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| | BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 11 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 214 color. PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 1/1/2007 Out of print DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2007 p. 27 PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9783775718639 TRADE List Price: $65.00 CDN $75.00 AVAILABILITY Not available | | BROWSE THE 2021 SPRING CATALOG  Preview our SPRING 2021 catalog, featuring more than 400 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture. |
|   |   | Julie Mehretu: Black CityText by Agustin Perez Rubio, Marcus Steinweg, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz.
Life has taken Julie Mehretu from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to New York the long way. Now the New York Times writes that her canvases--multilayered, futuristic visual worlds where historical and fictional landscapes meet--"make history painting important again." Each one pulls from diverse sources, noteworthy among them Japanese manga, Chinese landscape art, Ethiopian illuminated books, Baroque engraving in the style of Dürer, graffiti and the geometric abstractions of Kazimir Malevich and Vasily Kandinsky. And they are often structured on architectural drawing, which appeals to Mehretu "because there is no way that you could make architecture that doesn't work." Plans for buildings are metaphors "for systems, for rational efforts to construct the world that we exist within, even though so many things happen in a very organic or irrational way." These angular architectural spaces swarm with organic forms, with communities marching to war, confronting systems and creating elaborate new civilizations. Human relationships unfold, interacting with the built and controlled world. Of her interest in these warring factions and in the "aggressive and forceful nature of history," Mehretu says that, "most of my personal ancestry comes from different cultures that, at one time or another, were at war." This is the first comprehensive monograph on a strong new talent in contemporary painting.
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| | | | OF RELATED INTEREST |  Artwork by Julie Mehretu. Edited by Douglas Fogle. Contributions by Olukemi Ilesanmi.WALKER ART CENTERISBN: 9780935640748 USD $24.95 | CAN $27.5Pub Date: 10/2/2003 No longer our product | Not available
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FORMAT: Hardcover, 11 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 214 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $65.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $75 ISBN: 9783775718639 PUBLISHER: Hatje Cantz AVAILABLE: 1/1/2007 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA | D.A.P. CATALOG: SPRING 2007 Page 27 | INFO AS OF: May 14, 2019 | PRESS INQUIRIES
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| Julie Mehretu: Black City Published by Hatje Cantz. Text by Agustin Perez Rubio, Marcus Steinweg, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz. | Life has taken Julie Mehretu from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to New York the long way. Now the New York Times writes that her canvases--multilayered, futuristic visual worlds where historical and fictional landscapes meet--"make history painting important again." Each one pulls from diverse sources, noteworthy among them Japanese manga, Chinese landscape art, Ethiopian illuminated books, Baroque engraving in the style of Dürer, graffiti and the geometric abstractions of Kazimir Malevich and Vasily Kandinsky. And they are often structured on architectural drawing, which appeals to Mehretu "because there is no way that you could make architecture that doesn't work." Plans for buildings are metaphors "for systems, for rational efforts to construct the world that we exist within, even though so many things happen in a very organic or irrational way." These angular architectural spaces swarm with organic forms, with communities marching to war, confronting systems and creating elaborate new civilizations. Human relationships unfold, interacting with the built and controlled world. Of her interest in these warring factions and in the "aggressive and forceful nature of history," Mehretu says that, "most of my personal ancestry comes from different cultures that, at one time or another, were at war." This is the first comprehensive monograph on a strong new talent in contemporary painting.
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