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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...
24) Friedlander
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480 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 34 cm
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English
28) Jackson Pollock
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336 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 x 31 cm
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English
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256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, plans ; 31 cm
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English
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Published for a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalog reveals new perspectives on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, a designer so prolific and familiar as to nearly preclude critical reexamination. Structured as a series of inquiries into the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives at Taliesin West, Arizona (recently acquired by MoMA and Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University), the book is a collection of scholarly...
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495 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
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English
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"Portraiture has managed to flourish in modern painting in spite of the popularization of photography, the decline of traditional patronage, and modernism's increasing emphasis on abstraction. However problematic modern styles have been for representational art, painters have continued to discover new possibilities in the imaging of the human face. This book explores the challenge of the modernist portrait through the multiple solutions proposed by...
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355 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 28 cm
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English
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Bruce Nauman is widely acknowledged as a central figure in contemporary art, and the stringent questioning of values -- both aesthetic and moral -- that has long sustained his project remains urgent today. For more than fifty years, Nauman has explored how mutable experiences of time, space, sound, movement, and language provide an insecure foundation for our understanding of our place in the world. This richly illustrated catalogue, which includes...
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320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
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English
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Published in conjunction with the first large-scale retrospective of Picasso's sculpture in the US since The Museum of Modern Art's historic show of 1967, Picasso Sculpture is a sweeping survey of the artist's profoundly innovative and influential work in three dimensions. Over the course of his long career, Picasso devoted himself to sculpture wholeheartedly, if episodically, using both traditional and unconventional materials and techniques. Unlike...
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247 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 32 cm
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English
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"This is a revelatory reassessment of one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century: Charles White (1918-1979) is best known for bold, large-scale paintings and drawings of African Americans, meticulously executed works that depict human relationships and socioeconomic struggles with a remarkable sensitivity. This comprehensive study offers a much-needed reexamination of the artist's career and legacy. With handsome reproductions...
39) The toe tactic
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1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Mona Peek visits her childhood home only to remember the grief she still feels for her dead father and nostalgia for the time they once shared.
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72 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
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English
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"At once a catalogue and an artist's book, this publication highlights the Museum's unparalleled collection of prints and books by William Kentridge - nearly fifty works made over the past three decades - and features a special forty-page project created by the South African artist in response to his printmaking - a central, if underrecognized aspect of his art." "Published to coincide with the Museum's presentation of William Kentridge: Five Themes,...