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Kuniyoshi

Forrer Matthi

ISBN: HB: 9783791385099, Prestel Publishing, November 2020
288 pp., 36.4x30 cm, 247 colour illus., 34 black&white illus.

Best known for his depictions of fierce samurai warriors in battle, Utagawa Kuniyoshi also produced landscapes, portraits of Kabuki actors, and images of mythical animals. His dynamic action scenes and fantastic creatures are recognized today as prec...

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Knight for the Ages Jacques de Lalaing and the Art of Chivalry

Morrison Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9781606065754, Getty Publications, November 2018
192 pp., 29.2x20.8 cm, 94 colour illus.

The Livre des faits de Jacques de Lalaing (Book of the Deeds of Jacques de Lalaing), a famous Flemish illuminated manuscript, relays the audacious life of Jacques de Lalaing (1421-1453), a story that reads more like a fast-paced adventure novel. Prod...

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Kinaesthetic Knowing Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design

Alexander Zeynep Celik

ISBN: HB: 9780226485201, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 10 colour plates, 99 halftones

Is all knowledge the product of thought? Or can the physical interactions of the body with the world produce reliable knowledge? In late-nineteenth-century Europe, scientists, artists, and other intellectuals theorized the latter as a new way of know...

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Klimt and Rodin An Artistic Encounter

Natter Tobias G.

ISBN: HB: 9783791357089, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
224 pp., 29x24 cm, 163 colour illus.

Although they worked in different media, Auguste Rodin and Gustav Klimt were two artists whose output generated both incredible enthusiasm and virulent denunciation in their lifetimes. On the centenary of their deaths, in 1917 and 1918 respectively,...

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Kokusai the Genius And Stag-Antler Carving in Japan (box set)

Moss Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781912168033, Casemate, Ad Ilissum, April 2017
1132 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm

Kokusai lived in a time of immense social, cultural and artistic change, and his work – and indeed his own person – captures its contradictions. The Edo period was ending, the last breath of feudal Japan, and the Meiji Restoration launched the new na...

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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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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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Kamakura Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan

Covaci Ive

ISBN: HB: 9780300215779, Yale University Press, February 2016
192 pp., 29.9x22.2 cm, 65 colour illus.

The Kamakura period (1185-1333) is considered a pinnacle of Japanese artistic expression, often described as a renaissance in Buddhist art. This catalogue is the first in over two decades to examine the exquisite sculpture of this period, artwork cha...

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Kongo Power and Majesty

LaGamma Alisa

ISBN: HB: 9781588395757, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
308 pp., 28x23.4 cm, 261 colour illus.

Artists from the kingdom of Kongo – a vast swath of Central Africa that today encompasses the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola-were responsible for outstanding creative achievements. With the influx of Portuguese, Dutch...

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