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Bohumil Krcil

Hlavackova Jitka

ISBN: PB: 9788072153091, DAP, Torst, March 2008
120 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 76 duotone

Not for sale in Estonia! The work of the legendary late photographer and samizdat publisher Bohumil "Bob" Krcil, who was born in 1952, is little known in his native country. He left Czechoslovakia in 1969, and for the next 23 years, traveled extens...

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Photography

Josef Sudek Portraits

Rezac Jan

ISBN: HB: 9788072153190, DAP, Torst, March 2008
96 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 86 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Although the Czech photographer Josef Sudek was mildly reclusive by temperament, and although his photography is commonly characterized as unpeopled (in favor of what he termed "the inanimate life of objects"), a sizable po...

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History of Art

J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections

ISBN: PB: 9780892368877, Getty Publications, February 2008
336 pp., 24.1x14 cm, 384 colour and black&white illus.

Fully revised and updated to include many major new pieces, as well as the more familiar masterpieces that millions of visitors have become acquainted with over the years, this superb volume presents a visually stunning journey through the unique col...

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History of Art

Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia The Pleasure and the Power

Stites Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300137576, Yale University Press, February 2008
640 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 72 black&white illus.

Serf-era and provincial Russia heralded the spectacular turn in cultural history that began in the 1860s. Examining the role of arts and artists in society's value system, Richard Stites explores this shift in a groundbreaking history of visual and p...

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Contemporary Art

560 Broadway A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006

Eshoo Amy, Cartwright Derrick R., Cuno James, Finch Elizabeth, Helfenstein Josef, Lowry Glenn D., Mickenberg David, Philbin Ann, Powell Earl A., Reynolds Jock

ISBN: HB: 9780300135398, Yale University Press, February 2008
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 180 colour illus.

"560 Broadway" is the first book to explore one of this country's most remarkable private collections of modern and contemporary American drawings. Featuring such artists as Sol Lewitt, Mel Bochner, Jasper Johns, and Agnes Martin, the collection of W...

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History of Art

Astrology, Magic, and Alchemy in Art

Battistini Matilde

ISBN: PB: 9780892369072, Getty Publications, February 2008
384 pp., 19.2x13.4 cm, illustrations throughout

From antiquity to the Enlightenment, astrology, magic, and alchemy have always been considered important tools in unravelling the mysteries of nature and human destiny. As a result of the West's exposure to the astrological beliefs of Arab philosophe...

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History of Art

Silent Rhetoric of the Body A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770

Craske Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300135411, Yale University Press, February 2008
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 60 black&white illus.

This illuminating and original book opens up a neglected corner of eighteenth-century art – the funeral monument. In the last forty years, studies of the satires of early and mid-eighteenth-century England have multiplied, whereas its funerary monume...

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History of Art

Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century

Desai Vishakha N., Asher Frederick M., Chiu Melissa, Clark John, Shiming Gao, Lippit Yukio, Mathur Saloni, McGowan Kaja M., Mitter Rana, Munroe Alexandra

ISBN: PB: 9780300125535, Yale University Press, February 2008
272 pp., 24.1x19.1 cm, 75 black&white illus.

Since its beginnings in the early 1900s, the study of Asian art has dramatically changed and has constantly been shaped by shifting world politics. "Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century" explores the field of Asian art and its historiography...

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History of Art

Dada's Boys Masculinity After Duchamp

Hopkins David

ISBN: HB: 9780300108958, Yale University Press, February 2008
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 60 black&white illus., 20 colour illus.

In this provocative and stimulating book, David Hopkins offers an exciting new contribution to the discussion about "a crisis in masculinity", addressing the homosocial structures in Dada and Surrealist art with an eye to their relevance to current a...

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Contemporary Art

Lawrence Weiner As Far as the Eye Can See

De Salvo Donna, Goldstein Ann, Gillick Liam, Leffingwell Edward, Schwarz Dieter, Stemmrich Gregor

ISBN: HB: 9780300126952, Yale University Press, February 2008
288 pp., 27.9x21 cm, 50 black&white illus., 200 colour illus.

Lawrence Weiner (b. 1942) is one of the primary figures associated with the emergence of conceptual art in the 1960s. For over four decades, Weiner has defined art as a representation of relationships in the physical world, "the relationship of human...

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