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History of Art

J. Lockwood Kipling Bombay, the Punjab, South Kensington

Bryant Julius, Weber Susan, Swallow Deborah, Bryant Barbara, Marsden Christopher, Arburthnott Catherine, Khan Nadhra Shahbaz, Kemp Sandra, Hoffenberg Peter H., James Brother

ISBN: HB: 9780300221596, Yale University Press, January 2017
602 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 700 colour illus., 37 black&white illus.

John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911) started his career as an architectural sculptor at the South Kensington Museum (today the Victoria and Albert Museum). Much of his life, however, was spent in British India, where his son Rudyard was born. He taught...

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Contemporary Art

Marisa Merz

Butler Connie

ISBN: HB: 9783791355672, Prestel Publishing, January 2017
294 pp., 27.3x22 cm, 300 colour illus.

This generously illustrated book offers readers the chance to appreciate the full range of works by Marisa Merz, winner of the 2013 Golden Lion lifetime achievement award at the Venice Biennale. This volume traces Merz's artistic evolution from early...

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Contemporary Art

AMMO Unter Waffen. Fire & Forget 2

Blumenstein Ellen, Tyradellis Daniel, Wagner Matthias K.

ISBN: PB: 9783954761739, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, December 2016
144 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, colour illus., language: English / German

Guns exert an ambivalent fascination. Embodiments of power and dominance, they also signify pain and death. Whether they help maintain public order, are used to exercise individual or collective violence, provide personal safety, or are sports or pro...

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Contemporary Art

Matthew Barney Otto Trilogy

Barney Matthew, Spector Nancy, Nelson Maggie

ISBN: HB: 9780300223699, Yale University Press, November 2016
200 pp., 20.3x28 cm, 250 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

A generously illustrated look at the intricate narrative threads of three of the artist's earliest works, and their continued resonance today Celebrated for works blending performance, video, and sculpture, Matthew Barney has created complex narrativ...

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Photography

Detroit After Dark Photographs from the Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts

Barr Nancy W., Blair Sara, Tysh Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780300218428, Yale University Press, November 2016
112 pp., 28.6x24.8 cm, 80 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

An exploration of the tradition of night photography in the city of Detroit by well-known artists from the 1950s until today This book is the first to explore photographic representations of Detroit during the hours from dusk until dawn, featuring wo...

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Contemporary Art

John McLaughlin Paintings Total Abstraction

Barron Stephanie, Bergman Lauren

ISBN: HB: 9783791355603, Prestel Publishing, November 2016
144 pp., 27x21.6 cm, 92 colour illus.

For decades before his death in 1976, John McLaughlin steadily produced some of the most fascinating paintings coming out of Southern California. Minimal geometric abstractions characterized by clean lines, bold colors, and flat, intersecting forms,...

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History of Art

Neapolitan Creche at the Art Institute of Chicago

Bellenger Sylvain, Romano Carmine, Rosenberg Jesse, Muti Riccardo

ISBN: HB: 9780300222357, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2016
176 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 250 colour illus.

The 18th-century Neapolitan creche at the Art Institute of Chicago, which contains over 200 figures arranged in a panorama of street life, represents the pinnacle of a rich artistic heritage. This luxurious catalogue is the first to study the creche...

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Fashion

Fashion The Ultimate History of Costume. From Prehistory to the Present Day

Brunelli Pier Pietro

ISBN: PB: 9788415967828, Hoaki, November 2016
256 pp., 27x19 cm, richly illustrated

Fashion is one of the defining features of human evolution and culture. Spanning the first civilizations to today’s most recent trends, this book analyzes the importance and meaning of this intriguing area of human behavior. With an in-depth approach...

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History of Art

Sovereign Artist Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV

Burchard Wolf, Le Brun Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9781911300052, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, November 2016
272 pp., 28x24 cm, 200 colour illus.

In his joint capacities of Premier peintre du roi, director of the Gobelins manufactory and rector of the Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture, Le Brun exercised a previously unprecedented influence on the production of the visual arts – so mu...

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Contemporary Art

Olga Chernysheva Vague Accent

Benway Nova

ISBN: PB: 9780942324983, DAP, The Drawing Center, November 2016
80 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 40 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Born in 1962 in Moscow, where she still lives, Olga Chernysheva is one of the most perceptive and sensitive observers of her native country's cultural and geographic landscape. Eschewing simplistic rendering of the post-Sov...

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