Lissitzky Vitebsk, Berlin, Moscow

Perloff Nancy, Reed Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780892366774, Getty Publications, March 2006
248 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 15 colour illus., 73 black&white illus.

Reassessing the complex career of one of the most influential yet controversial experimental artists of the early 20th century, this volume of essays looks at the prolific painter, designer, architect and photographer, El Lissitzky (1890-1941), who w...

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Surreal Calder

Rosenthal Mark, Rower Alexander S. C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300114362, Yale University Press, January 2006
156 pp., 31.3x26.2 cm, 45 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is a key presence in the history of modern art, and yet he is rarely seen or remembered in the context from which he initially emerged as an artist. When Calder became "Calder" – well known for his signature mobiles and s...

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Sabiduras and Other Texts Writings by Gego

Huizi Maria Elena, Manrique Josefina, Ramirez Mari Carmen

ISBN: HB: 9780300111637, Yale University Press, September 2005
256 pp., 25x25 cm, 47 colour illus.

The German-born Venezuelan artist Gego (1912-1994) was renowned for her abstract drawings, prints, three-dimensional works, hanging net pieces and wire constructions. In 1999, a folder was found in a storage trunk that had belonged to Gego, with the...

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Sebastian's Arrows Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca

Dali Salvador, Lorca Federico Garcia

ISBN: HB: 9780967880884, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, February 2005
248 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 24 colour plates

"Let us agree", Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, "that one of man's most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian". "In my 'Saint Sebastian' I remember you", Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had j...

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Stick "Em Up"

Dorrian Mike, Recchia David, Farrelly Liz

ISBN: PB: 9781861542472, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, October 2002
256 pp., 20x16 cm, full-colour illus.

Stickers are the new flyers, and a major means of street-based communication, used by the hippest advertising agencies and the most underground messengers alike. Spurred on by groundbreaking innovation from a coterie of underground artists worldwide,...

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Space/Sight/Self

Letinsky Laura, Bloom Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780935573220, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, July 1999
76 pp., 22.3x16.5 cm, 10 colour plates, 24 halftones

The exhibition "Space/Sight/Self" was designed to study the role of portraiture in contemporary art as a nexus of three issues – identity, vision, and place. The goal was to produce a portrait, as it were, of contemporary portraiture. This catalog do...

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