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Prekop Rudo, Cihlar Michal

ISBN: PB: 9788074670008, DAP, Arbor Vitae, October 2013
448 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 1230 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Through a wealth of research, and illustrated with more than 1,200 photographs and documents (many published here for the first time), this enormous compendium traces Andy Warhol's relationship to his parents' native Czecho...

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Rebirth Recent Work by Mariko Mori

Tezuka Miwako, Littman Brett, Iida Takayo

ISBN: HB: 9780300196887, Yale University Press, September 2013
176 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 80 colour images, 15 black&white illus.

Contemporary artist Mariko Mori (b. 1967) has transformed herself many times since her memorable debut on to the international art scene in the mid-1990s. Over the past two decades, Mori has made a significant shift in the focus of her work, moving a...

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New Jersey as Non-Site

Baum Kelly

ISBN: HB: 9780300174373, Yale University Press, September 2013
176 pp., 27.9x20.4 cm, 150 colour illus.

Between 1950 and 1975, some of the postwar era's most innovative artists flocked to a very unexpected place: New Jersey. Appreciating what others tended to ignore or mock, they gravitated to the state's most desolate peripheries: its industrial waste...

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Museums Matter In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum

Cuno James

ISBN: PB: 9780226100913, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
164 pp., 20.5x14 cm, 10 halftones, 4 colour illus.

The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the Enlightenment, a manifestation of society's growing belief that the spread of knowledge and the promotion of intellectual inquiry were crucial to human development and the future of a rational soc...

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Museums in a Global Context National Identity, International Understanding

Dickey Jennifer, Azhar Samir El, Lewis Catherine M.

ISBN: PB: 9781933253855, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, September 2013
200 pp., 22.6x16.5 cm, 15 colour plates, 10 halftones

Most museum visitors can see how national character is reflected in the museum's layout and collection. But museums do more than provide a mirror for national identity; they shape it".Museums in a Global Context" looks at the way globalization has sh...

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David Salle Ghost Paintings

Marta Karen

ISBN: PB: 9781891925382, DAP, The Arts Club of Chicago, September 2013
64 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 14 colour illus., 13 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! In the 1980s, American artist David Salle (born 1952) played a crucial role in the formulation of postmodernism in art, helping to reestablish painting as a dominant force. Often thought to use only found imagery, Salle act...

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Tracey Emin I Followed You to the Sun

ISBN: HB: 9780615768687, DAP, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, September 2013
64 pp., 30.5x23.6 cm, illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Estonia! Regarded as one of the world's leading contemporary artists, Tracey Emin (born 1963) has gained international acclaim for her blunt, personal and revealing style, which elicits a broad spectrum of emotions ranging from shoc...

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Kara Walker Dust Jackets for the Niggerati

Als Hilton, Hannaham James, Stackhouse Christopher, Young Kevin

ISBN: HB: 9780982681367, DAP, Gregory R. Miller & Co., September 2013
144 pp., 31.1x23.4 cm, 78 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! African-American artist Kara Walker (born 1969) has been acclaimed internationally for her candid investigations of race, sexuality and violence through the lens of reconceived historical tropes. She had her first solo show...

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Barbara Chase-Riboud The Malcolm X Steles

Basualdo Carlos

ISBN: HB: 9780300196405, Yale University Press, August 2013
120 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 75 colour illus.

Born in Philadelphia and living and working between Paris and Rome, Barbara Chase-Riboud is an internationally celebrated visual artist, novelist and poet. This important publication focuses on her monumental series of sculptures dedicated to the ass...

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50 Series

Pop Art 50 Works of Art You Should Know

Van Wyk Gary

ISBN: PB: 9783791348452, Prestel Publishing, August 2013
144 pp., 24x19.3 cm, 100 colour illus.

The most important and best-loved artists of the Pop art movement are gathered in this accessible book of painting, photography, film, and sculpture. When it emerged in the 1950s, the Pop art movement presented a challenge to fine art with its incor...

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