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Jewish Studies

Venice, the Jews, and Europe 1516-2016

Calabi Donatella

ISBN: HB: 9788831724944, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
536 pp., 30.4x20.3 cm, 241 colour illus., 11 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Five hundred years of the Jewish Ghetto of Venice through art. This book aims to tell the story of the Ghetto of Venice, the first in the world – the way it grew within itself, its architecture, social makeup, crafts and t...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

From Kandinsky to Pollock The Art of the Guggenheim Collections

Barbero Luca Massimo

ISBN: PB: 9788831723824, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
352 pp., 28.9x24.1 cm, 215 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! A reconstruction of the artistic milieu surrounding Peggy Guggenheim. The catalog contains more than 100 masterpieces of European and American art ranging from the 1920s to the 1960s, reconstructing relationships on both si...

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Aldo Manuzio Renaissance in Venice

Beltramini Guido, Manieri Elia Giulio, Gasparotto Davide

ISBN: PB: 9788831723800, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
376 pp., 24.9x20.3 cm, 130 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The fascinating story of the greatest publisher of all time. The catalog of the Aldo Manutiu exhibition, 500 years after his death, is a tribute to the most famous printer in the history of publishing. It tells how the book...

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Contemporary Art

Theo van Doesburg A New Expression of Life, Art, and Technology

Fabre Gladys

ISBN: HB: 9780300222432, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, August 2016
272 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 150 colour illus.

This handsome catalogue presents the Dutch artist Theo Van Doesburg (1883-1931) as a nomadic propagandist on a quest for a new aesthetic that, in conjunction with contemporary science and technology, sought to reform the world. Van Doesburg was a cen...

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History of Art

Iskandar Jalil Kembara Tanah Liat (Clay Travels)

ISBN: PB: 9789811101908, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, August 2016
364 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, colour illus.

Iskandar Jalil is celebrated as one of Southeast Asia's most prominent ceramicists. Known for his high level of discipline, tenacity and dedication, the Colombo Plan scholar is a recipient of multiple accolades including the prestigious Order of the...

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History of Art

Beyond Boundaries Connecting Visual Cultures in the Provinces of Ancient Rome

Alcock Susan

ISBN: HB: 9781606064719, Getty Publications, August 2016
404 pp., 25x15 cm, colour and black&white illus.

The Roman Empire had a rich and multifaceted visual culture, which was often variegated due to the sprawling geography of its provinces. In this remarkable work of scholarship, a group of international scholars has come together to find alternative w...

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Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the "Belle Epoque"

Goldfarb Hilliard T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300223668, Yale University Press, August 2016
128 pp., 31.1x24.1 cm, 250 colour illus.

The celebrated French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) created works that epitomize the theatricality, elegance, and decadence of late-19th-century Paris. This beautifully illustrated book features a selection of Toulouse-Lautrec's drawin...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

History of Art

Baule Monkeys

Bruno Claessens, Jean-Louis Danis, Vogel Susan M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222449, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, August 2016
192 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 113 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.

The Baule people of the Ivory Coast are renowned for their refined sculptural work of masks and figures. This book is the first to focus exclusively on an antithetic aspect of Baule culture-rough zoomorphic sculptures representing monkeys. These awe-...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Hans Hofmann The Artists Materials

Rogala Dawn

ISBN: PB: 9781606064870, Getty Publications, August 2016
140 pp., 25x15 cm, 40 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

This gorgeously illustrated book examines the practice and materials of a prominent Abstract Expressionist. The career of the German-American painter and educator Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) describes the arc of artistic modernism from pre-World War I M...

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History of Art

Paul Klee Irony at Work

Lampe Angela

ISBN: HB: 9783791355436, Prestel Publishing, August 2016
312 pp., 30x23.5 cm, 54 black&white illus., 257 colour illus.

Known for its whimsy and levity, Paul Klee's art is often considered gleefully childlike. This groundbreaking volume argues that Klee's style emerged from a philosophical school that originated with early German Romanticism and consisted of perpetual...

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