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Product Description: This publication presents a selection of Herbert Brandl's paintings from the early 1980s onward, alongside his most recent works created for a retrospective at the Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna. The book also explores Brandl's affinity for the paintings of Altdorfer, Titian and Rubens in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, which have provided enduring inspiration for his work...read more
By Herbert Brandl (contributor), Ingried Brugger (editor), Richard Shiff (contributor), Florian Steininger (editor) and Franz West (contributor)
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9783775732802 | Bilingual edition (Hatje Cantz Pub, April 30, 2012), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This publication presents a selection of Herbert Brandl's paintings from the early 1980s onward, alongside his most recent works created for a retrospective at the Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna.

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Product Description: One of the most influential American artists of the post-war period, Donald Judd changed the course of modern sculpture. Beginning as an art critic and then a painter, Judd moved into three dimensions with the box-like structures he produced in the early 1960s, either arranged on the gallery floor or mounted on the wall...read more
By David Batchelor (contributor), Rudi Fuchs (contributor), Donald Judd (contributor), Jeffrey Kopie (contributor), David Raskin (contributor), Nicholas Serota (editor), Richard Shiff (contributor) and Marianne Stockebrand (contributor)
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9781891024894 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, March 1, 2004, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: One of the most influential American artists of the post-war period, Donald Judd changed the course of modern sculpture.

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Product Description: “Order to me is to be ordered about,” Willem de Kooning said. Between Sense and de Kooning explores how de Kooning worked and thought about art, while respecting de Kooning’s own ambiguities and embrace of the abstract. Richard Shiff acknowledges de Kooning’s idea that art is not about concepts like progress or development, but is instead a sensory phenomenon...read more
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9781861898531 | Reaktion Books, October 1, 2011, cover price $49.00 | About this edition: “Order to me is to be ordered about,” Willem de Kooning said.

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Product Description: Using tiny hatches and dots derived from gridlike knitting patterns--a self-described "found language"--British artist Ewan Gibbs (born 1973) makes astounding pointillistic drawings whose imagery dissolves into abstraction when viewed at close range...read more
By Richard Shiff (contributor)
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9781890573102 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, April 30, 2011, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Using tiny hatches and dots derived from gridlike knitting patterns--a self-described "found language"--British artist Ewan Gibbs (born 1973) makes astounding pointillistic drawings whose imagery dissolves into abstraction when viewed at close range.

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Product Description: This survey of five decades of late nineteenth and early twentieth century abstract art chronicles the evolution of a movement that the book argues was the inevitable precursor to Modernism. Filled with full page reproductions as well as stunning details of some of the most influential abstract paintings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this important volume follows the broad and diverse ways that painters such as Whistler, Monet, Cezanne, Denis, Vuillard, Matisse, Derain, Picasso, and Braque learned from each other as they embarked on an entirely new kind of expression...read more
By Richard Shiff (contributor)
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9783791350912 | Prestel Pub, January 31, 2011, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This survey of five decades of late nineteenth and early twentieth century abstract art chronicles the evolution of a movement that the book argues was the inevitable precursor to Modernism.

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Product Description: The work of Chinese painter Zeng Fanzhi (born 1964) reveals a great deal about his homeland's rapidly changing society. In his Mask paintings, people wearing plain white masks confront the viewer with wide eyes and grotesquely exaggerated hands...read more
By Zeng Fanzhi (other contributor), Fabien Fryns (introduced by) and Richard Shiff
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9783775725323 | Hatje Cantz Pub, January 31, 2011, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The work of Chinese painter Zeng Fanzhi (born 1964) reveals a great deal about his homeland's rapidly changing society.

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Product Description: A longstanding virtuoso of new media, Jim Campbell has been transforming the visual lexicon of digital data into art for 20 years. This retrospective of his career is buttressed with commentary by some of the genre's leading critics, such as John G...read more
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9783775725422 | Hatje Cantz Pub, August 31, 2010, cover price $55.00 | also contains Jim Campbell | About this edition: A longstanding virtuoso of new media, Jim Campbell has been transforming the visual lexicon of digital data into art for 20 years.

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Product Description: Mark Bradford is best known for dazzling, large-scale abstract paintings that examine the class-, race-, and gender-based economies that structure urban society in the United States. Gathering carefully chosen found and salvaged materials from the area surrounding his studio in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, Bradford engages in an intricate artistic process that involves both creation and destruction...read more
By Richard Shiff (contributor)
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9780300163582, titled "Mark Bradford: You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You)" | Yale Univ Pr, June 22, 2010, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Mark Bradford is best known for dazzling, large-scale abstract paintings that examine the class-, race-, and gender-based economies that structure urban society in the United States.

