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Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance: Detroit 1967-2017 - Paperback

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by Jens Hoffmann (Editor), Elysia Borowy-Reeder (Foreword by), Marsha Music (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance is inspired by the vital history of music in Detroit and the legacy of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion. It connects Detroit's musical and political histories with a wide range of artworks, music ephemera and artifacts to offer a listening space for the rebellion's reverberations. This historic event is related to more recent social movements, from Occupy to Bl...

Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s - Hardcover

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by Jason C. Kuo (Author)Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s is a study of formal and informal meanings of Haipai ("Shanghai School" or "Shanghai Style"), as seen through the paintings of the Shanghai school as well as other media of visual representation. The book provides us a point of entry into the nexus of relationships that structured the encounter between China and the West as experienced by the treaty-port Chinese in their everyday life. Exploring such relationships gives us a bett...

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Joe Brainard: The Nancy Book - Hardcover

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by Joe Brainard (Artist), Ron Padgett (Editor), Ann Lauterbach (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Fifteen years of Joe Brainard's illustrated appropriation of classic comic strip character, NancyFrom 1963 to 1978, Joe Brainard created more than 100 artworks that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and sent her into a variety of astonishing situations. The Nancy Book is the first collection of Brainard's Nancy texts, drawings, collages and paintings, with full page reproductions of mo...

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Nancy Spero: Torture of Women - Hardcover

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by Nancy Spero (Artist), Lisa Pearson (Editor), Diana Nemiroff (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Torture of Women, Spero's epic, 14 panels, 125-foot-long collage work, fuses startling imagery from ancient mythology with hand-printed and typewritten first-person testimonies of abuse--from ancient times through the present. This unique volume zooms in, translating the work into nearly 100 pages of detailed, legible reproductions. Number of Pages: 156 Dimensions: 0.71 x 9.41 x 8.81 IN Illustrated: Yes ...

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Tantra Song: Tantric Painting from Rajasthan - Hardcover

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by Franck André Jamme (Editor), Lawrence Rinder (Introduction by), Franck André Jamme (Text by (Art/Photo Books)) A revelatory volume on an occluded genre of Indian art, Tantra Song is a convergence of East and West, the spiritual and the aesthetic, the ancient and the modernThis collection of rare, abstract Tantra drawings was conceived when the French poet Franck Andr Jamme stumbled on a small catalogue of Tantric art at a Paris bookseller's stall. The volume included writings by Octavio P...

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Sophie Calle: The Address Book - Hardcover

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by Sophie Calle (Artist)The Address Book, a key and controversial work in Sophie Calle's oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. Having found a lost address book on the street in Paris, Calle copied the pages before returning it anonymously to its owner. She then embarked on a search to come to know this stranger by contacting listed individuals--in essence, following him through the map of his acquaintances. Originally published as a serial in the newspaper Lib r...

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It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image + Text Work by Women Artists & Writers - Hardcover

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by Lisa Pearson (Editor)A marvelously bold interdisciplinary anthology, It Is Almost That collects works by women artists and writers who have constructed hybrid environments that merge image and text. The works in this collection are supremely imaginative in both form and content: from the semi-autobiographical novel painted by a young artist who died in the Holocaust (Charlotte Salomon) to Alison Knowles' computer-generated chance operation for "imagining" houses and their inhabitants; from...

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Francisco Matto: The Modern and the Mythic - Paperback

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by Francisco Matto (Artist), Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro (Editor), Robert Morgan (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The first comprehensive U.S. publication on a pioneer of Latin American artEstablishing congruences between Modernist abstraction and the Pre-Columbian traditions of the ancient Americas, Uruguayan artist Francisco Matto (1911-1995) was a pioneer of Latin American art, and one of the most significant students of El Taller Torres-García, the workshop school established by Joaquín Torres-Garcí...

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by Mary Conover (Author)Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press Alchemy of Light offers an intimate look at the aesthetic world Mary Conover forms from the disparate influences of her life, the Jungian heritage, and the ineffable presence of the sea. The book explores the relationship between the wild and empty places where Conover works and her ideas about the world and her place in it. In palimpsest-like abstractions, she locates the search for self in the b...

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It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973 - Paperback

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by Rebecca McGrew (Editor), Glenn Phillips (Editor), Marie Shurkus (Contribution by)From 1969 to 1973, a series of radical art projects took place at the far eastern edge of Los Angeles County at the Pomona College Museum of Art, in Claremont, California. Here, Hal Glicksman, a pioneering curator in Light and Space art and former assistant to Walter Hopps, and Helene Winer, later the director of Artists Space and founder of Metro Pictures gallery in New York, curated landmark exhibitions by y...

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by Ghada Amer (Artist), Maura Reilly (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Laurie Ann Farrell (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Over the past 20 years, Ghada Amer's quest to forge an aesthetic language for the oppression of women has established her as one of the most important and widely exhibited contemporary artists. Born in Cairo in 1963, and moving to France at age 11, from early on in life Amer was witness to the cross-cultural subjugation of women, whether from increasing religious conservatism in Egy...

