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Medieval

Feast for the Senses Art and Experience in Medieval Europe

Bagnoli Martina, Normore Christina, Newman Barbara, Casagrande Carla, Dillon Emma, Brilliant Virginia

ISBN: HB: 9780300222951, Yale University Press, October 2016
280 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 241 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.

The late medieval world was marked by a culture of refinement and sophistication. The period's media of choice – paintings, manuscripts, prints, tapestries, embroideries, ivory sculpture, metalwork, and enamels – speak volumes about the pleasures of...

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Design

Stationery Fever From Pencils to Paper Clips and Everything In Between

Bendandi Luca, John Z. Komurki

ISBN: HB: 9783791382722, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
208 pp., 27x21 cm, 230 colour illus.

This beautifully designed book shows how the seemingly mundane objects that populate desks and cubicles everywhere are now being re-imagined as collector's items. And as today's trendsetting artists and designers are increasingly returning to non-dig...

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History of Art

Matisse/Diebenkorn

Bishop Janet, Rothkopf Katherine

ISBN: HB: 9783791355344, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
184 pp., 27.9x24.4 cm, 120 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.

Featuring stunning pairings of more than 80 paintings and drawings, this book charts the evolution of Matisse's impact on Diebenkorn over the course of Diebenkorn's career. Though they never met, Matisse was an enduring source of inspiration for the...

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History of Art

Jerusalem, 1000-1400 Every People Under Heaven

Boehm Barbara Drake, Holcomb Melanie

ISBN: HB: 9781588395986, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2016
352 pp., 30.8x24.3 cm, 354 colour illus.

A comprehensive and timely exploration of the key role Jerusalem played in shaping the art and culture of the Middle Ages Medieval Jerusalem was a vibrant international center and home to multiple cultures, faiths, and languages. Harmonious and disso...

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History of Art

Renaissance and Reformation German Art in the Age of Durer and Cranach

Buck Stephanie, Chapuis Julien, Kemperdick Stephan, Roth Michael, Chipps Smith Jeffrey, Syndram Dirk

ISBN: HB: 9783791355399, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
240 pp., 29.5x23 cm, 190 colour illus.

Featuring more than a hundred outstanding paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and treasures of the Age of the Reformation, this publication comprises masterpieces by Albrecht Durer, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Lucas Cranach the Younger, Hans Hol...

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Contemporary Art

Photography

Erwin Blumenfeld From Dada to Vogue

Blumenfeld Yorick

ISBN: PB: 9780993078682, Casemate, Osborne Samuel Gallery, October 2016
120 pp., 26.5x20.5 cm, illus.

The remarkable life and career of pioneering photographer Erwin Blumenfeld has been well documented. A pre-war visit to New York established his reputation, once he returned in 1941 he rapidly became one of the best known and most creative fashion ph...

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Contemporary Art

Beauty of a Social Problem Photography, Autonomy, Economy

Benn Michaels Walter

ISBN: PB: 9780226421186, ISBN: HB: 9780226210261, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
240 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 28 halftones, 4 line drawings

Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's "beauty and attraction" invisible. In "The Beauty of a Social Problem", Walter Benn Michaels explores the effort to overcome this difficulty thro...

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Photography

Art of the Selfie Hong Kong Style

Badger Gerry, Baterna-Patena Jhoane

ISBN: PB: 9783944721859, Bookport, seltmann and sohne, September 2016
96 pp., 20.1x14.2 cm, colour illus.

For ten months, the Philippine photographer Jhoane Baterna-Patena observed people pursuing one of their favorite activities: the photographic staging of themselves. For this, she visited Golden Bauhinia Square in Hong Kong, a centrally located touris...

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History of Art

Art of the Islands Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Visual Culture, c. 450-1050

Brown Michelle P.

ISBN: PB: 9781851244461, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2016
240 pp., 25x21 cm, 120 colour illus.

The Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Viking peoples who inhabited the British Isles and Ireland from late prehistory to the Norman Conquest left a rich visual heritage whose influence continues to be felt. This is the first book to present an illust...

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Europe

Photography

Liberation of Europe 1944-1945 The Photographers who Captured History from D-Day to Berlin

Barnes Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781612004020, Casemate, September 2016
336 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 400 illus.

The Second World War presented a huge range of challenges to press photography both in terms of its execution and getting the results in print. Life on the home front was the main subject until the invasion of France changed everything in 1944. Pho...

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