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Peggy Guggenheim The Last Dogaressa

Vail Karole P. B., Greene Vivien

ISBN: HB: 9788829701292, DAP, Marsilio Editori, November 2019
224 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This book offers a thorough visual biography of the life of Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) as collector, through a selection of works from the world-renowned collection she established primarily between 1938 and 1946, and to w...

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Shinto Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art

Vilbar Sinead, Carr Kevin, Andrei Talia J., Chusid Miriam, Tomoji Iwai, Shigeki Iwata, Kazuki Morishima, Enishi Naomi, Kosei Taniguchi, Ken Shimizu, Ryusuke Yamaguchi

ISBN: HB: 9780300237016, Yale University Press, May 2019
400 pp., 25.4x30.2 cm, 195 colour illus.

A central feature of Japanese culture for many centuries, the veneration of kami deities – a practice often referred to as Shinto – has been a driving force behind a broad swath of visual art. Focusing on the Heian period (795-1185) through the Edo p...

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Leonardo Da Vinci The Complete Paintings in Detail

Vezzosi Alessandro

ISBN: HB: 9783791384979, Prestel Publishing, April 2019
288 pp., 34x24.5 cm, 230 colour illus.

While Leonardo da Vinci is one of history's most studied and renowned artists, there are many myths surrounding his work. Beginning with his birth and early maturity in the workshops of the Florentine masters, Alessandro Vezzosi delves into the prove...

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Bruegel's Winter Scenes Historians and Art Historians in Dialogue

van Sprang Sabine, Meganck Tine L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300236927, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2018
352 pp., 30x24.1 cm, 310 colour illus.

This focused volume presents a deep exploration and new interpretations of the winter paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525-1569). By applying new methodological approaches and interdisciplinary research to these masterpieces of Flemish Ren...

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Nocturne Night in American Art, 1890-1917

Valance Helene

ISBN: HB: 9780300223996, Yale University Press, June 2018
256 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 116 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.

The turn of the 20th century witnessed a surge in the creation and popularity of nocturnes and night landscapes in American art. In this original and thought-provoking book, Helene Valance investigates why artists and viewers of the era were so capti...

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Van Gogh and Music A Symphony in Blue and Yellow

Veldhorst Natascha

ISBN: HB: 9780300228335, Yale University Press, May 2018
184 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 58 colour illus., 11 black&white illus.

This engaging book is the first in-depth investigation of the influential role that music and sound played throughout Vincent van Gogh's (1853-1890) life. From psalms and hymns to the operas of Richard Wagner to simple birdsong, music represented to...

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Paintings from Murano by Paolo Veronese Restored by Venetian Heritage with the Support of Bulgari

Veronese Paolo

ISBN: PB: 9788831728263, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2018
96 pp., 22.2x16.5 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! A new undertaking by Venetian Heritage and Bulgari for Venetian art offers the occasion to rediscover two paintings by Paolo Veronese, a great master of Venetian Renaissance art. Two paintings by Paolo Veronese, Saint Jero...

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Contemporary Art

Frida Kahlo The Story of Her Life

Vinci Vanna

ISBN: HB: 9783791383880, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
160 pp., 27x21 cm

The perfect subject for a graphic novel, Frida Kahlo's brief life was dramatic and romantic, tragic and painful. In this illustrated "biography", Vanna Vinci captures the spirit of Kahlo's world in boldly colored, minutely detailed illustrations. Ble...

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History of Art

Afterall Spring/Summer 2017, Issue 43

Vilalta Helena, Kreuger Anders, Morris David, Stankievech Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781846381812, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 80 colour plates

Issue 43 of "Afterall" reflects on artistic practices that challenge the legacies of colonialism. Looking at the work of Chimurenga, Lubaina Himid, and Duane Linklater, among others, contributions ask how artists can create self-initiated structures...

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Practical Discourses on the Most Noble Art of Painting

Veliz Zahira, Mcgrath David

ISBN: PB: 9781606065280, Getty Publications, July 2017
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 13 black&white illus.

Jusepe Martinez's "Practical Discourses on the Most Noble Art of Painting" (ca. 1673-1675), though little known today, was highly influential on art, artists, and artistic practice and theory in Spain long after its publication. This volume is the fi...

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