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Contemporary Art

Interviews with Artists, 1966-2011

Peppiatt Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300176629, Yale University Press, March 2012
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

A renowned curator and respected insider of the international art scene since the mid-1960s, Michael Peppiatt has spent his professional life with many of the greatest artists of the 20th century. His close friendships and frequent studio visits with...

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Baby Ikki at the Museum

Smith Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300181043, Yale University Press, March 2012
28 pp., 17.8x17.8 cm, 14 colour illus.

Michael Smith (b. 1951) is known for his groundbreaking work in performance art as well as his immersive mixed media installations. Since 1979, the majority of his work has centered on his extraordinarily prescient and sympathetic character, Mike. Sm...

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John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 1: 1956-1974

Pardo Patrick, Dean Robert, Bois Yve-Alain, Baldessari John, Knight Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300174489, Yale University Press, March 2012
550 pp., 29.2x25.1 cm, 500 colour illus.

The pioneering conceptual artist John Baldessari (b. 1931) began his career as a painter in the 1950s, but in the subsequent decades he expanded his practice in a new and groundbreaking direction by juxtaposing texts with found photography or appropr...

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Get There First, Decide Promptly The Richard Brown Baker Collection of Postwar Art

Farrell Jennifer, Crow Thomas E., Guilbaut Serge, Howard Jan, Storr Robert, Tannenbaum Judith

ISBN: PB: 9780300153026, Yale University Press, February 2012
261 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 185 colour images, 35 black&white illus.

Richard Brown Baker (1912-2002) began collecting works by emerging artists in the 1940s, becoming one of the first collectors to actively embrace both Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art and eventually amassing more than 1,600 works from the postwar p...

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Alighiero e Boetti

Godfrey Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300148756, Yale University Press, January 2012
256 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 120 black&white illus., 70 colour illus.

Alighiero e Boetti (1940-1994) has emerged as one of the most significant figures of postwar European art whose practice is having an unfolding impact on younger artists. His powerful influence can be attributed to the material diversity of his work,...

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Sol Lewitt Structures, 1965-2005

Freedman Susan K., Baume Nicholas, Haidu Rachel, Lovatt Anna, Madura Joe, Swenson Kirsten

ISBN: HB: 9780300178616, Yale University Press, November 2011
226 pp., 30.4x25.7 cm, 150 colour illus.

Sol LeWitt (1928-2007), renowned for his role in establishing Conceptualism and Minimalism as dominant art movements in the postwar era, is perhaps best known for his masterful and brilliantly coloured wall drawings. Throughout his career, however, L...

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American Vanguards Graham, Davis, Gorky, De Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927-1942

Agee William C., Sandler Irving, Wilkin Karen

ISBN: HB: 9780300121674, Yale University Press, October 2011
256 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 123 colour image, 11 black&white illus.

The enigmatic and charismatic John Graham (1886-1961) was an important influence on his fellow New York artists between the 1920s and the 1940s. Graham and his circle, which included Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, and Willem de Kooning, helped redefine...

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Stieglitz and His Artists Matisse to O'Keeffe

Mintz Messinger Lisa, Dabrowski Magdalena, Michael Cora, Murphy Jessica, Rewald Sabine, Rippner Samantha, Tolles Thayer

ISBN: HB: 9780300175882, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2011
352 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 440 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

A master photographer, Alfred Stieglitz was also a visionary promoter and avid collector of modern American and European art from the first half of the 20th century. This publication is the first fully-illustrated catalogue of works in the unparallel...

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Tony Cragg Sculptures and Drawings

Elliott Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780300178982, Yale University Press, July 2011
100 pp., 30x24 cm, 90 colour illus.

Born in 1949, Tony Cragg is one of today's most celebrated and popular sculptors. Before studying art he worked as a laboratory technician, which has had an enormous influence on his practice. His work fuses art and science in a rich and arresting wa...

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Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life Early Twentieth-Century European Modernism

Witkovsky Matthew S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300166095, Yale University Press, A+D Series, July 2011
160 pp., 25x15 cm, 160 colour illus.

Beginning around 1910, vanguard artists demanded that true art go beyond the intellectual and transform daily life. This volume highlights the work of six influential European artists who took this idea into the wider world, where it merged enthusias...

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