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Kandinsky

Friedel Helmut, Hoberg Annegret

ISBN: HB: 9783791382920, Prestel Publishing, September 2016
320 pp., 32x22.2 cm, 250 colour illus.

This generously illustrated volume displays Vasily Kandinsky's brilliant use of color, shape, and composition through approximately 250 full-color illustrations. Essays by the world's leading Kandinsky experts focus on the evolution of his work throu...

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Klimt and the Women of Vienna´s Golden Age, 1900-1918

Natter Tobias G.

ISBN: HB: 9783791355825, Prestel Publishing, September 2016
320 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 97 black&white illus., 229 colour illus.

Klimt was a central figure in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, and a crucial link between nineteenth-century Symbolism and Modernism. His sensual portrayals of women are among his most celebrated works and the focus of this book. Highligh...

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History of Art

Album Picabia

Calte Beverley

ISBN: PB: 9780300225563, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, September 2016
224 pp., 29.8x22.9 cm, 220 colour and black&white illus.

Album Picabia is an inspiring, artistic chronicle of Francis Picabia's life (1879-1953) as seen through the eyes of his last wife and creative protegee, Olga Mohler Picabia. Begun in 1936, four years before their marriage, and left unfinished in 1951...

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Masterworks from the Neue Galerie New York

Price Renee

ISBN: HB: 9783791355818, Prestel Publishing, September 2016
248 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 257 colour illus.

The Neue Galerie New York opened in November 2001, when it showcased its collection of Austrian and German art from 1890 to 1940. The museum's Austrian holdings encompass major paintings by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, and Richard Ger...

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Spreading Canvas Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting

Hughes Eleanor, Quilley Geoff, Johns Richard, Monks Sarah, Roach Catherine, Lynford Sophie, McAleer John, Merwe Pieter van der, Riding Christine

ISBN: HB: 9780300221572, Yale University Press, September 2016
312 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 312 colour illus.

Spreading Canvas takes a close look at the tradition of marine painting that flourished in 18th-century Britain. Drawing primarily on the extensive collections of the Yale Center for British Art and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London,...

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Contemporary Art

Cubism – Constructivism – FORM ART

Husslein-Arco Agnes, Klee Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9783791355474, Prestel Publishing, September 2016
312 pp., 28.5x23 cm, 340 colour illus.

This volume presents for the first time the fundamental artistic circumstances from 1900 onward that led to the emergence of nonobjective art. For example, on the surface there are no obvious connections between the Formkunst (art of form) of Vienna...

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Psychology, Art, and Antifascism Ernst Kris, E. H. Gombrich, and the Politics of Caricature

Rose Louis

ISBN: HB: 9780300221473, Yale University Press, September 2016
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

A vivid portrait of two remarkable twentieth-century thinkers and their landmark collaboration on the use and abuse of caricature and propaganda in the modern world In 1934, Viennese art historian and psychoanalyst Ernst Kris invited his mentee E. H....

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Art of the Islands Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Visual Culture, c. 450-1050

Brown Michelle P.

ISBN: PB: 9781851244461, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2016
240 pp., 25x21 cm, 120 colour illus.

The Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Viking peoples who inhabited the British Isles and Ireland from late prehistory to the Norman Conquest left a rich visual heritage whose influence continues to be felt. This is the first book to present an illust...

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Hans Memling Portraiture, Piety, and a Reunited Altarpiece

Marciari John

ISBN: PB: 9781911300083, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, September 2016
112 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 60 colour illus.

Hans Memling was one of the most important, prolific and versatile painters active in 15th-century Bruges, and one of the leading artists of the Early Netherlandish School. Commissioned by Abbot Jan Crabbe, one of Memling's most signifcant and erudit...

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Influences Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance

Quinlan-McGrath Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226421667, ISBN: HB: 9780226922843, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones, 14 line drawings

Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light rad...

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