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Edward S. Curtis Events Beyond Words

Ewing William A.

ISBN: HB: 9783791357300, Prestel Publishing, June 2021
240 pp., 29x23 cm, 250 colour illus.

Featuring iconic and rarely seen images from the foremost photographer of North America's Native peoples, together with a rich selection of rare ephemera, this retrospective is an extensive and in-depth study of Edward Curtis's pioneering work. Edwa...

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History of Art

Exotic Switzerland? Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment

Etienne Noemie, Brizon Claire, Lee Chonja, Wismer Etienne

ISBN: PB: 9783035802276, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 100 colour plates

During the 17th and 18th centuries, foreign material culture was introduced into France and Switzerland and integrated into European interiors and decorative arts. Scholars have emphasized this era's emerging taste for the exotic in order to explain...

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Children's Books

Little Dancer A Children's Book Inspired by Edgar Degas

Elschner Geraldine

ISBN: HB: 9783791374499, Prestel Publishing, August 2020
32 pp., 32x24 cm, 16 colour illus.

Degas's ballerina paintings are well known and admired and his sculptural work Little Dancer Aged Fourteen – the only sculpture he exhibited in his lifetime – is particularly beloved for capturing the essence of a ballerina. This book tells the ficti...

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History of Art

En Passant Impressionism in Sculpture

Eiling Alexander, Mongi-Vollmer Eva

ISBN: HB: 9783791359618, Prestel Publishing, May 2020
360 pp., 28x23 cm, 335 colour illus.

Is there such a thing as "Impressionist sculpture"? Since 1881 when Edgar Degas presented Little Dancer Aged Fourteen at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition in Paris, the term has existed along with the discourse around it. This book is dedicated to t...

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History of Art

Cezanne The Rock and Quarry Paintings

Elderfield John

ISBN: HB: 9780300250480, Yale University Press, April 2020
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 75 colour illus.

From the mid-1860s until shortly before his death, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) created 27 canvases that take rock formations as their principal subjects. This is the first publication to focus exclusively on these extraordinary works. It illustrates all...

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Contemporary Art

Mythology of Forms Selected Writings on Art

Einstein Carl

ISBN: HB: 9780226464138, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
408 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 78 halftones

The German art historian and critic Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was at the forefront of the modernist movement that defined the twentieth century. One of the most prolific and brilliant early commentators on cubism, he was also among the first authors...

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Contemporary Art

Ai Weiwei Bare Life

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9780936316468, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, December 2019
192 pp., 22.8x26.6 cm, 90 colour plates

Over the past two decades, the Chinese conceptual artist, activist, and exile Ai Weiwei has created art that addresses complex and sensitive themes of political, ethical, and social urgency. His artworks, which call upon both Western and Chinese cult...

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Contemporary Art

Before or After, at the Same Time Rome, Milan, and Fabio Mauri, 1948-1968

Eastham Ben

ISBN: PB: 9783906915449, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, December 2019
212 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 40 colour illus., 67 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This book takes the life of the Italian multimedia artist and writer Fabio Mauri (born 1926) and the history of his family – a publishing dynasty with close connections to radical Italian art, poetry, cinema, philosophy and...

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Contemporary Art

Theater of Operations The Gulf Wars 1991-2011

Eleey Peter, Katrib Ruba

ISBN: FLEXI: 9780996893084, DAP, MoMA PS1, December 2019
275 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 100 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The 1991 Gulf War marked the start of a lengthy period of American-led military involvement in Iraq that led to more than a decade of sanctions, the 2003 Iraq War, and ongoing repercussions throughout the region. Though the...

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Contemporary Art

Cauleen Smith Give It or Leave It

Elms Anthony, Anastas Rhea, Smith Cauleen, McMillian Rodney

ISBN: PB: 9780884541462, DAP, University of Pennsylvania, October 2019
82 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 125 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Through films, objects, and installation, Chicago-based filmmaker Cauleen Smith (born 1967) offers an emotional axis by which to navigate four distinct universes: Alice Coltrane and her Sai Anantam ashram; a 1966 photo shoo...

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