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Paul Gauguin Where Do we Come From? What Are We? Where Are we Going?
ISBN: PB: 9780878467938, DAP, MFA Publications, September 2013
56 pp., 20.9x14.6 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! The life of Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) is one of the richest and most mythic in the history of Western art. Abandoning a career in banking, a family and his homeland, in the last decade of the nineteenth century he sailed fro...
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£8,99
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John Singer Sargent Murals in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN: PB: 9780878468096, DAP, MFA Publications, September 2013
88 pp., 20.9x14.6 cm, 70 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Born in Italy, trained in Paris and a resident of London, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) became Boston's favorite painter in the 1880s. His commissions from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to decorate its new building's g...
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Postcard Age Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780878467815, DAP, MFA Publications, October 2012
295 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, 370 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In the decades around 1900, postcards were Twitter, email, Flickr and Facebook, all wrapped into one. A postcard craze swept the world, and billions of cards were bought, mailed and pasted into albums. Many famous artists t...
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Ellsworth Kelly Wood Sculpture
ISBN: HB: 9780878467662, DAP, MFA Publications, October 2011
72 pp., 29.2x21 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! Ellsworth Kelly describes the 30 wood sculptures he created over the span of four decades between 1958 and 1996 as his "totems". This body of work, although only a small proportion of the artist's lifetime sculpture and far...
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Degas and the Nude
ISBN: HB: 9780878467730, DAP, MFA Publications, October 2011
241 pp., 27.3x24.7 cm, 240 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The nude figure was critical to the art of Edgar Degas throughout his life, and yet frequently his expansive body of work on this subject has been overshadowed by his celebrated portraits and dancers. "Degas and the Nude" i...
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£57,00
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Arnold Scaasi American Couturier
ISBN: HB: 9780878467587, DAP, MFA Publications, November 2010
192 pp., 29.8x22.9 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! Barbra Streisand, Natalie Wood, Arlene Francis, Diahann Carroll, Joan Rivers, Mamie Eisenhower, Barbara Bush, Louise Nevelson... What these women have in common is that all were dressed by Scaasi. From his meteoric rise on...
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£50,00
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Jewelry by Artists In the Studio, 1940-2000
ISBN: HB: 9780878467501, DAP, MFA Publications, November 2010
280 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Studio jewelry is defined not by an aesthetic or philosophy, but by its makers and their work process. Studio jewelers are independent artists in small workshops, directly handling their materials and producing one-of-a-kin...
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Pop Revolution How an Unlikely Concatenation of Artists, Aficionados, Businessmen, Critics, Curators, Collectors, Dealers, and Hangers-On Radically Transformed the Art World
ISBN: HB: 9780878467440, DAP, MFA Publications, April 2010
222 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 16 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "This book is a social history of Pop art, a group portrait of both the artists and the people who made some of them rich and famous in just a few years, while setting in motion the drastically altered way art has been mark...
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£27,00
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Gardens in Perpetual Bloom Botanical Illustration in Europe and America 1600-1850
ISBN: PB: 9780878467495, DAP, MFA Publications, February 2010
136 pp., 22.9x19.7 cm, 130 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Originally developed as an aid to professional herbalists, botanical illustration quickly blossomed into an art form in its own right. The first flower books were intended as medicinal guides, or else illustrated volumes th...
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£22,00
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Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese Rivals in Renaissance Venice
ISBN: HB: 9780878467396, DAP, MFA Publications, May 2009
304 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 160 colour illus., 10 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! For nearly four decades in the sixteenth century, the careers of Venice's three greatest painters – Titan, Tintoretto and Veronese – overlapped, producing mutual influences and bitter rivalries that changed art history. Ven...
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