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Design

Future Present

Farrelly Liz, Skeens Nick

ISBN: HB: 9781861541468, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2002
204 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, full-colour illus.

This volume documents a selection of items from the "Millennium Products" chosen by the UK's Design Council as a showcase of ground-breaking work by Britain's leading designers, inventors, manufacturers and retailers. These products exemplify fantast...

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Contemporary Art

Venus in Exile The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art

Steiner Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780226772400, University of Chicago Press, November 2002
354 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 43 halftones

In "Venus in Exile" renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner explores the twentieth century's troubled relationship with beauty. Disdained by avant-garde artists, feminists, and activists, beauty and its major symbols of art – the female subject and or...

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Posters

Design

Poster Collection 05 Typotecture

ISBN: PB: 9783907078891, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2002
64 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 85 illus.

"Typotecture" takes a look at posters from various countries and periods, which share a special feature of typography: the tendency to break out of the two-dimensional space of lettering and establish hybrid links with architecture. Letters, words, o...

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History of Art

Ireland's Painters

Crookshank Anne O., Knight of Glin

ISBN: HB: 9780300097658, Yale University Press, October 2002
352 pp., 32.9x25.9 cm, 50 black&white illus., 375 colour illus.

This illustrated survey of the history of Irish painting encompasses the entire span from the Middle Ages to the mid-20th century. The volume includes both well-known and virtually unknown artists, Irish artists who worked abroad as well as in Irelan...

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Contemporary Art

Stick "Em Up"

Dorrian Mike, Recchia David, Farrelly Liz

ISBN: PB: 9781861542472, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, October 2002
256 pp., 20x16 cm, full-colour illus.

Stickers are the new flyers, and a major means of street-based communication, used by the hippest advertising agencies and the most underground messengers alike. Spurred on by groundbreaking innovation from a coterie of underground artists worldwide,...

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History of Art

Cowboys, Indians, and the Big Picture

Fryer Heather

ISBN: PB: 9781892850041, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, October 2002
113 pp., 25.7x25.7 cm

The American West has had an enormous influence on the nation's imagination, including its fine art. From the Western Realists – as epitomized by the Cowboy Artists of America's mission to produce "authentic representations of life in the West" – to...

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History of Art

Confronting Identities in German Art Myths, Reactions, Reflections

Heller Reinhold

ISBN: PB: 9780935573367, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2002
180 pp., 28.1x20.3 cm, 20 colour plates, 80 halftones

What does it mean to be German? Recent answers to this question have ranged from the general ("Germans are always the other") to the analytic ("They are a multiple identity with a constant wish for redefinition"). The catalogue for "Confronting Ident...

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History of Art

Sculpture Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion's Creative Dream

Herder Johann Gottfried

ISBN: PB: 9780226327556, ISBN: HB: 9780226327532, University of Chicago Press, October 2002
141 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 15 halftones

Long recognized as one of the most important eighteenth-century works on aesthetics and the visual arts, Johann Gottfried Herder's Plastik (Sculpture, 1778) has never before appeared in a complete English translation. In this landmark essay, Herder c...

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History of Art

Well-Fashioned Image Clothing and Costume in European Art, 1500-1850

Weaver Elissa B., Rodini Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780935573350, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2002
110 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 8 colour plates, 40 halftones

Fashion – the question of what to wear and how to wear it – is a centuries-old obsession. Beyond superficial concerns with personal appearance, the history of dress points to deep preoccupations surrounding the social order, national identity, and mo...

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Contemporary Art

Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare A Biography

Goldfarb Marquis Alice

ISBN: HB: 9780878466443, DAP, MFA Publications, September 2002
368 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 24 colour illus., 64 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare" is not the first full-length biography of Duchamp, but it is the first to present him in all his human contradictions and to take a refreshingly objective look at his real contri...

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