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Skate and Surf Art

Amell Carolina

ISBN: HB: 9788416500437, GMC Group, Monsa, March 2017
192 pp., 15x22 cm, colour illus.

Not for sale in Ukraine and Russia! This extreme sport originated in California USA. The early designs were a simple board customized using roller skate wheels. By the 1980's skateboarding had reached all corners of the USA and was becoming popular...

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Contemporary Art

Machine Project The Platinum Collection

Allen Mark, Seligman Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9783791356198, Prestel Publishing, February 2017
304 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 275 colour illus.

Still going strong after more than a decade, the Los Angeles-based Machine Project is profiled in this encyclopedic book that explores unconventional ways of seeing and thinking about the world. New essays and images capture the quirky essence of Ma...

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Contemporary Art

Concrete Body Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci

Archias Elise

ISBN: HB: 9780300217971, Yale University Press, January 2017
240 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 36 colour illus., 93 black&white illus.

Offering an incisive rejoinder to traditional histories of modernism and postmodernism, this original book examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body. Findin...

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History of Art

Biography & Memoires

Albrecht Durer A Documentary Biography

Ashcroft Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9780300210842, Yale University Press, January 2017
1216 pp., 24x17 cm, 70 black&white illus.

Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was hailed in his lifetime as a founder of the Northern Renaissance, and his work revolutionized the art of printmaking. Durer was also the first artist outside Italy to leave behind a large body of writing. Contemporaries...

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History of Art

Important European Sculpture Tomasso Brothers Fine Art

Avery Charles

ISBN: HB: 9781911300151, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, January 2017
176 pp., 28x24 cm

This richly illustrated and scholarly catalogue accompanies an exhibition at Carlton Hobbs in New York, January 2017. Among the 25 beautiful works, dating from the early Renaissance to the Neoclassical period, are important statuettes by masters such...

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History of Art

Nordic Painting The Rise of Modernity

Alsen Katharina, Landmann Annika

ISBN: HB: 9783791381312, Prestel Publishing, November 2016
304 pp., 34x28 cm, 225 colour illus.

Delightful landscapes, idyllic genre scenes, light-flooded interiors, and atmospheric portraits: this richly illustrated book introduces the most important stylistic directions, artists, and works of Nordic painting. Concentrating on the period of th...

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History of Art

Assyria to Iberia A Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia

Aruz Joan, Seymour Michael, Killebrew Ann E., Tubb Jonathan N., Finkelstein Israel, Novak Mirko, Aubet Maria Eugenia, Hill Marsha, Gubel Eric, Graff Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781588396068, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2016
404 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 300 colour illus.

In 2014, the Metropolitan Museum presented Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age, an unprecedented exhibition that offered a comprehensive overview of art, diplomacy, and cultural exchange in the ancient Near East and across the Mediterr...

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Photography

Portable Studio

Appleson Trevor

ISBN: HB: 9781861543806, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2016
608 pp., 22x17.5 cm

"Portable Studio" documents contemporary British youth culture, and was created in collaboration with the young people Appleson met and photographed on the streets of Birmingham in 2014. Inspired by the way identities are now curated online, the proj...

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History of Art

Origins, Invention, Revision Studying the History of Art and Architecture

Ackerman James S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300218718, Yale University Press, October 2016
232 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 63 colour illus., 63 black&white illus.

An illuminating collection of essays from the preeminent scholar of architectural history and theory One of the most distinguished scholars in the fields of architectural history and theory today, James Sloss Ackerman is best known for his work on It...

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Beyond Boundaries Connecting Visual Cultures in the Provinces of Ancient Rome

Alcock Susan

ISBN: HB: 9781606064719, Getty Publications, August 2016
404 pp., 25x15 cm, colour and black&white illus.

The Roman Empire had a rich and multifaceted visual culture, which was often variegated due to the sprawling geography of its provinces. In this remarkable work of scholarship, a group of international scholars has come together to find alternative w...

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