N.Y.) Museum of Modern Art (New York
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271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
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English
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"At the heart of this book lies the work of the great American photographer Walker Evans, who radically expanded the possibilities of photography as an art. Photographers before Evans had certainly conceived of their pictures as art, but in order to make that claim they had most often aimed at a cultivated visual style that would advertise its differences from the vast mass of reportorial and vernacular photography. Evan's work of the late 1920s and...
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168 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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What is a print? This volume aims to answer that question by exploring the four basic printmaking techniques--woodcut, intaglio, lithography and screenprint--that have been used to create some of the most iconic images in modern art, from Paul Gauguin's Noa Noa to Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe. Illustrated with works from The Museum of Modern Art's superlative collection of prints, the book is divided into four sections that provide an overview introduction...
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255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 32 cm
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English
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"Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Louise Lawler: WHY PICTURES NOW', at The Museum of Modern Art, this volume charts the creative practice of one of the most influential artists working in the fields of picture-making and institutional critique. For the past 40 years, Louise Lawler has raised questions about art-about the circumstances that produce it, its circulation and the societal frameworks in which it appears. Many of the ideas that...
19) Friedlander
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480 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 34 cm
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English
20) Jackson Pollock
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336 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 x 31 cm
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English