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Decorative Arts

Silver Caesars A Renaissance Mystery

Alcorn Ellenor, Bimbenet-Privat Michele, Beard Mary, Koeppe Wolfram, Salomon Xavier F., Schroder Timothy B., Walker Stefanie, Siemon Julia

ISBN: PB: 9781588396396, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2018
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 250 colour illus.

The twelve silver-gilt cups known as the Aldobrandini Tazze – magnificent examples of 16th-century European goldsmithing in size, design, and quality of execution – feature figures and scenes from Roman historian Suetonius's classic work "The Twelve...

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Contemporary Art

Mark Bradford

Aquin Stephane, Hankins Evelyn C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300230772, Yale University Press, February 2018
96 pp., 27.9x17.1 cm, 60 colour illus.

This beautifully illustrated book documents "Pickett's Charge", an ambitious and timely project by renowned artist Mark Bradford. Eight new paintings extend nearly four hundred feet to form a 360-degree experience encircling an entire floor of the Hi...

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History of Art

Coming Away Winslow Homer and England

Athens Elizabeth, Ruud Brandon K., Tedeschi Martha

ISBN: HB: 9780300229905, Yale University Press, February 2018
160 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 100 colour illus.

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is widely regarded as the greatest American painter of the 19th century, but it is not well known that he spent a pivotal period of time on the other side of the Atlantic. The eighteen months Homer spent in England in 1881 a...

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History of Art

Kinaesthetic Knowing Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design

Alexander Zeynep Celik

ISBN: HB: 9780226485201, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 10 colour plates, 99 halftones

Is all knowledge the product of thought? Or can the physical interactions of the body with the world produce reliable knowledge? In late-nineteenth-century Europe, scientists, artists, and other intellectuals theorized the latter as a new way of know...

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Photography

Baza

Amat Frederic

ISBN: PB: 9788417047290, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, January 2018
29 pp., 28.7x20.5 cm, illus.

Several years ago, having learned of the festival of the Cascamorras in the town of Baza in Granada province, Frederic Amat decided to witness in person the ancestral celebration, during which a group of young people climb a nearby hill in the mid-af...

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Contemporary Art

40 Years Just Talking About Art

Auping Michael

ISBN: PB: 9783791357409, Prestel Publishing, January 2018
340 pp., 29.5x24.8 cm, 114 colour illus., 76 black&white illus.

Michael Auping, one of America's foremost curators of contemporary art, explores process and technique through conversations he has had over the past four decades with many of the most significant artists of our time. At the Modern Art Museum of For...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Julian Stanczak Life of Surface

Anfam David

ISBN: PB: 9780998631202, DAP, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, January 2018
74 pp., 26.4x25.4 cm, 38 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The canvases of Polish-born American Op-art protagonist Julian Stanczak (1928-2017) range in their perceptual effects from a vibrant glow to an electric, rhythmic oscillation. This book gathers paintings made between 1970 a...

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Children's Books

Queen of the Tulips Journey Through the Hermitage

Agapova Daria, Pomidor Varvara

ISBN: HB: 9785912082801, Prestel Publishing, Arca, December 2017
80 pp., 15.7x15.7 cm, colour illus.

They were there for different reasons: Vanya was hiding in the museum crowds to escape from fatigue and a sour mood, while Tasya had wandered away from her parents and gotten lost while collecting ideas for her album. The kids find that they have som...

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Decorative Arts

Bejewelled Men and Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean England

Awais-Dean Natasha

ISBN: PB: 9780861592098, Casemate, British Museum Press, December 2017
200 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 160 illus.

Jewellery is often viewed as a feminine preoccupation, but in Tudor and Jacobean England men wore just as much (if not more) jewellery as their female counterparts. Jewels themselves were valued not merely for their intrinsic monetary worth, but also...

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Contemporary Art

Artists on Walter De Maria

Aldrich Richard, Dunning Jeanne, Faivovich Guillermo, Goldberg Nicolas, Winters Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780944521847, DAP, Dia Art Foundation, November 2017
136 pp., 17.8x13.3 cm, 75 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Established in 2001, the lecture series highlights the work of modern and contemporary artists from the perspective of their colleagues and peers. This Artists on Artists title is published in connection with the 40th anni...

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