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Women Studies

Maternity Mothers and Children in the Arts of Africa

Cole Herbert M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300229158, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2017
400 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 500 colour illus.

On the African continent, images of mothers and children are found wherever the visual arts are, from early rock-art sites in Egypt and the Sahara to the contemporary arts of South Africa. Found in a variety of materials, from stone, ivory, and metal...

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History of Art

Cubism Seminars

Cooper Harry

ISBN: PB: 9780300226188, Yale University Press, August 2017
360 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 134 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.

The complex facets of Cubism remain relevant subjects in art history today, a century after Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque developed the revolutionary style. This impressive collection of essays by international experts presents new lines of inquir...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Biographic: Rembrandt Great Lives in Graphic Form

Collins Sophie

ISBN: HB: 9781781453025, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, August 2017
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all...

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Spectacle and Leisure in Paris Degas to Mucha

Childs Elizabeth C.

ISBN: PB: 9780936316437, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, July 2017
96 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 62 colour illus.

Through the lens of seven scholars, this book examines fine art and commercial design as they both reflected and helped create the vibrant culture of public spectacle in late nineteenth-century Paris. Posters and prints circulated across the city, as...

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History of Art

Marsden Hartley's Maine

Cassidy Donna, Griffey Randall, Deming Richard, Finch Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9781588396136, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2017
256 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 175 colour illus.

Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a well-traveled American modernist painter, poet, and essayist, but it is his life-long artistic engagement with his home state of Maine that defines his career. Maine served as a creative springboard, a locus of memor...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 2 (1915-1927)

Camfield William A., Pierre Arnauld, Clements Candace, Calte Beverley, Verdier Aurelie, Calte Pierre

ISBN: HB: 9780300222463, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2017
550 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 600 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

The second of an important multi-volume catalogue project, this publication features work by Francis Picabia (1879-1953) that dates from 1915 into mid-1927. Beginning with Picabia's elaboration of a personal machinist aesthetic, the book continues by...

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Golden Age of European Art Celebrating Fifty Years of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Clifton James, Baert Barbara, Bayer Andrea, Dunlop Anne, Ostrow Steven F., Pon Lisa, Postle Martin, Wheelock Arthur K. Jr.

ISBN: HB: 9780300207811, Yale University Press, January 2017
272 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus., 45 black&white illus.

Marking the 50th anniversary of the acclaimed Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, this commemorative book presents masterpieces from the foundation's collection. The works span more than 400 years, from the 16th through the early 20th century, and fea...

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History of Art

Biographic: Van Gogh Great Lives in Graphic Form

Collins Sophie

ISBN: HB: 9781781452752, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, December 2016
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey eac...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Evelyn Dunbar A Life in Painting

Campbell-Howes Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781526205841, Casemate, Romarin, October 2016
448 pp., 24x16.9 cm, 300 illus.

The importance of Evelyn Dunbar (1906-1960) in the history of British 20th century art is continually being reassessed and belatedly recognised. A gifted draughtswoman: youthful prodigy; brilliant student at the Royal College of Art under Sir William...

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Silk, Porcelain and Lacquer China and Japan and Their Trade with Western Europe and the World, 1500-1644

Canepa Teresa

ISBN: HB: 9781911300014, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, October 2016
440 pp., 30x24.5 cm, 400 colour illus.

Focusing on the prolific trade, transport and consumption of Chinese silk and porcelain, and Japanese lacquer abroad between 1500 and 1644, this groundbreaking book will show how the material cultures of late Ming China and Momoyama/Early Edo Japan o...

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