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Contemporary Art

Busine Laurent, Gielen Denis, Oursler Tony

ISBN: HB: 9780300204483, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2014
256 pp., 22.2x29.2 cm, 190 colour images, 10 black&white illus.

American artist Tony Oursler (b. 1957) gathers inspiration from the way people's desires are extended through interaction with mass media, specifically cinema, television and the internet, and creates fascinating video installations that combine word...

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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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They Seek a City Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910-1950

Oehler Sarah Kelly

ISBN: HB: 9780300184532, Yale University Press, A+D Series, March 2013
112 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 85 colour images, 10 black&white illus.

In the first half of the 20th century, thousands of newcomers – Eastern European emigres, Mexican immigrants, and Southerners both black and white – flocked to Chicago. These new residents included artists who made significant contributions to the vi...

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Thinking Contemporary Curating

Smith Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780916365868, DAP, Independent Curators International, October 2012
256 pp., 20.1x14 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. These include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimaginatio...

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Tantra Song Tantric Painting from Rajasthan

Jamme Franck Andre

ISBN: HB: 9780979956270, DAP, Siglio, October 2011
112 pp., 28.4x21.1 cm, 50 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This collection of rare, abstract Tantra drawings was conceived when the French poet Franck Andre Jamme stumbled on a small catalogue of Tantric art at a Paris bookseller's stall. The volume included writings by Octavio Paz...

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Tony Cragg Sculptures and Drawings

Elliott Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780300178982, Yale University Press, July 2011
100 pp., 30x24 cm, 90 colour illus.

Born in 1949, Tony Cragg is one of today's most celebrated and popular sculptors. Before studying art he worked as a laboratory technician, which has had an enormous influence on his practice. His work fuses art and science in a rich and arresting wa...

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To Make a World George Ault and 1940s America

Nemerov Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300172393, Yale University Press, May 2011
156 pp., 28.4x26.7 cm, 35 black&white illus., 55 colour illus.

An American painter usually associated with the Precisionist movement, George Copeland Ault (1891-1948) created works that provide a unique window on to the uncertainty and despair of the Second World War. Despite early commercial success in the 1920...

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Contemporary Art

Traveling the Spaceways Sun Ra, the Astro Black and other Solar Myths

Corbett John, Elms Anthony, Kapsalis Terri

ISBN: PB: 9780945323150, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2010
91 pp., 23.9x16.8 cm, 70 colour illus.

Sun Ra (1914-1993) – self-proclaimed visionary extraterrestrial of the "Angel Race", prophetic jazz band leader and composer, and lyrical proponent of Afro-futurism – was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century music. Though many of...

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Time Out of Joint Recall and Evocation in Recent Art

Fassi Luigi, Gallun Lucy, Schillinger Jakob

ISBN: PB: 9780300159028, Yale University Press, March 2010
120 pp., 21x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.

This engaging publication explores the artistic practices that employ evocation – the calling forth of past emotions, desires, frustrations, and memories – as a mode of connecting past and present. Featuring the work of emerging artists working in a...

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Thaddeus Strode Absolutes and Nothings

Eckmann Sabine, Malone Meredith

ISBN: HB: 9780936316246, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, March 2008
80 pp., 32.5x24.1 cm, 28 colour plates

Thaddeus Strode's vibrant large-scale paintings are universes unto themselves: wild mash-ups of California surf and skateboard culture, Zen philosophy, rock music, literature, film, and comic books".Absolutes and Nothings" marks the artist's first ma...

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