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History of Art

Johan Zoffany Society Observed

Postle Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780300176049, Yale University Press, October 2011
320 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 225 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

The 18th-century painter Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) was an astute observer of the many social circles in which he functioned as an artist over the course of his long career. This catalogue investigates his sharp wit, shrewd political appraisal, and pe...

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History of Art

Keith Vaughan Gouaches, Drawings & Prints

Hastings Gerard

ISBN: HB: 9780956419958, Casemate, Osborne Samuel Gallery, October 2011
96 pp., 26.5x20.5 cm, colour illus.

John Keith Vaughan (23 August 1912 – 4 November 1977) was a British painter. Born in Selsey, Vaughan attended Christ's Hospital school. He worked in an advertising agency until the war, when as an intending conscientious objector he joined the St Joh...

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History of Art

Late Medieval Panel Paintings: Materials, Methods, Meanings Volume I

Nash Susie

ISBN: PB: 9780955339349, Casemate, Sam Fogg, October 2011
298 pp., 30x24.5 cm, 440 colour illus.

These exquisite late Medieval works, often fragments of larger altarpieces designed for liturgy or devotion, can be monumental and dramatic or small and intimate, but all on close examination prove to be rich in meaning.

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Culture Studies

Design

French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945-1975

Sherman Daniel J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226752693, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 51 halftones, 10 colour illus.

For over a century, the idea of primitivism has motivated artistic modernism. Focusing on the three decades after World War II, known in France as "les trentes glorieuses" despite the loss of most of the country's colonial empire, this probing and ex...

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Contemporary Art

Ellsworth Kelly Wood Sculpture

Richardson Brenda

ISBN: HB: 9780878467662, DAP, MFA Publications, October 2011
72 pp., 29.2x21 cm, illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Estonia! Ellsworth Kelly describes the 30 wood sculptures he created over the span of four decades between 1958 and 1996 as his "totems". This body of work, although only a small proportion of the artist's lifetime sculpture and far...

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Contemporary Art

Tantra Song Tantric Painting from Rajasthan

Jamme Franck Andre

ISBN: HB: 9780979956270, DAP, Siglio, October 2011
112 pp., 28.4x21.1 cm, 50 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This collection of rare, abstract Tantra drawings was conceived when the French poet Franck Andre Jamme stumbled on a small catalogue of Tantric art at a Paris bookseller's stall. The volume included writings by Octavio Paz...

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History of Art

Degas and the Nude

Rey Xavier, Roquebert Anne, Shackelford George T. M.

ISBN: HB: 9780878467730, DAP, MFA Publications, October 2011
241 pp., 27.3x24.7 cm, 240 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The nude figure was critical to the art of Edgar Degas throughout his life, and yet frequently his expansive body of work on this subject has been overshadowed by his celebrated portraits and dancers. "Degas and the Nude" i...

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Contemporary Art

Ellsworth Kelly Reliefs 2009-2010

Storr Robert

ISBN: HB: 9781880146569, DAP, Matthew Marks Gallery, October 2011
48 pp., 33.6x25.4 cm, 24 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This monograph presents 13 paintings and one sculpture that demonstrate a new refinement in Ellsworth Kelly's work. In each of the paintings a rectangular canvas is painted with numerous layers of white paint, on top of whi...

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Cartoon Art

Painting and Drawing Manuals

Stan Lee's How to Write Comics From the Legendary Co-Creator of Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Iron Man

Lee Stan

ISBN: PB: 9780823000845, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, October 2011
224 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, colour illus., black&white illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! From comics icon Stan Lee, creator of the Mighty Marvel Universe and characters such as Spider-Man, Incredible Hulk and the X-Men, comes the ultimate how-to book for aspiring comic book writers. In these pages, a...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Natalia Stachon Matter Shifted

Strauss Dorothea

ISBN: HB: 9783942405393, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, September 2011
128 pp., 21x21 cm, 65 colour illus., language: English / German

Over the past several years, Natalia Stachon (b. Katowice, Poland, 1976; lives and works in Berlin) has developed a vocabulary of lyrical-minimalist forms that manifest themselves in her objects, sculptures, and installations. After graduating from t...

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