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Ignite the Power of Art Advancing Visitor Engagement in Museum Experiences
ISBN: PB: 9780300167542, Yale University Press, December 2010
104 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 tables, 60 colour illus.
How do visitors like to experience art? What makes for an enriching museum visit? The Dallas Museum of Art undertook a groundbreaking seven-year research initiative to answer these questions, examining how people connect with art and identifying pref...
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£10,99
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Bridget Riley Arcadia
ISBN: PB: 9781857094978, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, December 2010
56 pp., 26.8x22.6 cm, 50 colour illus.
For 50 years Bridget Riley has been regarded as Britain's most important abstract painter, renowned for her large abstract paintings, with their complex, repetitive geometric shapes and undulating linear patterns. Given the graphic nature of these wo...
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Sacred Possessions Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900
ISBN: PB: 9781606060421, Getty Publications, December 2010
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 86 black&white illus.
This is a brief history of and investigation into the collecting of sacred art. When works of art created for religious purposes outlive their original function, they often take on new meanings as they move from sacred spaces to secular collections....
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Stone Conservation An Overview of Current Research
ISBN: PB: 9781606060469, Getty Publications, December 2010
164 pp., 28x21.5 cm, black&white illus.
This is a detailed and informative overview of the latest research and development in stone conservation. Petra, Angkor, Copan, Venice, Lascaux, Easter Island – all are examples of irreplaceable cultural heritage built in stone and now slowly disappe...
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£27,50
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Tree in Photographs
ISBN: HB: 9781606060322, Getty Publications, December 2010
112 pp., 22.5x19.2 cm, 81 black&white and colour photos
Visual artists as well as writers have long extolled the presence of the tree. From the origins of photography to the present day, photographers have considered the tree, with its strong graphic form and evocative power, to be a popular subject. Thro...
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Readers Vintage People on Photo Postcards
ISBN: HB: 9781851243594, Bodleian Library Publishing, December 2010
112 pp., 19x17.5 cm, 200 black&white illus.
To celebrate the acquisition of the Tom Phillips archive, the Bodleian Library has asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards. These encompass the first half of the...
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Women and Hats Vintage People on Photo Postcards
ISBN: HB: 9781851243624, Bodleian Library Publishing, December 2010
112 pp., 19x17.5 cm, 200 black&white illus.
To celebrate the acquisition of the Tom Phillips archive, the Bodleian Library has asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards. These encompass the first half of the...
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Writing Art History Disciplinary Departures
ISBN: PB: 9780226388267, ISBN: HB: 9780226388250, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 line drawings, 30 halftones
Faced with an increasingly media-saturated, globalized culture, art historians have begun to ask themselves challenging and provocative questions about the nature of their discipline. Why did the history of art come into being? Is it now in danger of...
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£79,00
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Traveling the Spaceways Sun Ra, the Astro Black and other Solar Myths
ISBN: PB: 9780945323150, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2010
91 pp., 23.9x16.8 cm, 70 colour illus.
Sun Ra (1914-1993) – self-proclaimed visionary extraterrestrial of the "Angel Race", prophetic jazz band leader and composer, and lyrical proponent of Afro-futurism – was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century music. Though many of...
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Afterall Autumn/Winter 2010, Issue 25
ISBN: PB: 9781846380693, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 100 colour plates
"Afterall" is a journal of art, context, and inquiry that offers in-depth consideration of the work of contemporary artists from around the world, along with essays that set the work in a broader context. Articles on art history and critical theory a...
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