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Borrowed Light

Berry Ian, Shear Jack

ISBN: HB: 9783791357423, Prestel Publishing, January 2018
372 pp., 29.9x28.5 cm, 102 colour illus., 270 black&white illus.

This visual history of photography from its inception to the present day is a treasure trove of 400 color and black-and-white images, carefully sequenced and profoundly evocative. Culled from the idiosyncratic collection of photographer and curator...

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Photography

1968 The Fire of Ideas

Brodsky Marcelo

ISBN: HB: 9788417047320, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, December 2017
72 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, illustrations throughout

Argentinian photographer Marcelo Brodsky (born 1954) compiles archival photographs of political movements from Paris to Mexico City in 1968, highlighting details through the addition of color, text and drawing.

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History of Art

Michelangelo Divine Draftsman and Designer

Bambach Carmen C., Barry Claire, Caglioti Francesco, Cuperi Walter, Elam Caroline, McDonald Mark, Marongiu Marcella, Mussolin Mauro, Rinaldi Furio, Zanchettin Vitale

ISBN: HB: 9781588396372, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2017
400 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 300 colour illus.

The Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was especially celebrated for his disegno, a term that embraces both drawing and conceptual design. Featuring more than 200 drawings as well as paintings, sculpture, and architectural...

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Architecture

Contemporary Art

Gordon Matta-Clark Anarchitect

Bessa Antonio Sergio, Fiore Jessamyn, Jordan Cara M., Wrona Xavier

ISBN: HB: 9780300230437, Yale University Press, November 2017
184 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 90 colour illus.

This revealing book looks at the groundbreaking work of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), whose socially conscious practice blurred the boundaries between contemporary art and architecture. After completing a degree in architecture at Cornell Universit...

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History of Art

Visual Voyages Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin

Bleichmar Daniela

ISBN: HB: 9780300224023, Yale University Press, November 2017
240 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 153 colour illus.

From the voyages of Christopher Columbus to those of Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, the depiction of the natural world played a central role in shaping how people on both sides of the Atlantic understood and imaged the region we now know...

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Art Conservation

Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History Volume 3: Degas

Barbour Daphne S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300230116, Yale University Press, October 2017
196 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 162 colour illus.

This volume of "Facture", a biennial journal that presents the latest conservation research on works of art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, focuses exclusively on conservation treatment, technical art history, and scientific research rela...

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Contemporary Art

Delirious Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980

Baum Kelly, Bradnock Lucy, Ryan Tina Rivers

ISBN: HB: 9781588396334, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2017
224 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 241 colour illus.

Addressing the maniacal, eccentric, and disorienting in artworks made between 1950 and 1980, Delirious situates a fascination with the absurd and irrational within the context of the violence and brutality witnessed during World War II as well as the...

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Contemporary Art

Jasper Johns Redo an Eye

Bernstein Roberta

ISBN: HB: 9780300229356, Yale University Press, October 2017
346 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 374 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

Spanning over 60 years of Jasper Johns's (b. 1930) prolific career, this spectacular publication is the most comprehensive and definitive study of the artist's work to date. Written by noted Johns expert Roberta Bernstein, the book explores the syner...

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History of Art

Max Beckmann The World as a Stage

Bremen Kunsthalle

ISBN: HB: 9783791356976, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
248 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 colour illus.

Many of the paintings by Max Beckmann show the world of the theater, the circus, and vaudeville. He assumed the position of the spectator and his paintings were the stage. He was driven by pageantry and this is the first publication to show how Beckm...

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Contemporary Art

Barbara Takenaga

Bricker Balken Debra

ISBN: HB: 9783791357003, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
128 pp., 28.7x25.1 cm, illustrations throughout

At once conceptual and decorative, Barbara Takenaga's swirling, patterned paintings have been called "psychedelic" and "cosmic". Takenaga's approach to painting is both highly structured and disciplined. In this collection of seventy paintings, the e...

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