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The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2009

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Angels of Anarchy
by Allmer, Patricia , (Editor)
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Published in conjunction with the exhibition @Manchester Art Gallery (2009/10). The most comprehensive and up-to-date survey available about women Surrealists features an outstanding array of artists from... more info...

Manzoni
by Celant, Germano
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Piero Manzoni was the enfant terrible of the post-WWII Ita lian avasnt-garde before his untimely death in Milan in 19 63 at the age of just twenty-nine. This stunning catalogue is published on the occasion... more info...

Arshile Gorky
by Taylor, Michael R.
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Accompanying the first major retrospective of Armenian-born Arshile Gorky's (1904-1948) work in almost 30 years, this stunning book traces his arresting visual style. Nearly 200 paintings, drawings, sculptures,... more info...

Fred Tomaselli
by Berry, Ian
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Growing up in southern California near the desert, Fred Tomaselli was influenced by both the manufactured unreality of theme parks and the music and drug counter-cultures of Los Angeles in the 1970s &... more info...

Man Ray
by Fuku, Noriko
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This beautiful and revelatory monograph draws exclusively on one of the largest Man Ray archives, that of the Man Ray Trust, which has remained largely unexcavated since it was brought to the United States... more info...

David Park, Painter
by Bigelow, Helen Park
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This volume chronicles the brief but remarkably prolific career of American painter David Park (1911-1960). Park became an integral part of the San Francisco Bay art community in the early 1930sk and is... more info...

Who Shot Rock & Roll
by Buckland, Gail
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More than two hundred spectacular photographs, sensual, luminous, frenzied, true, from 1955 to the present, that catch and define the energy, intoxication, rebellion, and magic of rock and roll; the first... more info...

Fun and Games
by Kereszi, Lisa
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Lisa Kereszi's new monograph, FUN AND GAMES, titled after the Jersey Shore arcade and the ancient Roman wrestling phrase, "It's all fun andf games until someone loses an eye," documents the artist's self-described... more info...

Legacy
by Meyerowitz, Joel , (Photography)
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Hidden pockets of wilderness still exist within the urban environs of New York City. In this publication, award-winning photographer Joel Meyerowitz provides discovery, the result of a unique commission... more info...

Bauhaus 1919-1933
by Bergdoll, Barry
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Published to accompany a major multimedia exhibition @MoMA/NYC/11.08.09-01.25.10, MoMA's first comprehensive treatment of the subject since its famous Bauhaus exhibition of 1938. It offers a new generational... more info...

Jazz Loft Project
by Stephenson, Sam
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In 1957, W. Eugene Smith, a 38-year-old magazine photographer, walked out of his longtime well-paying job at LIFE and the home he shared with his wife & four children in Croton-on-Hudson - to move into... more info...

Eileen Gray
by Adam, Peter
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Eileen Gray commenced her career as a lacquer artist in paris creating new furniture and living accessories with striking colors and understated shapes. Remaining stalwartly independent, Gray developed... more info...

Interaction of Color
by Albers, Josef Nicholas Fox Weber, (Foreword)
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New Complete Edition. One of the most influential books on color ever published, Josef Albers' INTERACTION OF COLOR is a bonafide masterwork. Originally issued in 1963 as a limited-edtion set of commentary... more info...

Bibliographic
by Godfrey, Jason
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A unique compilaion of the best design books of the last 100 years, covering a huge range of material - historic titles from pioneering type foundries to the best of recent monographs from today's leading... more info...

Resort Fashion
by Milbank, Caroline
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From the earliest beach pajamas by Chanel and Schiaparelli to Pucci and Pulitzer prints, to Capri pants & of course, the bikini, here's fashion at its most fun - crossing continentsand generations, traveling... more info...

Extreme Beauty in Vogue
by Posnick, Phyllis , (Editor)
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This book, published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title (Milan, Spring 2009), is produced in collaboration with Dlce & Cabbana. Always audacious, sometimes outrageous, Vogue's imagesdistinguish... more info...

American Stories
by Weinberg, H. Barbara, (Editors)
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Accompanying the exhibition which installs @The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC/10.06.09-01.24.10, this beautiful volume explores American paintings of people engaged in the tasks & pleasures of everyday... more info...

Art and Text
by Monem, Nadine , (Editor)
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This timely survey beginning in the early twentieth century addressess the use of text in modern & contemporary fine art as not simply the development of a formal property shared by a multitude of practitioners.... more info...

Red Star over Russia
by King, David
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This breathtaking visual history incorporates an amazing array of material including posters, photographic paintings, magazines covers, book jackets, advertisements & other ephemera illustrative of the... more info...

Charley Harper an Illustrated Life
by Oldham, Todd
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Renowned designer Tod Oldham rediscovered Charley Harper's work in 2001, and collaborated closely with him, combing through his extensive archive to edit and design this magnificent, definitive monograph.... more info...