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Bernd & Hilla Becher - Basic Forms by Thierry De Duve
Category: Architecture
An elegant new edition of Bernd and Hilla Becher's classic black-and-white photographic study of industrial buildings. During their 40-year career, Bernd and Hilla Becher created their own architectural typology as they photographed buildings in a unique style. Basic Forms represents the culmination of ...Show more
Duchamp's Telegram - From Beaux-Arts to Art-In-General by Thierry de Duve
Category: Art Instructional
A revisionist history of Duchamp's legacy and impact on modern art. In 1917, Marcel Duchamp sent out a 'telegram' in the guise of a urinal signed R. Mutt. When it arrived at its destination a good forty years later it was both celebrated and vilified as proclaiming that anything could be art; from that ...Show more
Jeff Wall by Thierry de Duve
Category: Photography | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
Jeff Wall (b.1946) adopts the nineteenth-century poet Baudelaire's famous description of one of his contemporaries as 'a painter of modern life' to describe his own very different work: huge transparencies mounted on to light boxes that diffuse a brilliant glow of white light evenly through his photogra ...Show more
Jeff Wall - Catalogue Raisonne 2005-2021 by Gary Dufour (Editor); Jean François Chevrier (Contribution by); Thierry de Duve (Contribution by); David Campany (Contribution by)
Category: Photography
A handsome volume of the renowned photographer's work from 2005 to 2021 Best known for his large-scale photographs, carefully constructed "near documentaries" created in collaboration with the subjects, Jeff Wall (b. 1946) is one of the most influential photographers of the late twentieth and early twe ...Show more
Sewn in the Sweatshops of Marx: Beuys, Warhol, Klein, Duchamp by Thierry de Duve
Category: Art
"Joseph Beuys", "Andy Warhol", "Yves Klein", and "Marcel Duchamp" form an unlikely quartet, but they each played a singular role in shaping a new avant-garde for the 1960s and beyond. Each of them staged brash, even shocking, events and produced works that challenged the way the mainstream art world ope ...Show more
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