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Photography

In the Limelight The Visual Ecstasy of NYC Club Culture in the 90s

Sanchez Gabriel

ISBN: HB: 9783791386812, Prestel Publishing, November 2020
224 pp., 28x23.5 cm, 200 colour illus.

Eichner was a fixture of 1990s New York City nightlife and served as both its official and unofficial photographer in an era before cellphones and selfies. In this book, readers go beyond the velvet ropes and into the spaces that witnessed some of th...

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Design

Performing Arts

Theater of the Bauhaus Bauhausbucher 4

Schlemmer Oskar

ISBN: HB: 9783037786284, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2020
90 pp., 23x18 cm, illus.

Spatial dance, gestural dance, rod dance, "Triadic Ballet: Oskar Schlemmer" developed his costumed, masked dancer into an "art figure" synthesizing dance, masquerade, and music. The fourth volume of the Bauhausbucher presents the main characteristics...

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Design

Simplicity The Appeal of Minimalism in Graphic Design (New Edition)

Shaoqiang Wang

ISBN: PB: 9788417412715, Hoaki, November 2020
240 pp., 28.5x21 cm, fully illustrated in colour

Minimalism emphasizes extreme simplicity of form. By reducing the number of graphic elements, the strength of each element is enhanced. Or, as Mies van der Rohe famously said, "Less is more". Known for their simple and unassuming rules, the Nordic an...

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Contemporary Art

Escape From a Seventeenth-Century Drawing Manual of the Face and Its Expressions

Schutter David

ISBN: HB: 9780226461199, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates, 19 halftones

Charles Le Brun's drawing manual on human emotions has been used for centuries by artists and students as a model for depicting facial expressions. In David Schutter's work, Le Brun's manual is set to a different direction – a series of abstract draw...

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Fiction

ELT

No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels: Macbeth

Shakespeare William

ISBN: PB: 9781411479883, GMC Group, Spark Notes, November 2020
208 pp., 22.6x15 cm, colour illus.

Based on the No Fear Shakespeare translations, this dynamic graphic novel – now with color added – is impossible to put down. The illustrations are distinctively offbeat, slightly funky, and appealing to teens. Includes: - An illustrated cast of ch...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Morozov The Story of a Family and a Lost Collection

Semenova Natalya, Tait Arch

ISBN: HB: 9780300249828, Yale University Press, October 2020
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.

A wealthy Moscow textile merchant, Morozov started buying art in a modest way in 1900 until, on a trip to Paris, he developed a taste for the avant-garde. Meticulous and highly discerning, he acquired works by the likes of Monet, Pissarro, and Cezann...

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History of Art

Late Works of J. M. W. Turner The Artist and his Critics

Smiles Sam

ISBN: HB: 9781913107161, Yale University Press, October 2020
312 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 160 illus.

The paintings and drawings Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) produced from 1835 to his death are seen by many as his most audacious and compelling work, a highly personal final vision that ranks with the late styles of the greatest artists. I...

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History of Art

Myself and My Aims Writings on Art and Criticism

Schwitters Kurt

ISBN: HB: 9780226129396, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
656 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 83 halftones

Kurt Schwitters was a major protagonist in the histories of modern art and literature, whose response to the contradictions of modern life rivals that of Marcel Duchamp in its importance for artists working today. His celebrated Merz pictures – colla...

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Contemporary Art

Design

Hundertwasser Complete Graphic Work 1951-1976

Schmied Wieland, Hundertwasser Friedensreich

ISBN: HB: 9783791387055, Prestel Publishing, September 2020
144 pp., 14.5x11 cm, 95 colour illus.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser was a painter. He created original graphic works – lithographs, silkscreens, mixed media, etchings, and aquatint as well as Japanese woodcuts. This bibliophilic gem is a Hundertwasser original, the first book designed and...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Collector The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces

Semenova Natalya, Delocque-Fourcaud Andre-Marc

ISBN: PB: 9780300254815, ISBN: HB: 9780300234770, Yale University Press, September 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.

Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was one of the first to appreciate the qualities of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and to a...

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