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History of Art

Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection of Contemporary Art

Mecugni Anna, Basualdo Carlos, Cooke Lynne, Garrels Gary, Rishel Joseph J., Rosenthal Mark, Silverman Kaja, Teicher Hendel, Temkin Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780300215236, Yale University Press, July 2016
264 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 220 colour illus.

This beautiful volume documents a historic gift of contemporary art from the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The gift, comprising nearly 100 works, includes masterpieces by luminaries such as Ellsworth Kelly...

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Computer Science & Internet

Color Science and the Visual Arts A Guide for Conservations, Curators, and the Curious

Berns Roy S.

ISBN: PB: 9781606064818, Getty Publications, July 2016
208 pp., 25x15 cm, 250 colour illus.

"A curator, a paintings conservator, a photographer, and a conservation scientist walk into a bar". What happens next? In lively and accessible prose, color science expert Roy S. Berns helps the reader understand complex color-technology concepts and...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

William Merritt Chase A Modern Master

Smithgall Elsa, Bourguignon Katherine M., Ginex Giovanna, Hirshler Erica E., Davis John, Baker D. Frederick

ISBN: HB: 9780300206265, Yale University Press, July 2016
248 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 215 colour illus.

The history of modern art owes a great debt to William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), one of America's influential artists and educators. Chase was a leading member of the international artistic avant-garde and was best known for his mastery of a wide ra...

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Poet of Them All William Shakespeare and Miniature Designer Bindings from the Collection of Neale and Margaret Albert

Fairman Elisabeth R., Reid-Cunningham James

ISBN: HB: 9780300219128, Yale University Press, July 2016
240 pp., 24.1x17.8 cm, 365 colour illus.

Showcasing a unique and extensive private collection that is soon to be acquired by the Yale Center for British Art, "The Poet of Them All" illustrates almost one hundred of Neale and Margaret Albert's miniature books, each one intricately constructe...

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Contemporary Art

Robert Irwin A Conditional Art

Simms Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300173833, Yale University Press, July 2016
320 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

Frequently associated with California Light and Space Art, Robert Irwin (b. 1928) began as an abstract painter in the 1950s. Since that time, he has worked in architectural and outdoor interventions, developing and expanding what he terms a "conditio...

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Contemporary Art

Work / Travail / Arbeid Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Filipovic Elena

ISBN: PB: 9780300220087, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, July 2016
288 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 50 colour illus., 65 black&white illus.

This publication accompanies a newly commissioned project by the legendary Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960), which reimagines her stage piece Vortex Temporum for the exhibition space as a nine-week-long endeavor in technical...

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Culture Studies

Possession The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present

Thompson Erin

ISBN: HB: 9780300208528, Yale University Press, July 2016
232 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Whether it's the discovery of $1.6 billion in Nazi-looted art or the news that Syrian rebels are looting UNESCO archaeological sites to buy arms, art crime commands headlines. Erin Thompson, America's only professor of art crime, explores the dark hi...

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Design

Findings on Light

ISBN: PB: 9783037784907, Lars Muller Publishers, July 2016
200 pp., 27x20 cm, 280 illus.

Light is one of the most essential elements for the existence of life on earth. Plants, animals and humans depend on it. It's the strongest and fastest form of energy. But what is it when we see light? How do we use it and what can it do? "Findings o...

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Contemporary Art

Vigeland + Munch Behind the Myths

Nielsen Trine Otte Bak

ISBN: HB: 9780300220032, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, July 2016
304 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 275 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

"Vigeland + Munch" is the first publication to thoroughly outline the parallels between two monumental figures of Norwegian art, painter and printmaker Edvard Munch (1863-1944) and sculptor Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943). With only a six year difference...

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Photography

Diane Arbus In the Beginning

Rosenheim Jeff L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300220346, Yale University Press, July 2016
256 pp., 28x23.5 cm, 180 tritone illus.

Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most distinctive and provocative artists of the twentieth century. Her photographs of children and eccentrics, couples and circus performers, female impersonators and nudists, are among the most recognizable imag...

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