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Contemporary Art

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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Contemporary Art

Sharon Lockhart Lunch Break II

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: PB: 9780936316314, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, May 2011
96 pp., 30x20.8 cm, 125 halftones

This book evolved from an archive of images collected by artist Sharon Lockhart while researching her project "Lunch Break" – a series of films and photographs she produced from a long-term collaboration with the workers of Bath Iron Works in Maine,...

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Contemporary Art

Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art

Elliott David

ISBN: PB: 9780300166903, Yale University Press, March 2011
136 pp., 26.6x23 cm, 3 black&white illus., 89 colour illus.

In recent decades Japanese art has achieved immense popularity in the West while being little understood. Critics have focused on the superficiality and infantilism they find prevalent in much of the work, while many Westerners are familiar with the...

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History of Art

Hogarth's Marriage A-la-Mode

Egerton Judy

ISBN: HB + DVD: 9781857095104, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2011
80 pp., 19.6x18.4 cm, 11 black&white illus., 34 colour illus.

Directing his pointed wit at the upper echelons of 18th-century British society, William Hogarth, a painter, printmaker, and social critic, mocked the politics and customs of his day. His series of satirical paintings and engravings, which still abso...

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History of Art

Masterpieces Restored

Ella Giulio Manieri

ISBN: HB: 9788831798112, DAP, Marsilio Editori, November 2010
300 pp., 29.8x24.8 cm, 188 colour illus., 43 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Extraordinary works of art by major Venetian masters seen for the first time in all their restored splendor. This book presents a number of wonderful art masterpieces housed at the Accademia Galleries in Venice and recently...

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Contemporary Art

Your Chance Encounter

Eliasson Olafur

ISBN: HB: 9783037782118, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2010
216 pp., 20x24 cm, 200 illus.

The acclaimed Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson developed a sequence of spatial experiments for his Your Chance Encounter exhibition in the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan. His piece challenges visitors to move around a...

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Contemporary Art

Heartland

Esche Charles, Niemann Kerstin, Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780935573473, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, November 2009
176 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 90 colour plates

Throughout the vast interior of the United States, contemporary artists are responding to the world around them and reshaping it in unexpected ways. Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name that first appeared last year in the Nether...

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Design

Buriki Japanese Tin Toys from the Golden Age of the American Automobile: The Yoku Tanaka Collection

Earle Joe

ISBN: PB: 9780300151572, Yale University Press, June 2009
96 pp., 23.2x20.3 cm, 70 colour illus.

Tin toys have been made in Japan for more than 100 years, but during World War II their production – and international sales – ended. Almost as soon as the war was over, ingenious manufacturers began to make model Jeeps out of recycled food cans. Wit...

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History of Art

Heyer Schapiro Abroad Letters to Lillian and Travel Notebooks

Esterman Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780892368938, Getty Publications, January 2009
280 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 8 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.

This is an intimate and illuminating collection of personal letters and notebook pages from one of the 20th century's leading art historians. Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996) was one of the 20th century's leading art historians. This volume brings together...

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Contemporary Art

Thaddeus Strode Absolutes and Nothings

Eckmann Sabine, Malone Meredith

ISBN: HB: 9780936316246, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, March 2008
80 pp., 32.5x24.1 cm, 28 colour plates

Thaddeus Strode's vibrant large-scale paintings are universes unto themselves: wild mash-ups of California surf and skateboard culture, Zen philosophy, rock music, literature, film, and comic books".Absolutes and Nothings" marks the artist's first ma...

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