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History of Art

Masterpieces of Islamic Arms and Armor In the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alexander David, Pyhrr Stuart W., Kwiatkowski Will

ISBN: HB: 9781588395702, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2015
400 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 400 colour illus.

From its origins in the 7th century, armor and weaponry were central to Islamic culture not only as a means of conquest and the spread of faith, but also as symbols of status, wealth, and power. More than 120 exceptional examples from the renowned co...

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History of Art

Wrath of the Gods Masterpieces by Rubens, Michelangelo, and Titian

Atkins Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300215243, Yale University Press, September 2015
112 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 75 colour illus.

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) proudly described his monumental painting Prometheus Bound as first among "the flower of my stock". This singular work demonstrates how Rubens engaged with and responded to his predecessors Michelangelo and Titian, with...

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Contemporary Art

Stephen Irwin

Aletti Vince, Ribal Pilar, Goodrow Gerard A., Needleman Risa, Tischer Benjamin, Irwin Stephen, Brown Melvin

ISBN: HB: 9783000479977, DAP, re projects, May 2015
144 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 110 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Artist Stephen Irwin (1959-2010) worked in sculpture, drawing and installation, but he is best known for his work altering vintage pornography: using steel wool to rub off a magazine page's shiny coating and taking most of...

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Cartoon Art

Painting and Drawing Manuals

How to Draw Caricatures

Antram David

ISBN: PB: 9781910184813, GMC Group, Book House, May 2015
32 pp., 28.3x22.1 cm, colour illus.

"The How To Draw" series takes a highly visual and practical approach to drawing, featuring step-by-step instructions for each art project. This comprehensive drawing handbook covers all aspects of drawing caricatures including essential concepts suc...

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History of Art

Flemish Merchant of Venice Daniel Nijs and the Sale of the Gonzaga Art Collection

Anderson Christina

ISBN: HB: 9780300209686, Yale University Press, April 2015
256 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 40 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.

During the years 1627 and 1628, Charles I of England purchased the cream of the Gonzaga art collection, belonging to the dukes of Mantua, in what would become the greatest art deal of the 17th century. Among the treasures sold were ancient statues an...

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Contemporary Art

Pop Art Myths

Alarco Paloma

ISBN: HB: 9788415113553, DAP, Fundacion Coleccion Thyssen-Bornemisza, March 2015
252 pp., 27.3x23.4 cm, 165 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Pop Art Myths" revisits Pop from a twenty-first-century perspective, bringing together more than 100 works by artists including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake, Robert Rauschenberg, Tom Wesselm...

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Photography

Noonday

Aetrba Annelies

ISBN: HB: 9783037783887, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2015
336 pp., 24x17.3 cm, 300 illus.

The artist Annelies Strba, best known for photographs of her children, now brings us in "Noonday" pictures of her grandchildren. In this "noonday dream" (a reference to Emily Bronte), we encounter a host of fairytale creatures, playing, sleeping, or...

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History of Art

Painting in Latin America, 1550-1820 From Conquest to Independence

Alcala Luisa Elena, Brown Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300191011, Yale University Press, December 2014
480 pp., 29.8x23.5 cm, 250 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

"Painting in Latin America, 1550-1820: From Conquest to Independence" surveys the diverse styles, subjects and iconography of painting in Latin America between the 16th and 19th centuries. While European art forms were widely disseminated, copied and...

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History of Art

Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" and the Art of Invention

Antoine Jean-Philippe, Bellion Wendy, Bjelajac David, Brownlee Peter John, DeLue Rachael Ziady, Gillespie Sarah Kate, Mayer Lance, Myers Gay, McClellan Andrew, Nemerov Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300207613, Yale University Press, October 2014
224 pp., 25.4x24.1 cm, 135 colour illus.

Samuel F. B. Morse's (1791-1872) large-scale painting Gallery of the Louvre (1831-33) is one of the most significant, and enigmatic, works of early-19th-century American art. It is also one of the last works Morse painted before turning his attention...

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Photography

Catalogue Raisonne

Alexander Gardner The Western Photographs, 1867-1868

Aspinwall Jane Lee, Davis Keith F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208245, Yale University Press, October 2014
200 pp., 28.6x28.6 cm, 275 black&white illus.

Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) also created two extraordinary bodies of work depicting the transformation of the American West: Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railway and Scenes in the Indian Count...

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