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Fashion

1960s Look Recreating the Fashions of the Sixties

Brown Mike

ISBN: PB: 9781781220078, Casemate, Sabrestorm Publishing, September 2016
144 pp., 28x22.9 cm, colour photos throughout

The 1960s, known as the "Swinging Sixties", are recognised as a landmark decade both by those who lived through them and those who look back in awe at the revolutionary changes in fashion, style and sexual freedom. Continuing interest and appreciat...

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Contemporary Art

In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde An Anthropologist Investigates the Contemporary Art Museum

Bunzl Matti

ISBN: PB: 9780226418124, ISBN: HB: 9780226173818, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 2008, anthropologist Matti Bunzl was given rare access to observe the curatorial department of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. For five months, he sat with the institution's staff, witnessing firsthand what truly goes on behind the scenes at...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

From Kandinsky to Pollock The Art of the Guggenheim Collections

Barbero Luca Massimo

ISBN: PB: 9788831723824, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
352 pp., 28.9x24.1 cm, 215 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! A reconstruction of the artistic milieu surrounding Peggy Guggenheim. The catalog contains more than 100 masterpieces of European and American art ranging from the 1920s to the 1960s, reconstructing relationships on both si...

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Contemporary Art

Imagine New Imagery in Italian Art 1960-1969

Barbero Luca Massimo

ISBN: PB: 9788831723787, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
288 pp., 28.7x23.6 cm, 319 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! A seminal experience on the Italian art scene of the 1960s. At the height of the economic miracle of the 1960s, artistic experiments in Italy kept following one another, mixed and merged with an extraordinary speed and inte...

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History of Art

Aldo Manuzio Renaissance in Venice

Beltramini Guido, Manieri Elia Giulio, Gasparotto Davide

ISBN: PB: 9788831723800, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
376 pp., 24.9x20.3 cm, 130 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The fascinating story of the greatest publisher of all time. The catalog of the Aldo Manutiu exhibition, 500 years after his death, is a tribute to the most famous printer in the history of publishing. It tells how the book...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

History of Art

Baule Monkeys

Bruno Claessens, Jean-Louis Danis, Vogel Susan M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222449, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, August 2016
192 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 113 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.

The Baule people of the Ivory Coast are renowned for their refined sculptural work of masks and figures. This book is the first to focus exclusively on an antithetic aspect of Baule culture-rough zoomorphic sculptures representing monkeys. These awe-...

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History of Art

Schwitters Miro Arp

Buchhart Dieter

ISBN: HB: 9783791355924, Prestel Publishing, August 2016
192 pp., 29.5x23 cm, 145 colour illus.

Featuring approximately 100 key works, along with numerous reference images, this book explores the work of Kurt Schwitters, Joan Miro, and Hans Arp and the ways in which the artists influenced each others' artistic pursuits. It examines the artists'...

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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 50, 2015

Baetjer Katharine, Jones Julie, Mankin Kornhauser Elizabeth, Syson Luke

ISBN: PB: 9780226329505, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 250 colour plates

"The Metropolitan Museum Journal", issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collection. Volume 50 includes articles on a rare mechanical figure from ancient Egypt; isolated heads in south...

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Photography

Camera Orientalis Reflections on Photography of the Middle East

Behdad Ali

ISBN: PB: 9780226356402, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
224 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 4 colour plates, 80 halftones

In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their archaeological findings, the photograph was easier and fa...

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Contemporary Art

Ed Ruscha Ribbon Words

Buchhart Dieter, Schwartz Alexandra, O'Brien Glenn

ISBN: HB: 9780996918114, DAP, Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, August 2016
112 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 65 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The is the first publication to focus on Ed Ruscha's (born 1937) "Ribbon Word" works, begun in 1966. It features reproductions of more than 50 masterpieces, along with three essays by the show's curator Dieter Buchhart, as...

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