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Julia Jacquette Unrequited and Acts of Play
ISBN: HB: 9783791356723, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
120 pp., 35.6x27 cm, 93 colour illus.
Through her richly detailed paintings featuring imagery drawn from advertisements, New York–based artist Julia Jacquette addresses the challenges of navigating the contemporary media landscape that so directly influences our sense of personal identit...
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£39,99
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David Lamelas A Life of Their Own
ISBN: HB: 9781606065433, Getty Publications, September 2017
200 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
The renowned Argentinian conceptual artist David Lamelas (born 1946) has an expansive oeuvre, which shows his work to be evocative, restive, and exhilarating. This book, published to coincide with the first monographic exhibition of the artist's work...
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£45,00
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Michael Rakowitz Backstroke of the West
ISBN: PB: 9783791357478, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
144 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 119 colour illus., 109 black&white illus.
This first monograph of the acclaimed Iraqi-American artist, Michael Rakowitz, takes a historical, scholarly, and in-depth look at his politically charged work. Iraqi-American Michael Rakowitz's provocative multimedia projects confront popular polit...
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£19,99
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Pollock's Modernism
ISBN: HB: 9780300223262, Yale University Press, September 2017
344 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 45 colour illus.
"Pollock's Modernism" provides a new interpretation of the art of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), one that is based on a phenomenological investigation of the pictorial effects of particular paintings. Focusing on major works that span the artist's care...
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£40,00
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Design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985 Found in Translation
ISBN: HB: 9783791356709, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
360 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 325 colour illus.
The histories of Mexico and the United States have been intertwined since the 18th century, when both were colonies of European empires. America's fascination with Mexican culture emerged in the 19th century and continues to this day. In turn, Mexico...
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£49,99
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Sculpture Vertical, Horizontal, Closed, Open
ISBN: HB: 9780300227222, Yale University Press, September 2017
320 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 290 black&white illus.
By taking simple ways of looking at sculpture, this book uncovers unexpected affinities between works of very different periods and types. From sundials to mirrors, from graves to way-markers, from fountains to contemporary art, a wide range of illus...
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£35,00
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Frida Kahlo The Story of Her Life
ISBN: HB: 9783791383880, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
160 pp., 27x21 cm
The perfect subject for a graphic novel, Frida Kahlo's brief life was dramatic and romantic, tragic and painful. In this illustrated "biography", Vanna Vinci captures the spirit of Kahlo's world in boldly colored, minutely detailed illustrations. Ble...
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£19,99
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Ellsworth Kelly Last Paintings
ISBN: HB: 9781944929077, DAP, Matthew Marks Gallery, September 2017
64 pp., 26x26 cm, 22 colour illus., 16 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! These final paintings, made in the months leading up to his death in December 2015, further develop the non-compositional strategies he pioneered in the late 1940s and pursued throughout his life, including monochrome paint...
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£35,00
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Vertigo Au rendez-vous des amis
ISBN: PB: 9788831726412, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2017
176 pp., 26.9x20.8 cm, 147 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! A poignant, new artistic enquiry. "Vertigo: Au Rendez-Vous des Amis" presents the works of three extraordinary contemporary Italian artists, Francesco Candeloro, Riccardo De Marchi, and Arcangelo Sassolino. In this meeting...
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£35,00
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Gordon Matta-Clark Doors, Floors, Doors
ISBN: PB: 9780996893022, DAP, MoMA PS1, September 2017
40 pp., 22.2x14.6 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! MoMA PS1 presents the fourth iteration of Greater New York. Recurring every five years, the exhibition has traditionally showcased the work of emerging artists living and working in the New York metropolitan area. Consideri...
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£9,00
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