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Willem de Kooning The Artist's Materials

Lake Susan F.

ISBN: PB: 9781606060216, Getty Publications, November 2010
112 pp., 25.6x18.9 cm, 34 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

This is the first systematic and truly methodical study of de Kooning's idiosyncratic working methods and use of materials. This in-depth study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Dutch-born American abstract expressionist painter, fro...

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What Is Contemporary Art?

Smith Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780226764313, University of Chicago Press, October 2009
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 75 halftones

Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today's multifaceted definition, Terry Smith brilliantly shows that an hist...

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With Love From Haha Essays and Notes on a Collective Practice

Jacob Wendy, Palmer Laurie, Ploof John

ISBN: PB: 9780945323136, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, September 2008
172 pp., 22.6x19 cm, 120 colour plates, 27 halftones

Since its inception in 1988, the art collective Haha has created twenty-one projects – including sculptural installations, community-based projects, and video works – in the United States and Europe. Members Richard House, Wendy Jacob, Laurie Palmer,...

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Window – Interface

Eckmann Sabine, Koepnick Lutz

ISBN: PB: 9780936316222, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, August 2007
96 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 40 colour plates

Windows both connect and divide interior and exterior, public and private spaces. Interfaces update the function of the window in today's world of omnipresent screens and digital information".Window's Interface", based on a forthcoming exhibition at...

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William Wegman, Funney - Strange

Simon Joan

ISBN: PB: 9780300114447, Yale University Press, March 2006
320 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 250 colour illus.

This fascinating book reveals the full range of William Wegman's art. Beloved by the general public for signature photographs of his troupe of Weimaraners, Wegman is also an immensely important figure in the contemporary art world.A pioneer video-mak...

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Writings on Art

Rothko Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300114409, Yale University Press, March 2006
168 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm

While the collected writings of many major 20th-century artists, including Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell and Ad Reinhardt, have been published, Mark Rothko's writings have only recently come to light, beginning with the critically acclaimed "Arti...

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Willem de Kooning: Garden in Delft Landscapes 1928-1988

Anfam David

ISBN: HB: 9780974960715, DAP, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, February 2006
62 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 26 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This carefully culled portfolio of 14 paintings, meticulously reproduced and documented, spans 60 years – from the time of the master's arrival in America to the late 80s. Readers will find rare examples of de Kooning's ear...

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Biography & Memoires

Writings/Interviews

Serra Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226748801, University of Chicago Press, August 1994
286 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 32 halftones

One of the most important sculptors of this century, Richard Serra has been a spokesman on the nature and status of art in our day. Best known for site-specific works in steel, Serra has much to say about the relation of sculpture to place, whether u...

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William D Berry 1954-1956 Field Sketches

Berry Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780912006369, ISBN: HB: 9780912006345, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 1989
304 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm

This book offers a unique glimpse of Alaska and its creatures, rendered on paper by a man who loved and respected them. William D. Berry was nationally known as a wildlife artist, but to many Alaskans, he was also a kind of state treasure and certain...

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