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Grégoire Guillemin: for your eyes only

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For Your Eyes Only est la première monographie de l'oeuvre du pop artiste Greg "Léon" Guillemin. Reprenant les plus beaux tableaux de sa très populaire série "Pop Icons", enrichie de nombreuses créations inédites, elle est un coup d'oeil sur la vie cachée et haute en couleur de nos héros les plus aimés. De Blanche-Neige à Bruce Wayne en passant par Mario et Wonder Woman, Greg Guillemin, à la façon d'un Andy Warhol en son temps, fait ainsi une incursion décalée dans la vie secrète des icônes les plus familières de la pop culture actuelle.

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Les murs révoltés: quand le street art parle social et politique

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Mouvement artistique majeur depuis bientôt cinquante ans, le street art enflamme aujourd'hui la planète. Face à une crise économique et morale généralisée, les murs tiennent de nouveau le haut du pavé, portent la parole et les cris de street artists indignés. Ils investissent en force le social et le politique et dénoncent une réalité asphyxiante. Ces murs-là nous interpellent, nous provoquent, nous appellent à la vigilance, et affirment aussi que, dans un monde saturé d'images toutes faites, le street art peut avoir un double rôle à jouer : sentinelle de notre société et éveilleur de consciences.

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Postcard America

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Postcard America offers a comprehensive study of linen postcards and their cultural significance. Drawing on the production files of Curt Teich & Co. of Chicago, the originator of linen postcards, Jeffrey L. Meikle reveals how photographic views were transformed into colorized postcard images, often by means of manipulation—adding and deleting details or collaging bits and pieces from several photos. He presents two extensive portfolios of postcards—landscapes and cityscapes—that comprise a representative iconography of linen postcard views. For each image, Meikle explains the postcard’s subject, describes aspects of its production, and places it in social and cultural contexts. In the concluding chapter, he shifts from historical interpretation to a contemporary viewpoint, considering nostalgia as a motive for collectors and others who are fascinated today by these striking images.

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Mural XXL

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Street muralist MadC (Claudia Walde) presents a world tour of more than 200 XXL graffiti and street-art murals. Murals are shown from Paris, Berlin and Los Angeles to Rio, Delhi and Johannesburg, with insights from their creators.

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Niklaus Troxler: Poster collection 34

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On the occasion of Nikolaus Troxler’s 75th birthday, this publication presents a selection of Troxler’s legendary jazz posters. They are juxtaposed with his political manifestos in poster form, most of which he initiated himself, and with his commissioned works, including those for the Olma agricultural fair, the Knie circus and the Geneva International Motor Show.

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Soy Cuba: Cuban cinema posters from after the revolution

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Soy Cuba presents a selection of the finest film posters produced in Cuba from the 1950s until the early 1970s. Famous around the world for their brash originality and bright, clear graphic sensibility, Cuban cinema posters of the Revolutionary era are held in as high esteem as the moodier and more abstract Polish film posters of the same era. Susan Sontag devoted a good part of her noted 1970 essay, “Posters: Advertisement, Art, Political Artifact, Commodity” to the particularly satisfying paradox they present. Collected by designer Carole Goodman in collaboration with the ICAC and other Cuban specialists, this substantial compendium is a visual and intellectual treat.

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Print / Out : 20 years in print

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This catalogue, published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, examines the evolution of artistic practices related to printmaking, from the resurgence of traditional printing techniques - often used alongside digital technologies - to the worldwide proliferation of self-published artist's books and ephemera. "Print/Out" features focused sections on ten artists and publishers - Ai Weiwei, Edition Jacob Samuel, Ellen Gallagher, Martin Kippenberger, Lucy McKenzie, Aleksandra Mir, museum in progress, Robert Rauschenberg, Superflex and Rirkrit Tiravanija--as well as rich illustrations of additional printed projects from the last 20 years by major artists such as Trisha Donnelly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Thomas Schutte and Kelley Walker.

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Esthétique du livre d'artiste:une introduction à l'art contemporain

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Cet ouvrage rend compte de la naissance et du développement du livre d'artiste aux États-Unis et en Europe en relation étroite avec les avant-gardes des années...› Lire la suite soixante et soixante-dix : poésie concrète et visuelle, Fluxus, Art minimal, Art conceptuel, Arte povera, Art narratif, Land Art, art de la performance ou du happening, notamment. Parce qu'il est inséparable de l'émergence de ces formes inédites de la création qui vont constituer l'art dit "contemporain", le livre d'artiste est une excellente introduction à la compréhension de ses principaux enjeux comme à la diversité de ses manifestations. Ce livre constitue la synthèse la plus large à ce jour de la production internationale. Depuis sa première édition en 1997, il s'est imposé en France et à l'étranger comme l'étude de référence sur le sujet. Pour cette nouvelle édition, le texte, mis à jour et augmenté, s'est enrichi de nombreuses reproductions. Plus de sept cents livres y sont analysés, par près de quatre cents artistes dont les pionniers Ben, Robert Barry, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Herman de Vries, Robert Filliou, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Allan Kaprow, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Maurizio Nannucci, Dieter Roth, Edward Ruscha, Daniel Spoerri, Wolf Vostell, Lawrence Weiner.

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The European poster 1881-1938

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The modern poster dates back to around 1870, when color lithography had been sufficiently perfected to permit mass production. Artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec and Jules Chéret were quick to perceive and embrace the possibilities of the poster as a form, as means of disseminating their work and as a source of income. New movements in late nineteenth-century art, such as Art Nouveau and Symbolism, also adapted their respective styles to commercial demands, and their graphic power was such that major poster surveys were held as early as 1884. Later on, in the early days of the Soviet avant-garde, artists like Rodchenko and Klutsis were also to apply their graphic know-how to the poster form, in the service of a new communist Russia and its booming industries. This boxed volume reproduces 175 posters from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, loose-leaf and in full color. The works have been gathered by expert Carlos Pérez from European museums and renowned international private collections. An accompanying paperback book, housed within the box, provides an historical overview. Among the 90-plus artists included here are Chéret, Ramón Casas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard, Alfons Mucha, Henri Matisse, Cassandre, Paul Colin, Jean Carlu, Giacomo Balla, Herbert Bayer, Otto Baumberger, John Heartfield, Vladimir Lebedev, Alexander Rodchenko, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, Oskar Schlemmer, Gustav Klutsis, Robert Béreny and Fortunato Depero.

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Poster collection 24: the magic of things

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The Magic of Things explores a former advertising strategy of Swiss product posters in which banal, everyday objects—butter, a sewing machine, or shoes—are presented as desirable objects enticing us to buy. Free from any further contextualization, the objects acquire a sensual presence and magical aura. The product poster had its heyday in Switzerland in the 1940s with designers such as Niklaus Stoecklin, Peter Birkhauser, or Otto Baumberger. As consumer society developed, however, the exclusive focus on the product and the brand name was no longer enough—in advertising, the feelings associated with the object as it related to life grew increasingly important. Today it is in the cultural poster that the magical depiction of things is experiencing a kind of renaissance.