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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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£10,99
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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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Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners for Use in Educational Establishments
ISBN: PB: 9780984115518, DAP, Wakefield Press, February 2010
76 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! A bestselling author in his time, Pierre Louys (1870-1925) was a friend of, and influence on, Andre Gide, Paul Valery, Oscar Wilde and Stephane Mallarme among others. He achieved instant notoriety with "Aphrodite" and "The...
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£10,99
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On Curating Interviews with Ten International Curators
ISBN: PB: 9781935202004, DAP, January 2010
144 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 50 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "On Curating", Carolee Thea's second volume of interviews with ten of today's leading curators, explores the intellectual convictions and personal visions that lay the groundwork for the most prestigious and influential exh...
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£27,00
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