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Thinking 3D Books, Images and Ideas from Leonardo to the Present

Green Daryl, Moretti Laura

ISBN: HB: 9781851245253, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2019
200 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 80 colour illus.

During the Renaissance, artists and illustrators developed the representation of truthful three-dimensional forms into a highly skilled art. As reliable illustrations of three-dimensional subjects became more prevalent, they also influenced the way i...

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Tarsila do Amaral Cannibalizing Modernism

Pedrosa Adriano, Oliva Fernando

ISBN: HB: 9788531000706, DAP, MASP, October 2019
360 pp., 28.2x21.3 cm, 358 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Featuring a tip-on cover images and paper changes throughout, "Cannibalizing Modernism" is the first comprehensive English-language catalog on the Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973), a key figure in Latin Ameri...

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Takesada Matsutani

Blistene Bernard, Lasvignes Serge

ISBN: HB: 9783906915357, DAP, Centre Pompidou, August 2019
236 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 123 colour illus., 102 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Accompanying a major survey on Japanese-born, Paris-based artist Takesada Matsutani (born 1937) at the Centre Pompidou, this volume reproduces works from 1958 to 2019. In the late 1950s, Matsutani combined classic nihonga...

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Trenton Doyle Hancock Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass

Markonish Denise

ISBN: HB: 9783791358215, Prestel Publishing, July 2019
224 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 180 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

Trenton Doyle Hancock has transformed his childhood love of comic books, toys, and superhero culture into his own creation myth. That mythology and the fascinating, multimedia iterations that it has sparked are told in this captivating and revealing...

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Tania Bruguera Talking to Power / Hablandole al Poder

Sanroman Lucia, Kantor Susie

ISBN: PB: 9780982678992, DAP, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, August 2018
200 pp., 22.9x15.9 cm, 6 duotones, 80 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Talking to Power / Hablandole al Poder" surveys Bruguera's artworks for the public sphere created between 1985 and 2017, all of which position art as a resource for social change. This collection of works offers the reader...

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Tomma Abts

Rondeau James, Carey-Thomas Lizzie, Nesin Kate, Rebentisch Juliane

ISBN: HB: 9780300233872, Yale University Press, June 2018
204 pp., 34.3x22.9 cm, 100 colour illus.

With a rigorous approach and self-imposed limitations to both scale and composition, Tomma Abts (b. 1967) has reinvigorated painterly abstraction and its relevance within contemporary art. Using a fixed canvas size and a vertical format, Abts deploys...

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Transatlantic Encounters Latin American Artists in Paris Between the Wars

Greet Michele

ISBN: HB: 9780300228427, Yale University Press, February 2018
296 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 137 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

Paris was the artistic capital of the world in the 1920s and '30s, providing a home and community for the French and international avant-garde, whose experiments laid the groundwork for artistic production throughout the rest of the century. Latin Am...

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Truth 24 Frames Per Second

Delahunty Gavin, Filreis Kelly, Brodbeck Anna Katherine

ISBN: PB: 9780300233056, Yale University Press, January 2018
208 pp., 20x15.9 cm, 86 colour illus., 36 black&white illus.

Offering historical, social, and artistic context for some of the most influential artists and filmmakers from the 1960s to the present day, this timely book looks at three filmic techniques – appropriation, documentary film, and montage – and how th...

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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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Towards an Aesthetics of Production

Egenhofer Sebastion

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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