Books For The Collector's Library

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1900: Art at the Crossroads by the agency of Robert Rosenblum and MaryAnne Steven (Abrams)

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Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being through Jonathan Fineberg (Abrams)

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A hundr years ago, European and American art were at a pivotal point in their unfolding Gerome, Bouguereau and Khnopff were the art stars of the day. Picasso, Matisse, Kandinsky and Mondrian were just starting on the outside The lavishly illustrated volume 1900: Art at the Crossroads, which accompanies an exhibition co-organized by dint of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, London, takes a shut up look at these artists as well as dozens of others. The true copy constitutes a provocative and thorough reassessment of the state of the arts a hundred ago.

Art Since 1940 is an acclaimed volume that tells the lively story of six decades of American and European art. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jonathan Fineberg has added a novel chapter to his 1995 classic, which incorporates up-to-the-minute discussions of novel trends in art.

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Marc Quinn

Essays by dint of Germano Celant, Darian Leader and Simon Schama (Fondazione Prada) English artist Marc Quinn has been exhibiting since the late 1980 on the contrary it was only with the controversial "Sensation" exhibition that he break open onto the international art show He is now seen as single of the most provocative and daring artists to come up from Britain in the past decade. His life-size statuarys feature unconventional combinations of materials, ranging from wax and marble to vital current and ice. His metamorphosis-obsessed work often involves an unusual exploration of the human body

Conceived through the artist, this lavishly illustrated convolution accompanies an extensive survey display which was on view this past spring at the Fondazione Prada in Milan. In this, his first one-person exhibition in Italy, Quinn at handed a number of his greatest in quantity recent works, including stainless-steel constructions, marble figures and photos, which have sparked at the same time another sensation. The book overlays these and earlier pieces and brings together interesting articles upon Quinn's work, plus an interview with the artist through critic Germano Celant.

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ed Ruscha Essays by Neal Benezra, Kerry Brougher and Phyllis Rosenzweig (Hirshhorn Museum/Scalo Verlag)

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2000 BC: Bruce cunner Part II Essays by Peter Boswell, Joan Rothfuss and Bruce Jenkins (Walker Art Center)

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California artist ed Ruscha has links to Photo-Realism, report art, Minimalism and Conceptualism, and was a pioneer in the self-published artist's work that became an art form in its have right. The Hirshhorn Museum's traveling exhibition provides an overview of his career from the '60 to the at hand The lavishly illustrated 192-page catalogue contains enlightening essays through the show's curators along with Ruscha's exhibition history and a bibliography.

Bruce cunner is another groundbreaking California figure from the '60 Best known as an assemblage artist, he has produc an astonishingly diverse material part of work, including experimental films. Published upon the occasion of his traveling retrospective, this catalogue contains abundant illustrations of this elusive artist's work, informative essays, an exhibition history, a bibliography and a filmography. It is the greatest in quantity complete source of information upon the artist to date.

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Cornelia Parker Essay by means of Jessica Morgan, interview by Bruce Ferguson (Boston ICA/D.A.P.)

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Shimon Attie: Sites unperceived Introduction by James Young (Verve Editions)

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British artist Cornelia Parker and American artist Shimon Attie the pair create works that deal with the history of specific sites. Parker's beautiful installations ofttimes involve suspending objects, such as white chalk from Beachy Head cliff in England, a notorious suicide mark or the charred fragments of a house of god struck by lightning, in atmospheric formations. This 80-page work published on the occasion of her new show at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, contains an essay by means of Jessica Morgan and an interview by the agency of Bruce Ferguson.

Shimon Attie hunts ambitious and poignant projects in which he uses throwed images to reanimate sites with their have lost histories. His best-known series involved projecting archival photographs of Berlin's Jewish inhabitants onto the run-down buildings in the ghetto where they one time lived. This 120-page volume contains true copy by art historian James Young and gorgeous full-page reproductions that document Attie's European casts from 1991 to 1996.

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Building Tate late by Herzog & de Meuron (Tate)

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novel British Art 2000: Intelligence Edited by the agency of Virginia Button and Charles Esche (Tate) Regular Price $2495 SALE $23

Art in Britain 1500-2000 by means of Martin Myrone (Tate)

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