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Alicja Kwade

Lorenz Ulrike

ISBN: HB: 9783954761234, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, August 2017
128 pp., 26.5x24 cm, 65 colour illus., language: English / German

Creation Dialectical acuity and lucid absurdity are the defining characteristics of the sculptures and object constellations created by Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, 1979; lives and works in Berlin). The artist deftly combines elementary materials and o...

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Contemporary Art

Central Berlin DDR Limited

Schilgen Stephan, Wyst Andre M.

ISBN: HB: 9783954761869, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, August 2017
224 pp., 28x21 cm, 174 colour and black&white illus., language: English / German

Built between 1952 and 1958, Karl-Marx-Allee was socialist East Berlin's showcase boulevard. Well over a mile long, the wide street from Strausberger Platz to Frankfurter Tor is lined with seven- to nine-storey apartment blocks, the most extensive po...

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Rainer Fetting

Arndt Matthias

ISBN: HB: 9783954761999, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, August 2017
128 pp., 27x22 cm, 57 colour illus., language: English / German

If Berliners have heard of Rainer Fetting (b. Wilhelmshaven, 1949; lives and works in Berlin and Sylt), it is probably for his larger-than-life bronze statue of Willy Brandt at the Social Democratic Party's headquarters. But Fetting is actually best...

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Contemporary Art

Frederic Amat_Zootrop

ISBN: PB: 9788417047016, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, August 2017
200 pp., 30x20 cm, black&white photos

Amat's open conception of art has led him to incorporate a range of disciplines into his practice: painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, book illustration, audiovisual media, set design, and interventions into architectural spaces....

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Contemporary Art

Teresita Fernandez Wayfinding

Markonish Denise

ISBN: HB: 9783791356822, Prestel Publishing, August 2017
256 pp., 29.5x24 cm, 480 colour illus.

Teresita Fernandez creates elaborate installations that pull viewers into other worlds and environments, playing with scale, material and how we understand and navigate the landscape. The idea of wayfinding – moving from place to place or even gettin...

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Contemporary Art

Lumia Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light

Orgeman Keely, Turrell James, Borgen Maibritt, DeBlock Jason, Snow Carol, Zinman Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780300215182, Yale University Press, August 2017
172 pp., 27.3x23.5 cm, 161 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.

A long-overdue publication that restores Wilfred to the art-historical canon "Lumia" presents a long-overdue reevaluation of the groundbreaking artist Thomas Wilfred (1889-1968), whose unprecedented works prefigured light art in America. As early as...

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Making Art Concrete Works from Argentina and Brazil in the Coleccion Patricia Phelps Cisneros

Gottschaller Pia, Learner Tom, Perchuk Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781606065297, Getty Publications, August 2017
192 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

In the years after World War II, artists in Argentinaand Brazil experimented with geometric abstractionand engaged in lively debates about the role of theartwork in society. Some of these artists used novelsynthetic materials, creating objects that o...

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Anna Maria Maiolino

Molesworth Helen, Barcena Bryan

ISBN: HB: 9783791356860, Prestel Publishing, August 2017
192 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 135 colour illus., 97 black&white illus.

Born in Calabria, Italy, in 1942, Anna Maria Maiolino is one of the leading artists of her generation. Her work reflects the major cultural and political realities of postwar Europe and South America as well as issues of patriarchy, feminism, and imm...

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Contemporary Art

Prometheus 2017 Four Artists from Mexico Revisit Orozco

McGrew Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9781606065440, Getty Publications, August 2017
244 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Jose Clemente Orozco's 1930 mural, Prometheus, created for the Pomona College campus, is a dramatic and gripping examination of heroism. This thoughtful exhibition catalogue examines the multiple ways Orozco's vision resonates with four artists worki...

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Contemporary Art

Mel Bochner Voices

Sigler Jeremy

ISBN: HB: 9780300230352, Yale University Press, August 2017
96 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 43 colour illus.

Mel Bochner (b. 1940) is recognized as one of the leading figures in the development of Conceptual art in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. He pioneered the introduction of the use of language in the visual, probing the way they relate to one another...

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