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History of Art

Landscape Architecture

Kenne Bryan C.

ISBN: HB: 9781606061435, Getty Publications, May 2013
100 pp., 22.4x17.2 cm, 64 colour illus.

This is a fascinating volume that uses illustrated manuscripts to gain a unique insight into the gardens of the Renaissance. Whether part of a grand villa or an extension of a common kitchen, gardens in the Renaissance were planted and treasured in a...

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Design

Media Studies

Power to the People The Graphic Design of the Radical Press and the Rise of the Counter-Culture, 1964-1974

Kaplan Geoff

ISBN: HB: 9780226424354, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
264 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 700 colour illus.

Though we think of the 1960s and the early '70s as a time of radical social, cultural, and political upheaval, we tend to picture the action as happening on campuses and in the streets. Yet the rise of the underground newspaper was equally daring and...

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Children's Books

Art Detective Spot the Difference!

Kutschbach Doris

ISBN: HB: 9783791371047, Prestel Publishing, March 2013
48 pp., 28x24 cm

This highly engaging booklets young readers play detective as they examine great works of art to see if they are the real thing – or forgeries. From Michelangelo to Picasso, art history is filled with stories of spectacular forgeries that have stump...

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Photography

Japan's Modern Divide The Photographs of Hiroshi Hanaya and Kansuke Yamamoto

Keller Judith, Maddox Amanda

ISBN: HB: 9781606061329, Getty Publications, February 2013
224 pp., 28.8x24.5 cm, 112 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

This title offers a superbly illustrated overview of the evolution of two very different strains of modern Japanese photography. In the 1930s, Japanese photography evolved in two very directions: one toward a documentary style, the other favouring an...

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Design

Exhibitions Concept, Planning and Design

Klobe Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781933253695, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, February 2013
272 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour illus.

"Good exhibition design promotes thought and feeling through the creation of an emotionally charged space – an environment that engulfs visitors, pulls them forward, and draws them into the story and its meaning", writes Tom Klobe in "Exhibitions". H...

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Contemporary Art

Angels, Demons, and Savages Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet

Kosinski Dorothy M., Ottmann Klaus, Longwell Alicia G., Dubuffet Jean, Steele Elizabeth, Albro Sylvia, Homolka Scott, Bernicky Chantal

ISBN: HB: 9780300186482, Yale University Press, January 2013
168 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 84 colour images, 16 black&white illus.

The artistic relationships among Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Alfonso Ossorio (1916-1990), and Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) strongly influenced the development of postwar art. Ossorio, the central figure in the trio, was an early champion of Pollock and...

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Photography

Seduced by Art Photography Past and Present

Kingsley Hope, Riopelle Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9781857095456, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, October 2012
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus.

Today's photography is part of our own cultural moment, but it also arises from artistic traditions of the past. Seduced by Art looks at the effects of art and its history on the creation of photographs, tracing continuities in aims, visual style, an...

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Postcards

Postcard Age Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection

Klich Lynda, Weiss Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9780878467815, DAP, MFA Publications, October 2012
295 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, 370 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! In the decades around 1900, postcards were Twitter, email, Flickr and Facebook, all wrapped into one. A postcard craze swept the world, and billions of cards were bought, mailed and pasted into albums. Many famous artists t...

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Interior Design

History of Art

Chinese Silks

Kuhn Dieter, Watt James C. Y., Juanjuan Chen, Huang Nengfu, Wenying Li, Hao Peng, Feng Zhao

ISBN: HB: 9780300111033, Yale University Press, August 2012
624 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 600 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Over the past fifty years, archaeological explorations in China have unearthed a wealth of textile materials, some dating as far back as five thousand years. In this magnificently researched and illustrated book, preeminent Chinese and Western schola...

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History of Art

Nature Drawings of Peter Karklins

Kirkland Sean D.

ISBN: PB: 9780978907457, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, August 2012
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 1 colour plate, 34 halftones

The German-born, Chicago-based Latvian artist Peter Karklins creates small, pencil-and-paper drawings that capture the processes and energies just below the surface of all human life. The complexity of his organic forms is matched by the artist's met...

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