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On Kawara 10 Tableaux and 20, 834 Pages

Wylie Charles, Laszlo Ervin, Matsui Takafumi

ISBN: HB: 9780300137347, Yale University Press, June 2008
192 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 160 colour illus.

Since the mid-1960s, On Kawara (b. 1933) has objectively recorded his existence through everyday numbers, words, and found images. This handsomely designed and illustrated book presents works selected by the artist from throughout his illustrious car...

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Lightning Field

Baker Kenneth, Cooke Lynne

ISBN: HB: 9780300138948, Yale University Press, April 2008
192 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm

Walter De Maria's Lightning Field (1977) is one of the twentieth century's most significant works of art. Situated in a remote area of desert in southwestern New Mexico, it comprises 400 polished, stainless-steel poles (spaced 220 feet apart) install...

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Form, Color, Illumination Suzan Frecon Painting

Helfenstein Josef, Frehner Matthias, Eckhardt Sarah L., Loock Ulrich, Rinder Larry

ISBN: HB: 9780300125528, Yale University Press, March 2008
116 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 20 black&white illus., 46 colour illus.

This is the first major exploration of the works of American abstract painter and watercolourist Suzan Frecon (b. 1941), critically acclaimed for her sensitive arrangement of colour, form, and texture, and for the philosophical resonance of her art....

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Fragile Demon Juan Soriano in Mexico, 1935-50

Sullivan Edward J., Fuentes Carlos, Paz Octavio

ISBN: PB: 9780300136883, Yale University Press, March 2008
60 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 33 colour illus.

One of Mexico's most important modern artists, Juan Soriano (1920-2006) served as a link between the nationalist imagery of the Mexican muralists and the experimental vanguard of the 1950s and 1960s known as "La Ruptura". This fascinating book, which...

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Alison Watt Phantom

Wiggins Colin, Paterson Don

ISBN: HB: 9781857094121, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, March 2008
72 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 38 colour illus.

British artist Alison Watt (b. 1965) creates monumental paintings depicting richly draped fabric. These canvases show closely cropped folds, gathers, tucks, and creases––all sensuously developed from a selective palette of white, grey, burnt sienna,...

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560 Broadway A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006

Eshoo Amy, Cartwright Derrick R., Cuno James, Finch Elizabeth, Helfenstein Josef, Lowry Glenn D., Mickenberg David, Philbin Ann, Powell Earl A., Reynolds Jock

ISBN: HB: 9780300135398, Yale University Press, February 2008
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 180 colour illus.

"560 Broadway" is the first book to explore one of this country's most remarkable private collections of modern and contemporary American drawings. Featuring such artists as Sol Lewitt, Mel Bochner, Jasper Johns, and Agnes Martin, the collection of W...

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Lawrence Weiner As Far as the Eye Can See

De Salvo Donna, Goldstein Ann, Gillick Liam, Leffingwell Edward, Schwarz Dieter, Stemmrich Gregor

ISBN: HB: 9780300126952, Yale University Press, February 2008
288 pp., 27.9x21 cm, 50 black&white illus., 200 colour illus.

Lawrence Weiner (b. 1942) is one of the primary figures associated with the emergence of conceptual art in the 1960s. For over four decades, Weiner has defined art as a representation of relationships in the physical world, "the relationship of human...

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Pop Art Is

Francis Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300138993, Yale University Press, January 2008
180 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, more than 100 colour illus.

On January 26, 1957, Richard Hamilton wrote a now-famous letter outlining his definition of what "Pop Art Is". This volume celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Hamilton's prophetic document, presenting the works of more than forty artists from his...

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Making a Home Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York

Shiner Eric C., Tomii Reiko

ISBN: HB: 9780300126341, Yale University Press, November 2007
250 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

Since the 1950s, many Japanese artists have made their homes and careers in New York, some for enhanced exposure to the international art world or to challenge themselves to take their artwork in new directions, and others to escape restrictions face...

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Political Economy of Socialist Realism

Dobrenko Evgeny

ISBN: HB: 9780300122800, Yale University Press, October 2007
410 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For decades Stalinist literature, film, and art was almost exclusively deemed political propaganda imposed from on high, devoid of any aesthetic significance. In this book, Evgeny Dobrenko suggests an entirely new view: socialism did not produce Soci...

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