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Bauhaus Travel Book

Kern Ingolf, Knorr Susanne, Welzbacher Christian

ISBN: HB: 9783791382531, Prestel Publishing, April 2017
304 pp., 23x13.5 cm, 122 black&white illus.

A comprehensive travel guide dedicated to Germany's Bauhaus architecture, this book takes an in-depth look at over 100 locations that can still be visited today. Established in 1919 in Weimar, the Bauhaus college for design influenced one of the wor...

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New American Sculpture, 1914-1945 Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach

Eschelbacher Andrew, Reece-Hughes Shirley, Tarbell Roberta, Harvey Ronald S., Haffner Michaela

ISBN: PB: 9780300226218, Yale University Press, April 2017
224 pp., 28.9x24.8 cm, 149 colour illus.

"A New American Sculpture, 1914-1945" is the first publication to situate the individual contributions of Gaston Lachaise, Robert Laurent, Elie Nadelman, and William Zorach into a compelling constellation of artists with shared aesthetic and social c...

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Photography

Irving Penn Centennial

Morris Hambourg Maria, Rosenheim Jeff L., Dennett Alexandra, Garner Philippe, Kirsch Adam, Prins Harald E. L., Zatse Vasilios

ISBN: HB: 9781588396181, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2017
372 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 365 colour illus.

Irving Penn (1917-2009) was among the most esteemed and influential photographers of the 20th century. Over the course of a nearly seventy-year career, he mastered a pared-down aesthetic of studio photography that is distinguished for its meticulous...

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History of Art

Two Centuries of American Still-Life Painting The Frank and Michelle Hevrdejs Collection

Gerdts William H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300225914, Yale University Press, April 2017
288 pp., 29.2x23.5 cm, 92 colour illus.

Showcasing a treasured private collection amassed over several decades, this publication represents the beauty and complexity of still-life painting in the United States. More than 65 works from the Hevrdejs collection, many of which have never been...

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Contemporary Art

Pol Bury Time in Motion

Marquenie Gilles

ISBN: HB: 9780300229127, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, April 2017
272 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 110 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.

Pol Bury (1922-2005) was a painter, sculptor, jewelry designer, writer, and graphic artist, but is perhaps best known to the general public for his fountains and sculpture in public spaces throughout the world. Acclaimed as one of the first proponent...

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History of Art

Eyewitness Views Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Hjorn Kerber Peter

ISBN: HB: 9781606065259, Getty Publications, April 2017
256 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 1 map, 224 colour illus.

Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Luca Caravarijs, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco Guardi, Hubert Robert-these renowned view painters are perhaps best known for their expansive canvases depicting the ruins of Rome or the canals of Venice. Many of their...

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History of Art

Michelangelo and Sebastiano

Wivel Matthias, Barbieri Costanza, Baker-Bates Piers, Joannides Paul, Danesi Squarzina Silvia, Goudie Allison, Ede Minna Moore, Sliwka Jennifer, Verdon Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9781857096095, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, April 2017
272 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 180 colour illus.

The first publication to consider the relationship between these two major artists of the High Renaissance. Through most of Michelangelo's working life, one of his closest colleagues was the great Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo (14851541)....

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History of Art

Gather Out of Star-Dust A Harlem Renaissance Album

Barton Melissa

ISBN: PB: 9780300225617, Yale University Press, April 2017
144 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 140 colour illus.

"Gather Out of Star-Dust" takes as its central premise that the Harlem Renaissance, known by its participants as the Negro Renaissance, relied heavily on "gatherings" of all kinds. Collaboration, friendship, partnership, and sponsorship were all cent...

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Design

History of Art

Another World Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Print Culture

Mainardi Patricia

ISBN: HB: 9780300219067, Yale University Press, April 2017
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 166 colour illus., 46 black&white illus.

The remarkable story of the stylistic, cultural, and technical innovations that drove the surge of comics, caricature, and other print media in 19th-century Europe. Taking its title from the 1844 visionary graphic novel by J. J. Grandville, this gro...

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Photography

Every Night Temo se la Dinner

Ayarzagoita Sofia

ISBN: PB: 9788416248766, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, April 2017
160 pp., 23.4x16 cm, photos

Through nonlinear micro-narrations, Mexican photographer Sof a Ayarzagoitia (born 1987) composes a series of experiences – in the shape of a performance – which she then captures with her camera. This series documents Ayarzagoitia's encounters with 1...

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