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History of Art

Benjamin-Constant Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism

Bondil Nathalie

ISBN: PB: 9780300210897, Yale University Press, November 2014
400 pp., 31.1x28.6 cm, 250 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

A leading Orientalist painter during the Third Republic in France, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant was one of the great colourists of the period, and his work evokes the sights he had witnessed during his travels in Spain and Morocco, as well as reflec...

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Architecture

City Lost and Found Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980

Bussard Katherine A., Fisher Alison, Foster-Rice Greg

ISBN: PB: 9780300207859, Yale University Press, November 2014
256 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.

American cities underwent seismic transformations in the 1960s and 70s, from shifting demographics and political protests to reshaping through highways and urban renewal. Amid this climate of upheaval, photographers, architects, activists, performanc...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Ever Yours The Essential Letters

Gogh Vincent van, Jansen Leo, Luijten Hans, Bakker Nienke

ISBN: HB: 9780300209471, Yale University Press, November 2014
880 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

In addition to his many remarkable paintings and drawings, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) left behind a fascinating and voluminous body of correspondence. This highly accessible book includes a broad selection of 265 letters, from a total of 820 in exi...

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Contemporary Art

Picasso's Animals

ISBN: HB: 9783791349909, Prestel Publishing, November 2014
120 pp., 18.5x14 cm, 40 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

This beautifully designed book is filled with illustrations and photographs of the many animals in Picasso's life – those he painted and drew, as well as those he loved. One of the few under-examined aspects of Picasso's life and work was his love o...

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Contemporary Art

Sculptures of Jeddah An Encounter with a Rare Collection of 20th-Century Public Art

ISBN: HB: 9781861543387, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2014
192 pp., 27.9x23.3 cm, full-colour illus.

When Mohamed Said Farsi became Mayor of Jeddah in 1972, at a pivotal moment in the Saudi Arabian city's history, he set himself the task of not only creating a modern city, but also to include in the concept a plan for public art: "To bring delight t...

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Asia

Museum on the Roof of the World Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet

Harris Clare E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213170, ISBN: HB: 9780226317472, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
328 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 19 colour plates, 50 halftones, 1 line illus.

For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics...

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Communities of Style Portable Luxury Arts, Identity, and Collective Memory in the Iron Age Levant

Feldman Marian H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226105611, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
264 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 41 halftones, 3 line drawings

"Communities of Style" examines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200-600 BCE). In particular it focuses on how societies in flux came together around the material effects of art and...

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Resisting Abstraction Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism

Hughes Gordon

ISBN: HB: 9780226159065, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
184 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 92 colour plates, 46 halftones

Robert Delaunay was one of the leading artists working in Paris in the early decades of the twentieth century, and his paintings have been admired ever since as among the earliest purely abstract works. With "Resisting Abstraction", the first Engli...

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Cartography

Towards a New Cultural Cartography

Marta Karen

ISBN: PB: 9789948207825, DAP, Sharjah Art Foundation, November 2014
275 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm, illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Estonia! In this volume, curators, theorists, artists and writers argue for methods of map-making that go beyond geographic representation. The artist emerges as a new cartographer, who intervenes in existing maps to reveal the know...

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Shadows The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art

Gombrich E. H., MacGregor Neil, Penny Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300210040, Yale University Press, October 2014
96 pp., 22.5x20 cm, 60 colour illus.

In this intriguing book, E.H. Gombrich, who was one of the world's foremost art historians, traces how cast shadows have been depicted in Western art through the centuries. Gombrich discusses the way shadows were represented – or ignored – by artists...

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