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Colours of Impressionism Masterpieces from the Musee d'Orsay

Kisiel Marine, Perrin Paul

ISBN: PB: 9789811145155, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, January 2018
208 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, colour illus.

One of the great innovations of the Impressionists was their radical use of colour: their application of strokes of complementary or contrasting hues captured the shifting effects of light and foregrounded the nature of vision. Using colour as the le...

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Sacred Landscapes Nature in Renaissance Lanscapes

Keene Bryan C., Kaczenski Alexandra

ISBN: HB: 9781606065464, Getty Publications, October 2017
112 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Distant blue hills, soaring trees, vast cloudless skies-the majesty of nature has always had the power to lift the human spirit. For some it evokes a sense of timelessness and wonder. For others it reinforces religious convictions. And for many peopl...

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Matisse – Bonnard Long Live Painting!

Kraemer Felix

ISBN: HB: 9783791356327, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
240 pp., 28x23 cm, 66 black&white illus., 174 colour illus.

With this rallying cry, Henri Matisse greeted his colleague Pierre Bonnard on a 1925 postcard from Amsterdam. Widely considered two of the greatest painters of French modernism, they were united by a forty-year-long friendship and a keen appreciation...

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Modigliani Unmasked

Klein Mason, Nathanson Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300225495, Yale University Press, September 2017
172 pp., 29.8x20.3 cm, 165 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

One of the great artists of the 20th century, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) is celebrated for revolutionizing modern portraiture, particularly in his later paintings and sculpture. "Modigliani Unmasked" examines the artist's rarely seen early works o...

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Thannhauser Gallery Marketing Van Gogh

Koldehoff Stefan, Stolwijk Chris, Koldehoff Nora, Hageman Monique, Fontanella Megan M., Herzog Gunter

ISBN: HB: 9780300226591, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, September 2017
304 pp., 26.7x19.7 cm, 95 colour illus., 75 black&white illus.

While legend has it that Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) sold only one work during his lifetime, it was not long after his death that sales of his paintings began to shatter auction house records. In this carefully researched book, leading Van Gogh scho...

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Giovanni da Rimini Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and Other Saints

Koopstra Anna

ISBN: PB: 9781857096224, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2017
64 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 35 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.

This monograph celebrates the National Gallery's 2015 acquisition of Giovanni da Rimini's "Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and Other Saints" (c. 13001305). The painting is a rare survival from the late Middle Ages, uniting the exquisite detail o...

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History of Art

Biographic: Leonardo Great Lives in Graphic Form

Kirk Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781781452905, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, March 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 eac...

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Visualizing Portuguese Power The Political Use of Images in Portugal and its Overseas Empire (16th-18th Century)

Krass Urte

ISBN: HB: 9783037347423, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 colour plates, 120 halftones

Images play a key role in political communication and the ways we come to understand the power structures that shape society. Nowhere is this more evident than in the process of empire building, in which visual language has long been a highly effecti...

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The Africa List

That Which Is Not Drawn William Kentridge and Rosalind C. Morris in Conversation

Kentridge William, Morris Rosalind C.

ISBN: PB: 9780857424457, ISBN: HB: 9780857421753, Seagull Books, February 2017
304 pp., 19.5x14 cm

For more than three decades, artist William Kentridge has explored in his work the nature of subjectivity, the possibilities of revolution, the Enlightenment's legacy in Africa, and the nature of time itself. At the same time, his creative work has s...

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Raphael's Tapestries The Grotesques of Leo X

Karafel Lorraine

ISBN: HB: 9780300181999, Yale University Press, January 2017
200 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 100 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

Around 1515, Raphael (1483-1520) designed a set of tapestries for Leo X, the first Medici pope. Each was sumptuously woven in gold, silver, and silk, and depicted scenes from classical mythology with inventive grotesques. Now lost, these spectacular,...

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