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Silke Otto-Knapp In the Waiting Room
ISBN: PB: 9780941548816, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, February 2021
132 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 colour plates, 38 halftones
Los Angeles-based artist Silke Otto-Knapp has developed a painting practice characterized by its rigorous process and attentiveness to the medium's possibilities. Using layers of black watercolor pigment, she builds up delicate surfaces, producing su...
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£28,00
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Colombia, Peru: Bajo Putumayo-Cotuhe Rapid Biological and Social Inventories Report 31
ISBN: PB: 9780982841990, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, November 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates
In October 2019, a large multidisciplinary team of geologists, biologists, social scientists, and local residents explored the rivers, forests, and human communities around the junction of the Putumayo and Cotuhe Rivers in the lowland Amazonian regio...
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£24,00
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Latoya Ruby Frazier The Last Cruze
ISBN: PB: 9780941548793, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, June 2020
340 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 56 colour plates, 116 halftones
As the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio halted production and faced possible closure, displacing its workers, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier joined with these workers, their families, and their local union leaders to tell the story of the plant in...
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£40,00
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Unthought Environments
ISBN: PB: 9780941548755, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2020
215 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 94 colour plates, 7 halftones
"Unthought Environments" brings together art influenced by the forces that are integral to our daily lives, yet are easily forgotten or overlooked, such as the ancient elements of air, fire, water, and earth; weather systems; geopolitics; and the hid...
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£30,00
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Let me consider it from here
ISBN: PB: 9780941548762, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, September 2019
104 pp., 21.5x17.7 cm, 52 colour plates
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, "Let me consider it from here" features color reproductions of artworks by Saul Fletcher, Brook Hsu, and Tetsumi Kudo and transcriptions of the audio works of Constance DeJong, alongside newly co...
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£19,00
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Alejandro Cesarco Song
ISBN: HB: 9780941548748, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, September 2019
112 pp., 26.6x19 cm, 28 colour plates
"Alejandro Cesarco: Song", published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Renaissance Society, brings together both new commissions and existing works. In the exhibition, Cesarco creates rhythm by incorporating silences and withh...
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£19,00
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Mathias Poledna Substance
ISBN: PB: 9780941548670, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, April 2019
132 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 93 colour plates
In 2015 the Renaissance Society presented an exhibition of newly commissioned works by Los Angeles-based artist Mathias Poledna. Coinciding with the museum's centennial, it marked the final show in the institution's first hundred years. For this pr...
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£34,00
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Richard Rezac Address
ISBN: HB: 9780941548731, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, March 2019
168 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm
The title of Richard Rezac's Renaissance Society exhibition, "Address", plays on the multivalent quality of the word. As a noun, it refers to a unique identifier of a precise location. As a verb, it refers to a form of communication crafted for a spe...
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£30,00
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Sadie Benning Shared Eye
ISBN: PB: 9780941548700, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, March 2019
184 pp., 25.4x19.6 cm, 72 colour plates
This richly illustrated volume offers an in-depth look into artist Sadie Benning's exhibition "Shared Eye", presented at the Renaissance Society and the Kunsthalle Basel. The forty mixed-media panels in "Shared Eye" defy easy categorization: they inc...
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£27,00
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Robert Grosvenor
ISBN: HB: 9780941548724, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, October 2018
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 67 colour plates
Over a fifty-year career, Robert Grosvenor has produced a body of work that is at once solidly physical and conceptual, muscular and fluid. Grosvenor frequently uses industrial materials and found objects as he experiments with texture and scale, res...
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