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Contemporary Art

Max Beckmann in New York

Rewald Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9781588396006, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2016
160 pp., 26.1x23.6 cm, 114 colour illus.

An up close and personal look at the life and work of a major 20th-century artist. The prominent German Expressionist painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950) is known for allegorical, autobiographical works that capture the doom and grotesquerie of World Wa...

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Contemporary Art

No Limits Zao Wou-Ki

Walt Melissa, Yun Michelle, Weitz Ankeney

ISBN: HB: 9780300220186, Yale University Press, October 2016
184 pp., 29.9x23.5 cm, 141 colour illus.

The Chinese-French painter Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013) developed a distinctive abstract style blending the visual poetry of Chinese painting and calligraphy with European pictorial traditions. This stunning volume presents a richly woven narrative of the...

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European Art A Neuroarthistory

Onians John

ISBN: HB: 9780300212792, Yale University Press, October 2016
320 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus., 170 black&white illus.

A bold revision of the history of European art, told through the lens of neuroscience Ambitious and much anticipated, this book celebrates the value of recent neuroscientific discoveries as tools for art-historical analysis. Case studies ranging acro...

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As Essential as Dreams Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither

White Michelle, Adele Lynne, Anderson Brooke Davis, Breslin David, Espinosa Victor M., Gomez Edward M., Hernandez Jo Farb, Kogan Lee, Rhodes Colin, Umberger Leslie

ISBN: HB: 9780300218411, Yale University Press, September 2016
112 pp., 24.8x29.2 cm, 114 colour illus.

This stunning book examines the collection of works by self-taught artists assembled by Stephanie and John Smither over the last thirty-odd years. A team of prominent curators, writers, critics, and art historians focuses on key works by twelve artis...

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Theo van Doesburg A New Expression of Life, Art, and Technology

Fabre Gladys

ISBN: HB: 9780300222432, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, August 2016
272 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 150 colour illus.

This handsome catalogue presents the Dutch artist Theo Van Doesburg (1883-1931) as a nomadic propagandist on a quest for a new aesthetic that, in conjunction with contemporary science and technology, sought to reform the world. Van Doesburg was a cen...

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Revolutionary Horizons Art and Polemics in 1950s Cuba

McEwen Abigail

ISBN: HB: 9780300216813, Yale University Press, August 2016
272 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 68 colour illus., 61 black&white illus.

Modernism in Havana reached its climax during the turbulent years of the 1950s as a generation of artists took up abstraction as a means to advance artistic and political goals in the name of Cuba Libre. During a decade of insurrection and, ultimatel...

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Bentu Chinese Artists in a Time of Turbulence and Transformation

Page Suzanne

ISBN: PB: 9780300222388, Yale University Press, August 2016
180 pp., 28.6x21 cm, 100 colour illus.

Through a detailed look at twelve contemporary Chinese artists, this fascinating book offers a fresh assessment of the creative forces at work in a country whose economic, political, and cultural climates are of widespread and enduring interest. View...

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Robert Irwin A Conditional Art

Simms Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300173833, Yale University Press, July 2016
320 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

Frequently associated with California Light and Space Art, Robert Irwin (b. 1928) began as an abstract painter in the 1950s. Since that time, he has worked in architectural and outdoor interventions, developing and expanding what he terms a "conditio...

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Work / Travail / Arbeid Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Filipovic Elena

ISBN: PB: 9780300220087, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, July 2016
288 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 50 colour illus., 65 black&white illus.

This publication accompanies a newly commissioned project by the legendary Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960), which reimagines her stage piece Vortex Temporum for the exhibition space as a nine-week-long endeavor in technical...

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Vigeland + Munch Behind the Myths

Nielsen Trine Otte Bak

ISBN: HB: 9780300220032, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, July 2016
304 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 275 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

"Vigeland + Munch" is the first publication to thoroughly outline the parallels between two monumental figures of Norwegian art, painter and printmaker Edvard Munch (1863-1944) and sculptor Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943). With only a six year difference...

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