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Gauguin Atlas

Denekamp Nienke

ISBN: HB: 9780300237269, Yale University Press, November 2019
180 pp., 24.5x18.7 cm, 400 colour illus.

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was an artist perpetually in search of new horizons. This fascinating visual tour reveals the full extent of Gauguin's travels and their influence on his unique style. Gauguin's several lengthy trips to Tahiti and the Marques...

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Fernand Khnopff

Draguet Michel

ISBN: HB: 9780300246506, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2019
304 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 210 colour illus.

In this beautifully illustrated book, Michel Draguet, an internationally recognized authority on fin-de-siecle art, offers an enlightening examination of the life and art of Belgian Symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921). Khnopff achieved wide...

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Claude Monet The Truth of Nature

Daneo Angelica, Heinrich Christoph, Westheider Ortrud, Philipp Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783791358703, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
280 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

Capturing fleeting natural impressions played a central role in the art of Claude Monet. He deeply engaged with the landscape and light of different places, from the metropolis of Paris to the Seine villages of Argenteuil and Giverny. This lavishly i...

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Contemporary Art

Virgil Abloh Figures of Speech (Special Edition)

Darling Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783791359007, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
496 pp., 30.5x23 cm, 1935 colour and black&white illus.

For Abloh, the museum catalogue is another opportunity to "question everything". This special-edition monograph, produced in close collaboration with the artist himself, explores his creative output in a three-books-in-one format. The catalogue secti...

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Fashion

Dress in the Age of Jane Austen Regency Fashion

Davidson Hilary

ISBN: HB: 9780300218725, Yale University Press, October 2019
336 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 180 colour illus.

This lively book reveals the clothing and fashion of the world depicted in Jane Austen's beloved books, focusing on the long Regency between the years 1795 and 1825. During this period, accelerated change saw Britain's turbulent entry into the modern...

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Elizabethan Globalism England, China and the Rainbow Portrait

Dimmock Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9781913107031, Yale University Press, October 2019
336 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 90 colour and black&white illus.

Challenging the myth of Elizabethan England as insular and xenophobic, this revelatory study sheds light on how the nation's growing global encounters – from the Caribbean to Asia – created an interest and curiosity in the wider world that resonated...

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Design

Our Bauhaus Memories of Bauhaus People

Droste Magdalena, Friedewald Boris

ISBN: HB: 9783791385280, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
336 pp., 21x13.5 cm, 60 black&white illus.

Although it flourished for only fourteen years, the Bauhaus school remains one of the most influential art and design movements of the 20th century. This collection of personal memories from Bauhaus teachers, students, and friends provides a uniquely...

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Alonso Berruguete First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain

Dickerson C. D., McDonald Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300248319, Yale University Press, September 2019
244 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 175 colour and black&white illus.

Alonso Berruguete (c. 1488-1561) revolutionized the arts of Renaissance Spain with a dramatic style of sculpture that reflected the decade or more he had spent in Italy while young. Trained as a painter, he traveled to Italy around 1506, where he int...

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Posters

Lichtenstein Posters New Edition

Doring Jurgen

ISBN: PB: 9783791385846, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
152 pp., 36x25 cm, 206 colour and black&white illus.

Lichtenstein's art is most recognizable for its trademark benday dots and two-dimensional planes, cartoonlike qualities that placed him at the forefront of the American Pop Art scene. With its emphasis on consumer culture, Lichtenstein's style lent i...

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Contemporary Art

Please RSVP Questions on Collaborative Aesthetics, Trans-Subjectivity, and the Politics of Love

Durham April

ISBN: PB: 9781512603682, ISBN: HB: 9781512603453, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It's no secret that working with others, rather than alone, on a creative project can often yield the most unexpected results, a new and surprising sum greater than the whole of its parts. "Please RSVP" presents a bold new theory of just how powerful...

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