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Ted Fair Jubilee
ISBN: HB: 9780970165640, DAP, J&L Books, June 2007
64 pp., 23.5x20.3 cm, 30 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Jubliee" is Ted Fair's first book, comprised of color photographs taken between 2000 and 2003 across the United States. The selection of photographs is meant to be read as one would read the lines of a poem; each image off...
HB:
£17,50
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Joseph Cornell's Dreams
ISBN: PB: 9781878972415, DAP, Exact Change, June 2007
160 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! Joseph Cornell is well known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Many have tried, often in vain, to put into words the strange power of his boxes – toy-like constructions whose playfulness and humor are anchored i...
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£13,99
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50 Paintings You Should Know: Impressionism New Edition
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791338439, Prestel Publishing, May 2007
144 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 125 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
No artistic education is complete without a healthy dose of the Impressionists. Here fifty of the most important works from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries are gorgeously reproduced, including the best of Monet, Degas, van...
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£14,99
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Artist Grows Old The Aging of Art and Artists in Early Modern Italy
ISBN: HB: 9780300121230, Yale University Press, May 2007
224 pp., 24.6x17 cm, 25 colour images, 30 black&white illus.
How does the artist's self-conception change in old age? How does old age affect artistic practice? In this intriguing study, art historian Philip Sohm considers some of the greatest artists of Renaissance and Baroque Italy and their experiences of a...
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£50,00
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Coloring Book Edward Hopper
ISBN: PB: 9783791338095, Prestel Publishing, May 2007
32 pp., 28x24 cm, 18 colour illus.
Big art for little hands, these enchanting activity books allow young artists to explore the world's masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to color outside the lines.
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£5,99
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Euan Uglow The Complete Paintings
ISBN: HB: 9780300123494, Yale University Press, May 2007
320 pp., 29.5x24.5 cm, 310 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.
Never particularly keen on exhibiting his work, British artist Euan Uglow (1932-2000) maintained a lower profile than other artists of his generation and kept many of his paintings out of the public view. Even so, his name is increasingly well known,...
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£85,00
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Viewing Renaissance Art
ISBN: PB: 9780300123432, Yale University Press, May 2007
352 pp., 28.6x21.6 cm, 200 colour illus.
This book forms the third of a series of three volumes produced by The Open University and together entitled 'Renaissance Art Reconsidered'. The other two volumes are "Making Renaissance Art" and "Locating Renaissance Art". While the first two volume...
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£25,00
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Modern Patronage De Menil Gifts to American and European Museums
ISBN: HB: 9780300123791, Yale University Press, May 2007
175 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 70 colour images, 50 black&white illus.
In the early 1940s, John and Dominique de Menil began to acquire art. Collecting in an intuitive and personal manner, the de Menils gathered "things in which we believe", as John phrased it, and proceeded to develop an inspired collection that would...
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£20,00
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Thomas Chimes Adventures in "Pataphysics"
ISBN: HB: 9780300122176, Yale University Press, April 2007
272 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 155 colour images, 120 black&white illus.
Thomas Chimes (b. 1921) is one of Philadelphia's most important living artists. Tracing the stylistic evolution of Chimes' idiosyncratic art, this handsome book presents a long-overdue survey of his remarkable five-decade career: canvases combining l...
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£40,00
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Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design
ISBN: HB: 9780300121025, Yale University Press, April 2007
224 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 42 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.
Arriving in the United States in 1914, Viennese-born Paul T. Frankl (1886-1958) brought with him an outsider's fresh perspective and an enthusiasm for forging a uniquely American design aesthetic. In the years between the two world wars he, more than...
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£50,00
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