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History of Art

Kahng Eik, Gotlieb Marc, Hannoosh Michele

ISBN: HB: 9780300199444, Yale University Press, February 2014
168 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 130 colour illus.

This groundbreaking publication centres on a previously unknown variation of Eugene Delacroix's (1798-1863) dramatic masterpiece "The Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius", published here for the first time. This book offers a compelling reasses...

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Fashion

Film Studies

Dressing Dangerously Dysfunctional Fashion in Film

Faiers Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300184389, Yale University Press, November 2013
320 pp., 28x24 cm, 50 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

When Marlene Dietrich makes her entrance in Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright, the Dior dress she wears immediately draws the viewer's attention – not because of its designer label, but owing to the dramatic blood stains ruining its stylish surface. Fa...

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Decorative Arts

Deadly Art European Crossbows, 1250-1850

Breiding Dirk H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197044, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2013
144 pp., 21.6x24.1 cm, 100 colour illus.

The advent of the crossbow more than 2,500 years ago effected dramatic changes for hunters and warriors. For centuries, it was among the most powerful and widely used handheld weapons, and its popularity endures to this day. "A Deadly Art" presents a...

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Architecture

Design

Don't Brand My Public Space!

Baur Ruedi, Thiery Sebastien

ISBN: PB: 9783037783481, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2013
288 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 1669 illus.

"Don't Brand My Public Space!" is a critical investigation of the visual strategies employed to identify and brand political spaces. Isn't it about time to look at their often banal images as part of a crisis of political representation? In the conte...

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History of Art

Dreams and Echoes Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection

Folds McCullagh Suzanne

ISBN: HB: 9780300196245, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2013
224 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 180 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

Over the past 30 years, David and Celia Hilliard have amassed a remarkable collection of Old Master, 19th-century, and modern drawings, as well as of French sculpture from the 19th century, including significant drawings and sculptures by Claude Vign...

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Contemporary Art

David Salle Ghost Paintings

Marta Karen

ISBN: PB: 9781891925382, DAP, The Arts Club of Chicago, September 2013
64 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 14 colour illus., 13 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! In the 1980s, American artist David Salle (born 1952) played a crucial role in the formulation of postmodernism in art, helping to reestablish painting as a dominant force. Often thought to use only found imagery, Salle act...

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History of Art

Distinguished Images Prints and the Visual Economy in Nineteenth Century France

Bann Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300177275, Yale University Press, May 2013
224 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 10 colour images, 95 black&white illus.

This multifaceted book reviews the vast range of types of printmaking that flourished in France during the 19th century. Studies of this period's printmaking tend to be confined to histories of individual processes, such as lithography or steel engra...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Draw 50: Aliens The Step-by-Step Way to Draw UFOs, Galaxy Ghouls, Milky Way Marauders, and Other Extraterrestrial Creatures

Ames Lee J.

ISBN: PB: 9780823086160, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, April 2013
64 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, 350 line drawings

Not for sale in selected countries! Targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skills and build a repertoire of subjects. Acclaimed author Lee J. Ames shows readers how to draw dozens of aliens with a comprehensive, step-...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Draw 50: Beasties The Step-by-Step Way to Draw 50 Beasties and Yugglies and Turnover Uglies and Things That Go Bump in the Night

Ames Lee J.

ISBN: PB: 9780823085828, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, April 2013
64 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, 350 line drawings

Not for sale in selected countries! Targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skills and build a repertoire of subjects. Acclaimed author Lee J. Ames shows readers how to draw dozens of spooky creatures with a comprehens...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Draw 50: Birds The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Chickadees, Peacocks, Toucans, Mallards, and Many More of Our Feathered Friends

Ames Lee J.

ISBN: PB: 9780823085989, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, April 2013
64 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, 350 line drawings

Not for sale in selected countries! Targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skills and build a repertoire of subjects, particularly animals. Acclaimed author Lee J. Ames shows readers how to draw dozens of the most bea...

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