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Marieta Chirulescu

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783942405416, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2012
152 pp., 21x21 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English / German

The first monograph created by Marieta Chirulescu (b. Sibiu, Romania 1974; lives and works in Berlin) is published in conjunction with her solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel, which opened in September 2010. Printed in the A4 format and designed to l...

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Walter De Maria Trilogies

Elliott Clare, Helfenstein Josef, Wakefield Neville

ISBN: HB: 9780300175783, Yale University Press, March 2012
104 pp., 25.4x24.8 cm, 61 colour illus.

Walter De Maria (b. 1935) is known for the expansive and perfectly ordered land art and installations he created in the 1970s. From constructing minimalist spare wooden boxes to using the earth itself as a site for, and element of, his sculpture, his...

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Interviews with Artists, 1966-2011

Peppiatt Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300176629, Yale University Press, March 2012
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

A renowned curator and respected insider of the international art scene since the mid-1960s, Michael Peppiatt has spent his professional life with many of the greatest artists of the 20th century. His close friendships and frequent studio visits with...

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Baby Ikki at the Museum

Smith Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300181043, Yale University Press, March 2012
28 pp., 17.8x17.8 cm, 14 colour illus.

Michael Smith (b. 1951) is known for his groundbreaking work in performance art as well as his immersive mixed media installations. Since 1979, the majority of his work has centered on his extraordinarily prescient and sympathetic character, Mike. Sm...

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John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 1: 1956-1974

Pardo Patrick, Dean Robert, Bois Yve-Alain, Baldessari John, Knight Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300174489, Yale University Press, March 2012
550 pp., 29.2x25.1 cm, 500 colour illus.

The pioneering conceptual artist John Baldessari (b. 1931) began his career as a painter in the 1950s, but in the subsequent decades he expanded his practice in a new and groundbreaking direction by juxtaposing texts with found photography or appropr...

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Cosima von Bonin Character Appropriation

Malone Meredith

ISBN: PB: 9780936316338, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, March 2012
48 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 27 colour illus.

Spanning a decade of its subject's multifaceted career, "Cosima von Bonin: Character Appropriation" features the Kenya-born, Germany-based artist's signature textile paintings, architectural sculptures, and absurdly outsized stuffed animals. In addit...

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Clay's Tectonic Shift John Mason, Ken Price, and Peter Voulkos, 1956-1968

MacNoughton Mary Davis

ISBN: HB: 9781606061053, Getty Publications, February 2012
240 pp., 28.6x22.3 cm, 131 colour illus., 37 black&white illus.

This is an absorbing look at the work of three artists who paved the way for ceramics to be considered fine art. "Clay's Tectonic Shift" focuses on artists John Mason (b. 1927), Kenneth Price (b. 1935), and Peter Voulkos (1924-2002) and their radical...

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Get There First, Decide Promptly The Richard Brown Baker Collection of Postwar Art

Farrell Jennifer, Crow Thomas E., Guilbaut Serge, Howard Jan, Storr Robert, Tannenbaum Judith

ISBN: PB: 9780300153026, Yale University Press, February 2012
261 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 185 colour images, 35 black&white illus.

Richard Brown Baker (1912-2002) began collecting works by emerging artists in the 1940s, becoming one of the first collectors to actively embrace both Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art and eventually amassing more than 1,600 works from the postwar p...

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Precarious Worlds Contemporary Art from Germany

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9780936316345, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2012
72 pp., 33x24 cm, 20 colour illus.

Taking as its impetus a group of important new acquisitions at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, "Precarious Worlds" explores thematic connections between some of the most influential artists working in Germany today. Works by Franz Ackermann, Cosi...

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Blast Counterblast

Elms Anthony, Reinke Steve

ISBN: PB: 9781926627175, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, February 2012
192 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 7 line illus.

"Blast Counterblast" is a multifaceted, fascinating examination of the way intellectuals interact – through influence, through argumentation, and through criticism. Looking at both Wyndham Lewis's modernist publication "BLAST" and Marshall McLuhan's...

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