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In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas - Hardcover

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by Joan Jonas (Artist), Joan Simon (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Johanna Burton (Text by (Art/Photo Books))One of the most continuously influential figures of the past half century, Joan Jonas was among the first artists to embrace the forms of video, performance and installation. From her beginnings as a sculptor, and her emergence in the New York art and performance scenes of the 1960s and 70s (including the seminal Vertical Roll video piece of 1972, in which the titular television malfuncti...

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Mark Bradford: Merchant Posters - Hardcover

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by Mark Bradford (Artist), Malik Gaines (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Ernest Hardy (Text by (Art/Photo Books))This book gathers for the first time an extensive selection of American artist--or "builder and demolisher," as he describes himself--Mark Bradford's gorgeous, searing and heavily textured "merchant posters." The original printed posters, collected by Bradford from around his Central Los Angeles neighborhood, are brightly colored local advertisements that target the area's vulnerable l...

Tree of Life, Mythical Archetype - Paperback

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by Gregory R. Haynes (Author)The oldest scriptures at the heart of every major religion make reference to a mysterious tree at the center of the world. Its fruits, guarded by an evil serpent, confer immortality. A nearby stream of water divides into four rivers flowing into the four cardinal directions. The vicinity of this tree is said to be the birthplace of the first human ancestors. This legend is the oldest, most widely dispersed, and most mysterious religious idea known to mankind. The ...

Perspectives on Connoisseurship of Chinese Painting - Hardcover

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by Jason C. Kuo (Editor)The aims of this volume are to reflect on the fundamental issues in the theory and practice of connoisseurship of Chinese painting in particular and those of connoisseurship of art in general. One of the most important challenges facing art historians and museum professionals today is that graduate schools have produced art historians with serious weakness, particularly a lack of direct firsthand experience with works of art in the original. If we base our construction...

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by Tony Feher (Artist), Claudia Schmuckli (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Russell Ferguson (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Bottles aligned on shelves or suspended in the air, jars of marbles and dye-filled tubes: form, substance and structure emerge from deceptively humble means in the sculpture of Tony Feher. His work uses gravity, light and repetition to isolate and animate everyday objects, creating a sculptural territory that Feher can rightfully claim as entirely his own. Published in conjunctio...

Golf Sayings Wit & Wisdom of a Good Walk Spoiled - Paperback

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by Bradford Gordon Wheler (Author)"GOLF SAYINGS: wit & wisdom of a good walk spoiled." This golf art book showcases artwork along with quotations about golf that covers topics including sportsmanship, golf humor, the pros, Scotland, and even presidential golf. This collaborative publication has two goals in mind: first, to honor and highlight the great game of golf though text and artwork, and secondly, to showcase the talents of new and emerging artists who focus on creating golf art. Bo...

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by Peter Fischli (Artist), David Weiss (Artist), Emily Wei Rales (Editor)Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012) collaborate to transform the stuff of ordinary life into a series of quizzical, whimsical, even disquieting encounters. Fascinated with unconventional subject matter and material, Fischli and Weiss toy with the idea of "high art," questioning popular narratives and movements in art and cultural history. Peter Fischli David Weiss presents an in-depth survey of the arti...

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by Brice Marden (Artist), Emily Wei Rales (Editor), Emily Wei Rales (Interviewer)Throughout his career, American artist Brice Marden (born 1938) has explored various modes of painterly abstraction, producing monochrome canvases in nuanced, muted hues as well as calligraphic compositions on a grand scale. This book marks the long-term exhibition of Moss Sutra with the Seasons (2010-15) at Glenstone Museum, a monumental five-panel painting commissioned by Glenstone and inspired by the artist's ...

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by Emily Wei Rales (Editor), Anne Reeve (Editor), Ali Nemerov (Editor)For nearly 50 years Japanese-born artist On Kawara (1932-2014) devoted himself to a quiet practice of marking time, incrementally, via various methods and media. He is best known for a continuous series of monochromatic canvases, collectively titled Today, upon which each work's date of execution is painted in precise white script. This book marks the long-term exhibition of the Today triptych Moon Landing (1969) at Glensto...

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by Charles Ray (Artist), Emily Wei Rales (Editor), Nora Severson Cafritz (Editor)In his sculptural practice, American artist Charles Ray (born 1953) has long been fascinated by the concept of representation, the depiction of the human form and questions of scale. Known for his keen sense of--and respect for--the uncanny, Ray has carved a widely admired path that crisscrosses the arenas of minimalism and conceptual art, while continually pushing the boundaries of visual perception. This book m...

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by Roy Lichtenstein (Artist), Graham Bader (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), David Salle (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Roy Lichtenstein Reflected presents a selection of paintings that treat ideas of reflections and doubling. A strategy that spanned Lichtenstein's career, mirroring was explored in his Reflections series of the 1980s, in which he used his early work as subject matter, fracturing it with mirrored glass. Reflected also includes drawings, source materials and exclusive clippings from the...

