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Film Studies

Dressing Dangerously Dysfunctional Fashion in Film

Faiers Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300184389, Yale University Press, November 2013
320 pp., 28x24 cm, 50 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

When Marlene Dietrich makes her entrance in Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright, the Dior dress she wears immediately draws the viewer's attention – not because of its designer label, but owing to the dramatic blood stains ruining its stylish surface. Fa...

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History of Art

Dreams and Echoes Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection

Folds McCullagh Suzanne

ISBN: HB: 9780300196245, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2013
224 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 180 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

Over the past 30 years, David and Celia Hilliard have amassed a remarkable collection of Old Master, 19th-century, and modern drawings, as well as of French sculpture from the 19th century, including significant drawings and sculptures by Claude Vign...

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Photography

JFK A Photographic Memoir

Friedlander Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300191080, Yale University Press, September 2013
60 pp., 21.6x23.5 cm, 49 tritone illus.

The public outpouring of support for newly elected President John F. Kennedy in 1960 was exceeded in scope and magnitude by the manifestations of grief and mourning after his assassination in 1963. These responses had an unusually strong visual compo...

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History of Art

50 Series

Surrealism 50 Works of Art You Should Know

Finger Brad

ISBN: PB: 9783791348438, Prestel Publishing, August 2013
144 pp., 24x19.3 cm, 100 colour illus.

The Surrealist movement that developed in Europe following the devastation of World War I swept energetically through all kinds of media as artists found expression in an imaginative pictorial language. This introduction to Surrealism shows 50 unique...

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History of Art

Mexico's Revolutionary Avant-Gardes From Estridentismo to 30-30!

Flores Tatiana

ISBN: HB: 9780300184488, Yale University Press, July 2013
376 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 48 colour images, 122 black&white illus.

In December 1921, the poet Manuel Maples Arce (1898-1981) papered the walls of Mexico City with his manifesto Actual No. 1, sparking the movement Estridentismo (Stridentism). It is inspired by Mexico's rapid modernization following the Mexican Revolu...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Alice Aycock Drawings

Fineberg Jonathan, Sultan Terrie

ISBN: PB: 9780300191103, Yale University Press, May 2013
160 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 102 colour images, 15 black&white illus.

Alice Aycock (b. 1946) emerged onto the New York art scene in the 1970s and is best known for her large-scale public sculptures that often combine an industrial appearance with references to weightlessness as well as to science and cosmology. Aycock...

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Art Conservation

Ephemeral Monuments History and Conservation of Installation Art

Ferriani Barbara, Pugliese Marina

ISBN: PB: 9781606061343, Getty Publications, March 2013
280 pp., 23.9x16.5 cm, 105 colour illus., 29 black&white illus.

This is an indispensible volume for creators, curators, and conservators of installation art. Installation art is an evolving, often ephemeral medium that defies rigid categorization. It has also radically transformed the concepts of space, time, and...

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History of Art

Provenance An Alternate History of Art

Feigenbaum Gail, Reist Inge

ISBN: HB: 9781606061220, Getty Publications, February 2013
224 pp., 25.6x17.7 cm, 60 black&white illus.

This is a fascinating re-examination of the importance and legacy of provenance in the history of art. This book goes beyond the narrow definition of the term provenance, which addresses only the bare facts of ownership and transfer, to explore ideas...

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History of Art

Masters of Art

Masters of Art Van Eyck

Ferrari Simone

ISBN: PB: 9783791348261, Prestel Publishing, February 2013
160 pp., 21x17 cm, 80 colour illus.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Jan van Eyck makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. A 15th-century Flemish painter who spent most of his life in Bruges, Van Eyck was revered for his inno...

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Photography

This is the Day The March on Washington

Freed Leonard

ISBN: HB: 9781606061213, Getty Publications, December 2012
128 pp., 24.3x22.6 cm, 79 black&white photos

This title offers a superb collection of emotionally charged photographs that document a poignant day in American history. "This Is the Day" is a stirring photo-essay documenting the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of August 28, 1963, the hi...

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