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ISBN: PB: 9781939663429, DAP, Wakefield Press, February 2019
72 pp., 17.8x10.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! Mr. Gica is the world's greatest barber. He holds the world record for sculptural hairstyling and has won three Olympic golds in neck massage. But his specialty is the shave. Mr. Gica's shop has six mirrors on the walls, si...
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£10,99
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Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau A 21st Century Show Home
ISBN: HB: 9780999505915, DAP, Swiss Institute, November 2018
120 pp., 22.4x16 cm, 81 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Inspired by Le Corbusier's 1925 Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau, the second exhibition in Swiss Institute's annual Architecture and Design series presents a prototype for the 21st-century home, simulating a living environment...
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£22,00
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Dubuffet and the City People, Place, and Urban Space
ISBN: PB: 9783906915111, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, June 2018
250 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! This is the first in-depth study to address the role of the city in the work of French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901-1984). Dubuffet promoted the art of children and the mentally ill as Art Brut, and sought to emulate the imme...
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£35,00
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Gilbert & George: The General Jungle or Carrying on Sculpting Late Summer 1971
ISBN: HB: 9781944379179, DAP, Levy Gorvy, February 2018
104 pp., 31.1x28.5 cm, 42 colour illus., 5 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! Since 1967, renowned artists Gilbert & George (born 1943 and 1942) have made themselves into their art, sacrificing their individual identities to devote themselves to a more democratic art practice, which they call "Art fo...
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£53,00
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Construction of Tower of Babel
ISBN: PB: 9781939663320, DAP, Wakefield Press, November 2017
88 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 1 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The titular essay is a meditation on Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1563 painting of the Tower of Babel: the first painting in European art history to feature a building as a protagonist. An engineer by trade, Benet brings his...
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£12,99
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Vertigo Au rendez-vous des amis
ISBN: PB: 9788831726412, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2017
176 pp., 26.9x20.8 cm, 147 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! A poignant, new artistic enquiry. "Vertigo: Au Rendez-Vous des Amis" presents the works of three extraordinary contemporary Italian artists, Francesco Candeloro, Riccardo De Marchi, and Arcangelo Sassolino. In this meeting...
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£35,00
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Olga Chernysheva Vague Accent
ISBN: PB: 9780942324983, DAP, The Drawing Center, November 2016
80 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 40 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Born in 1962 in Moscow, where she still lives, Olga Chernysheva is one of the most perceptive and sensitive observers of her native country's cultural and geographic landscape. Eschewing simplistic rendering of the post-Sov...
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£17,50
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From Kandinsky to Pollock The Art of the Guggenheim Collections
ISBN: PB: 9788831723824, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
352 pp., 28.9x24.1 cm, 215 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! A reconstruction of the artistic milieu surrounding Peggy Guggenheim. The catalog contains more than 100 masterpieces of European and American art ranging from the 1920s to the 1960s, reconstructing relationships on both si...
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£38,99
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Imagine New Imagery in Italian Art 1960-1969
ISBN: PB: 9788831723787, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
288 pp., 28.7x23.6 cm, 319 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! A seminal experience on the Italian art scene of the 1960s. At the height of the economic miracle of the 1960s, artistic experiments in Italy kept following one another, mixed and merged with an extraordinary speed and inte...
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£38,99
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World Redrawn Eisenstein and Brecht in Hollywood
ISBN: HB: 9780977869688, DAP, Christine Burgin, September 2016
152 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 70 colour illus., 62 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "A World Redrawn" is an exploration by the artist Zoe Beloff of Sergei Eisenstein and Bertolt Brecht's experiences in Hollywood in the 1930s and '40s, what their time in Hollywood meant to them then and what it might mean t...
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£30,00
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