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Cooksey Jon

ISBN: HB: 9781781452790, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, May 2017
96 pp., 17.8x11 cm, black&white illus.

When one thinks about the First World War, one doesn't immediately imagine the soldiers recording the horrors of trench warfare by taking snaps with their pocket cameras. But that is exactly what happened. "The Vest Pocket Kodak & The First World Wa...

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Children's Books

13 Art Materials Children Should Know

Marchioro Narcisa

ISBN: HB: 9783791372600, Prestel Publishing, April 2017
48 pp., 28x24 cm, 60 colour illus.

This fun and educational journey through art history shows young readers how the materials artists use in their work have evolved over the centuries, around the world. The earliest artists wielded bones, pieces of ivory, and wooden sticks to create...

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History of Art

Adolph Menzel The Quest for Reality

Busch Werner

ISBN: HB: 9781606065174, Getty Publications, April 2017
284 pp., 27.9x22.7 cm, 30 black&white illus., 137 colour illus.

Adolph Menzel (1815-1905) is widely regarded as the epitome of realist art. From the very beginning of his career, he captured the beauty and horror of reality with unflinching precision, and he was a consummate master of atmosphere. A man of very sh...

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History of Art

Paolo Veronese and the Practice of Painting in Late Renaissance Venice

Gisolfi Diana

ISBN: HB: 9780300225822, Yale University Press, April 2017
352 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 353 colour and black&white illus.

One of the premier artists of Renaissance Venice, Paolo Veronese (1528–1588) enjoyed a successful career creating splendid and sophisticated paintings for an elite clientele. Focusing on Veronese's materials, workshop organization, and remarkably var...

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History of Art

Music

In Concert! Musical Instruments in Art, 1860-1910

Frank Frederic, Thomson Belinda

ISBN: HB: 9780300230093, Yale University Press, April 2017
180 pp., 29.2x23.5 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.

The rise of democratic ideals and the burgeoning middle class of the late 19th and early 20th centuries precipitated an important surge in the prevalence of music in everyday life. Cafe concerts, dances, and operas all flourished in major cities acro...

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Design

Food Futures Sensory Explorations in Food Design

Sweetapple Kate, Warriner Gemma

ISBN: HB: 9788416504657, Hoaki, April 2017
264 pp., 25.5x21 cm, fully illustrated in colour

"Food Futures" is a compilation of unique design projects that act as visual stimulus for designers and food enthusiasts alike, illustrating the possibilities that new technologies open up to designers and the different ways society perceives food. T...

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Photography

East of the Mississippi Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography

Waggoner Diane, Lord Russell, Raab Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9780300224016, Yale University Press, April 2017
288 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 222 colour and black&white illus.

An important reconsideration of landscape photography in 19th-century America, exploring crucial but neglected geographies, practitioners, and themes. Although pictures of the West have dominated our perception of 19th-century American landscape pho...

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History of Art

Age of Empires Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties

Sun Zhixin, Hsing I-tien, Liu Cary Y., Lu Pengliang, Lan-ying Tseng Lillian, Yates Robin D. S., Hong Yang, Yakina Zhang Zhonglin

ISBN: HB: 9781588396174, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2017
336 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 325 colour illus.

The first in-depth exploration of the artistic and cultural achievements of China's "classical" era. "Age of Empires" presents the art and culture of China during one of the most critical periods of its history – the four centuries from 221 B.C. to...

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Postcards

Paris, Je T'aime 20 Postcards Book

Lapin

ISBN: PB: 9788416851003, Hoaki, April 2017
20 pp., 10.2x16.5 cm, 20 colour illus.

These 20 postcards are a declaration of love to the city of light. Lapin, sketcher and illustrator, offers a sample of his talent to capture those big little moments of a popular and vivacious Paris, full of historic contrasts and far away from any p...

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Photography

Slant Rhymes

Webb Alex, Norris Webb Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9788416248865, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, April 2017
112 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, illustrations throughout

"Slant Rhymes" is a conversation between two world renowned photographers, Magnum photographer Alex Webb and poet and photographer Rebecca Norris Webb, a married creative couple who have authored 18 books. Selected from photographs taken during the W...

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