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Contemporary Art

James Turrell A Retrospective

Govan Michael, Kim Christine Y.

ISBN: HB: 9783791352633, Prestel Publishing, March 2013
304 pp., 30x24.5 cm, 250 colour illus.

Published in conjunction with a major retrospective, this comprehensive volume illuminates the origins and motivations of James Turrell's incredibly diverse and exciting body of work – from his Mendota studio days to his monumental work-in-progress R...

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History of Art

Recasting the Past Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago

Manchester Karen, Alexander Karen B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300191912, Yale University Press, A+D Series, March 2013
116 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 85 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

Founded in 1879 as the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago began a tradition of collecting plaster casts of Classical sculpture for display in its galleries and use in its studio art classes. Other original works of art were al...

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Children's Books

Antoni Gaudi Create Your Own City! (Sticker Book)

Tauber Sabine

ISBN: PB: 9783791371481, Prestel Publishing, March 2013
16 pp., 27x22 cm

Filled with Gaudi's whimsical designs, this sticker book lets kids flex their creative muscles in the style of one of the world's favorite architects. Antoni Gaudi is among history's most recognized and beloved architects. His masterpiece, the still...

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Design

Kawaii! Japan's Culture of Cute

Okazaki Manami

ISBN: PB: 9783791347271, Prestel Publishing, March 2013
224 pp., 24x19.3 cm, 240 colour illus.

Showcasing Japan's astonishingly varied culture of cute, this volume takes the reader on a dazzling and adorable visual journey through all things kawaii. Although some trace the phenomenon of kawaii as far back as Japan's Taisho era, it emerged mos...

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Children's Books

Art Detective Spot the Difference!

Kutschbach Doris

ISBN: HB: 9783791371047, Prestel Publishing, March 2013
48 pp., 28x24 cm

This highly engaging booklets young readers play detective as they examine great works of art to see if they are the real thing – or forgeries. From Michelangelo to Picasso, art history is filled with stories of spectacular forgeries that have stump...

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History of Art

Edwardian Opulence British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Trumble Angus, Wolk Rager Andrea, Albinson A. Cassandra, Barringer Tim, Fletcher Pamela M., Hart Imogen, Mansfield Elizabeth C., Nemerov Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300190250, Yale University Press, March 2013
420 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 350 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

Views of the Edwardian era have swung between seeing the period as a golden summer afternoon of imperial and elite complacency and the starkly conflicting depiction of the decade as one of intense political, economic, and artistic instability leading...

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History of Art

Arts of India, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia at the Dallas Museum of Art

Bromberg Anne R., Asher Catherine B., Asher Frederick M., Clark Robert W., Tingley Nancy

ISBN: HB: 9780300149883, Yale University Press, March 2013
264 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 120 colour illus.

In recent years, the Dallas Museum of Art has expanded its collection of South Asian art from a small number of Indian Temple sculptures to nearly 500 works, including Indian Hindu and Buddhist sculptures, Himalayan Buddhist bronze sculptures and rit...

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History of Art

New Eyes on America The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville

Peterson Heyrman Joy, Delamaire Marie-Stephanie, Gordon Eric, Rockman Seth, Wierich Jochen

ISBN: PB: 9780300194500, Yale University Press, March 2013
144 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 129 colour images, 7 black&white illus.

During a tragically short career, Richard Caton Woodville (1825-1855) produced iconic works depicting mid-century America. Born in Baltimore and trained in Dusseldorf, Woodville painted 19th-century America in a new way. His paintings depict contempo...

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Photography

Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments

Heckert Virginia

ISBN: HB: 9781606061381, Getty Publications, March 2013
100 pp., 26.1x20.6 cm, 11 colour illus., 56 duatones illus.

This is a superbly illustrated look at the evolution of the photographic work of Ed Ruscha – the quintessential Los Angeles artist. Los-Angeles based contemporary artist Ed Ruscha is celebrated for his paintings, drawings, prints, and artist's books,...

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Art Conservation

Ephemeral Monuments History and Conservation of Installation Art

Ferriani Barbara, Pugliese Marina

ISBN: PB: 9781606061343, Getty Publications, March 2013
280 pp., 23.9x16.5 cm, 105 colour illus., 29 black&white illus.

This is an indispensible volume for creators, curators, and conservators of installation art. Installation art is an evolving, often ephemeral medium that defies rigid categorization. It has also radically transformed the concepts of space, time, and...

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