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Photography

What Can We Believe Where? Photographs of the American West, 1965-2005

Adams Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300162479, Yale University Press, October 2010
120 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 110 tritone illus.

Since taking up photography in the mid-1960s, Robert Adams (born 1937) has quietly become one of the most influential chroniclers of the evolving American landscape. Carefully edited by Adams from a remarkable body of work that spans over four decade...

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History of Art

Decorating the "Godly" Household Religious Art in Post-Reformation Britain

Hamling Tara

ISBN: HB: 9780300162820, Yale University Press, October 2010
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 80 black&white illus., 40 colour illus.

The Reformation is generally regarded as a calamitous episode in the history of British art, with the rich artistic heritage of the medieval period eradicated and replaced by an austere Protestant culture of the word. According to this view, religiou...

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Contemporary Art

Eva Hesse Spectres 1960

McKinnon E. Luanne

ISBN: HB: 9780300164152, Yale University Press, October 2010
130 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 30 colour illus.

In 1960 Eva Hesse (1936-1970) created an unusual group of oil paintings that, when considered in contrast to her sculptural assemblages from 1965 to 1970, foretell her desire to embody emotional states in abstract form. Contrary to existing scholarsh...

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History of Art

One Hundred Great Paintings

Govier Louise

ISBN: HB: 9781857094930, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, October 2010
208 pp., 32x24.5 cm, 100 colour illus.

This beautiful book presents one hundred great works from the National Gallery Collection, each by a different artist. Arranged in chronological order and accompanied by Louise Govier's lively text, full-page reproductions of these selected highlight...

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Contemporary Art

Andy Warhol

Danto Arthur C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300169089, Yale University Press, October 2010
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 black&white illus.

In a work of great wisdom and insight, art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto delivers a compact, masterful tour of Andy Warhol's personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. Danto traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his earl...

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History of Art

Archaeology & Paleontology

Echoes of the Past The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtansgshan

Tsiang Katherine R.

ISBN: PB: 9780935573503, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2010
257 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 3 charts, 3 tables, 1 map, 160 colour illus.

Carved into the mountains of northern China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan were the crowning cultural achievement of the sixth-century Northern Qi dynasty. Once home to a magnificent array of limestone sculptures, the caves were heavily...

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Contemporary Art

Charles Ray

Fried Michael, Kelsey John

ISBN: PB: 9781880146477, DAP, Matthew Marks Gallery, October 2010
80 pp., 28.5x22.8 cm, 35 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Ever since the early 1970s, sculptor Charles Ray's protean practice has yielded some of the most memorable objects and experiences in contemporary art, causing us to confront, as Peter Schjeldahl has written, "elegant, dead...

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Manuals

Classic Rollei A Definitive Guide

Phillips John

ISBN: HB: 9781906672935, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, October 2010
352 pp., 27.6x21 cm, 372 photos

"The Classic Rollei" guide is a comprehensive study of the Rollei twin-lens reflexes cameras made between 1929 and 1981. It covers all the production models and virtually all the accessories. The book looks at the reasons behind the rise of the Roll...

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History of Art

Botanical Drawing in Color

Hollender Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780823007066, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, October 2010
144 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, colour illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! A thorough immersion in the art of botanical drawing, this book will attract both aspiring and more experienced artists seeking scientific accuracy and the illusion of 3-dimension in their botanical artwork. Base...

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Photography

Faces in Places Photos of Faces in Everyday Places

Smith Jody

ISBN: PB: 9781906672904, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, October 2010
176 pp., 19.7x15.9 cm, colour illus.

Faces in places began its meteoric rise to fame as an internet blog that celebrated a collection of quirky, hilarious, surprising and madcap images captured by ordinary folk with an eye for the bizarre: the ability to see human-like faces in everyday...

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