Zhang Peili
Record. Repeat.
ISBN: HB: 9780300226225,
Yale University Press,
A+D Series,
June 2017
96 pp., 27,3x20,3 cm, 60 colour illus.
96 pp., 27,3x20,3 cm, 60 colour illus.
Considered the first Chinese artist to work in video, Zhang Peili (b. 1957) manipulates perspective, close-ups, and framing to create astonishing recordings of banal repeated actions, such as breaking glass, reading, washing, shaving, and blowing bub...
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Aleksandr Zhitomirsky
Photomontage as a Weapon of World War II and the Cold War
ISBN: HB: 9780300219180,
Yale University Press,
A+D Series,
January 2017
368 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 300 colour illus.
368 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 300 colour illus.
The first comprehensive study in English of the Soviet propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, who conceived and deployed his striking photomontages as a political weapon The leading Russian propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky (1907-1993) made p...
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£45.00
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Edlis/Neeson Collection
The Art Institute of Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780300218732,
Yale University Press,
A+D Series,
March 2016
128 pp., 28,0x24,8 cm, 60 colour illus.
128 pp., 28,0x24,8 cm, 60 colour illus.
Marking an important moment in the Art Institute of Chicago's 136-year history, this book documents an exceptional gift to the museum: the Edlis/Neeson Collection, consisting of 44 stellar works of contemporary art. Among the highlights are major pai...
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Martin Puryear
Multiple Dimensions
ISBN: HB: 9780300184549,
Yale University Press,
A+D Series,
October 2015
160 pp., 24,1x20,3 cm, 140 colour illus.
160 pp., 24,1x20,3 cm, 140 colour illus.
American sculptor Martin Puryear (b. 1941) creates work that combines the clean elegance of minimalism and the simplicity of traditional materials. His stunning sculptures explore themes of identity, ethnicity, and history, and are rich with social a...
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They Seek a City
Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910-1950
ISBN: HB: 9780300184532,
Yale University Press,
A+D Series,
March 2013
112 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 85 colour images, 10 black&white illus.
112 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 85 colour images, 10 black&white illus.
In the first half of the 20th century, thousands of newcomers – Eastern European emigres, Mexican immigrants, and Southerners both black and white – flocked to Chicago. These new residents included artists who made significant contributions to the vi...
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Jindrich Heisler
Surrealism Under Pressure, 1938-1953
ISBN: HB: 9780300179699,
Yale University Press,
A+D Series,
April 2012
144 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 80 colour illus.
144 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 80 colour illus.
Czech poet and photographer Jindrich Heisler (1914-1953) joined the Czech Surrealist Group in 1938, just as Nazi occupation of the country was driving the movement and Czech artists underground. Heisler published his first book of poetry a year later...
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£35.00
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Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life
Early Twentieth-Century European Modernism
ISBN: HB: 9780300166095,
Yale University Press,
A+D Series,
July 2011
160 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, 160 colour illus.
160 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, 160 colour illus.
Beginning around 1910, vanguard artists demanded that true art go beyond the intellectual and transform daily life. This volume highlights the work of six influential European artists who took this idea into the wider world, where it merged enthusias...
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Public Notice 3
Jitish Kallat at the Art Institute of Chicago
The Swami Vivekananda's speech to the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 is the centrepiece of Indian artist Jitish Kallat's new work, "Public Notice 3". The installation went on view at the Art Institute of Chicago on September 11, 2...
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£18.00
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Richard Hawkins
Third Man
ISBN: HB: 9780300166255,
Yale University Press,
A+D Series,
January 2011
160 pp., 31,0x23,6 cm, 130 colour illus.
160 pp., 31,0x23,6 cm, 130 colour illus.
This stunning book offers an important mid-career retrospective of the work of American artist Richard Hawkins (born 1961), whose paintings, collages, and mixed-media pieces are making a crucial contribution to the contemporary art scene. Colour plat...
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American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago
World War I to 1955
ISBN: HB: 9780300117387,
Yale University Press,
A+D Series,
February 2010
376 pp., 30,5x24,1 cm, 140 black&white illus., 250 colour illus.
376 pp., 30,5x24,1 cm, 140 black&white illus., 250 colour illus.
The first publication to focus on the Art Institute's outstanding collection of American modernism, this volume includes over 175 important paintings, sculptures, decorative art objects, and works on paper made in North America between World War II a...
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£55.00
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