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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Acrylics Techniques and Tutorials for the Complete Beginner

Burrows Adrian

ISBN: PB: 9781784944063, GMC Group, GMC, May 2018
96 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, 182 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

Painting is one of the most rewarding ways of expressing yourself. It sparks creativity, engages the imagination and relaxes you, reducing your stress levels and leaving you feeling mentally clear and calm. Many people assume that the ability to pain...

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History of Art

Picturesque and Sublime Thomas Cole's Trans-Atlantic Inheritance

Barringer Tim, Forrester Gillian, Raab Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780300233537, Yale University Press, March 2018
192 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 120 colour illus.

Landscape art in the early 19th century was guided by two rival concepts: the picturesque, which emphasized touristic pleasures and visual delight, and the sublime, an aesthetic category rooted in notions of fear and danger. British artists including...

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Photography

"Click", said the camera

Burkhard Balthasar, Jakob Markus

ISBN: PB: 9783037785508, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2018
42 pp., 24x17 cm, 22 illus.

The beloved children's book "Click", said the camera., first published in 1997, is available again. It features animal portraits by photographer Balthasar Burkhard, who started the series in 1995. The twenty animals meet for the photographer's beaut...

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Photography

Through the Lens of Janet Stone Portraits 1953-1979

Beck Ian Archie

ISBN: HB: 9781851242597, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2018
144 pp., 24.4x20.7 cm, 65 illus.

Janet Stone's photograph albums feature informal portraits from the mid-twentieth century of many of the leading cultural figures and personalities of the day. The wife of the distinguished engraver Reynolds Stone established a kind of literary salon...

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History of Art

Thomas Cole's Journey Atlantic Crossings

Barringer Tim, Kornhauser Elizabeth Mankin, Mahon Dorothy, Riopelle Christopher, Vittoria Shannon

ISBN: HB: 9781588396402, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2018
288 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 254 colour and black&white illus.

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an international figure, born in England, and in dialogue with the major landscape painters of the age, including J.M.W....

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Contemporary Art

Howardena Pindell What Remains to Be Seen

Beckwith Naomi, Cassel Oliver Valerie

ISBN: HB: 9783791357379, Prestel Publishing, February 2018
288 pp., 30.5x23 cm, 250 colour illus.

This retrospective volume celebrates five decades of Howardena Pindell's art, including works on paper, collage, photography, film, and video. Born in middle-class Philadelphia in the 1940s, Howardena Pindell came of age during the Civil Rights mov...

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Art Conservation

History of Art

National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Volume 38

Billinge Rachel, Dunkerton Jill, Ede Minna Moore, Franklin Jonathan, Howard Helen, Keith Larry, Peggie David, Spring Marika, Wieseman Marjorie E., Wivel Matthias

ISBN: PB: 9781857096231, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2018
112 pp., 29.9x21 cm, 175 colour and black&white illus.

This latest volume of the National Gallery's "Technical Bulletin" series features a range of studies, reflecting its commitment to the scientific research and conservation of paintings in its care. Articles include the recent conservation of Rosso Fi...

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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 52, 2017

Baetjer Katharine, Kornhauser Elisabeth, Leona Marco

ISBN: PB: 9780226536842, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 250 colour plates

The "Metropolitan Museum Journal", issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collection. Volume 50 includes articles on a possible Cypriot origin for an Assyrian stone mixing bowl in the C...

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Design

Visualizing Disease The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations

Bertoloni Meli Domenico

ISBN: HB: 9780226110295, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 36 colour plates, 36 halftones

Visual anatomy books have been a staple of medical practice and study since the mid-sixteenth century. But the visual representation of diseased states followed a very different pattern from anatomy, one we are only now beginning to investigate and u...

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History of Art

Gilbert & George: The General Jungle or Carrying on Sculpting Late Summer 1971

Bracewell Michael

ISBN: HB: 9781944379179, DAP, Levy Gorvy, February 2018
104 pp., 31.1x28.5 cm, 42 colour illus., 5 duotone

Not for sale in Estonia! Since 1967, renowned artists Gilbert & George (born 1943 and 1942) have made themselves into their art, sacrificing their individual identities to devote themselves to a more democratic art practice, which they call "Art fo...

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