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Contemporary Art

Monster Roster Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago

Corbett John, Dempsey Jim, Moss Jessica, Born Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780935573480, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2016
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 100 colour plates, 35 halftones

Accompanying an exhibition at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, this book is the definitive introduction to Chicago's first artistic movement, the Monster Roster. The volume includes an overview of the artists involved, such as Leon Go...

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Contemporary Art

In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde An Anthropologist Investigates the Contemporary Art Museum

Bunzl Matti

ISBN: PB: 9780226418124, ISBN: HB: 9780226173818, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 2008, anthropologist Matti Bunzl was given rare access to observe the curatorial department of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. For five months, he sat with the institution's staff, witnessing firsthand what truly goes on behind the scenes at...

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Europe

Art of the Multitude Jochen Gerz-Participation and the European Experience

Vickery Jonathen P., Manus Mechtild

ISBN: PB: 9783593505640, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2016
200 pp., 21.6x17.1 cm, 50 colour plates

Contemporary European public art often addresses the past and future of European unity, democracy, immigration, and civil rights".The Art of the Multitude" explores how participation in art works affects the formation of public memory, the commemorat...

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History of Art

Influences Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance

Quinlan-McGrath Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226421667, ISBN: HB: 9780226922843, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones, 14 line drawings

Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light rad...

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Contemporary Art

Sigmar Polke

Geuna Elena, Tosatto Guy

ISBN: PB: 9788831723794, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
266 pp., 24.8x19.8 cm, 152 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The artist who dared put into question the parameters of ordinary vision. One of the main exponents of Capitalist Realism – a current that arose in the 1970s in opposition to both the Socialist Realism widespread in the cou...

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Jewish Studies

Venice, the Jews, and Europe 1516-2016

Calabi Donatella

ISBN: HB: 9788831724944, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
536 pp., 30.4x20.3 cm, 241 colour illus., 11 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Five hundred years of the Jewish Ghetto of Venice through art. This book aims to tell the story of the Ghetto of Venice, the first in the world – the way it grew within itself, its architecture, social makeup, crafts and t...

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Imagine New Imagery in Italian Art 1960-1969

Barbero Luca Massimo

ISBN: PB: 9788831723787, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
288 pp., 28.7x23.6 cm, 319 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! A seminal experience on the Italian art scene of the 1960s. At the height of the economic miracle of the 1960s, artistic experiments in Italy kept following one another, mixed and merged with an extraordinary speed and inte...

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Photography

Olivo Barbieri Images 1978-2014

Fabiani Francesca

ISBN: HB: 9788831721929, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
216 pp., 25.7x20.6 cm, 150 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Where pictures stop being photography and become images. Olivo Barbieri has been working to represent space, especially urban space, since the 1970s. Various series of images document his research in this book. They include...

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Contemporary Art

Problems and Provocations Grand Arts 1995-2015

Switzer Stacy, Fischer Annie

ISBN: HB: 9780692625538, DAP, Grand Arts, September 2016
448 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 800 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Grand Arts, a contemporary art project space in Kansas City, MO, quietly but radically tested the limits of institutional and artistic support for nearly two decades. In helping more than 120 national and international arti...

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History of Art

From Kandinsky to Pollock The Art of the Guggenheim Collections

Barbero Luca Massimo

ISBN: PB: 9788831723824, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
352 pp., 28.9x24.1 cm, 215 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! A reconstruction of the artistic milieu surrounding Peggy Guggenheim. The catalog contains more than 100 masterpieces of European and American art ranging from the 1920s to the 1960s, reconstructing relationships on both si...

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