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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Oil Painting Essentials Mastering Portraits, Figures, Still Life, Landscapes, and Interiors

Kreutz Gregg

ISBN: PB: 9780804185431, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, June 2016
160 pp., 28x21.6 cm, photos

Not for sale in selected countries! An essential guide demonstrating the universal oil painting techniques that allow artists to expand their horizons, break out of ruts, and master a variety of subjects, including figures, portraits, still life, l...

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Design

Organic Design Products Inspired by Nature

ISBN: HB: 9789881470355, Bookport, SendPoints, May 2016
304 pp., 25.5x21.6 cm, 800 colour illus.

For sale in Balkans only! An endless source of visual stimulation for designers, the natural world encompasses all possibilities from the ubiquitous to the improbable. "Organic Design" features designs that have made use of this plethora of opportu...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

On the Animation of the Inorganic Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life

Papapetros Spyros

ISBN: PB: 9780226380193, ISBN: HB: 9780226645681, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
440 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 164 halftones, 10 colour illus.

Throughout human history, people have imagined inanimate objects to have intelligence, language, and even souls. In our secular societies today, we still willingly believe that nonliving objects have lives of their own as we find ourselves interactin...

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Fashion

Oscar de la Renta

Park Jennifer, Sorkin Molly

ISBN: HB: 9783791355238, Prestel Publishing, February 2016
280 pp., 33.2x25.5 cm, 188 colour illus.

A full-scale retrospective of Oscar de la Renta's work, this magnificent volume features the designs that defined the fashion icon's long career. In this fabulous book, readers will be immersed in the designs that made Oscar de la Renta one of fashi...

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History of Art

On Display Henrietta Maria and the Materials of Magnificence

Griffey Erin

ISBN: HB: 9780300214000, Yale University Press, December 2015
400 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

In the early modern period, rulers demonstrated their power and influence through carefully curated "display"-their presence in court ceremonies, their palaces and their contents, and their portraits. Henrietta Maria of France (1609-1669), queen cons...

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Design

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Fuller Buckminster R.

ISBN: PB: 9783037781265, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2015
152 pp., 18x12 cm

One of Fuller's most popular works, "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth", is a brilliant synthesis of his world view. In this very accessible volume, Fuller investigates the great challenges facing humanity. How will humanity survive? How does auto...

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Architecture

History of Art

On Loos, Ornament and Crime Columns of Smoke: Volume II

Lahuerta Juan Jose, Thomson Graham

ISBN: PB: 9788493923150, University of Chicago Press, Editorial Tenov, September 2015
112 pp., 21x15.8 cm, 56 halftones

In his Columns of Smoke series, Juan Jose Lahuerta takes on the enormously ambitious task of re-reading modernity, offering us fresh ways of looking at it while drawing new links between the ideas of architecture and ornamentation, with a special foc...

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Contemporary Art

Olafur Eliasson Contact is Content

ISBN: HB: 9783954760848, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, October 2014
416 pp., 34x30 cm, 220 colour illus., language: English

Over the years, Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson (b. Copenhagen, 1967; lives and works in Berlin and Copenhagen) has continually returned to Iceland to investigate its landscape with his camera. The ambitious, ongoing venture – almost cartogra...

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History of Art

Owning the Past Why the English Collected Antique Sculpture, 1640-1840

Guilding Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780300208191, Yale University Press, September 2014
320 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 100 colour illus., 200 black&white illus.

In a lively re-examination of the British collectors who bankrupted themselves to possess antique marble statues, "Owning the Past" chronicles a story of pride, rivalry, snobbery, and myopic obsession with posterity and possession. Analyzing the moti...

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History of Art

Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso

Barolsky Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300196696, Yale University Press, August 2014
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 colour images, 65 black&white illus.

Written in the spirit of Ovid, this lively and erudite book traces the art derived from Ovid's Metamorphoses from the Renaissance up to the present day. The Metamorphoses has been more widely illustrated than any other book except the Bible; for cent...

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