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Resilience Philip Guston in 1971
ISBN: PB: 9783906915470, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, October 2019
188 pp., 28.4x23.1 cm, 234 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In 1970, Philip Guston (1913-80) went public with his return to figuration, in an infamous show at the Marlborough Gallery in New York City, a show that garnered devastatingly negative reviews – "Clumsy", "embarrassing" and...
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£45,00
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Ann Craven Birds We Know
ISBN: HB: 9781949172300, DAP, Karma, New York, October 2019
112 pp., 27.9x27.9 cm, 82 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Birds We Know" is the catalog for an exhibition of paintings by New York-based artist Ann Craven (born 1967). This large survey at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art is the artist's first exhibition in Maine, where she...
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£35,00
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Kiki Kogelnik
ISBN: PB: 9780998631288, DAP, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, October 2019
76 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 43 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! This book features paintings, sculptures and works on paper spanning two decades – from the early '60s to the late '80s – by Kiki Kogelnik (1935-97). Themes of the female body and its commercial appropriation abound through...
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£35,00
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Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park Limited Edition
ISBN: HB: 9781942185659, DAP, Radius Books, October 2019
160 pp., 31.8x27.9 cm, 3 colour illus., 68 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! For his notorious "Park" photos, taken by night in Tokyo's Shinjuku, Yoyogi and Aoyama parks during the 1970s, Kohei Yoshiyuki (born 1946) used a 35mm camera, infrared film and flash to capture a secret community of lovers...
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£120,00
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Landlord Colors On Art, Economy, and Materiality
ISBN: HB: 9780989186490, DAP, Cranbrook Art Museum, October 2019
268 pp., 26x19 cm, 98 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Published in four differently colored cloth covers, "Landlord Colors" reconsiders periods of economic and social collapse through the lens of artistic innovations. It examines five art scenes generated during heightened per...
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£40,00
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What Images Really Tell Us Visual Rhetoric in Graphic Design, Art and Advertising
ISBN: PB: 9788417656041, Hoaki, September 2019
288 pp., 22.8x13.9 cm, fully illustrated in colour
How do images hold and convey meaning? How do we understand them? What are they trying to say? How do they persuade and influence us? The author writes a complete account analyzing the meaning and construction of images, throughout history to present...
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£24,99
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Islamic Art Architecture, Painting, Calligraphy, Ceramics, Glass, Carpets
ISBN: HB: 9783791385662, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
320 pp., 28.7x27 cm, 414 colour and black&white illus.
From its birth in the 7th century through modern times, the Islamic religion has inspired glorious works of art. This stunning book includes more than four hundred reproductions of treasures of Islamic art that span the world: from southern Europe, a...
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£29,99
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Dark Lens Imaging Germany, 1945
ISBN: HB: 9780226625638, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 41 halftones
The ruins of war have long held the power to stupefy and appall. Can such ruins ever be persuasively depicted and comprehended? Can images of them force us to identify with the suffering of the enemy and raise uncomfortable questions about forgivenes...
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£27,00
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Art of Return The Sixties and Contemporary Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780226521558, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
302 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 94 colour plates, 38 halftones
More than any other decade, the sixties capture our collective cultural imagination. And while many Americans can immediately imagine the sound of Martin Luther King Jr. declaring "I have a dream!" or envision hippies placing flowers in gun barrels,...
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£36,00
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Joe Minter: To You Through Me The Beginning of a Link of a Journey of 400 Years
ISBN: PB: 9781732848221, DAP, Institute 193, September 2019
136 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 32 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In the summer of 1989, Joe Minter had a vision from God to create art that would honor the shared experiences of African Americans in this country. From that moment, Minter began building a sprawling collection of sculpture...
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£27,00
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