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Anthropology

History of Art

Second Careers Two Tributaries in African Art

Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300246872, Yale University Press, January 2020
120 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 40 colour illus.

Recognizing the second lives of historical African artworks when they enter museum collections and addressing them in dialogue with the works of six established and emerging African artists, this book represents how today's practitioners are reformul...

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History of Art

Leonardo Experience a Masterpiece

Kharibian Leah

ISBN: PB: 9781857096606, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2020
72 pp., 27.1x22.8 cm, 50 colour illus.

This concise but innovative book, published to accompany an immersive digital exhibition at the National Gallery, London, focuses on a single Leonardo painting, and one of the artist's most celebrated: "The Virgin of the Rocks". The quarter-century p...

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History of Art

Uruk The First City of the Ancient World

Crusemann Nicola

ISBN: HB: 9781606064443, Getty Publications, January 2020
400 pp., 25x15 cm, 450 colour illus., 34 black&white illus.

This remarkable book unveils the origins of urban life in our ancient past. Over one hundred years ago, discoveries from a German archaeological dig at Uruk, roughly two hundred miles south of present-day Baghdad, sent shock waves through the scholar...

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Contemporary Art

Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion

Dion Mark, Adler Margaret C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300246193, Yale University Press, January 2020
168 pp., 27.9x23.4 cm, 175 colour illus.

Renowned artist Mark Dion (b. 1961) has a deep passion for history and the natural world. His installations mine the materials of the past to level an institutional critique in the present. Evoking the grand expeditionary journals of the 19th century...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

History of Art

Sahel Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara

LaGamma Alisa

ISBN: HB: 9781588396877, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2020
288 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 300 colour illus.

This groundbreaking volume examines the extraordinary artistic and cultural traditions of the African region known as the Sahel ("shore" in Arabic), a vast area on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert that includes present-day Senegal, Mauritania,...

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History of Art

Afterall Autumn/Winter 2019, Issue 48

Bilbao Ana, Meta Bauer Ute, Esche Charles, Kreuger Anders, Morris David, Rujoiu Anca, Stankievech Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781846382116, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
176 pp., 29.8x19 cm

Launched in 1999, Afterall is a journal of contemporary art that offers in-depth analysis of artists' work, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Its academic format differentiates it from popular review magazines. Vol...

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Contemporary Art

Julia Fish bound by spectrum

Rodrigues Widholm Julie

ISBN: PB: 9780996235037, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, January 2020
120 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 30 colour plates

This exhibition catalog, "Julia Fish: bound by spectrum", presents a fully-illustrated survey of the last decade of Fish's paintings and works on paper. It offers new scholarship around Fish's ongoing project that brings together the disciplines of p...

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Contemporary Art

Merce Cunningham After the Arbitrary

Noland Carrie

ISBN: PB: 9780226541242, ISBN: HB: 9780226541105, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 17 colour plates, 54 halftones

One of the most influential choreographers of the twentieth century, Merce Cunningham is known for introducing chance to dance. Far too often, however, accounts of Cunningham's work have neglected its full scope, focusing on his collaborations with t...

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Contemporary Art

Mythology of Forms Selected Writings on Art

Einstein Carl

ISBN: HB: 9780226464138, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
408 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 78 halftones

The German art historian and critic Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was at the forefront of the modernist movement that defined the twentieth century. One of the most prolific and brilliant early commentators on cubism, he was also among the first authors...

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History of Art

Painting with Fire Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object

Hunter Matthew C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226390253, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 20 colour plates, 68 halftones,

"Painting with Fire" shows how experiments with chemicals known to change visibly over the course of time transformed British pictorial arts of the long eighteenth century – and how they can alter our conceptions of photography today. As early as the...

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