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Doris Salcedo The Materiality of Mourning
ISBN: HB: 9780300222517, Yale University Press, November 2016
196 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 100 colour illus.
A compelling look at Doris Salcedo's works from the past fifteen years, exploring how the artist challenges not only the limits of the materials she uses but also the traditions of sculpture itself Colombian sculptor and installation artist Doris Sal...
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£35,00
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Jorn + Munch
ISBN: HB: 9780300226584, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2016
240 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
"Jorn + Munch" is the first publication to examine the enduring impact Edvard Munch (1863-1944) had on Asger Jorn (1914-1973). In Munch's later works, Danish artist Jorn discovered an artist with a direct, spontaneous, and raw form of expression. Alr...
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£40,00
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Maisky Diaries The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London
ISBN: PB: 9780300221701, Yale University Press, November 2016
632 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 72 black&white illus.
<p>Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries....
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£12,99
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Peggy Guggenheim The Shock of the Modern
ISBN: PB: 9780300224290, Yale University Press, November 2016
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
<p>A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) broug...
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£10,99
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Art of Survival France and the Great War Picaresque
ISBN: HB: 9780300217513, Yale University Press, November 2016
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.
An astute literary and cultural history of World War I in France that offers a fresh perspective on the popular culture of the Great War The First World War soldier has often been depicted as a helpless victim sacrificed by a ruthless society in the...
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£30,00
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Kentucky Renaissance The Lexington Camera Club and its Community, 1954-1974
ISBN: HB: 9780300218985, Yale University Press, November 2016
192 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 120 colour illus.
A groundbreaking study of the extraordinary photographers, writers, printmakers, and publishers who formed a flourishing modernist community in Kentucky Dozens of American cities witnessed the founding of camera clubs in the first half of the 20th ce...
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Neapolitan Creche at the Art Institute of Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780300222357, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2016
176 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 250 colour illus.
The 18th-century Neapolitan creche at the Art Institute of Chicago, which contains over 200 figures arranged in a panorama of street life, represents the pinnacle of a rich artistic heritage. This luxurious catalogue is the first to study the creche...
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Picasso The Line
ISBN: HB: 9780300223071, Yale University Press, November 2016
176 pp., 30.5x28 cm, 130 colour illus.
The first comprehensive study of Picasso's mastery of line drawing and its centrality to his artistic process This beautiful new study provides an insightful reevaluation of the role of line in the work of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Picasso pursued d...
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William Hogarth A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings
ISBN: HB: 9780300221749, Yale University Press, November 2016
432 pp., 29.9x24.8 cm, 390 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.
William Hogarth (1697-1764) was among the first British-born artists to rise to international recognition and acclaim and to this day he is considered one of the country's most celebrated and innovative masters. His output encompassed engravings, pai...
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Hardwick Hall A Great Old Castle of Romance
ISBN: HB: 9780300218909, Yale University Press, November 2016
384 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 320 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
Originally constructed in the late 16th century for the notorious Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury, Hardwick Hall is now among the National Trust's greatest architectural landmarks, with much of its original interior and ornamentation still i...
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£75,00
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