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Tintoretto in Venice A Guide
ISBN: PB: 9788831729468, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2019
144 pp., 24.1x15.8 cm, 90 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Unlike the other two master Renaissance painters associated with Venice, Titian and Veronese, Tintoretto (1519-1594) alone was born in Venice and he left his mark there more than either artist. His paintings can still be fo...
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£17,50
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Art Work Conserving and Restoring Contemporary Art
ISBN: PB: 9788831729451, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2019
304 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 107 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! To speak of "restoration" in relation to contemporary art seems almost oxymoronic. On the one hand, it is commonly assumed that the art produced in our own time is still too new to need conservation. On the other hand, with...
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£40,00
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Treatise on Modern Stimulants
ISBN: PB: 9781939663382, DAP, Wakefield Press, November 2018
80 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 15 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Honore de Balzac's "Treatise on Modern Stimulants" is a meditation on five stimulants – tea, sugar, coffee, alcohol and tobacco – by an author very conscious of the fact that his gargantuan output of work was driven by an e...
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£10,99
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David Smith Origins and Innovations
ISBN: HB: 9783906915128, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, August 2018
200 pp., 29.3x24.7 cm, 106 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Origins and Innovations" brings together David Smith's (1906-1965) early paintings, drawings and sculptures, alongside seminal later works that reimagine the possibilities of abstraction in three dimensions. This presentat...
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£50,00
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Nothing and Everything Seven Artists, 1947-1962
ISBN: PB: 9783952446171, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, July 2017
104 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 3 black&white illus., 96 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Nothing and Everything" examines the synergistic relationship between artists and composers living in New York City between the end of World War II and the early 1960s. It features seven artists and composers – Louise Bour...
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£27,00
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Philip Guston and the Poets
ISBN: HB: 9783906915005, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, June 2017
182 pp., 30.5x24.9 cm, 82 colour illus., 12 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The book draws parallels between humanist themes reflected in both Guston's paintings and drawings as well as in the language and prose discerned in five of the 20th century's most prominent literary figures: D. H. Lawrence...
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£50,00
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Willem de Kooning / Zao Wou-Ki
ISBN: HB: 9781944379124, DAP, Dominique Levy, March 2017
192 pp., 33.7x25.3 cm, 30 colour illus., 15 duotones
Not for sale in Estonia! This volume explores the parallel careers of two celebrated postwar painters: Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) and Zao Wou-Ki (1921-2013). Published in conjunction with Dominique Levy's exhibition pairing the artists' abstract...
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£53,00
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Pandora's Box Jan Dibbets on Another Photography
ISBN: HB: 9782759603343, DAP, Paris Musees, August 2016
256 pp., 31.8x22.1 cm, 100 colour illus., 200 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Jan Dibbets' dissenting and unashamedly biased "Pandora's Box" offers nothing less than a reinterpretation of the entire history of art photography, arguing that scientific photography was the realm where the medium's real...
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£22,00
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Nicolo Degiorgis: Hidden Islam Islamic Makeshift Places of Worship in North East Italy, 2009-2013
ISBN: HB: 9788890981708, DAP, Rorhof, October 2015
90 pp., 24.6x17.2 cm, 43 colour illus., 84 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In Italy the right to worship without discrimination is enshrined in the constitution. There are 1.35 million Muslims in Italy and yet, officially, only eight mosques in the whole country. Consequently, the Muslim populatio...
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£40,00
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Zurbaran A New Perspective
ISBN: HB: 9788415113676, DAP, Fundacion Coleccion Thyssen-Bornemisza, October 2015
231 pp., 27.3x22.8 cm, 127 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! This volume offers the most comprehensive overview in print – and the first substantial English-language monograph in decades – on the great 17th-century Spanish painter Zurbaran. It spans his entire career, from his earlie...
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£65,00
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