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Evelyn Dunbar The Lost Works

Llewellyn Sasha, Liss Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781869827939, Casemate, Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, June 2015
192 pp., 27x21.5 cm, colour illus.

In January 2013, Dunbar's painting "Autumn and the Poet" (1960) appeared on the BBC Antiques Roadshow, leading Ro Dunbar, a relative of the artist, to explore the extraordinary hoard of over 500 paintings, drawings and studies hidden in the attic of...

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Christianity

Frank Brangwyn Stations of the Cross

Llewellyn Sasha, Liss Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780956713971, Casemate, Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, March 2015
40 pp., 23x23 cm, 30 colour illus.

This publication – which has been made possible entirely through the generosity of Tigger Hoare – was prompted by the discovery of a complete set of Brangwyn's Stations of the Cross, painted in oil, which originally hung in St Michael's Abbey, Farnbo...

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Frank Brangwyn Drawings from the Collection of Father Jerome Esser

Llewellyn Sasha, Liss Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780993088407, Casemate, Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, March 2015
48 pp., 23x23 cm, 44 colour illus.

During his lifetime Brangwyn made large donations of his works to museums in the United Kingdom and abroad, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the British Museum, the William Morris Gallery, the Albertina in Vienna and the Gruuthuse in Bruges. A...

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Culture Studies

Art & Energy How Culture Changes

Lord Barry

ISBN: PB: 9781933253916, ISBN: HB: 9781933253930, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, April 2014
320 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 75 colour plates

In "Art & Energy", Barry Lord argues that human creativity is deeply linked to the resources available on earth for our survival. From our ancient mastery of fire through our exploitation of coal, oil, and gas, to the development of today's renewable...

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Mexico and American Modernism

Landau Ellen G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300169133, Yale University Press, June 2013
240 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 31 colour images, 78 black&white illus.

In the years between the two world wars, the enormous vogue of "things Mexican" reached its peak. Along with the popular appeal of its folkloric and pictorialist traditions, Mexican culture played a significant role in the formation of modernism in t...

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Hotel Texas An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy

Longford Nicola

ISBN: HB: 9780300187564, Yale University Press, June 2013
112 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 120 colour and black&white illus.

The events associated with John F. Kennedy's death are etched into our nation's memory. This fascinating book tells a less familiar part of the story, about a special art exhibition organized by a group of Fort Worth citizens. On November 21, 1963, t...

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Pay for Your Pleasures Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon

Levine Cary

ISBN: HB: 9780226026060, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
224 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 50 halftones, 24 colour illus.

Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, and Raymond Pettibon – these Southern California artists formed a "bad boy" trifecta. Early purveyors of abject art, the trio produced work ranging from sculptures of feces to copulating stuffed animals, and gained notorie...

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Re: Chicago

Lincoln Louise

ISBN: PB: 9780978907433, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, February 2012
86 pp., 29.5x19.8 cm, 29 figures, 41 colour illus.

For over a century the Chicago art community has struggled to define itself in relation to other urban art centers. While prominent American artists past and present have had strong connections to Chicago, many left to make their reputations elsewher...

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History of Art

Willem de Kooning The Artist's Materials

Lake Susan F.

ISBN: PB: 9781606060216, Getty Publications, November 2010
112 pp., 25.6x18.9 cm, 34 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

This is the first systematic and truly methodical study of de Kooning's idiosyncratic working methods and use of materials. This in-depth study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Dutch-born American abstract expressionist painter, fro...

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History of Art

Imagining Childhood Themes in the Imagery of Childhood

Langmuir Erika

ISBN: HB: 9780300101317, Yale University Press, October 2006
256 pp., 27x20.4 cm, 45 colour images, 55 black&white illus.

The images of children that abound in Western art do not simply mirror reality; they are imaginative constructs, representing childhood as a special stage of human life, or emblematic of the human condition itself. In a compelling book ranging widely...

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