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Seeing Slowly
ISBN: HB: 9783791383835, Prestel Publishing, August 2017
248 pp., 24x18 cm, 60 colour illus.
When it comes to viewing art, living in the information age is not necessarily a benefit. So argues Michael Findlay in this book that encourages a new way of looking at art. Much of this thinking involves stripping away what we have been taught and i...
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£22,50
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Towards an Aesthetics of Production
ISBN: PB: 9783037348857, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2017
208 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 48 halftones
Throughout the twentieth century, art history has been too narrowly focused on formalism. As a result, analyses regularly reduced works of art to their materials, texture, and composition. By contrast, art historian Sebastian Egenhofer takes Gilles D...
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Afterall Spring/Summer 2017, Issue 43
ISBN: PB: 9781846381812, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 80 colour plates
Issue 43 of "Afterall" reflects on artistic practices that challenge the legacies of colonialism. Looking at the work of Chimurenga, Lubaina Himid, and Duane Linklater, among others, contributions ask how artists can create self-initiated structures...
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£11,50
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Isa Genzken Sculpture as World Receiver
ISBN: HB: 9780226409979, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
192 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 68 colour plates, 12 halftones
The work of German sculptor Isa Genzken is brilliantly receptive to the ever-shifting conditions of modern life. In this first book devoted to the artist, Lisa Lee reflects on Genzken's tendency to think across media, attending to sculptures, photogr...
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Boros Collection Bunker Berlin, No. 3
ISBN: HB: 9783954761500, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, July 2017
256 pp., 32x24 cm, 150 colour illus., language: English / German
The Boros Collection's third presentation in the former Reichsbahn bunker showcases recently acquired works in dialogue with pieces from the 1990s and 2000s. Visitors from all over the world are invited to explore the creative positions set out acros...
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£50,00
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Ikemura und Nolde
ISBN: HB: 9783954762002, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, July 2017
112 pp., 31x23 cm, 90 colour illus., language: English / German
Leiko Ikemura (b. 1951 Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan; lives and works in Berlin and Cologne) has carefully studied various positions in classic European modernism, including the art of Odilon Redon and Emil Nolde. She has long been fascinated by Nolde's...
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£37,50
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Moscow Vanguard Art 1922-1992
ISBN: HB: 9780300179750, Yale University Press, July 2017
288 pp., 27.7x22.6 cm, 148 colour illus., 129 black&white illus.
Ambitious and interdisciplinary, "Moscow Vanguard Art: 1922-1992" tells the story of generations of artists who resisted Soviet dictates on aesthetics, spanning the Russian avant-garde, socialist realism, and Soviet postwar art in one volume. Drawing...
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£45,00
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Huun Art / Thought from Mexico
ISBN: PB: 9788416282968, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, July 2017
208 pp., 24.1x19.7 cm, illus.
HUUN is a new annual magazine-book that offers a space for artistic expression.Contributors include poets, critics, fiction writers, composers, and artists such as Vivian Abenshunshan, Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Luigi Amara, Edga...
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£19,50
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Recording Machine Art and Fact During the Cold War
ISBN: HB: 9780300187274, Yale University Press, July 2017
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 30 colour illus., 125 black&white illus.
A revealing look at the irrevocable change in art during the 1960s and its relationship to the modern culture of fact. This refreshing and erudite book offers a new understanding of the transformation of photography and the visual arts around 1968....
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Nothing and Everything Seven Artists, 1947-1962
ISBN: PB: 9783952446171, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, July 2017
104 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 3 black&white illus., 96 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Nothing and Everything" examines the synergistic relationship between artists and composers living in New York City between the end of World War II and the early 1960s. It features seven artists and composers – Louise Bour...
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