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9788791607967 | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, July 31, 2012, cover price $39.95

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9788192000800 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, May 31, 2012, cover price $75.00

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Product Description: James Lee Byars--who was born in Detroit in 1932 and died in Cairo in 1997--was one of the twentieth-century art world's most unusual and elusive figures. Enamored with the imaginary and fleeting, pitting the immaterial against the material, Byars was not just an artist, he was a visionary and a dandy, who, always seeking perfection, knew how to cast a spell over his audience through his enigmatic performances, installations and sculptures...read more
By James Lee Byars (photographer) and Thomas McEvilley
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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 | About this edition: James Lee Byars--who was born in Detroit in 1932 and died in Cairo in 1997--was one of the twentieth-century art world's most unusual and elusive figures.

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Product Description: Sappho represents many years of work and includes two major unpublished new studies: "The Garden of the Graces: The Survival of Bronze Age Religious Motifs into the Modern Lyric Poem," and "The Clear-Voiced Song-Loving Lyre: Recent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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9780882145747 | Spring Pubns, March 1, 2008, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Sappho represents many years of work and includes two major unpublished new studies: "The Garden of the Graces: The Survival of Bronze Age Religious Motifs into the Modern Lyric Poem," and "The Clear-Voiced Song-Loving Lyre: Recent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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Product Description: This volume collects works from two recent Schneemann exhibitions. Buffalo's CEPA Gallery focused on the themes of War, Erotics and Felines, while featuring Schneemann's best-known works, including "Interior Scroll," "Vulva's Morphia," and her films, Fuse and Meat Joy...read more
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9780939784264 | Cepa Gallery, February 1, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This volume collects works from two recent Schneemann exhibitions.

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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 “conceptual...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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Product Description: As one of the best regarded artists working in India, Nalini Malani is famous both for her paintings and for video and shadow-play installations that reveal a deep commitment to the subcontinent. She was born in Karachi in 1946, before the partition of Pakistan from India, and was forced to flee her hometown, along with her family, as a refugee...read more
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9788881586448 | Charta, September 1, 2007, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: As one of the best regarded artists working in India, Nalini Malani is famous both for her paintings and for video and shadow-play installations that reveal a deep commitment to the subcontinent.

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Product Description: Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room-sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation and are made using the paradoxically genteel eighteenth-century art of cut-paper silhouettes...read more
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9780935640861 | Walker Art Center, March 1, 2007, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation.

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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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Product Description: Major, lavishly illustrated study of contemporary art being produced by the leading artists working in sub-Saharan Africa Painters, photographers, sculptors and installation artists are represented from nineteen countries: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Republic of Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania and Togo Artists include Frederic Bruly Bouabre, Seydou Keita, Samuel Kane Kwei, Cheri Samba and Malik Sidibe, among many others A rare glimpse into the latest currents in contemporary African art, showing how artists share an awareness of both local and global cultures, thereby acknowledging the complex heritage that African artists face today An important and compelling book that will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary art and cultur...read more
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9781858942896 | Merrell, January 31, 2005, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Major, lavishly illustrated study of contemporary art being produced by the leading artists working in sub-Saharan Africa Painters, photographers, sculptors and installation artists are represented from nineteen countries: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Republic of Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania and Togo Artists include Frederic Bruly Bouabre, Seydou Keita, Samuel Kane Kwei, Cheri Samba and Malik Sidibe, among many others A rare glimpse into the latest currents in contemporary African art, showing how artists share an awareness of both local and global cultures, thereby acknowledging the complex heritage that African artists face today An important and compelling book that will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary art and culture

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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 “conceptual...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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Product Description: I would encourage everyone to get to know the work of Tom Marioni. There are many discoveries and delights there. I keep finding new things. It won't make you a better person but will make you happy to be the one you are. --Sol LeWitt Tom Marioni's 1970 exhibition, The Art of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art, was a forerunner of a type of Conceptual art prevalent today that involves eating, drinking, and other social activities...read more
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9781891300172 | Crown Point Pr, July 15, 2004, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: I would encourage everyone to get to know the work of Tom Marioni.

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Product Description: For 12 days in November 2002, Marina Abramovic lived on three open platforms in the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. She did not eat or speak, nor did have any privacy: the rooms were open and spectators were even invited to observe the artist through a high-powered telescope...read more
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9788881584369 | Charta, April 1, 2004, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: For 12 days in November 2002, Marina Abramovic lived on three open platforms in the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York.

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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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Product Description: This unparalleled study of early Eastern and Western philosophy challenges every existing belief about the foundations of Western civilization.Spanning thirty years of intensive research, this book proves what many scholars could not explain: that today’s Western world must be considered the product of both Greek and Indian thought—Western and Eastern philosophies...read more
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9781581152036 | Allworth Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This unparalleled study of early Eastern and Western philosophy challenges every existing belief about the foundations of Western civilization.

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Product Description: With the benfit of hindsight, it is clear that William Anastasi had a profound effect on the art of his time, 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: With the benfit of hindsight, it is clear that William Anastasi had a profound effect on the art of his time, influencing such artists as Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Eva Hesse, Robert Smithson, and others.

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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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Product Description: James Croak, one of America's most original artists, has produced an astonishing and idiosyncratic body of work during the past twenty years. Using a variety of innovative materials and techniques, including taxidermy, latex rubber, tar, and his trademark cast dirt, he has merged traditional allegiance to exacting craftsmanship with a late-twentieth-century sensibility, creating sculpture of presence and feeling...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780810963795 | Harry N Abrams Inc, April 1, 1999, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: James Croak, one of America's most original artists, has produced an astonishing and idiosyncratic body of work during the past twenty years.

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9788881581641 | Bilingual edition (Art Books Intl Ltd, April 1, 1998), cover price $24.95

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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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Product Description: Artwork by Meret Oppenheim. Edited by Bice Curiger. Text by Jacqueline Burckhardt.
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9780916365455 | Independent Curators, June 1, 1996, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Artwork by Meret Oppenheim.

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9780916365462 | Independent Curators, June 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Artwork by Meret Oppenheim.

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Product Description: What sets Thomas McEvilley apart from other critics in art and culture is his direct knowledge of the newest art and theory, and his comprehensive understanding of classic art and ancient civilizations. In McEvilley's view, modernism's present was the future, and post-modernism's present is the past...read more
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9789057010415 | Routledge, April 1, 1997, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: What sets Thomas McEvilley apart from other critics in art and culture is his direct knowledge of the newest art and theory, and his comprehensive understanding of classic art and ancient civilizations.

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Product Description: What sets Thomas McEvilley apart from other critics in art and culture is his direct knowledge of the newest art and theory, and his comprehensive understanding of classic art and ancient civilizations. In McEvilley's view, modernism's present was the future, and post-modernism's present is the past...read more
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9789057010514 | Routledge, April 1, 1997, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: What sets Thomas McEvilley apart from other critics in art and culture is his direct knowledge of the newest art and theory, and his comprehensive understanding of classic art and ancient civilizations.

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Product Description: In this highly accessible introduction to American art since the 1970's, Linda Weintraub offers a musem goers a readable exploration of some of the most important artists and movements of the past decades. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780965198813 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, January 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In this highly accessible introduction to American art since the 1970's, Linda Weintraub offers a musem goers a readable exploration of some of the most important artists and movements of the past decades.

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9780965198806 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, January 1, 1997, cover price $47.00

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