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Contemporary Art

Everything Is Connected Art and Conspiracy

Eklund Douglas, Alteveer Ian, Brown Meredith A., Miller John, Olmsted Kathryn

ISBN: HB: 9781588396594, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2018
272 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 222 colour illus.

Shaped by events such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair, and 9/11, conspiracy theories have flourished and influenced our collective worldview. This provocative book examines how artists from...

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Photography

Exposure

Obara Kazuma

ISBN: BOX: 9788417047337, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, October 2018
110 pp., 30x19 cm

In "Exposure", Japanese photojournalist Kazuma Obara (born 1985) investigates the effects of the explosion at Chernobyl. Images were created using abandoned negatives Obara collected throughout his travel in the Ukraine. The project includes two phot...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Essential Techniques of Landscape Drawing Master the Concepts and Methods for Observing and Rendering Nature

Brooker Suzanne

ISBN: HB: 9780399580666, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, October 2018
208 pp., 28.6x23.5 cm, colour illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! Following in the footsteps of author, artist, and art instructor Suzanne Brooker's previous title The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting, this book pairs the most universally-pursued topic for artists (drawing) w...

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Photography

Eye on the West Photography and the Contemporary West

Miles George

ISBN: HB: 9780300232851, Yale University Press, September 2018
112 pp., 29.2x27.9 cm, 34 colour and black&white illus.

The histories of the North American West and photography have been intertwined since photography reached America. From the middle of the 19th century, images of the West have continuously played a significant role in defining the ways the region is p...

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Contemporary Art

Emerging from Shadow

Bo Fan

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783954762521, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, August 2018
234 pp., 28.5x22 cm, colour illus., language: English / Chinese

Fan Bo (born 1966 in Tianjin, lives in Guangzhou, China) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is guided by perception. In his early works, he created portraits in a figurative painting style of a variety of people wearing objects from their dail...

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History of Art

Enchanted Islands Picturing the Allure of Conquest in Eighteenth-Century France

Sheriff Mary D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226483108, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 43 halftones

In "Enchanted Islands", renowned art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien regime as they appeared in royal ballets and festivals, epic literature, paintings...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Edi Hila

de Chassey Eric, Mytkowska Joanna, Rhomberg Kathrin, Shkololli Erzen

ISBN: PB: 9788364177538, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2018
148 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 68 colour plates

Not for sale in Poland! This catalog accompanies "Edi Hila: Painter of Transformation", the first retrospective exhibition devoted to the Albanian painter Edi Hila, considered one of the last masters from Eastern Europe. Through Hila's eyes, the Ea...

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Contemporary Art

Ed Ruscha Course of Empire

Riopelle Christopher, McCarthy Tom, Herrmann Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9781857096323, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, July 2018
48 pp., 31.1x24.8 cm, 30 colour illus.

Over the span of his six-decade career, Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) has created a distinctively stylized vision of the modern American landscape of gas stations, highways, and industrial buildings. Incorporating text, stark typography, and commercial logos,...

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Contemporary Art

Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art

Fanning Leesa, Akbarnia Ladan, Gilchrist Stephen, Heartney Eleanor, Jacob Mary Jane, Russell Karen Kramer, Milbourne Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300233650, Yale University Press, June 2018
312 pp., 29.2x23.5 cm, 150 colour illus.

The spiritual is everywhere evident in contemporary art, and this publication fulfills a long-awaited need. "Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art" addresses the subject in depth for the first time in over three decades. It significantly bro...

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Contemporary Art

Electra 2 Stupidity

ISBN: PB: 9789728909611, Prestel Publishing, Monade, June 2018
181 pp., 27x20 cm, illus.

"There is stupidity in every era, but each era has its own kind of stupidity" – Flaubert. This subject is approached in this edition by Yves Michaud, Philosophy professor and art critic, with an essay about the impact of mass and surplus of informati...

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