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Inventory of Shimmers Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art
ISBN: HB: 9783791356112, Prestel Publishing, March 2018
104 pp., 30.5x20 cm, 40 colour illus.
Compiling the work of 15 international artists, this generously illustrated book provides a multi-faceted lens through which to explore ideas of affect and intimacy. Affect is an essentially indefinable, largely non-conscious quality that correlate...
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£27,50
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Inventur Art in Germany, 1943-55
ISBN: HB: 9780300229202, Yale University Press, February 2018
430 pp., 27x22.9 cm, 308 colour and black&white illus.
As Germany went through a period of intense physical and moral stocktaking in the wake of World War II, the country's artists responded by creating highly charged works and engaging in heated debates about artistic practice and its relationship to th...
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£45,00
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Intensive Care Unit
ISBN: HB: 9783954762125, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, October 2017
192 pp., 32x29 cm, 237 colour and black&white illus., language: English / German
Space is a valuable resource in the working world with vast unrecognized and untapped potential. Deutsche Telekom AG, working with the communications agency Orange Council, has demonstrated that there is a different way. Within just a few months, its...
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£37,50
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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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£30,00
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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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Inventing Downtown Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965
ISBN: HB: 9783791355580, Prestel Publishing, December 2016
296 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 225 colour illus.
While the achievements of New York City's most renowned postwar artists – de Kooning, Pollock, Rothko, Franz Kline – have been studied in depth, a large cadre of lesser-known but influential artists came of age between 1952 and 1965. Also understudie...
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£55,00
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In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde An Anthropologist Investigates the Contemporary Art Museum
ISBN: PB: 9780226418124, ISBN: HB: 9780226173818, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In 2008, anthropologist Matti Bunzl was given rare access to observe the curatorial department of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. For five months, he sat with the institution's staff, witnessing firsthand what truly goes on behind the scenes at...
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£13,00
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£18,00
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Imagine New Imagery in Italian Art 1960-1969
ISBN: PB: 9788831723787, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
288 pp., 28.7x23.6 cm, 319 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! A seminal experience on the Italian art scene of the 1960s. At the height of the economic miracle of the 1960s, artistic experiments in Italy kept following one another, mixed and merged with an extraordinary speed and inte...
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£38,99
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Idol Structures Sculptures and Photographs by Matt Siber
ISBN: PB: 9780985096014, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, March 2016
50 pp., 22.8x30.5 cm, 20 colour plates
"Idol Structures" accompanies an exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum of recent photographs and sculptures by Chicago-based artist Matt Siber, whose work explores the systems of corporate and mass-media communication that permeate the urban landscape....
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£22,50
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Inquisitive Eyes
ISBN: PB: 9781908326850, Casemate, Sansom & Co, February 2016
132 pp., 27x21 cm, 100 colour illus.
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£20,00
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