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History of Art

Conversation Piece Making Modern Art in 18th-Century Britain

Retford Kate

ISBN: HB: 9780300194807, Yale University Press, October 2017
448 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 150 colour illus., 85 black&white illus.

Pioneered by William Hogarth (1697-1764) and his peers in the early 18th century, and then revitalized by Johan Zoffany (1733-1810), the conversation piece was an innovative mode of portraiture, depicting groups posed in landscape or domestic setting...

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Design

Motion Graphics 100 Design Projects You Can't Miss

Shaoqiang Wang

ISBN: HB: 9788416851294, Hoaki, October 2017
240 pp., 28.6x21 cm, richly illustrated

Motion graphics – a digital technique that combines the language of traditional graphic design with the creative visual language of film and animation – has become a fast growing area within the practice of graphic design. With the function of storyt...

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Contemporary Art

Notes Towards a Conditional Art

Simms Matthew, Irwin Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781606065501, Getty Publications, October 2017
352 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Robert Irwin began his career in the 1950s as an abstract painter. As a pioneer of the Light and Space movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s and early '80s, Irwin focused on exploring aesthetic perception as the fundamental feature of art, culminating...

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Contemporary Art

Kinesthesia Latin American and Kinetic Art, 1954-1969

Cameron Dan

ISBN: HB: 9783791356730, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
240 pp., 28.5x27 cm, 200 colour illus.

"Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art, 1954-1969" examines the influential and visually stunning work of South American kinetic artists. While Southern California was becoming the North American epicenter for Light and Space art in the 1960s, sepa...

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History of Art

Klimt and Rodin An Artistic Encounter

Natter Tobias G.

ISBN: HB: 9783791357089, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
224 pp., 29x24 cm, 163 colour illus.

Although they worked in different media, Auguste Rodin and Gustav Klimt were two artists whose output generated both incredible enthusiasm and virulent denunciation in their lifetimes. On the centenary of their deaths, in 1917 and 1918 respectively,...

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Contemporary Art

Axis Mundo Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.

Chavoya C. Ondine, Frantz David Evans, Gomez-Barris Macarena

ISBN: HB: 9783791356693, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
414 pp., 32x23 cm, 500 colour illus., 42 black&white illus.

Working between the 1960s and early 1990s, the artists profiled in this compendium represent a broad cross section of L.A.'s art scene. With nearly 400 illustrations and ten essays, this volume presents histories of artistic experimentation and revea...

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Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran

Roxburgh David J., Knipe Penley, McWilliams Mary, Barnes Trent, Braxton Mycah, Collaco Gwendolyn, Dokhani Farhad, Gulkis Bronwen, Mirseyedi Sarah, Poier Veronika

ISBN: HB: 9780300229189, Yale University Press, October 2017
244 pp., 36.8x24.8 cm, 237 colour illus.

The Harvard Qajar Album is an outstanding compendium of nearly 150 beautiful drawings, paintings, and a print produced during the Qajar dynasty of Iran, from the late 18th to early 20th century. The wide-ranging works – spanning narrative composition...

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Contemporary Art

Mark Dion Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist

Erickson Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780300224078, Yale University Press, October 2017
216 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 225 colour illus.

The first book in two decades to consider the entire oeuvre of Mark Dion (b. 1961), this volume examines thirty years of the American artist's pioneering inquiries into how we collect, interpret, and display nature. Part of a generation of artists ex...

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Children's Books

Photographic The Life of Graciela Iturbide

Quintero Isabel, Pena Zeke

ISBN: HB: 9781947440005, Getty Publications, October 2017
96 pp., 23.6x17.9 cm, 25 duotone photos, 67 black&white illus.

Graciela Iturbide was born in Mexico City in 1942, the oldest of thirteen children. When tragedy strikes Iturbide as a young mother, she turns to photography for solace and understanding. From then on Iturbide embarks on a photographic journey that t...

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Contemporary Art

William Kentridge Smoke, Ashes, Fable

Koerner Margaret K., Borchert Till-Holger, Buchloh Benjamin H. D., Koerner Joseph Leo, Siegel Harmon

ISBN: HB: 9780300230253, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2017
224 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 300 colour illus.

The well-known South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) has become famous for his time-lapse animation movies and installations, as well as his activities as an opera and theater director. This book offers a unique selection of Kentridge's wo...

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