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History of Art

Lawrence Alma-Tadema At Home in Antiquity

Prettejohn Elizabeth, Trippi Peter

ISBN: HB: 9783791355528, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 246 colour illus.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema's paintings were immensely popular among his contemporaries, and have since enchanted a wide audience through the medium of cinema. Anyone who has ever enjoyed the great epic films of antiquity – from Italian silent classics to R...

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Leonardo da Vinci and Gian Giacomo Capro The Enigma of a Painting

Zecchini Maurizio

ISBN: PB: 9788831726115, DAP, Marsilio Editori, October 2016
206 pp., 29.8x21.5 cm, 179 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Salai" is the name that Leonardo da Vinci liked to use, as is documented in his writings from 1494 onward, for the boy whom he had taken into his home four years earlier, when he was just ten years old, and who lived with...

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Live Form Women, Ceramics, and Community

Sorkin Jenni

ISBN: HB: 9780226303116, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour plates, 70 halftones

Ceramics had a far-reaching impact in the second half of the twentieth century, as its artists worked through the same ideas regarding abstraction and form as those found in other creative mediums".Live Form" shines new light on the relation of ceram...

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Late Medieval Panel Paintings: Materials, Methods, Meanings Volume II

Nash Susie

ISBN: PB: 9781907372919, Casemate, Sam Fogg, January 2016
352 pp., 30x24.5 cm, 400 colour illus.

This beautiful and extensively illustrated catalogue presents in-depth case studies of twenty-four rare and remarkable Late Medieval panel paintings, many from the German-speaking regions of Europe, but also from Spain, France and the Southern Nether...

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Culture Studies

Lived Practice

Jacob Mary Jane, Zeller Kate

ISBN: PB: 9780982879887, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, August 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

"A Lived Practice" examines the reciprocal relationship of art and life: Artist-practitioners are shaped by their experiences, and they in turn create and enhance the experience of others. Based on a symposium held at the School of the Art Institute...

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Lawrence Alloway Critic and Curator

Bradnock Lucy

ISBN: PB: 9781606064429, Getty Publications, July 2015
224 pp., 25x15 cm, 34 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.

This incisive book offers a revealing glimpse into the life and thought of a seminal art critic. Lawrence Alloway (1926-1990) was a key figure in the development of modern art in Europe and America from the 1950s to the 1980s. He is credited with coi...

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Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Art of the Figure

Cole Michael W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208207, Yale University Press, December 2014
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

In late 1504 and early 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti were both at work on commissions they had received to paint murals in Florence's City Hall. Leonardo was to depict a historic battle between Florence and Milan, Michelangelo o...

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Lee Bontecou Drawn Worlds

White Michelle, Ashton Dore, Banach Joan

ISBN: PB: 9780300204131, Yale University Press, June 2014
120 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 82 colour images, 9 black&white illus.

Lee Bontecou (b. 1931) established a significant reputation in the 1960s with pioneering sculptures and reliefs made of raw and expressionistic materials. Her art is simultaneously organic and mechanical, and infused with biological, geological and t...

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Life Within Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence

Houston Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300196023, Yale University Press, May 2014
208 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 43 colour images, 72 black&white illus.

For the Classic Maya, who flourished in and around the Yucatan peninsula in the first millennium AD, artistic materials were endowed with an internal life. Far from being inert substances, jade, flint, obsidian and wood held a vital essence, agency a...

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Liberation of Painting Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris

Leighten Patricia

ISBN: HB: 9780226471389, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 99 halftones, 32 colour illus.

The years before World War I were a time of social and political ferment in Europe, which profoundly affected the art world. A major center of this creative tumult was Paris, where many avant-garde artists sought to transform modern art through their...

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