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Three Graces Snapshots of Twentieth-century Women
ISBN: PB: 9780300177343, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2011
160 pp., 21x15.2 cm, 150 colour illus.
Snapshots preserve more than individual likeness and memory. Photographs of celebrations, vacations, and gatherings of family and friends are accumulated with the aim of constructing and preserving a personal identity for future generations. What hap...
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£19,99
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Age of American Impressionism
ISBN: HB: 9780300175745, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2011
160 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 110 colour illus.
Although renowned for its holdings of works by French Impressionists, the Art Institute of Chicago also houses a wealth of superb examples by American proponents of this distinctive style. The collection includes works by such notable artists as Ceci...
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£35,00
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Bertrand Goldberg Architecture of Invention
ISBN: HB: 9780300167047, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2011
192 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 140 colour images, 75 black&white illus.
Bertrand Goldberg (1913-1997) was a visionary Chicago architect whose designs for housing, urban planning, and industrial design made a distinctive mark in the modern era. This handsome publication, the first to focus indepth on the entirety of Goldb...
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£40,00
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Windows on the War Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945
ISBN: HB: 9780300170238, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2011
400 pp., 32.4x24.8 cm, 300 colour images, 140 black&white illus.
"Windows on the War" is a groundbreaking publication – the first in English to focus on posters designed by the Soviet Union's "TASS" news agency to bolster support for the Soviet war effort. "TASS" posters were created by a large collective of Sovie...
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£55,00
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Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life Early Twentieth-Century European Modernism
ISBN: HB: 9780300166095, Yale University Press, A+D Series, July 2011
160 pp., 25x15 cm, 160 colour illus.
Beginning around 1910, vanguard artists demanded that true art go beyond the intellectual and transform daily life. This volume highlights the work of six influential European artists who took this idea into the wider world, where it merged enthusias...
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£35,00
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Altered and Adorned Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300169119, Yale University Press, A+D Series, May 2011
104 pp., 31x23.4 cm, 10 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.
Today Renaissance-era prints are typically preserved behind glass or in solander boxes in museums, but these decorative objects were once a central part of everyday life. "Altered and Adorned" is a delightful, surprising look at how prints were used...
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£25,00
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Public Notice 3 Jitish Kallat at the Art Institute of Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780300171587, Yale University Press, A+D Series, May 2011
96 pp., 26.7x23.1 cm
The Swami Vivekananda's speech to the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 is the centrepiece of Indian artist Jitish Kallat's new work, "Public Notice 3". The installation went on view at the Art Institute of Chicago on September 11, 2...
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£18,00
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Kings, Queens, and Courtiers Art in Early Renaissance France
ISBN: HB: 9780300170252, Yale University Press, A+D Series, March 2011
208 pp., 31x23.9 cm, 190 colour illus.
This sumptuous catalogue provides an overview of French art circa 1500, a dynamic, transitional period when the country, resurgent after the dislocations of the Hundred Years' War, invaded Italy and all media flourished. What followed was the emergen...
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£40,00
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Richard Hawkins Third Man
ISBN: HB: 9780300166255, Yale University Press, A+D Series, January 2011
160 pp., 31x23.6 cm, 130 colour illus.
This stunning book offers an important mid-career retrospective of the work of American artist Richard Hawkins (born 1961), whose paintings, collages, and mixed-media pieces are making a crucial contribution to the contemporary art scene. Colour plat...
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£25,00
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