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Contemporary Art

Artist as Author Action and Intent in Late-Modernist American Painting

Noel Robbins Christa

ISBN: HB: 9780226752952, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 colour plates, 45 halftones

With Artist as Author, Christa Noel Robbins provides the first extended study of authorship in mid-20th century abstract painting in the US. Taking a close look at this influential period of art history, Robbins describes how artists and critics used...

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History of Art

Street Life in Renaissance Italy

Nevola Fabrizio

ISBN: HB: 9780300175431, Yale University Press, November 2020
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 150 illus.

The cities of Renaissance Italy comprised a network of forces shaping both the urban landscape and those who inhabited it. In this illuminating study, those complex relations are laid bare and explored through the lens of contemporary urban theory, p...

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History of Art

Object Biographies Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art

North Hopkins John, Kielt Costello Sarah, Davis Paul R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300250879, Yale University Press, November 2020
240 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 92 colour and black&white illus.

This innovative presentation of ancient objects in the Menil Collection offers a new model for understanding works from antiquity that lack archaeological context. Editors John North Hopkins, Sarah Kielt Costello, and Paul R. Davis with 11 additional...

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Travel

Town Prints and Drawings of Britain Before 1800

Nurse Bernard

ISBN: HB: 9781851245178, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2020
224 pp., 23.8x27.8 cm, 116 colour illus.

Provincial towns in Britain grew in size and importance in the eighteenth century. Ports such as Glasgow and Liverpool greatly expanded, while industrial centres such as Birmingham and Manchester flourished. Market towns outside London developed as c...

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Contemporary Art

Hollywood Arensberg Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A.

Nelson Mark, Sherman William H., Hoobler Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9781606066669, Getty Publications, October 2020
448 pp., 0x0 cm

This comprehensive reconstruction and interpretation of Louise and Walter Arensberg's groundbreaking collection of modern and pre-Columbian art takes readers room by room, wall by wall, object by object through the couple's Los Angeles home in which...

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Design

Fashion

Textiles of India

Neumann Helmut, Neumann Heidi

ISBN: HB: 9783791386850, Prestel Publishing, September 2020
384 pp., 34x25.5 cm, 400 colour illus.

Dating back to the fifth millennium BCE, India's rich and vibrant textile tradition boasts an enormous range of techniques and extraordinary level of artistry. Drawn from one of the world's finest collections of Indian textiles, this book presents a...

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Contemporary Art

Basquiat Boom For Real

Nairne Eleanor, Buchhart Dieter

ISBN: PB: 9783791359502, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
296 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 312 illus., 237 in colour

Basquiat first came to prominence when he collaborated with Al Diaz to spray-paint enigmatic statements under the pseudonym SAMO. He went on to work on collages, Xerox art, postcards, performances, and music before establishing his reputation as one...

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Contemporary Art

Merce Cunningham After the Arbitrary

Noland Carrie

ISBN: PB: 9780226541242, ISBN: HB: 9780226541105, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 17 colour plates, 54 halftones

One of the most influential choreographers of the twentieth century, Merce Cunningham is known for introducing chance to dance. Far too often, however, accounts of Cunningham's work have neglected its full scope, focusing on his collaborations with t...

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History of Art

A-Z of Modern Southeast Asian Art

Nelson Roger

ISBN: PB: 9789811147258, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, November 2019
176 pp., 23.5x17.5 cm, colour and black&white illus.

What is modern Southeast Asian art? This introduction is a starting point for readers to explore this rich but often overlooked subject. Conceived for the general reader, "An A-Z of Modern Southeast Asian Art" features 80 bite-sized accounts of the k...

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Fashion

Zandra Rhodes 50 Fabulous Years in Fashion

Nothdruft Dennis

ISBN: HB: 9780300244304, Yale University Press, September 2019
208 pp., 29.2x20.3 cm, 260 colour and black&white illus.

"Zandra Rhodes" provides a luscious documentary of this leading British designer, spanning her 50-year career in fashion and textile design. The book showcases not only Rhodes's work but also her vivid personality and creative energy. Both a fashion...

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