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Contemporary Art

Counterpoint Sculpture, Music, and Walter de Maria's Large Rod Series

Delahunty Gavin, Haskell Caitlin, Pierce Chelsea, Treuting Jason, De Maria Walter

ISBN: HB: 9780300225730, Yale University Press, March 2017
80 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 35 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.

Walter De Maria (1935-2013) was a pioneering American artist associated with the Minimal, Conceptual, and Land Art movements. This insightful book is the definitive source on his renowned Large Rod Series, exemplary works that represent the artist's...

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Anthropology

Creative Alaska A Ten-Year Retrospective of Support for Alaska Artists, 2004-2013

Haakanson Sven, Steffian Amy

ISBN: HB: 9781602232853, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
340 pp., 27.3x27.3 cm, 232 colour plates

Alaska has long been a nurturing home for artists, with its stunning natural beauty, rich cultural life, and unique communities. In recent years, artists in Alaska have had an additional source of support: the awarding of annual grants to craftsmen,...

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Concrete Body Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci

Archias Elise

ISBN: HB: 9780300217971, Yale University Press, January 2017
240 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 36 colour illus., 93 black&white illus.

Offering an incisive rejoinder to traditional histories of modernism and postmodernism, this original book examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body. Findin...

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Carmen Herrera Lines of Sight

Miller Dana, Lemoine Serge, Mosquera Gerardo, Sullivan Edward J., Espinel Monica

ISBN: HB: 9780300221862, Yale University Press, January 2017
232 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 180 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.

An overdue evaluation of the life and work of a prolific and significant contemporary artist Cuban-born artist Carmen Herrera (b. 1915) has painted for more than seven decades, though it is only in recent years that acclaim for her work has catapulte...

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Contemporary Art

Cee Cee Berlin No. 2

Hausherr Sven, Trippel Nina

ISBN: HB: 9783954761531, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, December 2016
288 pp., 27x20 cm, 400 colour illus., language: English / German

Cee Cee is one of Berlin's most widely read online mediums, with almost 30,000 subscribers now reading the Cee Cee newsletter every week. For over five years, Cee Cee has charted and appraised the capital's perpetually changing urban landscape, traci...

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Contemporary Art

Cubism – Constructivism – FORM ART

Husslein-Arco Agnes, Klee Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9783791355474, Prestel Publishing, September 2016
312 pp., 28.5x23 cm, 340 colour illus.

This volume presents for the first time the fundamental artistic circumstances from 1900 onward that led to the emergence of nonobjective art. For example, on the surface there are no obvious connections between the Formkunst (art of form) of Vienna...

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Charles Cundall (1890-1971)

Llewellyn Sasha, Liss Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780956713988, Casemate, Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, March 2016
160 pp., 27x21.5 cm, colour illus.

The first book to appear on the 20th century British artist Charles Cundall, this publication examines aspects of Cundall work done at home in England, abroad – Cundall made numerous painting trips to the continent, but also to the United States – an...

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Concave Thoughts 256 Digital Drawings

Netzhammer Yves

ISBN: PB: 9783037345344, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
512 pp., 20.3x14 cm, Illustrated in halftones throughout

The digital drawings of Yves Netzhammer invite viewers into a fascinating world of figures that appear both human and animal, while simultaneously blurring the distinction between object and living thing. By turns nightmarish or playful and cartoon-l...

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Contemporary Art

Carolee Schneemann Kinetic Painting

Breitwieser Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9783791355085, Prestel Publishing, January 2016
320 pp., 28x24 cm, 450 colour illus.

Unapologetically incorporating her body into her works of art, Carolee Schneemann emerged as one of the leading forces in the feminist art movement of the 1970s. This wide-ranging book follows Schneemann's remarkable career in its entirety. The monog...

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Contemporary Art

Contingent Beauty Contemporary Art from Latin America

Ramirez Mari Carmen

ISBN: HB: 9780300214819, Yale University Press, December 2015
224 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 180 colour illus.

Exploring cutting-edge techniques and daring themes, many Latin American artists seamlessly intertwine aesthetic refinement with biting critiques of social and political issues. "Contingent Beauty" assembles major works by more than 20 such artists w...

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