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Type is Beautiful The Story of Fifty Remarkable Fonts

Loxley Simon

ISBN: HB: 9781851244317, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 50 black&white illus.

Behind every typeface is a story – who designed it, and why? What are its distinctive characteristics, and what cultural baggage does it carry? This book explores fifty of the most remarkable typefaces, dating from the birth of European printing in...

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Contemporary Art

This is a Portrait If I Say So Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today

Goodyear Anne Collins, Walz Jonathan, Campagnolo Kathleen, Evans Dorinda

ISBN: HB: 9780300211931, Yale University Press, June 2016
264 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 107 colour illus.

This groundbreaking book traces the history of portraiture as a site of radical artistic experimentation, as it shifted from a genre based on mimesis to one stressing instead conceptual and symbolic associations between artist and subject. Featuring...

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Photography

To See Without Being Seen Contemporary Art and Drone Warfare

Braunert Svea, Malone Meredith

ISBN: PB: 9780936316413, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, April 2016
96 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 86 colour plates

We are in the dawn of the drone age, a turning point in history when the United States and other countries are increasingly using unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor behavior, collect data, conduct surveillance, and wage wars. As the ubiquitous visio...

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Photography

Thrill of the Chase The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum

Martineau Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781606064672, Getty Publications, March 2016
234 pp., 28.4x24.8 cm, colour and black&white illus.

With more than 26,000 works, the Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr. collection of photographs is the largest single group of artworks in any medium at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Wagstaff (1921-1987) amassed his extraordinary collection between 1973 and 1984, reco...

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Photography

Women Studies

Through Women's Eyes From Diane Arbus to Letizia Battaglia. Passion and Courage

Miglietti Francesca Alfano

ISBN: HB: 9788831722810, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2016
288 pp., 25.7x20.8 cm, 80 colour illus., 151 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This thorough and accessible introduction to the greatest women photographers from the 20th century to today features the most important works of 25 artists. Women have played an important role in the development of photogr...

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Contemporary Art

Tang Da Wu Earth Work, 1979

ISBN: PB: 9789810982829, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, January 2016
100 pp., 27.9x19 cm, black&white photos

Earth Work, originally staged at the National Museum Art Gallery In 1980 by Singaporean artist Tang Da Wu, was one of the earliest exhibitions of land art in Singapore. Earth Work 1979, a restaging of selected works from the seminal 1980 exhibition,...

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History of Art

Thomas Newbolt Paintings

Hudson Mark, Gayford Martin, Biriotti Maurice

ISBN: HB: 9781901192407, Casemate, Piano Nobile, January 2016
96 pp., 28.8x24.7 cm, 43 illus.

First published to accompany Piano Nobile's exhibiton at Piano Nobile Kings Place, "Thomas Newbolt: Drama Paintings – A Modern Baroque", this fully colour illustrated book presents a substantial publication on contemporary artist Thomas Newbolt. Newb...

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Contemporary Art

Tim Shaw

Shaw Tim

ISBN: HB: 9781908326812, Casemate, Sansom & Co, November 2015
112 pp., 30x24.5 cm, 100 colour illus.

Tim Shaw R. A. is one of the UK's leading sculptors. He has had significant solo exhibitions throughout the UK, Ireland and internationally and has his work in many public and private art collections. Shaw has undertaken a number of major public comm...

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History of Art

Traveler Artists Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection

Manthorne Katherine

ISBN: PB: 9780982354414, DAP, Fundacion Cisneros, November 2015
256 pp., 26.7x25.4 cm, 80 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! In the 19th century, European and North American travelers illustrated narratives of their explorations in the New World that were published in Europe. Europeans imagined the tropics as a site for cultural imperialism and f...

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Contemporary Art

That's What She Said Frances Stark, 1991-2015

Subotnick Ali, Singerman Howard

ISBN: HB: 9783791354712, Prestel Publishing, October 2015
224 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 150 colour illus.

This generously illustrated book offers the first comprehensive overview of the work of the Los Angeles–based interdisciplinary artist Francis Stark. Frances Stark deftly deploys text, image, and literary sources in her drawings, collages, paintings...

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