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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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On the Margins

Colangelo Carmon

ISBN: HB: 9780936316253, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2008
64 pp., 33x22.9 cm, 36 colour plates

The iconography of war and disaster have shaped the first years of the twenty-first century, both in the United States and throughout the world".On the Margins" brings together a culturally diverse group of international artists whose work engages th...

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Carolee Schneemann Split Decision

McEvilley Thomas, Drobnick Jim, Koebel Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780939784264, DAP, CEPA Gallery, February 2008
96 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 16 black&white illus., 2 duotones

Not for sale in Estonia! This volume collects works from two recent Schneemann exhibitions. Buffalo's CEPA Gallery focused on the themes of War, Erotics and Felines, while featuring Schneemann's best-known works, including "Interior Scroll", "Vulva...

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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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Be-Bomb The Transatlantic War of Images and All That Jazz. 1946-1956

Guilbaut Serge

ISBN: PB: 9788489771475, Bookport, MACBA, December 2007
784 pp., 21.6x17.1 cm

French historian, Serge Guilbaut, explores the aesthetic quarrels between Paris and New York of the 40s and 50s, analysing the art that became cultural and commercial icons, with works by Picasso, de Kooning, Dubuffet, Gorky, Kandinsky, Matisse, Newm...

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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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Other Criteria Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art

Steinberg Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226771854, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
448 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 295 halftones

Leo Steinberg's classic "Other Criteria" comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from "Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public" and the "flatbed picture plane" to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and...

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History of Art

Anarchist Modernism Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde

Antliff Allan

ISBN: PB: 9780226021041, ISBN: HB: 9780226021034, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
314 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 4 colour plates, 84 halftones

The relationship of the anarchist movement to American art during the World War I era is most often described as a "tenuous affinity" between two distinct spheres: political and artistic. In "Anarchist Modernism" – the first in-depth exploration of t...

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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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Phantasmagoria Specters of Absence

Richards Judith Olch

ISBN: HB: 9780916365769, DAP, Independent Curators International, October 2007
72 pp., 24.8x22.2 cm, 32 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The 12 artists in "Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence" – Christian Boltanski, Jim Campbell, Michel Delacroix, Laurent Grasso, Jeppe Hein, William Kentridge, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Teresa Margolles, Oscar Munoz, Julie Nord,...

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