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Flower Power

Phillips Catherine, Stretsova Helena

ISBN: HB: 9785912083631, Prestel Publishing, Arca, May 2019
224 pp., 15.2x11.4 cm, colour illus.

This elegant gift edition pays tribute to the symbolic and allegorical language of flowers by placing flower portraits , manuscripts and botanical atlases alongside myths, legends and poetry from around the world. Devoted to flowers, the book is beau...

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For America Paintings from the National Academy of Design

McCarthy Jeremiah William, Thompson Diana, Rather Susan, Spear Elizabeth, Haltman Kenneth, Reason Akela, Greenhill Jennifer, Shahi Kimia, Walz Jonathan F., Nemerov Alexander, Wilson Alona C., Hills Patricia, Earnest Jarrett

ISBN: PB: 9780300244281, Yale University Press, April 2019
304 pp., 27.9x21 cm, 200 colour illus.

This stunning book provides an unprecedented glimpse into the past two centuries of American art, tracing artistic tradition and innovation at the National Academy of Design from its 19th-century founding to the present. The nation's oldest artist ho...

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Contemporary Art

Performing Arts

Film's Ghosts Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh and the Transmutation of 1960s Japan

Barber Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9783035801477, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2019
264 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Tokyo during the 1960s was in a state of uproar, full of protests, riots, and insurrection. Tatsumi Hijikata – the initiator of the "Butoh" performance art and the seminal figure in Japan's experimental arts culture of the 1960s – created his most fa...

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Frame Work Honour and Ornament in Italian Renaissance Art

Wright Alison

ISBN: HB: 9780300238846, Yale University Press, March 2019
352 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 220 colour illus.

"My husband Jan finished me on 17 June 1439... My age was 33 years". So speaks Margaret van Eyck from the frame of her portrait. This painted inscription honors its maker Jan van Eyck, even as it blurs the distinction between living subject and paint...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 3 (1927-1939)

Camfield William A., Pierre Arnauld, Clements Candace, Calte Beverley

ISBN: HB: 9780300243727, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2019
464 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 525 colour illus.

This third volume in a planned four-volume catalogue raisonne of works by the French avant-garde artist Francis Picabia (1879-1953) includes paintings and selected drawings dating from mid-1927 through 1939. Innovative collage-paintings and flamboyan...

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French Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art From the Early Eighteenth Century through the Revolution

Baetjer Katharine

ISBN: HB: 9781588396617, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2019
384 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 429 colour illus.

This authoritative book surveys the remarkable collection of 18th-century French paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the context of the institutions that governed the visual arts in the 1700s – the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculptu...

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Franz Marc and August Macke, 1909-1914

Endicott Barnett Vivian

ISBN: HB: 9783791358291, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
208 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 159 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.

During the five years Franz Marc and August Macke knew each other, the two men carried on an artistic and personal friendship that had an immense impact on each of their careers. This book traces their relationship and features meticulously reproduce...

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Contemporary Art

Freedom of the Presses Artists' Books in the Twenty-First Century

Weber Marshall

ISBN: PB: 9780692166789, DAP, Brooklyn, January 2019
236 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 60 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Freedom of the Presses" is at once a textbook and a toolbox for using artists' books and creative publications to further community engagement and social justice projects. Far from being a staid survey of an art historica...

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Design

Feed Me Celebrating Food Designs through Visual Identitie

ISBN: HB: 9789881470478, Bookport, SendPoints, December 2018
348 pp., 25x20.5 cm, colour illus.

For sale in Balkans only! Food and design have always been perfect partners, and are relevant to all aspects of our lives. No matter which country you come from, designers are committed to creating more beauty for people's lives. Reinventing the wa...

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Fuseli Drama and Theatre

Reifert Eva

ISBN: HB: 9783791357584, Prestel Publishing, November 2018
240 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, 160 colour illus.

The renowned 18th-century painter Henry Fuseli, who revered Shakespeare and loved all things theatrical, is the subject of this lavishly illustrated book which focuses on the influence literary sources and contemporary theatre had on his work. Shado...

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