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History of Art

Painted Book in Renaissance Italy 1450-1600

Alexander Jonathan J. G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300203981, Yale University Press, August 2016
512 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

Hand-painted illumination enlivened the burgeoning culture of the book in the Italian Renaissance, spanning the momentous shift from manuscript production to print. This major survey, by a leading authority on medieval and renaissance book illuminati...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Sewing

Fashion Sketching Templates, Poses and Ideas for Fashion Design

Ausonia Palazio Claudia

ISBN: PB: 9788416504107, Hoaki, August 2016
272 pp., 28.2x19.6 cm, richly illustrated

This book aims to help emerging designers and fashion professionals cut down the time required to produce a collection. It offers every type of silhouette and pse of women, men and children, so that designers are able to produce sketches that are fai...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Lessons in Classical Painting Essential Techniques from Inside the Atelier

Aristides Juliette

ISBN: HB: 9781607747895, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, July 2016
248 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 300 photos

Not for sale in selected countries! A companion volume to "Lessons in Classical Drawing" that breaks down the foundational skills and techniques of painting in a format that is accessible and manageable for all readers. With the same direct, easy-t...

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History of Art

Buddhism

Cave Temples of Dunhuang Buddhist Art on the Silk Road

Agnew Neville

ISBN: HB: 9781606064894, Getty Publications, June 2016
302 pp., 25x15 cm, 25 black&white illus., 190 colour illus.

The Mogao grottoes in northwestern China, located near the town of Dunhuang on the fabled Silk Road, constitute one of the world's most significant sites of Buddhist art. In some five hundred caves carved into rock cliffs at the edge of the Gobi dese...

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History of Art

Unruly Nature The Landscapes of Theofire Rousseau

Allan Scott, Kopp Edouard

ISBN: HB: 9781606064771, Getty Publications, June 2016
224 pp., 25x15 cm, 15 black&white illus., 140 colour illus.

Theodore Rousseau (1812-1867), arguably the most important French landscape artist of the mid-nineteenth century and a leader of the so-called Barbizon School, occupies a crucial moment of transition from the idealizing effects of academic painting t...

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History of Art

Endeavouring Banks Exploring the Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771

Attenborough David, Agnarsdottir Anna, Coote Jeremy, Hatfield Phillip J., Gascoigne John

ISBN: HB: 9781907372902, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, May 2016
235 pp., 28x24 cm, 150 colour illus.

When English naturalist Joseph Banks (1743-1820) accompanied Captain James Cook (1728-1779) on his historic mission into the Pacific, the Endeavour voyage of 1768-1771, he took with him a team of collectors and illustrators. Banks and his team return...

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Design

Character Design by 100 Illustrators Full of Characters

Alavedra Inma

ISBN: HB + CD: 9788416504114, Hoaki, April 2016
240 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, fully illustrated in colour

This outstanding illustrated volume presents a rich collection of the most original characters from designers all around the world. Any animation, cartoon, comic or illustration needs a great unique character to bring the artwork to life and this boo...

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Contemporary Art

Frank Stella: Prints A Catalogue Raisonne

Axsom Richard H.

ISBN: HB: 9780692587072, DAP, Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, April 2016
432 pp., 31.1x26 cm, 375 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! In addition to his achievements in abstract painting and sculpture, Frank Stella has also made major contributions to the history of the modern print. An exploration of the artist's innovative use of the medium, "Frank Stel...

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History of Art

Edvard Munch Archetypes

Alarco Paloma, Berman Patricia G., Steihaug Jon-Ove

ISBN: HB: 9788415113737, DAP, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, February 2016
232 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 156 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Edvard Munch: Archetypes" brings together a thematic selection of 80 works – in full-page, museum-quality reproductions – that examine the painter's long and prolific career and reveal his ability to synthesize the obsessi...

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Contemporary Art

Horst Diekgerdes

Achermann Beda

ISBN: HB: 9783954761340, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, January 2016
232 pp., 35.5x27.5 cm, 220 colour illus., language: English

Not many fashion photographers get to see their pictures become part of the pop-cultural mainstream. The controversial cover the German photographer Horst Diekgerdes created for the Britpop band Pulp's album This Is Hardcore was that rare stroke of g...

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