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Regular Price $4500 SALE $41 Whitney Biennial 2000 by dint of various authors (Whitney Museum of American Art/Abrams)

For the first Biennial of the millennium, the Whitney Museum of American Art has assembled a team of curators from around the region to ensure that this ever-controversial display reflects a national perspective. Headed by dint of Whitney director Maxwell Anderson, the team includes Michael Auping, Valerie Cassel, Hugh M Davis, Jane Farver, Andrea Miller-Keller and Lawrence Rinder. The works upon view include painting, sculpture, photography, installation, film and video, performance and, for the first time, Internet art. Among the artists picked are Doug Aitkin, Sadie Benning, Petah Coyne John Currin, Vernon Fisher, Joseph Grigely, Harmony Korine, Vik Muniz, Shirin Neshat, Nic Nicosia and Sarah Sze The catalogue contains contributions by dint of the curators and 163 illustrations, along with biographical and exhibition information upon each artist. Every Whitney Biennial catalogue is an essential respect toot for tracking contemporary American art.

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Regular Price $5500 SALE $50 Making Choices by means of Peter Galassi, Robert Storr and Anne Umland (Museum of present Art)

Regular Price $5500 SALE $50 present Art despite Modernism by Robert Storr (MOMA)

Regular Price $5500 SALE $50 Walker Evans & Company by dint of Peter Galassi (MOMA)

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Each of these three volumes was published to coincide with the millennial exhibition "MOMA 2000" at the Museum of novel Art in New York. Making Choices is a profusely illustrated turn that focuses on the arts in the period 1920-1960 with particular emphasis upon four key years: 1929, 1939 1948 and t955 The illuminating body s uncover unexpected correspondences within the rich diversity of modernist works. new Art despite Modernism, containing more than 200 colorplates, examines the part of art in social, political and cultural conflicts of these decades. Walker Evans & Company is a lavish turn that explores radical works produc in the 1920 and '30 by dint of the important American photographer and his contemporaries. It also gazes at artists he influenced, from Stuart Davis to Andy Warhol.

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Regular Price $3000 SALE $27 M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio by means of Peter Robb (Henry Holt)

Regular Price $2695 SALE $24 The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence and Douglas Cooper by means of John Richardson (Knopf)

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These sum of two units recently published books are rife with historical information that sheds fresh light on their subjects. Peter Robb's groundbreaking 570-page turn looks at the life of Michelangelo Merisi, a.k.a. Caravaggio, against the background of an Italy riven by means of the Inquisition and the Counter-Reformation. Robb traces the artist's tumultuous life and at hands a startling new theory about his death that confutes standard accounts.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice by the agency of John Richardson, celebrated biographer of Picasso, is an entertaining memoir that focuses upon Douglas Cooper, the wealthy Englishman who assembled the world's greatest in quantity important private Cubist collection, and the author's association with him. This 318-page work with 124 black-and-white illustrations, is also a fascinating behind-the-scenes direct the eye at modern artists and their circle. Richardson's insightful unromantic brings to life such figures as Picasso, Braque, Leger Jean Cocteau, Helena Rubenstein and Peggy Guggenheim.

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Regular Price $5000 SALE $46 Jenny Saville: Territories Essays through Barry Martin Weintraub and Del LaGrace Volcano, interview through Martin Gayford (Gagosian Gallery/D.A.P.)

Regular Price $4000 SALE $36 Cecily Brown Introduction by dint of Robed Evren, essay by A.M. place of abodes (Gagosian Gallery/D.A.P.)

COMBINED SALE $80

These sum of two units remarkable British painters, each the make subordinate of a recent show at Gagosian Gallery in of recent origin York, have received critical acclaim for their lush, large-scale works that proffer radical depictions of the human material substance Jenny Saville is known for her big, fat nudes that are both brutal and seductive. Cecily Brown's tantalizing slathers of paint roughly coalesce into chaotic, abstracted sex displays These pair of catalogues, published upon the occasion of the artists' respective displays also contain beautiful color reproductions of works that were not upon public view. The Saville whirl features fold-outs and full-page details. one as well as the other contain in-depth essays and biographical information upon the artists and are essential additions to the collector's library of works upon cutting-edge contemporary art.

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Regular Price $3995 SALE $36 Unclassified: A Walker Evans Anthology Edited through Jeff L. Rosenheim, with essays by means of Rosenheim and Douglas Eklund (Scalo/Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Regular Price $6500 SALE $59 Walker Evans Essays by dint of various authors (Metropolitan)

Regular Price $1995 SALE $18 Walker Evans: Florida Essay by the agency of Robert Plunket (J. Paul Getty Museum)

COMBINED SALE $110

Unclassified: A Walker Evans Anthology, published in conjunction with the first major Walker Evans retrospective in three decades, features mainly unpublished documentary material from the vast Walker Evans Archive in novel York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. It also includes a certain quantity of 200 illustrations. Covering the range of Evans's career, the in-depth essays and 250 plates of Walker Evans explore in what way the photographer, through his iconic images, helped establish America's faculty of perception of identity. Walker Evans: Florida center upon Evans's 1941 commission to illustrate a volume about the state's gulf coast. The 54 images reproduc here are among the least known of Evans's works.