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Photography

Real/Ideal Photography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France

Hellman Karen

ISBN: HB: 9781606065105, Getty Publications, September 2016
240 pp., 29.6x24.8 cm, 212 colour illus.

In the years following the invention of photography in 1839, practitioners in France gave shape to this intriguing new medium through experimental printing techniques and innovative compositions. The rich body of work they developed proved foundation...

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History of Art

Spreading Canvas Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting

Hughes Eleanor, Quilley Geoff, Johns Richard, Monks Sarah, Roach Catherine, Lynford Sophie, McAleer John, Merwe Pieter van der, Riding Christine

ISBN: HB: 9780300221572, Yale University Press, September 2016
312 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 312 colour illus.

Spreading Canvas takes a close look at the tradition of marine painting that flourished in 18th-century Britain. Drawing primarily on the extensive collections of the Yale Center for British Art and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London,...

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Contemporary Art

Cubism – Constructivism – FORM ART

Husslein-Arco Agnes, Klee Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9783791355474, Prestel Publishing, September 2016
312 pp., 28.5x23 cm, 340 colour illus.

This volume presents for the first time the fundamental artistic circumstances from 1900 onward that led to the emergence of nonobjective art. For example, on the surface there are no obvious connections between the Formkunst (art of form) of Vienna...

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Contemporary Art

Oliver Clegg

Herbert Martin, Najafi Sina

ISBN: HB: 9781910221075, Casemate, Anomie Publishing, July 2016
288 pp., 30.5x22 cm, 135 illus.

Featuring an interview with Sina Najafi, an essay by Martin Herbert, and designed by Dominique Clausen, this is the first major monograph on the British-born, New Yorkbased artist Oliver Clegg. An eclectic, polyphonic and multidisciplinary artist, Cl...

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Cartoon Art

Painting and Drawing Manuals

Doodletopia: Manga Draw, Design and Color Your Own Super-Cute Manga Characters and More

Hart Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781607746935, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, July 2016
160 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, illus. throughout

Not for sale in selected countries! An interactive doodle book from the best-selling art instruction author and cartoon master that pairs illustrating insights with drawing, designing, colouring and crafting activities for aspiring manga artists. F...

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Design

Design The Invention of Desire

Helfand Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780300205091, Yale University Press, June 2016
224 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 12 colour illus.

Design has always prided itself on being relevant to the world it serves, but interest in design was once limited to a small community of design professionals. Today, books on "design thinking" are best sellers, and computer and Web-based tools have...

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Photography

Out of Season

Havens Mark, Giovannini Joseph, Hunt Jamer

ISBN: HB: 9781861543783, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, June 2016
226 pp., 30.6x24.4 cm

Exceptional colour photographs of the mid-twentieth-century motels of Wildwood, New Jersey, USA, the largest concentration of the exuberant architectural style sometimes known as "doo wop" complete with neon signs and plastic palms. The images in thi...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Painting the Landscape in Pastel

Handell Albert, West Anita Louise

ISBN: PB: 9780823039128, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, June 2016
128 pp., 23.5x23.5 cm, 150 photos

Not for sale in selected countries! Lush landscapes combined with lucid instruction to help artists of all levels achieve results. Known for his use of luminous color, Albert Handell, whose lush landscapes light up these pages, provides lucid instr...

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History of Art

Noir The Romance of Black in 19th-century French Drawings and Prints

Hendrix Lee

ISBN: HB: 9781606064825, Getty Publications, May 2016
176 pp., 28.4x24.6 cm, colour and black&white illus.

Due to the technological advances of the nineteenth century, an abundance of black drawing media exploded onto the market. Charcoal, conte crayon, and fabricated black chalks and crayons; fixatives; various papers; and many lifting devices gave rise...

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History of Art

Modernism and Memory Rhoda Pritzker and the Art of Collecting

Hughes Eleanor, Collins Ian, Howard Margo, Spalding Frances, Shaw Sam, Stryker Eric

ISBN: HB: 9780300214871, Yale University Press, May 2016
208 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 224 colour illus.

This book is a glorious celebration of Rhoda Pritzker's collection of 20th-century British art, much of which has been donated to the Yale Center for British Art. Pritzker, who was born in Manchester in1914 and emigrated to the United States during t...

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