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Schwitters Miro Arp

Buchhart Dieter

ISBN: HB: 9783791355924, Prestel Publishing, August 2016
192 pp., 29.5x23 cm, 145 colour illus.

Featuring approximately 100 key works, along with numerous reference images, this book explores the work of Kurt Schwitters, Joan Miro, and Hans Arp and the ways in which the artists influenced each others' artistic pursuits. It examines the artists'...

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Painted Book in Renaissance Italy 1450-1600

Alexander Jonathan J. G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300203981, Yale University Press, August 2016
512 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

Hand-painted illumination enlivened the burgeoning culture of the book in the Italian Renaissance, spanning the momentous shift from manuscript production to print. This major survey, by a leading authority on medieval and renaissance book illuminati...

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Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 50, 2015

Baetjer Katharine, Jones Julie, Mankin Kornhauser Elizabeth, Syson Luke

ISBN: PB: 9780226329505, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 250 colour plates

"The Metropolitan Museum Journal", issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collection. Volume 50 includes articles on a rare mechanical figure from ancient Egypt; isolated heads in south...

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Live Form Women, Ceramics, and Community

Sorkin Jenni

ISBN: HB: 9780226303116, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour plates, 70 halftones

Ceramics had a far-reaching impact in the second half of the twentieth century, as its artists worked through the same ideas regarding abstraction and form as those found in other creative mediums".Live Form" shines new light on the relation of ceram...

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Decorative Arts

Journeys from Xanadu Asian Jewelry and Ritual Objects from the Barbara and David Kipper Collection

Ghose Madhuvanti, Casey Jane, Richter Anne, Krishnan Usha Bala, Qianbin Li, Zagitova Maria

ISBN: HB: 9780300214840, Yale University Press, A+D Series, July 2016
272 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 300 colour illus.

This book commemorates the remarkable gift of over 400 works from the collection of Barbara and David Kipper to the Art Institute of Chicago. These outstanding pieces of jewelry and ritual objects from across Asia offer a material record of vanishing...

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Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection of Contemporary Art

Mecugni Anna, Basualdo Carlos, Cooke Lynne, Garrels Gary, Rishel Joseph J., Rosenthal Mark, Silverman Kaja, Teicher Hendel, Temkin Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780300215236, Yale University Press, July 2016
264 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 220 colour illus.

This beautiful volume documents a historic gift of contemporary art from the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The gift, comprising nearly 100 works, includes masterpieces by luminaries such as Ellsworth Kelly...

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Catalogue Raisonne

William Merritt Chase A Modern Master

Smithgall Elsa, Bourguignon Katherine M., Ginex Giovanna, Hirshler Erica E., Davis John, Baker D. Frederick

ISBN: HB: 9780300206265, Yale University Press, July 2016
248 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 215 colour illus.

The history of modern art owes a great debt to William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), one of America's influential artists and educators. Chase was a leading member of the international artistic avant-garde and was best known for his mastery of a wide ra...

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Poet of Them All William Shakespeare and Miniature Designer Bindings from the Collection of Neale and Margaret Albert

Fairman Elisabeth R., Reid-Cunningham James

ISBN: HB: 9780300219128, Yale University Press, July 2016
240 pp., 24.1x17.8 cm, 365 colour illus.

Showcasing a unique and extensive private collection that is soon to be acquired by the Yale Center for British Art, "The Poet of Them All" illustrates almost one hundred of Neale and Margaret Albert's miniature books, each one intricately constructe...

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Culture Studies

Possession The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present

Thompson Erin

ISBN: HB: 9780300208528, Yale University Press, July 2016
232 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Whether it's the discovery of $1.6 billion in Nazi-looted art or the news that Syrian rebels are looting UNESCO archaeological sites to buy arms, art crime commands headlines. Erin Thompson, America's only professor of art crime, explores the dark hi...

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Contemporary Art

Vigeland + Munch Behind the Myths

Nielsen Trine Otte Bak

ISBN: HB: 9780300220032, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, July 2016
304 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 275 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

"Vigeland + Munch" is the first publication to thoroughly outline the parallels between two monumental figures of Norwegian art, painter and printmaker Edvard Munch (1863-1944) and sculptor Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943). With only a six year difference...

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