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41 Degrees Art Press is a publishing house founded by Dr. Jane A. Sharp (a U.S. citizen) in Amsterdam, in consultation with an advisory board based in New York City and Amsterdam.

The goal of the Press is to produce books, from conception through to printing, in several subgenres of art book publishing, and to market these books in both the USA and Europe. Some editors and artists involved in individual projects live and work in the US, others, particularly in the area of design and production live in the Netherlands.

The name 41 Degrees Art Press refers to a tradition of avant-garde book-making in Tbilisi Georgia and Paris, France. The books produced by this imprint are well known among art historians and publishers, major artists and writers participated in the publications.
 

Another publication edited by Jane A. Sharp and Norton T. Dodge is:

 PAINTING FOR THE GRAVE
The Early Work of Boris Sveshnikov

 

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This book reconstructs the efforts of avant-garde artists, primarily Natal’ia Goncharova and her Muscovite colleagues, to reclaim Russia’s ‘Eastern’ cultural heritage. Before the First World War, art addressed a crisis in self-representation that was a consequence of Russia’s dual cultural legacies, Asian and European.
This text represents Goncharova’s leading role in this project, both as a spokesperson and a painter. The animated and often polarizing debates concerning the cultural identity of contemporary art were often preceded by Goncharova’s practices that react to a critical tradition that, for at least a decade, had accused the radical ‘left’ Muscovite artists of failing to create a national tradition.

Prize Winner:  Winner of the 2007 Robert Motherwell Book Award, Dedalus Foundation.
The award recognizes outstanding publications in the history and criticism of modernism in the arts.