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Pensive Image Art as a Form of Thinking
ISBN: HB: 9780226717951, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 26 halftones
While the philosophical dimension of painting has long been discussed, a clear case for painting as a form of visual thinking has yet to be made. Traditionally, vanitas still life paintings are considered to raise ontological issues while landscapes...
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£28,00
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Monet and Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780300250831, Yale University Press, September 2020
144 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 104 colour and black&white illus.
In 1903, the Art Institute of Chicago became the first American museum to buy a painting by Claude Monet (1840–1926), beginning a tradition of collecting that has inextricably connected this midwestern city to the French Impressionist master. Tracing...
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Classical Body in Romantic Britain
ISBN: HB: 9781913107062, Yale University Press, April 2020
312 pp., 28.5x17 cm, 109 colour and black&white illus.
For many, the term "neoclassicism" has come to imply discipline, order, restraint, and a certain myopia. Leaving the term behind, this book radically challenges enduring assumptions about the art produced from the late 18th century to the early Victo...
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Becoming America Highlights from the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection of Folk Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300247565, Yale University Press, April 2020
264 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 271 colour illus.
"Becoming America" offers a multifaceted view of one of the foremost collections of 18th- and 19th-century American folk and decorative art from the rural Northeast. Essays by leading specialists discuss the culture of furniture workshops, exuberant...
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£40,00
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Gods, Humans, Dogs
ISBN: HB: 9785912084065, Prestel Publishing, Arca, February 2020
208 pp., 21x19.5 cm, 205 colour and black&white illus.
This book is dedicated to humanity's oldest and most loyal friend, our companion since time immemorial – the DOG. Dogs have devotedly served poor shepherds and mighty kings, and even the gods. Their hidden talents and capabilities are spoken of in th...
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£17,99
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Signac and the Independants
ISBN: HB: 9780300251982, Yale University Press, January 2020
382 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 550 black&white, colour illus.
In Paris at the turn of the 20th century, an artistic revolution was underway. The Salon des Independants was organized in 1884 by a group of artists and thinkers that included Albert Dubois-Pillet, Odilon Redon, Georges Seurat, and Paul Signac, who...
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£40,00
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Francois Morellet
ISBN: HB: 9780300245691, Yale University Press, November 2019
248 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 90 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
This in-depth exploration of celebrated French artist Francois Morellet (1926-2016) showcases his diverse oeuvre, famous for infusing systematic and rigorous experimentation with humor and playfulness. Morellet's interest in kinetic and optical effec...
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£45,00
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Thinking 3D Books, Images and Ideas from Leonardo to the Present
ISBN: HB: 9781851245253, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2019
200 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 80 colour illus.
During the Renaissance, artists and illustrators developed the representation of truthful three-dimensional forms into a highly skilled art. As reliable illustrations of three-dimensional subjects became more prevalent, they also influenced the way i...
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£35,00
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Savage Tales The Writings of Paul Gauguin
ISBN: HB: 9780300240597, Yale University Press, September 2019
208 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 74 colour and black&white illus.
As a French artist who lived in Polynesia, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) occupies a crucial position in histories of European primitivism. This is the first book devoted to his wide-ranging literary output, which included journalism, travel writing, art c...
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Arshile Gorky: 1904-1948
ISBN: HB: 9783906915340, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, July 2019
240 pp., 29.2x26 cm, 118 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Armenian American artist Arshile Gorky (c. 1904-1948) made his first mature works in New York City in the mid-1920s, by which point the traumatic history of the 20th century had already made him a genocide survivor and an e...
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