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Contemporary Art

Lloyd Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300234800, Yale University Press, February 2018
230 pp., 27x21 cm, 144 colour illus.

In this generously illustrated and lively book, Christopher Lloyd sets out and interprets the lifelong achievement of Picasso (1881-1973) as a draftsman. Although there have been many publications about his drawings that have tended to focus on parti...

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Picturing War in France, 1792-1856

Hornstein Katie

ISBN: HB: 9780300228267, Yale University Press, February 2018
208 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus., 46 black&white illus.

From the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevolutionary France. This fascinating book studies representations of contemporary conflict in the first half of the 19th century and explores ho...

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Power of Material / Politics of Materiality

Witzgall Susanne, Stakemeier Kerstin

ISBN: PB: 9783037349878, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2018
256 pp., 21.6x16 cm, 155 colour plates, 2 line drawings, 4 halftones

Materiality has emerged as a new focus for art, design, and architecture. Where there was once the belief that the form of a work offered more capacity to bestow meaning, "New Materialism" asserts the agency of material within the artistic process, e...

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Present of the Future

Witzgall Susanne, Stakemeier Kerstin

ISBN: PB: 9783037349861, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2018
230 pp., 21.6x16 cm, 81 colour plates, 16 halftones

As the world teeters on the brink of crisis and potentially catastrophic change, outlooks for the future have come to be characterized by anxiety. The skepticism that meets utopian visions of the future has given rise to collective nostalgia for seem...

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Paintings from Murano by Paolo Veronese Restored by Venetian Heritage with the Support of Bulgari

Veronese Paolo

ISBN: PB: 9788831728263, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2018
96 pp., 22.2x16.5 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! A new undertaking by Venetian Heritage and Bulgari for Venetian art offers the occasion to rediscover two paintings by Paolo Veronese, a great master of Venetian Renaissance art. Two paintings by Paolo Veronese, Saint Jero...

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Pollock's Modernism

Schreyach Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300223262, Yale University Press, September 2017
344 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 45 colour illus.

"Pollock's Modernism" provides a new interpretation of the art of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), one that is based on a phenomenological investigation of the pictorial effects of particular paintings. Focusing on major works that span the artist's care...

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Practical Discourses on the Most Noble Art of Painting

Veliz Zahira, Mcgrath David

ISBN: PB: 9781606065280, Getty Publications, July 2017
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 13 black&white illus.

Jusepe Martinez's "Practical Discourses on the Most Noble Art of Painting" (ca. 1673-1675), though little known today, was highly influential on art, artists, and artistic practice and theory in Spain long after its publication. This volume is the fi...

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Playing with Fire Paintings by Carlos Almaraz

Fox Howard

ISBN: HB: 9783791356853, Prestel Publishing, July 2017
148 pp., 27x23.2 cm, 103 colour illus.

"Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz" is the first full-length monograph devoted to an artist known for both his politically engaged cultural production as well as his vibrant, highly sought-after studio art, particularly his scenes of car...

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Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago Highlights of the Collection

Rondeau James

ISBN: HB: 9780300225723, Yale University Press, A+D Series, May 2017
176 pp., 27.9x27.9 cm, 170 colour illus.

An updated selection of key paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago, featuring works from around the globe and dating from ancient Egypt to the present day. The Art Institute of Chicago, one of the most beloved and important museums in the world,...

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Philosophy Chamber Art and Science in Harvard's Teaching Cabinet, 1766-1820

Lasser Ethan

ISBN: HB: 9780300225921, Yale University Press, May 2017
350 pp., 29.2x20.3 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.

Harvard College's 18th-century Philosophy Chamber consisted of paintings, prints, sculptures, scientific instruments, natural specimens, and various indigenous artifacts – it was a rich and varied representation of not only artistic and cultural achi...

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