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Corita Kent International Signal Code Alphabet
ISBN: HB: 9780997593556, DAP, Atelier Editions, May 2018
80 pp., 34.9x24.8 cm, 29 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Radical American artist, educator and Catholic nun, Corita Kent's (1918-86) provocative and elaborate serigraphy has entranced audiences for over four decades. Originally completed in 1968, Kent's "International Signal Code...
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£45,00
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Children's Crusade
ISBN: PB: 9781939663351, DAP, Wakefield Press, March 2018
56 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! Marcel Schwob's 1896 novella "The Children's Crusade" retells the medieval legend of the exodus of some 30,000 children from all countries to the Holy Land, who traveled to the shores of the sea, which – instead of parting...
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£9,99
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Charas The Improbable Dome Builders
ISBN: PB: 9781945711053, DAP, Pioneer Works Press, February 2018
240 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 150 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In 1970 a meeting took place in an empty loft on the Lower East Side of Manhattan between R. Buckminster Fuller, the revolutionary architect and inventor of the geodesic dome, and six ex-gang members who called themselves "...
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£24,00
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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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Collecting Architecture Territories
ISBN: PB: 9781883584788, DAP, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, May 2014
112 pp., 18.4x18.4 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! "Collecting Architecture Territories" presents a research exhibition developed by Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, (GSAPP) in collaboration with the Deste Foundation. The exhibition examined the relationship betw...
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£17,50
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Cooking Couture Fashion Is Served
ISBN: HB: 9788831715034, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2013
160 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 197 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! What happens when cuisine blends with haute couture. Can you describe an item of clothing in terms of its flavor, its odor? Or the taste of a fabric, that desire which makes your mouth water? Sampling a dish of the latest c...
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£35,00
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Charles Ray
ISBN: PB: 9781880146477, DAP, Matthew Marks Gallery, October 2010
80 pp., 28.5x22.8 cm, 35 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Ever since the early 1970s, sculptor Charles Ray's protean practice has yielded some of the most memorable objects and experiences in contemporary art, causing us to confront, as Peter Schjeldahl has written, "elegant, dead...
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£40,00
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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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Composition in Retrospect
ISBN: PB: 9781878972118, DAP, Exact Change, October 2008
184 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! Written in his characteristic "mesostics" (lines of prose poetry linked by a central vertical acrostic), "Composition in Retrospect" is a statement of methodology in which composer John Cage examines the central issues of h...
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£13,99
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Carolee Schneemann Split Decision
ISBN: PB: 9780939784264, DAP, CEPA Gallery, February 2008
96 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 16 black&white illus., 2 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! This volume collects works from two recent Schneemann exhibitions. Buffalo's CEPA Gallery focused on the themes of War, Erotics and Felines, while featuring Schneemann's best-known works, including "Interior Scroll", "Vulva...
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£27,00
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