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Culture Studies

Post-Post-Soviet Art, Politics and Society in Russia at the Turn of the Decade

Dziewanska Marta, Degot Ekaterina, Budratskis Ilya

ISBN: PB: 9788393381845, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, July 2013
300 pp., 19x14 cm

Not for sale in Poland! By placing emerging artists in their political and social contexts, this collection attempts to confront the new activist scene that has arisen in the Russian art world during the past years. The recent explosion of protests...

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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 47, 2012

ISBN: PB: 9780226059129, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 284 colour plates

"The Metropolitan Museum Journal", issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collections and the areas of investigation they represent. Volume 47 includes essays on the Tell Basta Treausur...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Summer 2013, Issue 33

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Kreuger Anders, Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9781846381201, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm

Since its launching in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a yea...

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Design

Passion for Jean Prouve From Furniture to Architecture: The Laurence and Patrick Seguin Collection

ISBN: HB: 9788890539411, DAP, Pinoteca Agnelli, July 2013
280 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Estonia! The esteemed collectors Laurence and Patrick Seguin first discovered the work of Jean Prouve in the late 1980s, and were quick to embrace his entire aesthetic vision, from architectural design to furniture. "There is no dif...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Pastel Painting Atelier Essential Lessons in Techniques, Practices, and Materials

Eagle Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780823008414, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, July 2013
192 pp., 28x22.9 cm, illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! Revel in the luminous and vibrant qualities of pastel with Ellen Eagle's essential course in the history, techniques, and practices of the medium. In this comprehensive yet intimate guide, Eagle explores pastel's...

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Cartoon Art

Painting and Drawing Manuals

Stan Lee's How to Draw Superheroes

Lee Stan

ISBN: PB: 9780823098453, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, July 2013
224 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, colour illus., black&white illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! The third installment in comics icon Stan Lee's series showing readers how to draw some of the most exciting and dynamic superheroes of all time. Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, the Incredibl...

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Photography

Abelardo Morell The Universe Next Door

Siegel Elizabeth, Abbott Brett, Martineau Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300184556, Yale University Press, A+D Series, June 2013
176 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 55 colour illus., 75 duotone illus.

Over the past twenty-five years, Abelardo Morell (b. 1948) has earned international praise for his images that use the language of photography to explore visual surprise and wonder. Born in Havana, Cuba, Morell came to the United States as a teenager...

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History of Art

Byzantine Things in the World

Peers Glenn, Barber Charles, Caffey Stephen, Franses Henri, Haskell Caitlin, Rodriguez James, Shiff Richard, Steiner Shannon, Sutton Susan, Williams Robin

ISBN: HB: 9780300191783, Yale University Press, June 2013
192 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus.

How did Byzantine culture understand its own objects we now call "art"? This enlightening publication proposes that they saw and experienced clay pilgrim tokens, relief stamps, and icons of saints as dynamic and fully capable of affecting the world....

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Photography

William Henry Fox Talbot Beyond Photography

Dean Katrina, Ramalingam Chitra, Robson Eleanor, Brusius Mirjam, Smith Graham, Schaaf Larry J., Schaffer Simon, Wolf Herta

ISBN: HB: 9780300179347, Yale University Press, June 2013
328 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 100 colour illus.

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) was a British pioneer in photography, yet he also embraced the wider preoccupations of the Victorian Age – a time that saw many political, social, intellectual, technical, and industrial changes. His manuscripts,...

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Contemporary Art

Mexico and American Modernism

Landau Ellen G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300169133, Yale University Press, June 2013
240 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 31 colour images, 78 black&white illus.

In the years between the two world wars, the enormous vogue of "things Mexican" reached its peak. Along with the popular appeal of its folkloric and pictorialist traditions, Mexican culture played a significant role in the formation of modernism in t...

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