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Product Description: This anthology of essays, images and dialogues exploring contemporary art's engagements with risk--physical, social, political and aesthetic--brings readers into the conference from which the book takes its title, a third annual collaboration between the Getty Research Institute and the Southern California Consortium of Art Schools (SoCCAS)...read more
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9783905770551 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, September 30, 2008, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This anthology of essays, images and dialogues exploring contemporary art's engagements with risk--physical, social, political and aesthetic--brings readers into the conference from which the book takes its title, a third annual collaboration between the Getty Research Institute and the Southern California Consortium of Art Schools (SoCCAS).

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Product Description: Peter Doig's highly distinctive paintings have been exhibited in major museums and galleries worldwide to international acclaim. Developed from film stills, footage of actual events or photographs of urban and rural environments, Doig's paintings emanate a quiet nostalgia, triggering the lingering sense of a long forgotten memory...read more
By Judith Nesbitt (editor) and Richard Shiff (contributor)
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9781933045849 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, July 1, 2008, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Peter Doig's highly distinctive paintings have been exhibited in major museums and galleries worldwide to international acclaim.

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Product Description: In her expressionistic drawings and paintings of the last three decades, acclaimed South African artist Marlene Dumas has focused on the human figure, probing themes of love, desire, despair and confusion in order to slyly critique social and political attitudes toward women, children, people of color and others who have historically been victimized...read more
By Cornelia Butler (compiler), Marlene Dumas (photographer), Lisa Gabrielle Mark (contributor), Matthew Monahan (contributor) and Richard Shiff (contributor)
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9781933751085, titled "Measuring Your Own Grave: Measuring Your Own Grave" | Museum of Contemporary Art, June 27, 2008, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In her expressionistic drawings and paintings of the last three decades, acclaimed South African artist Marlene Dumas has focused on the human figure, probing themes of love, desire, despair and confusion in order to slyly critique social and political attitudes toward women, children, people of color and others who have historically been victimized.

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Product Description: Today serial imagery dominates all forms of visual media, from advertising to conceptual sculpture. In this innovative project, the authors show that the phenomenon of repetition appears as a radical element in early modern painting, long before its embrace by 20th-century high modernism...read more
By Stephen Bann (contributor), Eik Kahng (editor), Simon Kelly (contributor), Richard Shiff (contributor) and Charles Stuckey (contributor)
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9780300126693 | Yale Univ Pr, November 28, 2007, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Today serial imagery dominates all forms of visual media, from advertising to conceptual sculpture.

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Product Description: Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) was a ceaseless innovator and organizer whose ideological concerns were as profound as his aesthetic interests. Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country examines how Pissarro's artistic theories and social convictions influenced his Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist work...read more
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9780300124798, titled "Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City & Country" | Jewish Museum, October 4, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) was a ceaseless innovator and organizer whose ideological concerns were as profound as his aesthetic interests.

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Product Description: In an age where art history’s questions are now expected to receive answers, Richard Shiff presents a challenging alternative. In this essential new addition to James Elkins’s series Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts, Richard Shiff embraces doubt as a critical tool and asks how particular histories of art have come to be...read more
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9780415973083 | Routledge, November 26, 2007, cover price $131.00 | About this edition: In an age where art history’s questions are now expected to receive answers, Richard Shiff presents a challenging alternative.

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9780415973090 | Routledge, November 26, 2007, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: In an age where art history’s questions are now expected to receive answers, Richard Shiff presents a challenging alternative.

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Product Description: Jasper Johns (b. 1930), one of today's most acclaimed and influential artists, is rarely considered in relation to monochromatic art. Yet single-colour experimentations have figured prominently in his productions since 1955, and within that significant subset of his work, the majority of monochromes are grey...read more
By Douglas Druick, Kelly Keegan (contributor), Mark Pascale (contributor), James Rondeau and Richard Shiff (contributor)
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9780300119497 | Art Inst of Chicago, November 28, 2007, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Jasper Johns (b.

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9780865592247 | Art Inst of Chicago Museum Shop, June 30, 2007, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Jasper Johns (b.

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Product Description: Over the past four decades, Richard Tuttle has thrown into question nearly every conceivable artistic convention and critical category to create an enormously inventive body of abstract work-one that embraces and intermingles drawing, painting, collage, book-making, sculpture, and design...read more
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9781933045009 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, July 1, 2005, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Over the past four decades, Richard Tuttle has thrown into question nearly every conceivable artistic convention and critical category to create an enormously inventive body of abstract work-one that embraces and intermingles drawing, painting, collage, book-making, sculpture, and design.

