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Contemporary Art

Jennifer Bartlett Early Plate Work

Richardson Brenda, Kemmerer Allison

ISBN: HB: 9780300117714, Yale University Press, September 2006
128 pp., 31.2x23.8 cm, 74 colour illus.

In 1968, artist Jennifer Bartlett (b. 1941) began painting in what would become her celebrated and trademark style – coloured dots on gridded steel plates and canvas. Focusing on the single and multi-plate pieces that began in 1968 and culminated in...

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Photography

Collectible Moment Photographs in the Norton Simon Museum

Sander Gloria Williams, Mulligan Therese, Baltz Lewis, Barrow Thomas, Bunnell Peter C., Rice Leland, Sobieszek Robert A., Traub Charles, Wilson William

ISBN: HB: 9780300121001, Yale University Press, September 2006
384 pp., 30x25.8 cm, 600 colour illus.

Before the late 1960s, few museums or collectors acquired photographs or considered the medium as an art form. The moment arrived, however, when photography's profile ascended and the medium began to gain widespread acceptance in the art world as an...

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Contemporary Art

Sweet Dreams Contemporary Art and Complicity

Drucker Johanna

ISBN: PB: 9780226165059, ISBN: HB: 9780226165042, University of Chicago Press, September 2006
264 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 16 colour plates, 32 halftones

Johanna Drucker's "sweet dream" is for a new and more positive approach to contemporary art. Calling for a revamping of the academic critical vocabulary used to discuss art into one more befitting current creative practices, Drucker argues that conte...

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History of Art

Coming of Age American Art, 1850s to 1950s

Agee William C., Faxon Susan C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300115239, Yale University Press, August 2006
136 pp., 29.9x24.9 cm, 78 colour images, 7 black&white illus.

From the 1850s to the 1950s, American art and culture progressed from provincial status to international prominence, and American art developed from figurative depictions of the particular to abstract interpretations of universal ideals. This beautif...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Eva Hesse Volume 1 & Volume 2: Paintings, Sculpture

Petzinger Renate, Rosen Barry, Spohn Annette, Daur Jorg

ISBN: HB: 9780300104417, Yale University Press, August 2006
718 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, Volume 1: 153 illus., Volume 2: 208 illus.

The work of Eva Hesse (1936-1970) has been the focus of growing attention over the past few decades. With recent major exhibitions in San Francisco, London, and Wiesbaden, Hesse's tremendous contribution to the art world of the 1960s and 70s is now r...

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History of Art

Clark Brothers Collect Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings from the Collections of Sterling and Stephen Clark

Conforti Michael, Ganz James A., Harris Neil, Vincent Gilbert T., Cohen-McFall Daniel, Lees Sarah, Maurer Susannah, Rand Richard, Simpson Marc

ISBN: HB: 9780300116199, Yale University Press, August 2006
368 pp., 25x28.1 cm, 100 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

Brothers Sterling and Stephen Clark, heirs to the Singer sewing machine fortune, were among the twentieth century's most influential art collectors. This volume examines their magnificent collections, their personal lives and public profiles, and the...

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History of Art

Surrealism and its Others Yale French Studies, Number 109

Conley Katherine, Taminiaux Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9780300110722, Yale University Press, August 2006
224 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm

This issue of "Yale French Studies" on "Surrealism and Its Others"examines the works and theories of writers, artists, and thinkers who positioned themselves and their productions in dialogue with Breton's surrealism. Although surrealism always sough...

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History of Art

Lions, Dragons, and Other Beasts Aquamanilia of the Middle Ages - Vessels for Church and Table

Barnet Peter, Dandridge Pete

ISBN: HB: 9780300116847, Yale University Press, August 2006
256 pp., 28.9x24.9 cm, 100 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

This fascinating book explores the history, techniques and cultural significance of medieval aquamanilia, cast metal objects used to pour water for hand washing in religious and secular contexts. Usually created in appealing animal or human forms, aq...

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Photography

Eugen Wiskovsky

Birgus Vladimir

ISBN: PB: 9788072152667, DAP, Torst, August 2006
144 pp., 17.8x15.9 cm, 75 duotones

Not for sale in Estonia! The oeuvre of the leading Czech avant-garde photographer Eugen Wiskovsky (1888-1964) is not large in size or subject range, but it is noteworthy in its originality, depth of ideas, and mastery. Wiskovsky's early New Objecti...

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Design

Fashion

Soviet Textiles Designing the Modern Utopia

Kachurin Pamela Jill

ISBN: PB: 9780878467037, DAP, MFA Publications, August 2006
96 pp., 22.9x21 cm, 52 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Between 1927 and 1933, as the new Soviet Union emerged and the Communist party struggled to transform an agrarian country into an industrialized state, a group of young artists pitched in by designing fabrics depicting trac...

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