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Catching the Light A Journey Across Myanmar

Neiser Birgit, Larkin Emma

ISBN: PB: 9786167339832, Prestel Publishing, River Books, September 2017
200 pp., 25.5x23.7 cm, black&white photos

Much has changed in Burma since Birgit Neiser first visited in 1981.The country is now known as Myanmar, and military rule - which lasted nearly half a century - has given way to a tentative democratic process. Returning in 2010, at the cusp of this...

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Contemporary Art

Central Berlin DDR Limited

Schilgen Stephan, Wyst Andre M.

ISBN: HB: 9783954761869, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, August 2017
224 pp., 28x21 cm, 174 colour and black&white illus., language: English / German

Built between 1952 and 1958, Karl-Marx-Allee was socialist East Berlin's showcase boulevard. Well over a mile long, the wide street from Strausberger Platz to Frankfurter Tor is lined with seven- to nine-storey apartment blocks, the most extensive po...

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History of Art

Cubism Seminars

Cooper Harry

ISBN: PB: 9780300226188, Yale University Press, August 2017
360 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 134 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.

The complex facets of Cubism remain relevant subjects in art history today, a century after Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque developed the revolutionary style. This impressive collection of essays by international experts presents new lines of inquir...

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Chupar del Bote

Berenguer Ximo

ISBN: HB: 9788417047023, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, July 2017
112 pp., 22.9x21.6 cm, illustrations throughout

Originally from the Valencia region, Berenguer moved to Barcelona to study. There he lived through the tumult of the final years of the Franco regime and the early years of the transition to democracy in Spain, participating in the ferment of counter...

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History of Art

Caspar David Friedrich

Grave Johannes

ISBN: HB: 9783791383576, Prestel Publishing, July 2017
288 pp., 30.2x25.5 cm, 225 colour illus.

"A painting must stand as a painting, made by human hand", wrote Caspar David Friedrich, "not seek to disguise itself as Nature". One of his generation's most popular painters, Friedrich imagined landscapes of powerful beauty and spirituality from wi...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Colored Pencil Painting Portraits Master a Revolutionary Method for Rendering Depth and Imitating Life

Nickelsen Alyona

ISBN: PB: 9780385346276, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, July 2017
192 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! Coloured pencil painter Alyona Nickelsen reveals how to use the medium to push the limits of realistic portraiture. Colored Pencil Painting Portraits provides straightforward solutions to the problems that artist...

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Design

Chinese Motifs in Contemporary Design

ISBN: HB: 9789887757344, Bookport, SendPoints, June 2017
256 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 1000 colour illus.

For sale in Balkans only! The influence of traditional motifs in China's visual identity continues to be a source of inspiration for today's designers who incorporate updated versions into their finished designs to reflect cultural continuity and a...

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Contemporary Art

Chihuly Forms in Nature

Groarke Joanna L.

ISBN: HB: 9783791356129, Prestel Publishing, June 2017
128 pp., 27x24 cm, 85 colour illus.

Illuminated by Dale Chihuly's mesmerizing glass sculptures, this beautiful book presents the artist's most recent nature-inspired work. It's been over a decade since New York City hosted a new Dale Chihuly exhibition. Featuring the artist's latest,...

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Cultural Studies

Coffee Style

Friedrichs Horst A., Manthey Nora

ISBN: HB: 9783791383217, Prestel Publishing, May 2017
208 pp., 28x21 cm, 200 colour illus.

Beautifully illustrated, this book captures the lifestyle of coffee creators and aficionados, as seen through the lens of acclaimed photographer Horst A. Friedrichs. For some, coffee is a means of getting through the morning. For others, it is a way...

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History of Art

Closer Look Pictorial Space

Penny Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9781857096163, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, May 2017
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 80 colour illus.

For more than six centuries, European painters have been ambitious to depict objects as if they possessed volume, placing them in a space that seems equivalent to the real space of our world. This "fiction" was central to the artist's purpose. Throug...

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