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Product Description: Bert Long: The Artistâs Journey encapsulates the life and art of Bert L. Long Jr. (1940â2013). Thomas McEvilley opens the book by describing his chance encounter with Long on a Houston street in 1980. An African American artist who grew up in Houstonâs Fifth Ward, Long was an energetic and enthusiastic artist who was trained as an executive chef and came to his art through his growing ability to carve ice and make decorative food in the hospitality industry...read more
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9780967439532 | Univ of Texas Pr, September 13, 2016, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Bert Long: The Artistâs Journey encapsulates the life and art of Bert L.
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9780967439549 | Univ of Texas Pr, September 13, 2016, cover price $19.95
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9781620540114 | McPherson & Co, June 30, 2014, cover price $20.00
Product Description: Edward Kienholz’s life-size tableau “Five Car Stud” (1969–72) depicts four automobiles and a pickup truck, arranged on a dirt floor in a dark room with their headlights illuminating a shocking scene: a group of white men exacting their gruesome “punishment” on an African American man...read more
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9788791607967 | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, December 31, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Edward Kienholz’s life-size tableau “Five Car Stud” (1969–72) depicts four automobiles and a pickup truck, arranged on a dirt floor in a dark room with their headlights illuminating a shocking scene: a group of white men exacting their gruesome “punishment” on an African American man.
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9781935202905 | Marquand Books Inc, March 31, 2013, cover price $55.00
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9788192000800 | Har/bklt edition (Distributed Art Pub Inc, June 30, 2012), cover price $75.00
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9783866781559, titled "Im Full of Byars: Im Full of Byars" | Bilingual edition (Kerber Christof Verlag, March 1, 2009), cover price $55.00
Product Description: This volume on the Lesbian poet Sappho represents many years of work and includes two major unpublished new studies: "The Garden of the Graces: The Survival of Bronze Age Religious Motifs into the Modern Lyric Poem," and "The Clear-Voiced Song-Loving Lyre: Recent Explorations in Sapphic Studies...read more
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9780882145747 | Spring Pubns, March 1, 2008, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: This volume on the Lesbian poet Sappho represents many years of work and includes two major unpublished new studies: "The Garden of the Graces: The Survival of Bronze Age Religious Motifs into the Modern Lyric Poem," and "The Clear-Voiced Song-Loving Lyre: Recent Explorations in Sapphic Studies.
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9780939784264 | Cepa Gallery, February 1, 2008, cover price $29.95
Product Description: Bernar Venet (b. 1941, France) is a master of contemporary conceptual art who has worked in all media, from painting and sculpture to film, music and ballet. In his early work, Venet sought to distill art, to strip it of aesthetic or expressive content, and to reestablish it as purely âconceptual...read more
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9782080300140 | Flammarion, September 18, 2007, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Bernar Venet (b.
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9788881586448 | Charta, September 1, 2007, cover price $55.00
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9780935640861 | Walker Art Center, March 1, 2007, cover price $49.95
9780126323801, titled "Education and Intergroup Attitudes" | Academic Pr, June 1, 1981, cover price $36.50 | also contains Education and Intergroup Attitudes
Product Description: From roughly 1965 to 1980, Conceptual Art and Performance Art took center stage throughout the western world, introducing new and complex ideas to the practice of contemporary art which reverberate to this day. Thomas McEvilley's The Triumph of Anti-Art not only explains the origins of these controversial and compelling art forms, but also uncovers many relatively unrecognized yet indisputably important artists, American and European...read more
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9780929701677 | McPherson & Co, November 30, 2005, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: From roughly 1965 to 1980, Conceptual Art and Performance Art took center stage throughout the western world, introducing new and complex ideas to the practice of contemporary art which reverberate to this day.
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9781858942896 | Perseus Distribution Services, January 31, 2005, cover price $49.95
Product Description: Bernar Venet (b. 1941, France) is a master of contemporary conceptual art who has worked in all media, from painting and sculpture to film, music and ballet. In his early work, Venet sought to distill art, to strip it of aesthetic or expressive content, and to reestablish it as purely âconceptual...read more
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9782848450063 | Hard Pr Inc, July 30, 2004, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Bernar Venet (b.
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9781891300172 | Crown Point Pr, July 15, 2004, cover price $20.00
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9788881584369 | Charta, April 1, 2004, cover price $45.00
Product Description: Dove Bradshaw has been a major proponent in the development of the artistic concept of indeterminacy. Her works combines unstable materials with traditional ones, setting off a metamorphic process. This process changes the appearance of her art over time; thus, time is a creative factor in her art as much as the materials themselves...read more
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9780972424011 | 1 edition (Mark Batty Pub, March 1, 2003), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Dove Bradshaw has been a major proponent in the development of the artistic concept of indeterminacy.
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9781581152036 | Allworth Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $50.00
Product Description: William Anastasi had a profound effect on the art of his generation, influencing such artists as Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Eva Hesse, Robert Smithson and others. A pioneer of conceptual art, he continues to produce work to this day, recently focusing on pieces that contain the word "Jew...read more
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9788788860702 | Nikolas Copenhagen Comtemporary, September 1, 2001, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: William Anastasi had a profound effect on the art of his generation, influencing such artists as Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Eva Hesse, Robert Smithson and others.
Product Description: Framed in a lucid discussion of the intellectual issues surrounding the postmodern movement, the essays in this book re-examine the course of twentieth-century art through the work of twenty-five major sculptors. McEvilley masterfully traces the evolution of modern sculpture from the readymades of Marcel Duchamp to the anti-painting statements of the 1960s to the spiritualism and conceptualism of the 1980s and 1990s...read more
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9781581150230 | Allworth Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Framed in a lucid discussion of the intellectual issues surrounding the postmodern movement, the essays in this book re-examine the course of twentieth-century art through the work of twenty-five major sculptors.
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9780810963795 | Harry N Abrams Inc, April 1, 1999, cover price $45.00
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9788881581641 | Bilingual edition (Art Books Intl Ltd, April 1, 1998), cover price $24.95
Product Description: Alongside such figures as Nam June Paik, Les Levine is regarded as a pioneer of vidoe and media art. Levine exploits the language of advertising to reveal the state of art and culture. This catalogue presents a comprehensive view of this artist. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9783893229130 | Hatje Cantz Pub, February 1, 1998, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Alongside such figures as Nam June Paik, Les Levine is regarded as a pioneer of vidoe and media art.
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9789057010415 | Routledge, April 1, 1997, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: First Published in 1997.
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9789057010514 | Routledge, April 1, 1997, cover price $140.00
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