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Perfectly American: The Art-Union & Its Artists - Paperback

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by Patricia Hills (Contribution by), Peter J. Brownlee (Contribution by), Randy Ramer (Contribution by)The American Art-Union, based in New York City, was founded in 1844 with the goal of fostering the arts in America through education and publication. Modeled after European organizations, the American Art-Union sought to establish a national aesthetic in the United States and unite all regions of the country through art.A small subscription fee entitled members of the Art-Union to at least o...

The Illustrated Guide to Wildlife of Cambodia: Paintings and Text by students from the Liger Learning Center in Cambodia - Hardcover

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by Eleanor Hart (Editor), Valentina Dubasky (Editor)THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO WILDLIFE OF CAMBODIA is the first book of its kind to be illustrated, researched, written and translated entirely by Cambodian middle-school children. It provides an overview of Cambodia's most representative, as well as unique and endangered, wildlife. The book includes over 130 original watercolor paintings of Cambodian mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, and seven paintings of Cambodia's unique ecosyst...

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by Robin Wilson (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Brandon LaBelle (Editor), Elena Biserna (Contribution by)Room Tone was initiated by artist Brandon LaBelle to examine the relationship between sound and architecture. LaBelle sent field recordings of his apartment to 20 architects, designers and artists, each of whom was invited to construct a physical model of the apartment based solely on these recordings. This publication includes documentation of the architectural renderings, essays, an intervi...

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by Harold Mendez (Author), Tricia Van Eck (Preface by)"Glorious prospect, but for the mist." Texts for Nothing is a fictional conversation in the form of a tragicomedy. Two characters, Braille Teeth (from a painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat) and Nobody (from the film Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch), share a difficult journey across a landscape abstract and universal yet sharply particularized. With appropriations from Jean-Paul Sartre, TV on the Radio, Deadwood, Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, S...

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by Michael Graham (Author), Khorey Smith (Author), Steffani Jemison (Author)Truth and Greatness is a collaboration in the form of a nonfiction novella and two poems. In November 2009, Steffani Jemison commissioned a poem from Houston-based spoken word performers Michael "Truth" Graham and Khorey "Greatness" Smith. The novella is her transcription, in narrative form, of the creative process of the poets as they write, including their conversations about language, politics, street literature, t...

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by Steffani Jemison (Editor), Nikki Pressley (Designed by)THE READER is a museum catalog in the form of a turn-of-the-century magazine. This publication was created as a part of the exhibition "Museum as Hub: Steffani Jemison and Jamal Cyrus: Alpha's Bet Is Not Over Yet" at The New Museum of Contemporary Art. Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.24 x 11.02 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: October 19, 2011

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Ferreira Gullar in Conversation with Ariel Jiménez - Hardcover

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by Ariel Jiménez (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Ferreira Gullar (Text by (Art/Photo Books))As an art critic, political essayist, playwright and poet, Ferreira Gullar (born 1930) has been a key figure in the Brazilian cultural scene of the last 60 years. His extensive poetic output has been closely intertwined with his work as an art critic, from his first major collection of poems in 1954, through his Concrete and Neoconcrete poems from 1957 to 1959 and the "Neoconcrete Manifesto" and the "Theo...

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Jesús Soto in Conversation with Ariel Jiménez - Hardcover

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by Jesús Soto (Artist), Ariel Jiménez (Contribution by)Venezuela's primary exponent of Kinetic and Op art, Jes s Soto (1923-2005) is one of the most important Latin American artists of the twentieth century. Here, in conversations with Ariel Jim nez, Soto recounts his childhood in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela; his first encounters with painting; his unending search for "thinking" time and space as dimensions beyond pictorial representation; and the development of his ideas that finally lead him ...

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Spirit of the Ojibwe: Images of Lac Courte Oreilles Elders - Paperback

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by Sara Balbin (Author), Thelma Nayquonabe (Author), James R. Bailey (Author)These extraordinary portraits of Ojibwe elders convey the warmth, the kindness, the humor, and the ongoing endurance of our people. What a thoughtful celebration --Louise ErdrichSpirit of the Ojibwe is an intimate gathering of oral biographies and stunning color portraits of thirty-two Lac Courte Oreilles Indian elders painted by artist Sara Balbin.Their tribal history, told in story and image, is a compelling tale o...

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by Ralph Humphrey (Artist), Klaus Kertess (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), David Pagel (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Ralph Humphrey (1932-1990) was one of the foremost exponents of postminimalist painting in 1960s New York. As much a sculptor as a painter, Humphrey created surfaces of almost absurd tactility using casein and modeling paste: thick slabs of knobby, brightly hued pigment, arranged in fat lozenges, grids or squares. These works loom out at the viewer with both gravity and humor, insisti...