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Product Description: One of the key paradoxes concerning Paul Gauguin is the fact that he was both a profound individualist and at the same time the founder of an artistic school. For the young artists collectively known as the Nabis, Gauguin's personal version of Symbolism became the canonical route to modern art...read more
By Guy Cogeval (editor), Maria Dolores Jimenez-Blanco (editor), Richard Shiff (editor) and Guillermo Solana (editor)
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9780856675959 | Philip Wilson Pub Ltd, March 2, 2005, cover price $79.00 | About this edition: One of the key paradoxes concerning Paul Gauguin is the fact that he was both a profound individualist and at the same time the founder of an artistic school.

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Product Description: Barnett Newman (1905–1970), one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, has captivated critics, scholars, and the general public for decades. This highly anticipated catalogue raisonné presents Newman’s entire oeuvre—paintings, drawings, sculpture, graphics, an architectural model, lost and unfinished works, and ephemera—in one stunning and definitive volume...read more
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9780300101676 | Other Distribution, October 11, 2004, cover price $200.00 | About this edition: Barnett Newman (1905–1970), one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, has captivated critics, scholars, and the general public for decades.

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Product Description: In contrast to the hard-edged Minimalists, however, Mangold's gently curved paintings and subtle, evocative colours recall a variety of sources, from frescos to traditional Greek ceramics. With a beauty, quiet and sensitivity reminiscent of the work of Piero della Francesca, Mangold's art investigates the state of painting today, resulting in over thirty years' worth of important avant garde art - and some of the most magnificent abstract paintings being produced today...read more
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9780714844480 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, December 1, 2004, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In contrast to the hard-edged Minimalists, however, Mangold's gently curved paintings and subtle, evocative colours recall a variety of sources, from frescos to traditional Greek ceramics.

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Product Description: Terry Winters’s work of the past decade weaves disparate strains of idea, object, and physical operations into the primary logic of his art. His art contains an astonishing array of forms and demonstrates the equally surprising breadth of his artistic language...read more
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9780300104561 | Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Terry Winters’s work of the past decade weaves disparate strains of idea, object, and physical operations into the primary logic of his art.
9781879886544, titled "Terry Winters: Paintings, Drawings, Prints 1994/2004" | Addison Gallery of Amer Art, September 1, 2004, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Terry Winters’s work of the past decade weaves disparate strains of idea, object, and physical operations into the primary logic of his art.

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Product Description: Chuck Close--a man who describes himself as "an artist looking for trouble"--has for three decades consistently but variously challenged the accepted boundaries of the printmaking tradition. Published to accompany a retrospective of his prints opening at Blaffer Gallery and traveling to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and several additional museums around the country, this is the first comprehensive survey of Close's revolutionary prints...read more
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9780691115764 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 25, 2003, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Chuck Close--a man who describes himself as "an artist looking for trouble"--has for three decades consistently but variously challenged the accepted boundaries of the printmaking tradition.

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9780691115771 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 25, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Chuck Close--a man who describes himself as "an artist looking for trouble"--has for three decades consistently but variously challenged the accepted boundaries of the printmaking tradition.

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Product Description: "Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's Fountain. But questions about the categories of "art" and "art history" acquired increased urgency during the 1970s, when new developments in critical theory and other intellectual projects dramatically transformed the discipline...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Robert S. Nelson (editor) and Richard Shiff (editor)
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9780226571669 | 2 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 2003), cover price $87.50 | About this edition: "Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's Fountain.
9780226571645 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: The nature of the visual has, over the past decade, moved to the center of debates in the humanities.

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9780226571683 | 2 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 2003), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: "Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's Fountain.
9780226571652 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The nature of the visual has, over the past decade, moved to the center of debates in the humanities.

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Product Description: Over the years, Donald Judd's constructions have evolved, becoming increasingly complex in their optical and coloristic effects, making use of Cor-ten steel, Douglas fir plywood, colored plexiglass, painted steel, and various forms of aluminum...read more
By Donald Judd, Pacewildenstein (corporate author) and Richard Shiff
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9781930743007 | Pace Wildenstein, September 1, 2002, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Over the years, Donald Judd's constructions have evolved, becoming increasingly complex in their optical and coloristic effects, making use of Cor-ten steel, Douglas fir plywood, colored plexiglass, painted steel, and various forms of aluminum.

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Product Description: Barnett Newman (1905-1970) was one of the most profound and influential artists of the twentieth century. A master of expansive spatial effects and evocative color, he pioneered painting that was both abstract and emotive, suffused with powerful philosophical and spiritual meaning...read more
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9780300094299 | Yale Univ Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Barnett Newman (1905-1970) was one of the most profound and influential artists of the twentieth century.
9780876331569 | Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 1, 2002, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Barnett Newman (1905-1970) was one of the most profound and influential artists of the twentieth century.

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9780876331576 | Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 1, 2002, cover price $36.00

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9781885013125 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, July 1, 1997, cover price $25.00

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