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Stationery Fever From Pencils to Paper Clips and Everything In Between

Bendandi Luca, John Z. Komurki

ISBN: HB: 9783791382722, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
208 pp., 27x21 cm, 230 colour illus.

This beautifully designed book shows how the seemingly mundane objects that populate desks and cubicles everywhere are now being re-imagined as collector's items. And as today's trendsetting artists and designers are increasingly returning to non-dig...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Street Art Anthology From Graffiti to Contextual Art

Danysz Magda

ISBN: PB: 9788416504459, Hoaki, October 2016
239 pp., 23.1x17 cm, richly illustrated

What is behind the tidal wave of street art that is sweeping through the cultural scene today? What are its artistic features? What are its codes and its language? How has its production, which was originally almost exclusively centered in the urban...

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History of Art

Silk, Porcelain and Lacquer China and Japan and Their Trade with Western Europe and the World, 1500-1644

Canepa Teresa

ISBN: HB: 9781911300014, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, October 2016
440 pp., 30x24.5 cm, 400 colour illus.

Focusing on the prolific trade, transport and consumption of Chinese silk and porcelain, and Japanese lacquer abroad between 1500 and 1644, this groundbreaking book will show how the material cultures of late Ming China and Momoyama/Early Edo Japan o...

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History of Art

Spreading Canvas Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting

Hughes Eleanor, Quilley Geoff, Johns Richard, Monks Sarah, Roach Catherine, Lynford Sophie, McAleer John, Merwe Pieter van der, Riding Christine

ISBN: HB: 9780300221572, Yale University Press, September 2016
312 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 312 colour illus.

Spreading Canvas takes a close look at the tradition of marine painting that flourished in 18th-century Britain. Drawing primarily on the extensive collections of the Yale Center for British Art and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London,...

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Contemporary Art

Sigmar Polke

Geuna Elena, Tosatto Guy

ISBN: PB: 9788831723794, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
266 pp., 24.8x19.8 cm, 152 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The artist who dared put into question the parameters of ordinary vision. One of the main exponents of Capitalist Realism – a current that arose in the 1970s in opposition to both the Socialist Realism widespread in the cou...

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History of Art

Schwitters Miro Arp

Buchhart Dieter

ISBN: HB: 9783791355924, Prestel Publishing, August 2016
192 pp., 29.5x23 cm, 145 colour illus.

Featuring approximately 100 key works, along with numerous reference images, this book explores the work of Kurt Schwitters, Joan Miro, and Hans Arp and the ways in which the artists influenced each others' artistic pursuits. It examines the artists'...

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History of Art

Splendor, Myth, and Vision Nudes from the Prado

Loughman Thomas J., Morris Kathleen M., Yeager-Crasselt Lara

ISBN: HB: 9780300218749, Yale University Press, June 2016
176 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 75 colour illus.

Handsomely designed and produced, this stunning book highlights sensual paintings from the Spanish royal collections of the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Many of the featured artists were court painters under sovereigns whose tastes influenced th...

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History of Art

Jewish Studies

Style and Seduction Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siecle Vienna

Shapira Elana

ISBN: PB: 9781611689211, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A recent surge of interest in Jewish patronage during the golden years of Vienna has led to the question, Would modernism in Vienna have developed in the same fashion had Jewish patrons not been involved? This book uniquely treats Jewish identificati...

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History of Art

Shining Inheritance Italian Painters at the Qing Court, 1699-1812

Musillo Marco

ISBN: HB: 9781606064740, Getty Publications, April 2016
192 pp., 25x15 cm, colour and black&white illus.

During Qing dynasty China, Italian artists were hired through Jesuit missionaries by the imperial workshops in Beijing. In "The Shining Inheritance: Italian Painters at the Qing Court, 1699 1812", Marco Musillo considers the professional adaptations...

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Design

Simply Calligraphy A Beginner's Guide to Elegant Lettering

Detrick Judy

ISBN: PB: 9781607748564, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, April 2016
96 pp., 22.8x18.9 cm, colour illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! This simple guide to calligraphy teaches just the basics, allowing novices to jump right in and make their own wedding invitations, hand-label envelopes, write their own place cards and explore their creative sid...

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