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After Constructivism
ISBN: HB: 9780300195774, Yale University Press, April 2014
240 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 45 colour images, 97 black&white illus.
When Constructivism emerged shortly after the Russian Revolution, its central principles concerned structure and efficiency in the work of art and the nature and properties of materials. In a handsome and elegantly argued book, Brandon Taylor examine...
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Mythology of Plants Botanical Lore from Ancient Greece and Rome
ISBN: HB: 9781606063217, Getty Publications, April 2014
144 pp., 22.3x17.1 cm, 47 colour illus.
This is a fascinating exploration of the role of the botanical in ancient Greek and Roman myth and classical literature. This engaging book focuses on the perennially fascinating topic of plants in Greek and Roman myth. The author, an authority on th...
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Art of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910 Treasures from Korea
ISBN: PB: 9780300204124, Yale University Press, April 2014
400 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 250 colour images, 30 black&white illus.
"Art of the Joseon Dynasty" is the first major publication outside of Korea to survey the artistic production of the world's longest-ruling Confucian dynasty, which reigned on the Korean peninsula from 1392 to 1910. The Joseon dynasty left a substant...
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Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886-1904
ISBN: HB: 9780300190847, Yale University Press, April 2014
260 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 105 colour images, 3 black&white illus.
Neo-Impressionism, the style pioneered by Georges Seurat (1859-1891), has long been associated with exquisite landscapes and intriguing scenes of urban leisure. Yet the movement's use of dotted brushwork and colour theory also produced arresting port...
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£55,00
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Caravaggio's Pitiful Relics
ISBN: HB: 9780300190137, Yale University Press, April 2014
288 pp., 28x23 cm, 70 colour images, 80 black&white illus.
The renowned Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) established his career in Catholic Rome, making paintings that placed particular importance on sacred relics and the glorification of martyred saints. Beginning with his early...
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Cy Twombly's Things
ISBN: HB: 9780300190113, Yale University Press, April 2014
224 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 50 colour images, 50 black&white illus.
Cy Twombly (1928-2011) is widely acknowledged as one of the postwar period's most influential American artists, yet his sculptures are little known. From 1946 onward, he made hundreds of rarely exhibited found-object assemblages, often painted or pla...
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£40,00
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Frida Kahlo
ISBN: PB: 9783791349701, Prestel Publishing, April 2014
128 pp., 24x19.3 cm, 130 colour illus.
A beautifully illustrated and attractively priced volume onthe life and work of Frida Kahlo. Frida Kahlo is one of the art world's most enigmatic figures. Beautiful, talented, tragic and strong, she broke barriers as a woman and as an artist and her...
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£10,99
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Warm Flesh, Cold Marble Canova, Thorvaldsen, and Their Critics
ISBN: HB: 9780300197891, Yale University Press, March 2014
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 colour images, 30 black&white illus.
This highly original book focuses on the aesthetic concerns of the two most important sculptors of the early 19th century, the great Italian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) and his illustrious Danish rival Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844). Rather t...
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Catholic Rubens Saints and Martyrs
ISBN: HB: 9781606062685, Getty Publications, March 2014
306 pp., 24.6x17.8 cm, 76 colour illus., 33 black&white illus.
This is a rich exploration of the role the Baroque master played in the Counter-Reformation. The art of Rubens is rooted in an era darkened by the long shadow of devastating wars between Protestants and Catholics. In the wake of this profound schism,...
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£35,00
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Carl Andre Sculpture as Place
ISBN: HB: 9780300191714, Yale University Press, March 2014
400 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 150 colour images, 250 black&white illus.
Carl Andre (b. 1935) redefined the parameters of abstract sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a highly influential voice in the American minimalist movement, recognized for his ordered linear and grid formats. In the early 1960s, Andre's creativ...
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