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Public Photographic Spaces Propaganda Exhibitions from Pressa to The Family of Man, 1928-55

Barthes Roland, Buchloh Banjamin, Steichen Edward

ISBN: PB: 9788492505067, Bookport, MACBA, March 2009
504 pp., 24.8x17.1 cm

This book focuses from a chronological perspective on photography as a tool for a new visuality and the rupture of the role of the spectator: photographic exhibitions from 1928 to 1955, from the spaces designed by Lissitzky's to The Family of Man; th...

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History of Art

After Many Springs Regionalism, Modernism, and the Midwest

Bricker Balken Debra, Fleming Jeff

ISBN: HB: 9780300135862, Yale University Press, March 2009
125 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 100 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

"After Many Springs" is the title of a Thomas Hart Benton painting that evokes nostalgia for a fertile, creative time gone by. This bold new book – taking the name of this work by Benton – examines the intersections between Regionalist and Modernist...

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Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Volume 1: Artists Born Between 1570 and 1600

Bikker Jonathan, Bruijnen Yvette, Wuestman Gerdien Eleanora, Korthals Altes Everhardus Joannes, Piet Filedt Kok Jan, Dibbits Taco

ISBN: HB: 9789086890279, Yale University Press, January 2009
584 pp., 39.5x39.5 cm, colour illus.

This spectacular slipcased two-volume set is the first in a series of four catalogues that will showcase the holdings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which owns the world's largest and most representative collection of paintings from the Dutch Golde...

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History of Art

Sleeping Beauty A One-Artist Dictionary

Bal Mieke, Sparagana John

ISBN: HB: 9780226035529, University of Chicago Press, December 2008
136 pp., 29.2x23.9 cm, 33 colour plates

The dictionary. The ubiquitous high-gloss fashion ad. The fraught relationship between artist and critic".Sleeping Beauty" ties these disparate strands of our everyday lives together only to strip away everything we thought we knew about each of them...

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History of Art

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

Bayer Andrea, Brown Beverly, Edwards Nancy, Fahy Everett, Krohn Deborah L., Musacchio Jacqueline Marie, Thornton Dora, Grantham Turner James, Syson Luke

ISBN: HB: 9780300124118, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2008
352 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Many famous Italian Renaissance artworks were made to celebrate love and marriage. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from the early Renaissance, of commemorating betrothal, marriage, and the birth of a child by commissioning extraordinar...

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History of Art

Craftsman Revealed Adriaen De Vries, Sculptor in Bronze

Bassett Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780892369195, Getty Publications, September 2008
352 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 100 colour illus., 220 black&white illus.

Dutch sculptor Adriaen de Vries (1556-1626) spent much of his life working for the most discerning royal courts of the age, including that of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. A master of composition and technique, De Vries was relatively unkno...

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Interior Design

Decorative Arts

European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago

Brosens Koenraad, Bertrand Pascal-Francois, Bremer-David Charissa, Cleland Elizabeth, Delmarcel Guy, Forti Grazzini Nello, Mayer Thurman Christa C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300119602, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2008
450 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 200 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

This lavishly illustrated book presents a rich variety of European tapestries from the Art Institute of Chicago. These exquisite tapestries include medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque examples, manufactured at almost all the major centres of productio...

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Cartoon Art

Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories Volume 2

Brunetti Ivan

ISBN: HB: 9780300126716, Yale University Press, September 2008
400 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, chiefly illus.

Comic art is a vital, highly personal art form in which change – rapid and unpredictable – is the norm. In this exciting new anthology, comic artist Ivan Brunetti focuses on very recent works by contemporary artists engaged in this world of change. T...

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History of Art

Fran and Ray Stark Collection of 20th Century Sculpture at J. Paul Getty Museum

Bostrom Antonia

ISBN: HB: 9780892369041, Getty Publications, August 2008
208 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus., 64 black&white illus.

This book celebrates the recently installed collection of 20th-century sculpture donated to the Getty Museum in 2005 by philanthropist agent-turned producer Ray Stark. This sumptuous book takes readers on a visual tour of the J. Paul Getty Museum's n...

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History of Art

Insects and Flowers The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian

Brafman David, Schrader Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780892369294, Getty Publications, August 2008
52 pp., 15.9x11.4 cm, 22 colour illus.

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was an intrepid artist and scientist who defied the conventions of her time to pursue her passion for documenting the natural world in all its glorious, and sometimes ferocious, detail. Between 1699-1701, she travelle...

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