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History of Art

Theme and Variations The Multiple Sorceries of Felix Buhot

Leonard Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780935573596, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2019
60 pp., 15.2x24.1 cm, 60 colour plates

In the late nineteenth century, French printmaker Felix Buhot effected a kind of sorcery on his etching plates, making each impression into a unique work of art simply by varying the inking technique and the inks and papers used. With his evocative,...

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Cartoon Art

Painting and Drawing Manuals

Stan Lee's How to Draw Comics Master Class From the Legendary Co-Creator of Spider-Man, the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk, and Iron Man

Lee Stan

ISBN: PB: 9780823098439, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, September 2019
224 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, colour illus., black&white illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! In Stan Lee's "How to Draw Comics Master Class", comics icon Lee provides aspiring comics artists with the modern tools they need to succeed in the comic book creating world. Focusing on topics like anatomy and c...

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Photography

Mammals

Allowed to Grow Old Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries

Leshko Isa

ISBN: HB: 9780226391373, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 48 colour plates

There's nothing quite like a relationship with an aged pet – a dog or cat who has been at our side for years, forming an ineffable bond. Pampered pets, however, are a rarity among animals who have been domesticated. Farm animals, for example, are usu...

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Contemporary Art

Source and Stimulus Polke, Lichtenstein, Laing

Livingstone Marco, Brauer David E., Russell Jeanette Joslin

ISBN: HB: 9781944379223, DAP, Levy Gorvy, February 2019
136 pp., 33x25.4 cm, 22 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! United in their desire to create images "absolutely of the moment", Polke, Lichtenstein and Laing – three artists on separate but interrelated artistic journeys – turned their attention in the early 1960s toward the Ben-Day...

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Art Conservation

Central Collecting Point in Munich A New Beginning for the Restitution and Protection of Art

Lauterbach Iris, Elliott Fiona, Sheehan James J.

ISBN: HB: 9781606065822, Getty Publications, January 2019
304 pp., 24.7x16.8 cm, 238 black&white illus.

At the end of World War II, the US Office of Military Government for Germany and Bavaria, through its Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives division, was responsible for the repatriation of most of the tens of thousands of artworks looted by the Nazis i...

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History of Art

Sculptural Seeing Relief, Optics, and the Rise of Perspective in Medieval Italy

Lakey Christopher R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300232141, Yale University Press, November 2018
240 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 36 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

Although perspective has long been considered one of the essential developments of Renaissance painting, this provocative new book shifts the usual narrative back centuries, showing that medieval sculptors were already employing knowledge of optical...

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Photography

Inge Morath: Magnum Legacy An Illustrated Biography

Linda Gordon

ISBN: HB: 9783791382012, Prestel Publishing, October 2018
192 pp., 27.3x23.5 cm, 68 colour illus., 114 black&white illus.

An illustrated biography of one of the 20th century's greatest photographers, this book looks at the life and work of Inge Morath. The late playwright Arthur Miller, speaking of his wife Inge Morath, said "She made poetry out of people and their pla...

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Photography

Carrie Mae Weems Strategies of Engagement

Lydenberg Robin, Anderson Ash

ISBN: PB: 9781892850331, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, October 2018
225 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 115 colour plates, 30 halftones

Few American artists today are creating work as striking and politically charged as Carrie Mae Weems".Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement" explores a unique body of aesthetically powerful work that is particularly relevant in the context of cu...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Oils Techniques and Tutorials for the Complete Beginner

Long Norman

ISBN: PB: 9781784944056, GMC Group, GMC, September 2018
96 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, 190 colour illus.

Learn how use oil paints with this clear and simple guide. Accomplished artist and teacher Norman Long explains all the basics and shows you how to master this versatile, vibrant medium so you can produce beautiful paintings full of life and colour....

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Contemporary Art

Josef Albers Interaction

Liesbrock Heinz, Growe Ulrike, Albers Anni, Beggs Michael, Danilowitz Brenda, Darwent Charles, Judd Donald, Pelkonen Eeva-Liisa, Redensek Jeannette, Zeniuk Jerry

ISBN: HB: 9780300240832, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 140 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

"Only appearances are not deceiving" – Josef Albers Josef Albers (1888-1976) was one of the leading pioneers of 20th-century modernism: he was an extraordinary teacher, writer, painter, and color theorist, who is best known for the "Homages to the S...

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