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PPPPPP Poems Performances Pieces Proses
ISBN: PB: 9781878972354, DAP, Exact Change, September 2010
288 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! Kurt Schwitters' stated goal was to "erase the boundaries between the arts". This collection, culled from the five-volume German edition of Schwitters' writings, introduces the total work of art that is Merz through Schwitt...
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£15,99
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Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
ISBN: PB: 9780984115525, DAP, Wakefield Press, September 2010
72 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday – "what happens", as he put it, "when nothing happens". His choice of locale was Place Sa...
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£10,99
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Book of Disquiet
ISBN: PB: 9781878972279, DAP, Exact Change, September 2010
304 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! The eternal mystique of Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) stems largely from his practice of writing under "heteronyms". More than just nom de plumes, Pessoa's heteronyms came with distinct biographies, careers,...
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£15,99
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Lee Friedlander America by Car
ISBN: HB: 9781935202080, DAP, Fraenkel Gallery, June 2010
200 pp., 45.7x44.4 cm, 190 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! Enduring icons of American culture, the car and the highway remain vital as auguries of adventure and discovery, and a means by which to take in the country's vast scale. Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make th...
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£415,00
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Pop Revolution How an Unlikely Concatenation of Artists, Aficionados, Businessmen, Critics, Curators, Collectors, Dealers, and Hangers-On Radically Transformed the Art World
ISBN: HB: 9780878467440, DAP, MFA Publications, April 2010
222 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 16 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "This book is a social history of Pop art, a group portrait of both the artists and the people who made some of them rich and famous in just a few years, while setting in motion the drastically altered way art has been mark...
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£27,00
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John Baldessari A Print Retrospective from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation
ISBN: HB: 9781935202103, DAP, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco-Legion of Honor, April 2010
160 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 140 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Conceptual art veteran John Baldessari (born 1931) began making prints in the mid-1970s, and has placed printmaking at the center of his appropriative practice, in which found photographs of people are amended with colorful...
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£52,99
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Nancy Spero Torture of Women
ISBN: HB: 9780979956225, DAP, Siglio, April 2010
156 pp., 22.9x20.3 cm, 96 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Torture of Women", Spero's epic, 14 panels, 125-foot-long collage work, fuses startling imagery from ancient mythology with hand-printed and typewritten first-person testimonies of abuse – from ancient times through the pr...
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£43,00
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Treatise on Elegant Living
ISBN: PB: 9780984115501, DAP, Wakefield Press, February 2010
112 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Honore de Balzac's 1830 Treatise on Elegant Living was a keystone text on dandyism, preceding Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's "Anatomy of Dandyism" (1845) and Charles Baudelaire's "The Dandy" (in "The Painter of Modern Life", 18...
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Gardens in Perpetual Bloom Botanical Illustration in Europe and America 1600-1850
ISBN: PB: 9780878467495, DAP, MFA Publications, February 2010
136 pp., 22.9x19.7 cm, 130 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Originally developed as an aid to professional herbalists, botanical illustration quickly blossomed into an art form in its own right. The first flower books were intended as medicinal guides, or else illustrated volumes th...
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£22,00
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Charles Ray Log
ISBN: HB: 9781880146545, DAP, Matthew Marks Gallery, February 2010
36 pp., 28.5x22.8 cm, 25 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Charles Ray writes: "Ten years ago, while driving up the central coast of California, I spotted a fallen tree in a meadow just off the highway. I was instantly drawn to it... [and] was inspired to make a sculpture". In "Log...
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£30,00
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