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History of Art

Islam

By the Pen and What They Write Writing in Islamic Art and Culture

Blair Sheila S., Bloom Jonathan M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300228243, Yale University Press, September 2017
318 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 235 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.

Considered by Muslims as the only true art, calligraphy has played a prominent role in Islamic culture since the time of the prophet Muhammad. Exploring this central role of the written word in Islam and how writing practices have evolved and adapted...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Sewing

Fashion Illustration and Design, Volume 1 Methods and Techniques for Achieving Professional Results

Brambatti Manuela, Menconi Fabio

ISBN: PB: 9788416851065, Hoaki, September 2017
240 pp., 30x21.5 cm, fully illustrated in colour

A design tutorial by Daniela Brambatti, Versace's chief (design) illustrator, the book is an idea of couturier Fabio Marconi who, impressed by her drawing style and the precision with which she captures the flow of fabric over the body, convinced her...

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Contemporary Art

Vertigo Au rendez-vous des amis

Barbero Luca Massimo

ISBN: PB: 9788831726412, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2017
176 pp., 26.9x20.8 cm, 147 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! A poignant, new artistic enquiry. "Vertigo: Au Rendez-Vous des Amis" presents the works of three extraordinary contemporary Italian artists, Francesco Candeloro, Riccardo De Marchi, and Arcangelo Sassolino. In this meeting...

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Cartoon Art

Disappointed Monsters An A to Z of Life's Most Disheartening Moments

Bowes Eli

ISBN: HB: 9781781453230, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, September 2017
64 pp., 23.8x16.1 cm, colour illus.

"Disappointed Monsters" is an adult A to Z of life's most disappointing and disheartening moments, manifested in the sort of creatures you more commonly find inhabiting a graphic novel. These are the daily setbacks that turn us all into monsters, and...

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Design

Best of German Interior Design

Boros Christian, Langenscheidt Florian, Salie Olaf, Schramm Axel

ISBN: HB: 9783954761807, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, August 2017
464 pp., 29x24 cm, 700 colour and black&white illus., language: English / German

Best of German Interior Design introduces the reader to the 50 most renowned German designers and 50 leading German producers of home interior products. It portrays a scene that, in its self-perception, tends to fall "below the radar". Around the wor...

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Decorative Arts

Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Bussiere Jean, Lindros Wohl Birgitta

ISBN: PB: 9781606065136, Getty Publications, August 2017
510 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 1 map, 56 line drawings

In the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum are more than six hundred ancient lamps that span the sixth century BCE to the seventh century CE, most from the Roman Imperial period and largely created in Asia Minor or North Africa. These lamps have m...

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History of Art

Women Studies

Fray Art and Textile Politics

Bryan-Wilson Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780226077819, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
296 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 90 colour plates, 62 halftones

In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the group wryly envisioned female collective textile mak...

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Fashion

Traces Fashion & Migration

Blumhardt Olga, Drinkuth Antje

ISBN: PB: 9783954761975, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, July 2017
200 pp., 29x22 cm, 120 colour illus., 20 black&white illus., language: English / German

Fashions have always also been reflections of issues in society. Migration is a more topical, volatile, and controversial issue right now than it has been in a long time. Cultural diversity is embraced when it comes to musical, linguistic, or culinar...

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Photography

Chupar del Bote

Berenguer Ximo

ISBN: HB: 9788417047023, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, July 2017
112 pp., 22.9x21.6 cm, illustrations throughout

Originally from the Valencia region, Berenguer moved to Barcelona to study. There he lived through the tumult of the final years of the Franco regime and the early years of the transition to democracy in Spain, participating in the ferment of counter...

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History of Art

Gauguin Artist as Alchemist

Bernardi Claire, Cahn Isabelle, Ferlier Ophelie, Gamboni Dario, Groom Gloria, Perelman Allison, Stratis Harriet

ISBN: HB: 9780300217018, Yale University Press, A+D Series, July 2017
320 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 404 colour illus.

An unprecedented exploration of Gauguin's works in various media, from works on paper to clay and furniture. Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a creative force above and beyond his legendary work as a painter. Surveying the full scope of his career-spann...

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