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Fashion

Exposed A History of Lingerie

Hill Colleen, Steele Valerie

ISBN: HB: 9780300208863, Yale University Press, November 2014
172 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 80 colour illus.

Lingerie is a subject of enduring fascination. As the final barrier to the fully nude body, it is simultaneously modest and erotic. This compelling and eye-catching publication surveys lingerie from the mid-18th century to the present, covering a bro...

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History of Art

Nothing but the Clouds Unchanged Artists in World War I

Hughes Gordon, Blom Philipp

ISBN: HB: 9781606064313, Getty Publications, November 2014
192 pp., 26.2x21 cm, 67 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.

This is a fascinating and superbly illustrated look at how the First World War influenced an entire generation of visual artists. Much of how WWI is understood today is rooted in the artistic depictions of the brutal violence and extensive destructio...

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History of Art

Asia

Museum on the Roof of the World Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet

Harris Clare E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213170, ISBN: HB: 9780226317472, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
328 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 19 colour plates, 50 halftones, 1 line illus.

For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics...

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History of Art

Resisting Abstraction Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism

Hughes Gordon

ISBN: HB: 9780226159065, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
184 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 92 colour plates, 46 halftones

Robert Delaunay was one of the leading artists working in Paris in the early decades of the twentieth century, and his paintings have been admired ever since as among the earliest purely abstract works. With "Resisting Abstraction", the first Engli...

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Manuals

Art of Landscape Photography

Hoddinott Ross

ISBN: PB: 9781781450529, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, October 2014
192 pp., 23.5x21 cm, 204 photos

There are many general titles on landscape photography, but few that really tackle the issue of composition in great depth".The Art of Landscape Photography" assumes a good working knowledge of the technical basics – such as correct exposure, filtrat...

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Children's Books

13 Architects Children Should Know

Heine Florian

ISBN: HB: 9783791371849, Prestel Publishing, September 2014
48 pp., 28x24 cm, 60 colour illus.

This lively and engaging volume in Prestel's successful "Children Should Know" series opens a door into the fascinating world of architecture. Buildings of every shape and size, and from all corners of the world, populate this colorful and beautiful...

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History of Art

Alphonse Mucha

Husslein-Arco Agnes, Gaillemin Jean Louis, Hilaire Michel, Lange Christiane

ISBN: PB: 9783791353975, Prestel Publishing, August 2014
356 pp., 32x24 cm, 403 colour illus., 78 black&white illus.

Now available in a new edition, this gorgeous volume surveys the entire breadth of Alphonse Mucha's work – from illustration and decorative arts to his photography and the historical paintings that were his life's passion. Alphonse Mucha is known la...

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History of Art

Culture Studies

En Guerre French Illustrators and World War I

Harris Neil, Edelstein Teri J.

ISBN: PB: 9780943056425, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
144 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 140 colour plates

With 2014 marking the one-hundredth anniversary of the commencement of World War I, En Guerre offers a fresh, thought-provoking exploration of the impact of the Great War as viewed through the lens of French graphic illustration of the period. Publis...

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Photography

Josef Sudek Labyrinths

Hodrova Daniela, Dufek Antonin

ISBN: HB: 9788072154371, DAP, Torst, August 2014
96 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 64 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Like the previous volumes "The Window of My Studio" and "Still Lifes", this new Josef Sudek monograph collects a series of photographs made within the confines of the Czech photographer's workspace. Sudek's studio famously...

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History of Art

Reynolds Portraiture in Action

Hallett Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300196979, Yale University Press, June 2014
464 pp., 29x25 cm, 350 colour imagess, 10 black&white illus.

Sir Joshua Reynolds, the first President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, was the most celebrated and innovative British portraitist of the eighteenth century. He was acclaimed for transforming portraiture into an art form that had all the amb...

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