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Myth of Nouveau Realisme Art and the Performative in Postwar France

Cabanas Kaira Marie

ISBN: HB: 9780300181203, Yale University Press, April 2013
208 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 40 colour images, 78 black&white illus.

On October 27, 1960, art critic Pierre Restany named a group of Paris-based artists the "Nouveaux Realistes" (New Realists) in a founding declaration that stated, "The New Realists recognize their collective singularity. New Realism = new perceptual...

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They Seek a City Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910-1950

Oehler Sarah Kelly

ISBN: HB: 9780300184532, Yale University Press, A+D Series, March 2013
112 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 85 colour images, 10 black&white illus.

In the first half of the 20th century, thousands of newcomers – Eastern European emigres, Mexican immigrants, and Southerners both black and white – flocked to Chicago. These new residents included artists who made significant contributions to the vi...

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Eva Hesse, 1965

Rosen Barry, Applin Jo, Alden Todd, Swenson Kirsten, Fisher Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300196658, Yale University Press, February 2013
240 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 89 colour images, 8 black&white illus.

In 1964, Eva Hesse and her husband Tom Doyle were invited by the industrialist Friedrich Arnhard Scheidt to a residency in Kettwig an der Ruhr, Germany. The following fifteen months marked a significant transformation in Hesse's practice. Eva Hesse 1...

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Koo Jeong A Constellation Congress

Raymond Yasmil, Nesbit Molly, Nicolao Federico, Parreno Philippe, Price Cedric, Sky Rehberg Vivian, Sasselov Dimitar D., Wyn Evans Cerith, Yankelevich Matvei

ISBN: HB: 9780300188806, Yale University Press, January 2013
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 127 colour illus.

Since the early 1990s, Koo Jeong A (b. 1967) has created ephemeral environments, sculptures, and drawings that examine the poetics of everyday life and the mysteries of imagination. This book, the first critical study of Koo's work, looks at the past...

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Angels, Demons, and Savages Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet

Kosinski Dorothy M., Ottmann Klaus, Longwell Alicia G., Dubuffet Jean, Steele Elizabeth, Albro Sylvia, Homolka Scott, Bernicky Chantal

ISBN: HB: 9780300186482, Yale University Press, January 2013
168 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 84 colour images, 16 black&white illus.

The artistic relationships among Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Alfonso Ossorio (1916-1990), and Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) strongly influenced the development of postwar art. Ossorio, the central figure in the trio, was an early champion of Pollock and...

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Black Square Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism

Shatskikh Aleksandra, Schwartz Marian

ISBN: HB: 9780300140897, Yale University Press, January 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 41 scattered black&white illus.

Kazimir Malevich's painting "Black Square" is one of the twentieth century's emblematic paintings, the visual manifestation of a new period in artistic culture at its inception. None of Malevich's contemporary revolutionaries created a manifesto, an...

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Jay DeFeo A Retrospective

Miller Dana, Duncan Michael, Keller Corey, Mancusi-Ungaro Carol, Marcus Greil

ISBN: HB: 9780300182651, Yale University Press, November 2012
320 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 300 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

Jay DeFeo (1929-1989) was part of a vibrant community of avant-garde artists, poets, and musicians in San Francisco during the 1950s and 1960s. Her circle included Wallace Berman, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Edward Kienholz, Wally Hedrick, and Michael...

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Caro Close Up

Bryant Julius, Droth Martina, Storr Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300176032, Yale University Press, October 2012
250 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.

With a career spanning more than sixty years, Anthony Caro (b. 1924) is one of Britain's most acclaimed and best-known sculptors. "Caro: Close Up" accompanies the first survey exhibition of his work in an American museum since his retrospective at th...

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Computer Science & Internet

Islands of Benoit Mandelbrot Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking

Samuel Nina

ISBN: PB: 9780300186437, Yale University Press, October 2012
176 pp., 22.2x15.9 cm, 160 colour and black&white illus.

Over the last few decades, the "pictorial turn" in the natural sciences, prompted by the computer's capacity to produce visual representations, has generated considerable theoretical interest. Poised between their materiality and the abstract level t...

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Full Spectrum Prints from the Brandywine Workshop

Fine Ruth E., Langdale Shelley R., Edmunds Allan L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300185485, Yale University Press, October 2012
76 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 110 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

Since its founding in 1972, the Brandywine Workshop has become an internationally recognized centre for printmaking and a vital part of the Philadelphia community. In 2009 the workshop donated one hundred prints to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in m...

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