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In the late 1940s, Jackson Pollock, now recognized as one of the most important Abstract Expressionist artists, began experimenting with a new method of painting that involved dripping, flinging and pouring paint onto a canvas laid flat on the ground. This process engaged his entire body, and the resulting images were a direct index of the energy he expended to create these works. One: Number 31 (1950), among the largest of the paintings he produced by this method, is a virtuoso showcase of his mastery of materials and technique. In this volume of the MoMA One on One series, a lively essay by former museum curator and professor Charles Stuckey offers an in-depth exploration of the painting, one of many groundbreaking works by Pollock in MoMA’s collection.

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This is a new three volume series of fully illustrated books that chronologically showcase the Museum's collection of nearly 7000 works on paper. The series covers masterworks created from 1880 to 1945.

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This is one of a series of books on modern art created to help very young people learn the basic vocabulary used by artists, a sort of ABC of art. This book isolates the key elements of place to see how places are depicted by artists and how they help to convey meaning in art. Notes at the back of each book provide brief background information that adults will find useful when talking with children about the images reproduced in these books.

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In a career that spans more than four decades, FrederickWiseman has made thirty-eight films that together form a monumental chronicle of latetwentieth- century institutional and cultural life. The dilemmasWiseman poses in his films – moral, philosophical, legal, medical, technological, political, religious and aesthetic – are both urgent and vexing, from his controversial debut, Titicut Follies (1967), the only American film ever censored for reasons other than national security or obscenity, to his recent critical and commercial success La Danse – The Paris Opera Ballet (2009) and forthcoming film Boxing Gym (2010). FrederickWiseman, the first publication in English to provide a comprehensive overview ofWiseman’s work to date (including projects for theatre and opera), features original essays by a variety of distinguished writers, critics, filmmakers and actors, and byWiseman himself. Richly illustrated with stills from his films, this volume is an incisive examination of one of cinema’s most fearless and innovative filmmakers.

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Formed by Harvey S. Shipley Miller, trustee of the Judith Rothschild Foundation, and given to MoMA in 2005, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection was conceived to be a broad survey of contemporary drawing practice, and it more than fulfils that goal, mixing drawings of the 1960s and 1970s with major works of the past twenty years by such artists as Kai Althoff, Robert Crumb, Peter Doig, Marcel Dzama, Mark Grotjahn, Charline von Heyl, Martin Kippenberger, Sherrie Levine, Agnes Martin, Fred Sandback, Paul Thel and Andrea Zittel, among many others. This definitive catalogue raisonné presents the collection as a whole, with an introduction by Christian Rattemeyer; five essays each focusing on a different geographic area of artistic production; images throughout; and a text on paper conservation.

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This is the first book to present an overview of the best Spanish architecture in the 21st century. Featuring 35 important architectural projects that will actually be in construction in 2006, the book reflects the geographic and generational diversity of the current wave of new projects and their architects, as well as a wide range of scales, from a private house to a new international airport.

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Published in conjunction with a retrospective at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Becoming spans the entire career of Alice Maher (born 1956), one of Ireland's most respected and influential artists. An eclectic mosaic of painting, sculpture, photography and drawing, Maher's oeuvre often explores the gendered inflections of everyday objects.

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What We Call Love explores how the notion of love has evolved within the 20th century. How have seismic sociological changes concerning sexuality, marriage and intimacy affected the way we conceive love today? How does visual art, from Surrealism to the present day, deal with love? This book draws on Surrealism''s idea of love as l''amour fou (mad love) and new visions of love which emerged after the 1960s.Artists include Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Sadie Benning, Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Brancusi, Brassaï, André Breton, Cecily Brown, Sophie Calle, Marcel Duchamp, Elmgreen and Dragset, Nan Goldin, Felix González-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Jim Hodges, Rebecca Horn, Ghérasim Luca, Annette Messager, Tracey Moffatt, Yoko Ono, Benjamin Péret, Carolee Schneemann, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cerith Wyn Evans and Akram Zaatari.

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This artist's book serves as a retrospective monograph on the Dublinbased multimedia artist Dennis McNulty (born 1970), documenting selected pieces starting with the artist's submission to the 2004 São Paulo Biennial and continuing through to the present. An electronic musician, McNulty employs audio as a sculptural material in his videos, sculptures, installations and performances.

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Featuring poems, artist''s projects, film stills and photographs, The Event Horizon presents the work of over 15 European artists and is based on an exhibit held at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. The title of the book is borrowed from an essay by the great Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, and refers to the shifting perspective of narrative. The theme of narrative recurs throughout the book, which combines text by the artists with images from their work. Included are Helena Almeida, Anna-Eva Bergman, Marie-Jose Burki, Atom Egoyan, Seamus Farrell, Ann Veronica Janssens, Sigalit Landau, Colin Newman/Malka Sigel (Immersion), Nusret Pasic, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Tim Robinson, Sam Taylor-Wood, Jean-Pierre Temmerman and Mitja Tusek.

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