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Evelyn Dunbar A Life in Painting

Campbell-Howes Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781526205841, Casemate, Romarin, October 2016
448 pp., 24x16.9 cm, 300 illus.

The importance of Evelyn Dunbar (1906-1960) in the history of British 20th century art is continually being reassessed and belatedly recognised. A gifted draughtswoman: youthful prodigy; brilliant student at the Royal College of Art under Sir William...

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Endeavouring Banks Exploring the Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771

Attenborough David, Agnarsdottir Anna, Coote Jeremy, Hatfield Phillip J., Gascoigne John

ISBN: HB: 9781907372902, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, May 2016
235 pp., 28x24 cm, 150 colour illus.

When English naturalist Joseph Banks (1743-1820) accompanied Captain James Cook (1728-1779) on his historic mission into the Pacific, the Endeavour voyage of 1768-1771, he took with him a team of collectors and illustrators. Banks and his team return...

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Edvard Munch Archetypes

Alarco Paloma, Berman Patricia G., Steihaug Jon-Ove

ISBN: HB: 9788415113737, DAP, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, February 2016
232 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 156 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Edvard Munch: Archetypes" brings together a thematic selection of 80 works – in full-page, museum-quality reproductions – that examine the painter's long and prolific career and reveal his ability to synthesize the obsessi...

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Cultural Studies

Edible Monument The Art of Food for Festivals

Reed Marcia

ISBN: HB: 9781606064542, Getty Publications, October 2015
192 pp., 25x15 cm, 91 colour illus.

"The Edible Monument" considers the elaborate architecture, sculpture, and floats designed for court and civic celebrations in early modern Europe, including popular festivals such as Carnival and the Italian Cuccagna. Like illuminations and firework...

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Edge Habitat Materials

Mirra Helen

ISBN: HB: 9780945323259, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, June 2015
145 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Chicago-based artist Helen Mirra creates works that explore the relationship between the natural world and the everyday lives and activities of the people who live in it. Aesthetically minimalist, her works deploy repetition and a large range of refe...

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Ancient World

Ennion Master of Roman Glass

Lightfoot Christopher, Wight Karol B., Pilosi Lisa, Wypyski Mark T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300208771, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2015
160 pp., 26.7x23.5 cm, 100 colour illus.

Among glass craftsmen active in the first century A.D., the most famous and gifted was Ennion, who came from the coastal city of Sidon in modern Lebanon. Ennion's glass stood out for its quality and popularity, and his products are distinguished by t...

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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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Egon Schiele Portraits

Comini Alessandra

ISBN: HB: 9783791354194, Prestel Publishing, October 2014
296 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 227 colour illus., 72 black&white illus.

This book accompanies a major exhibition devoted to portraits created by Austrian artist Egon Schiele, whose figurative work exhibits intense emotion and technical brilliance. Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth...

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Contemporary Art

Experimenters Chance and Design at Black Mountain College

Diaz Eva

ISBN: HB: 9780226067988, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
256 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 58 halftones

In the years immediately following World War II, Black Mountain College, an unaccredited school in rural Appalachia, became a vital hub of cultural innovation. Practically every major artistic figure of the mid-twentieth century spent some time there...

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Culture Studies

En Guerre French Illustrators and World War I

Harris Neil, Edelstein Teri J.

ISBN: PB: 9780943056425, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
144 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 140 colour plates

With 2014 marking the one-hundredth anniversary of the commencement of World War I, En Guerre offers a fresh, thought-provoking exploration of the impact of the Great War as viewed through the lens of French graphic illustration of the period. Publis...

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