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	Ah Xian Ah Xian's breathtaking work Human human - lotus, cloisonné figure is an exceptional example of contemporary figurative sculpture, one that melds traditional materials with up-to-date conceptual concerns. The life-sized female form, stocky and thick in its bodily curves, stands solidly covered in a delicate pattern of pink lotus flowers, wide leaves, and long stems. Its construction relied on a labor-intensive technique practiced in China since the 13th century, cloisonné, which involves formin...
	Ahead Of The 21St Century Damien Hirst's Alone Yet Together, a pseudoscientific installation of fish suspended in formaldehyde in small, identical glass boxes, graces the cover of this volume. As the singular image selected to represent the Pisces Collection, it demands some exploration of wordplay. Pisces is, after all, the zoological term for fish and also the name of a zodiac sign--the astrological sign, as it happens, of the collection's anonymous owner. Devoted to contemporary art from the 1980s onward, the Pisces C...
	The Ahmanson Gifts: European Masterpieces in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art ...
	Aida Ruilova: The Singles 1999-Now Combining classical cinematic devices with a distinctively jarring, low-tech sensibility, New York-based Aida Ruilova creates dark, narrative video work. Her short video loops often feature characters performing cryptic and physically uncomfortable actions, revealing her fascination with the conjunction of horror movie aesthetics and the sublime. This volume accompanies the artist's first one-person museum exhibition, which originated at the Aspen Art Museum and was co-curated by Paul Ha and Hei...
	Aino Aalto ...
	Air Combat Paintings: Masterworks Collection This book is a collection of 60 aviation paintings by the artist Robert Taylor, all of which are accompanied by a personal narrative, describing the methods he uses to portray his genre....
	The Air Is Blue When architect Luis Barragan (1902-1988) won the Pritzker Prize in 1980, he marveled that "publications devoted to architecture have banished from their pages the words Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts of Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement . though I am fully aware that I have not done them complete justice in my work, they have never ceased to be my guiding lights." Barragan's aesthetic makes him colossally relevant in an art world rediscoverin...
	Air Mass ...
	Airborne Particles in Museums (Research in Conservation Technical Report) The seventh volume is this popular series, this book assesses the effect of air pollutant exposure on works of art. A mathematical model is developed combining the description of a building and the effects of ventilation, filtration, deposition onto surfaces, and direct emission from all pollutants. The model is then applied to actual indoor air quality problems in several Southern California museums. The authors contend that if the measures suggested in the book are applied, airborne particul...