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History of Art

Picturing

DeLue Rachael Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780932171573, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, April 2016
216 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 62 colour plates

The history of American art is a history of objects, but it is also a history of ideas about how we create and consume these objects. As "Picturing" convincingly shows, the critical tradition in American art has given rise to profound thinking about...

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History of Art

Dance American Art, 1820-1960

DeFrantz Thomas F., Garafola Lynn, Hart Dakin, Hill Constance Valis, Leppanen-Guerra Analisa, Mercer Valerie J., Murphy Jacqueline Shea, Robertson E.Bruce, Myers Kenneth, Udall Sharyn Rohlfsen

ISBN: HB: 9780300211610, Yale University Press, March 2016
304 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 230 colour illus.

As an enduring wellspring of creativity for many artists throughout history, dance has provided a visual language to express such themes as the bonds of community, the allure of the exotic, and the pleasures of the body. This book is the first major...

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History of Art

Visual Contemplations Paintings Inspired by Gregory of Nyssa's "The Life of Moses"

Delevoryas Lillian

ISBN: PB: 9781908326843, Casemate, Sansom & Co, November 2015
80 pp., 24x16.8 cm, colour illus.

A novel presentation of 20 original paintings, arranged as a story that delights the eye, engages the mind and feeds the heart Stunningly original works, direct and vivid in composition, yet profoundly resonant With the skill of an iconographer, the...

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History of Art

Dutch Art and Urban Cultures, 1200-1700

De Bievre Elisabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300205626, Yale University Press, October 2015
492 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 100 colour illus., 180 black&white illus.

Traditionally Dutch art is seen and presented as a coherent phenomenon-the product of state formation in the late 16th century. Elisabeth de Bievre challenges this view and its assumptions in a radical new account. Arguing that the Dutch Golden Age w...

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History of Art

Zurbaran A New Perspective

Delenda Odile, Borobia Mar, Ros Almudena, Fernandez Jose, Valdivieso Enrique, Navarrete Benito

ISBN: HB: 9788415113676, DAP, Fundacion Coleccion Thyssen-Bornemisza, October 2015
231 pp., 27.3x22.8 cm, 127 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This volume offers the most comprehensive overview in print – and the first substantial English-language monograph in decades – on the great 17th-century Spanish painter Zurbaran. It spans his entire career, from his earlie...

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History of Art

Cube and the Face Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti

Didi-Huberman Georges

ISBN: PB: 9783037345207, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, June 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 85 halftones

Alberto Giacometti's 1934 Cube stands apart for many as atypical of the Swiss artist, the only abstract sculptural work in a wide oeuvre that otherwise had as its objective the exploration of reality. With "The Cube and the Face", renowned French...

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Contemporary Art

Experimenters Chance and Design at Black Mountain College

Diaz Eva

ISBN: HB: 9780226067988, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
256 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 58 halftones

In the years immediately following World War II, Black Mountain College, an unaccredited school in rural Appalachia, became a vital hub of cultural innovation. Practically every major artistic figure of the mid-twentieth century spent some time there...

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History of Art

Age of Picasso and Matisse Modern Art at the Art Institute of Chicago

D'Alessandro Stephanie, Mertz Renee DeVoe

ISBN: HB: 9780300208788, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2014
144 pp., 24.1x24.1 cm, 154 colour, 8 black&white illus.

The Art Institute of Chicago's opportunity to host the International Exhibition of Modern Art, better known as the Armory Show, in 1913 set a radical new course for modern and contemporary art in the United States. This monumental exhibition introduc...

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History of Art

Sculpture Victorious Art in an Age of Invention, 1837-1901

Droth Martina, Edwards Jason, Hatt Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300208030, Yale University Press, September 2014
432 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 275 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

"Sculpture Victorious "highlights the diversity, originality and ubiquity of sculptural production during the reign of Queen Victoria. This lavishly illustrated book examines how colourful marbles, bronzes, finely wrought silver, and exquisitely deta...

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Education

Foreign Exchange (Or the Stories You Wouldn't Tell a Stranger)

Deliss Clementine, Mutumba Yvette

ISBN: PB: 9783037346686, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2014
320 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 87 colour plates, 78 halftones

Founded in 1904, Frankfurt's Weltkulturen Museum houses a remarkable collection of ethnographic artifacts from Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, with the aims of advancing public education and fostering innovative anthropological research acro...

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