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Alexei Jawlensky
ISBN: HB: 9783791356389, Prestel Publishing, February 2017
192 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 169 colour illus., 28 black&white illus.
Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941) was Russian, but lived in Germany much of his life and obtained German citizenship in 1934. He was a friend of Vasily Kandinsky, who he met in Munich when studying painting with Anton Azbe, and had close ties to the Germa...
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£40,00
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Australia's Impressionists
ISBN: HB: 9781857096125, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2017
128 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 70 colour illus.
Australia's Impressionists focuses on the paintings of Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder, and John Peter Russell. All were key players in a distinctively Australian art movement that drew on influences ranging from Whistler's subtle Noctur...
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£20,00
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Art of G. F. Watts
ISBN: PB: 9781911300076, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, February 2017
136 pp., 24x17 cm, 70 colour illus.
Published to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of G. F. Watts, this book provides a lively and engaging introduction to one of the most charismatic figures in the history of British art. Covering all aspects of Watts's career, it places hi...
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£17,00
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Afterall Autumn/Winter 2016, Issue 42
ISBN: PB: 9781846381706, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 80 colour plates
Issue 42 of "Afterall" addresses the crisis of representation in contemporary art through the work of Pierre Huyghe and Tania Bruguera, reflecting on how they each intervene into biological and political systems. We also put a spotlight on the contri...
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£16,00
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Albrecht Durer A Documentary Biography
ISBN: HB: 9780300210842, Yale University Press, January 2017
1216 pp., 24x17 cm, 70 black&white illus.
Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was hailed in his lifetime as a founder of the Northern Renaissance, and his work revolutionized the art of printmaking. Durer was also the first artist outside Italy to leave behind a large body of writing. Contemporaries...
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£95,00
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Assyria to Iberia A Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia
ISBN: PB: 9781588396068, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2016
404 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 300 colour illus.
In 2014, the Metropolitan Museum presented Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age, an unprecedented exhibition that offered a comprehensive overview of art, diplomacy, and cultural exchange in the ancient Near East and across the Mediterr...
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£35,00
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Album Picabia
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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£30,00
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Art of the Islands Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Visual Culture, c. 450-1050
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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£25,00
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Aldo Manuzio Renaissance in Venice
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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£36,99
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After Caravaggio
ISBN: HB: 9780300218640, Yale University Press, June 2016
256 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 100 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
During the twenty years following Caravaggio's death, his revolutionary precedent inspired the creation of a remarkable body of paintings. Drawing together works by Bartolomeo Manfredi, Valentin de Boulogne, Nicolas Tournier, Nicolas Regnier, Cecco d...
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£40,00
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