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	Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display ...
	The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) This handsome book is the first comprehensive examination of the Pictures Generation, a loosely knit group of artists working in New York from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. The overarching subject of the work of these artists was imagery itself—how pictures not only depict but also shape how we perceive the world and ourselves. The collective achievement of this group is an extremely important chapter in the history of contemporary art.Born into an expanding media and consumer culture and ed...
	Made and Sold: Toys, T-Shirts, Prints, Zines and Other Stuff Indie artists, designers and illustrators are doing it for themselves! Tough times often lead to greater creativity and entrepreneurial spirit. Where once designers might have produced a set of postcards to promote themselves or simply for fun, demand for individual design has led to an explosion of quirky and covetable products for sale via the Internet. Self-initiated projects, such as T-shirts or button designs, are fast becoming businesses in themselves. This book showcases over 500 of the ...
	Urs Fischer: Shovel in a Hole In a move that now seems prescient, Swiss artist Urs Fischer--who was born in 1973--literally pulled the floor out from under viewers for a 2007 exhibition at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, by digging through the gallery foundations and exposing the dirt and rubble beneath. Best known for this kind of dramatic transfiguration of the exhibition space, as well as for his unexpected transformations of quotidian objects and his lack of allegiance to any one style, Fischer consistently projects ...
	Moscow: Splendours of the Romanovs A lavishly illustrated survey of the Romanovs’ era which symbolizes almost three centuries of Russian artistic riches. "The Romanov dynasty reigned over Russia for three hundred years. Every sovereign was crowned in the cathedral of the Kremlin. The coronation ceremonies were used to return the former capital to the lustre it had lost to Saint Petersburg. This exhibition catalogue rediscovers a Moscow that is frequently overlooked by visitors and, through the works of art embodying the dynast...
	501 Great Artists: A Comprehensive Guide to the Giants of the Art World A concise yet comprehensive reference guide for art lovers and art students, this illustrated volume profiles major artists from classical antiquity to the modern era. All 501 artists featured in this book receive at least a one-page entry that summarizes their life, their work, and their influence. The most influential artists are discussed in entries of up to four pages. Entries are illustrated with portraits of the artists and reproductions of some of their best-known works. Included here are...
	Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective Winner, 2008 AIGA "50 Books / 50 Covers" Design Competition. Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) is a special case in art. His life and works were inextricably linked in a remarkable practice that centered on the role of the artist within both the culture and the system of art. With his larger-than-life persona, Kippenberger cast himself as impresario, entertainer, curator, bohemian, collector, architect, and publisher. He collected art, set up clothing companies and nightclubs, and ran art-world...
	Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe first metin Taos, New Mexico, in 1929. She was already an established artist, while he was at the beginning of his career, and their friendship lasted for the rest of their lives.GEORGIA O'KEEFE AND ANSEL ADAMS: NATURAL AFFINITIES suggests parallels in their distinctive visions of both natural and human-made environments and illustrates the artists' achievements in capturing the reality and essence of the world around them. More than 100 beautifully reproduced pa...
	Art:21: Art in the Twenty-First Century 4 Who are today’s artists? Why do they do what they do? How do they describe their work? These are some of the questions addressed in this companion volume to the fourth season of the Emmy-nominated PBS series. Using the artists’ own words, together with images culled from the documentary’s footage and generous selections of their works, the book provides an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look into the creative process. The artists are shown at home, in the studio, and in the community, in ...