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Silent Partners Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish

Munro Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780300208221, Yale University Press, September 2014
304 pp., 28x23 cm, 220 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

The articulated human figure made of wax or wood has been a common tool in artistic practice since the 16th century. Its mobile limbs enable the artist to study anatomical proportion, fix a pose at will, and perfect the depiction of drapery and cloth...

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What May Come The Taller De Grafica Popular and the Mexican Political Print

Miliotes Diane

ISBN: PB: 9780300207781, Yale University Press, A+D Series, August 2014
40 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 25 colour illus.

Established in Mexico City in 1937, the Taller de Grafica Popular (People's Graphic Arts Workshop) sought to create prints, posters and illustrated publications that were appealing and affordable, legible and politically topical, and above all formal...

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Enduring Bronze Ancient Art, Modern Views

Mattusch Carol C.

ISBN: PB: 9781606063262, Getty Publications, July 2014
272 pp., 21.7x16.6 cm, 99 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.

This is a revealing consideration of ancient bronzes from their halcyon days in antiquity to their allure today. Ancient bronze statuary provides a sense of immediacy, a window directly back to the classical world. The wistful expression of a young R...

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History of Art

Afterall Summer 2014, Issue 36

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Kreuger Anders, Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9781846381485, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm

Since its launching in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a yea...

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Hammershoi and Europe

Monrad Kasper

ISBN: PB: 9783791353609, Prestel Publishing, May 2014
256 pp., 30x24 cm, 192 colour illus.

Now available in a paperback edition, this comprehensive volume on the great Danish painter Hammershoi places him within the context of his European contemporaries. This generously illustrated volume examines Hammershoi's work as a whole and in rela...

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Afterall Spring 2014, Issue 35

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Kreuger Anders, Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9781846381393, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
160 pp., 29.8x19 cm

Since its launching in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a yea...

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Afterall Autumn/Winter 2013, Issue 34

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Kreuger Anders, Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9781846381300, University of Chicago Press, January 2014
160 pp., 29.8x19 cm

Since its launching in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a yea...

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Art of the American Frontier The Buffalo Bill Center of the West

Mayer Heydt Stephanie, Besaw Mindy A., Hansen Emma I.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197389, Yale University Press, December 2013
160 pp., 25.4x30.5 cm, 320 colour illus.

The visual history of the American West calls to mind iconic artworks and nostalgia for the past. "Art of the American Frontier" presents more than 300 artworks and artefacts from 1830 to 1930, showcasing the premier collections of the Buffalo Bill C...

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Decorative Arts

First Treatise on Museums Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, 1565

Meadow Mark A., Robertson Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9781606061497, Getty Publications, November 2013
188 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

This is a new translation of Quiccheberg's seminal 16th century text on the collection and display of objects. "Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones", first published in Latin in 1565, is an ambitious effort to demonstrate the pragmatic value of curios...

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Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art at the Dallas Museum of Art

MacDonald Heather, Brettell Richard R., Dombrowski Andre, Eisenman Stephen, Galvez Paul, House John, Kendall Richard, Kosinski Dorothy M., Le Normand-Romain Antoinette, Locke Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780300187571, Yale University Press, September 2013
144 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 150 colour illus.

"Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Dallas Museum of Art" offers a series of intimate case studies in the history of 19th-century European art. Inspired by a series of public lectures given at the Dallas Museum of Art between 2009 and 2013,...

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