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Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson
Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson
Destined to become the authoritative text on Eliasson as well as a lasting resource on contemporary installation art. In the work of Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, the sun can rise inside a museum and rainbows can appear indoors. His immersive...
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The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation
Judy Chicago
Merrell
Merrell
Judy Chicago's masterpiece The Dinner Party is a monumental work of art conceived as a symbolic history of women in Western civilization. Strategically countering the traditional erasure of women's achievements, this epic installation honours...
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Come Alive!: The Spirited Art of Sister Corita
Julie Ault, Daniel Berrigan, Sister Corita Kent
Four Corners Books
Four Corners Books
At 18, Corita Kent (1918-1986) entered the Roman Catholic order of Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles, where she taught art and eventually ran the art department. After more than 30 years, at the end of the 1960s, she left the...
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Sarah Sze
Linda Norden, Sarah Sze
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
With her uncanny ability to monumentalize the miniscule and to give permanence to the ephemeral, Sarah Sze has become one of the most original and ambitious artists working today, with solo exhibitions at major art musuems. As the first monograph to...
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Robert Gober: Sculptures 1979 - 2007
Elisabeth Sussman, Robert Gober
Steidl/Schaulager, Basel
Steidl/Schaulager, Basel
Robert Gober's sculptural works trigger disquieting thoughts and feelings about the most commonplace aspects of our daily lives. Gober first came to public attention in the mid-80s with his simple variations on the domestic sink, which were deprived...
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Robert Rauschenberg: Combines
Robert Rauschenberg
Steidl/The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Steidl/The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Poetic and lush, Robert Rauschenberg's Combines present layers of complex and sometimes conflicting information. This approach, first explored by Rauschenberg in the early 1950s, proved prescient and has become increasingly relevant in the current...
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Chris Burden
Fred Hoffman, John Berger, Kristine Stiles, Chris Burden
Locus + Publishing Ltd.
Locus + Publishing Ltd.
This comprehensive overview, the first to appear in almost a decade, examines an artistic career, that now must be viewed as one of the most fascinating in the history of Contemporary art. From his highly controversial and seminal performance works...
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Tom Sachs: Logjam
Raphaela Platow, Tom Sachs
Des Moines Art Center
Des Moines Art Center
Tom Sachs has a cardboard box in his studio into which he throws miscellaneous screws, nuts and bolts after he has attempted, unsuccessfully, to use them in a project under production. Instead of wasting time categorizing and storing them, he throws...
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Installationview
Ryan Mcginness
Rizzoli
Rizzoli
Somewhere between an artist’s book and a catalogue, Installationview provides insight into the works and process of artist Ryan McGinness. The book is a dense collection of new paintings, works on paper, installations, sketches and notes,...
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Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes
Richard Andrews, John Beardsley
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
“Utilizing the way in which scientists and computers see our world, drawing on images based on sonar views of the ocean floor, to aerial and satellite views of the land, I have started to create artworks that translate that technological view...
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