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Silke Otto-Knapp In the Waiting Room
ISBN: PB: 9780941548816, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, February 2021
132 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 colour plates, 38 halftones
Los Angeles-based artist Silke Otto-Knapp has developed a painting practice characterized by its rigorous process and attentiveness to the medium's possibilities. Using layers of black watercolor pigment, she builds up delicate surfaces, producing su...
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Samuel van Hoogstraten's Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible World
ISBN: PB: 9781606066676, Getty Publications, January 2021
424 pp., 0x0 cm
A unique seventeenth-century account of painting as it was practiced, taught, and discussed during a period of extraordinary artistic and intellectual ferment in the Netherlands. The only comprehensive work on painting written by a Dutch artist in th...
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Speaking of Objects African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780300254327, Yale University Press, November 2020
216 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 135 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Featuring a selection of more than 75 works of traditional African art in the Art Institute of Chicago's collection, this stunning volume includes objects in a wide variety of media from regions across the continent. Essays and catalogue entries by l...
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Street Life in Renaissance Italy
ISBN: HB: 9780300175431, Yale University Press, November 2020
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 150 illus.
The cities of Renaissance Italy comprised a network of forces shaping both the urban landscape and those who inhabited it. In this illuminating study, those complex relations are laid bare and explored through the lens of contemporary urban theory, p...
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Suddenly Turning Visible Art and Architecture in Southeast Asia (1969-1989)
ISBN: PB: 9789811406522, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, July 2020
192 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, colour and black&white illus.
In 1981, the Filipino artist and curator Raymundo Albano adopted the expression "Suddenly Turning Visible" to describe the rapid transformation of Manila's urban landscape. The visibility that Albano evoked was aspirational, driven by a desire for ra...
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Sin
ISBN: PB: 9781857096651, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, April 2020
96 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 80 colour and black&white illus.
The depiction of sin has been fundamental to European visual culture for hundreds of years, especially – but not only – in Christian art. Addressing the mutable and often ambiguous representation of sin, this book highlights its theological underpinn...
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£12,99
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Signac and the Independants
ISBN: HB: 9780300251982, Yale University Press, January 2020
382 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 550 black&white, colour illus.
In Paris at the turn of the 20th century, an artistic revolution was underway. The Salon des Independants was organized in 1884 by a group of artists and thinkers that included Albert Dubois-Pillet, Odilon Redon, Georges Seurat, and Paul Signac, who...
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Soulmates Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin
ISBN: HB: 9783791359328, Prestel Publishing, January 2020
320 pp., 29x23.5 cm, 235 colour illus.
Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin occupy a prominent place in art history as a pioneering artist couple of the avant-garde movement. Early in her career in Russia, Werefkin attracted a great deal of attention for her Realist-inspired por...
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Second Careers Two Tributaries in African Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300246872, Yale University Press, January 2020
120 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 40 colour illus.
Recognizing the second lives of historical African artworks when they enter museum collections and addressing them in dialogue with the works of six established and emerging African artists, this book represents how today's practitioners are reformul...
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Sahel Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara
ISBN: HB: 9781588396877, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2020
288 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 300 colour illus.
This groundbreaking volume examines the extraordinary artistic and cultural traditions of the African region known as the Sahel ("shore" in Arabic), a vast area on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert that includes present-day Senegal, Mauritania,...
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