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History of Art

Album Picabia

Calte Beverley

ISBN: PB: 9780300225563, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, September 2016
224 pp., 29.8x22.9 cm, 220 colour and black&white illus.

Album Picabia is an inspiring, artistic chronicle of Francis Picabia's life (1879-1953) as seen through the eyes of his last wife and creative protegee, Olga Mohler Picabia. Begun in 1936, four years before their marriage, and left unfinished in 1951...

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Contemporary Art

Monster Roster Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago

Corbett John, Dempsey Jim, Moss Jessica, Born Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780935573480, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2016
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 100 colour plates, 35 halftones

Accompanying an exhibition at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, this book is the definitive introduction to Chicago's first artistic movement, the Monster Roster. The volume includes an overview of the artists involved, such as Leon Go...

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History of Art

Jewish Studies

Venice, the Jews, and Europe 1516-2016

Calabi Donatella

ISBN: HB: 9788831724944, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
536 pp., 30.4x20.3 cm, 241 colour illus., 11 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Five hundred years of the Jewish Ghetto of Venice through art. This book aims to tell the story of the Ghetto of Venice, the first in the world – the way it grew within itself, its architecture, social makeup, crafts and t...

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Contemporary Art

Alex Da Corte Free Roses

Cross Susan, Da Corte Alex

ISBN: HB: 9783791355337, Prestel Publishing, August 2016
112 pp., 27x24 cm, 75 colour illus.

A generously illustrated book on the dynamic work of neo-pop artist Alex Da Corte, whose immersive installations and provocative objects seamlessly blend high and low culture as they explore themes of love, sex, family, death, and desire. For his la...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Drawing Lesson A Graphic Novel That Teaches You How to Draw

Crilley Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780385346337, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, August 2016
144 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, illus. throughout

Not for sale in selected countries! An instructional art book in narrative graphic novel form, "The Drawing Lesson" uses the tale of one aspiring young artist and his reluctant mentor to impart easy-to-follow lessons on the fundamentals of drawing....

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Photography

Danny Lyon Message to the Future

Cox Julian, Sussman Elisabeth, Nemerov Alexander, Sachs Danica Willard, Halter Ed, Rinzler Alan

ISBN: HB: 9780300218831, Yale University Press, June 2016
340 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 50 colour illus., 200 black&white illus.

Coming of age in the 1960s, the photographer Danny Lyon (b. 1942) distinguished himself with work that emphasized intimate social engagement. In 1962 Lyon traveled to the segregated South to photograph the civil rights movement. Subsequent projects o...

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History of Art

Dyer's Handbook Memoirs of an 18th Century Master Colourist

Cardon Dominique

ISBN: HB: 9781785702112, Casemate, Oxbow Books, June 2016
160 pp., 29.7x21 cm

Persian blue, pomegranate flower, spiny lobster, wine soup, pale flesh, dove breast, golden wax, grass green, green sand, rotten olive, modest plum, agate, rich French gray, gunpowder of the English... these are just some of the colour names of old f...

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History of Art

Collecting for the Public Works That Made a Difference

Cornelis Bart, Luijten Ger, van Tilborgh Louis, Zeedijk Tim

ISBN: HB: 9781911300045, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, June 2016
240 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 90 colour illus.

There was a time when museums might have been regarded as rather forbidding and austere centres of learning, but today they are more likely to position themselves firmly within the tourism and leisure industry with all manner of food, fun and family...

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History of Art

Adriaen Van de Velde Dutch Master of Landscape

Cornelis Bart, Schapelhouman Marijn

ISBN: PB: 9781907372964, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, June 2016
200 pp., 28x24 cm, 130 colour illus.

A Dutch Italianate, Adriaen Van de Velde represents a point of artistic crosscommunication across borders, fusing agricultural landscapes in Holland with mythological Arcadian scenes in Italian settings. He died at the early age of 35, and yet he pro...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Mark Rothko

Cohen-Solal Annie

ISBN: PB: 9780300219685, ISBN: HB: 9780300182040, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Mark Rothko was not only one of the most influential American painters of the twentieth century; he was a scholar, an educator, and a deeply spiritual human being. Born Marcus Yakovlevich Rotkovitch, he emigrated from the Russian Empire to the United...

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