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History of Art

Making Marvels Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe

Koeppe Wolfram

ISBN: HB: 9781588396778, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2019
320 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 320 colour illus.

At once beautiful works of art and technological wonders, the objects featured in "Making Marvels" demonstrate how European royalty from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment signaled their status through their collections of ingeniously crafted inven...

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History of Art

Philosophy

On Color

Kastan David, Farthing Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300248463, Yale University Press, October 2019
272 pp., 19.7x15.2 cm, 47 colour illus.

Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of vivid colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color's inescapability, we don't know much about it. Now authors David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing offer a...

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History of Art

Millet and Modern Art From Van Gogh to Dali

Kelly Simon, van Dijk Maite, Bakker Nienke, Yoder Abigail

ISBN: HB: 9780300248661, Yale University Press, October 2019
208 pp., 27.9x21.9 cm, 192 colour and black&white illus.

Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875) was one of the most important artists of the Barbizon School. Through his publicly exhibited works and their critical reception, Millet was of crucial significance to modernist painters. Millet's modernity is evident...

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Contemporary Art

Suki Seokyeong Kang Black Mat Oriole

Klein Alex, Kraczon Kate, Lee Yongwoo

ISBN: PB: 9789492811547, DAP, University of Pennsylvania, October 2019
240 pp., 27.3x20.3 cm, 143 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Black Mat Oriole" is the result of five years of research by South Korean artist Suki Seokyeong Kang (born 1977), who has combined sculpture, painting and video to create a multi-site installation that explores the power a...

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Contemporary Art

Sounds

Kandinsky Wassily, Napier Elizabeth R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300238495, Yale University Press, September 2019
152 pp., 21x18.7 cm, 12 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian pioneer of abstract painting whose work has influenced generations of artists. His "Sounds" ("Klنnge") of 1912 is one of the earliest, most beautiful examples of a 20th-century artist's book. Its "sound poe...

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Photography

Michael Kenna Beyond Architecture

Kenna Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783791385822, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
384 pp., 29x23.5 cm, 300 black&white illus.

Michael Kenna is regarded as one of the most accomplished photographers working today. This book charts Kenna's work in the field of architectural photography, showing how his approach to the built environment informs his style, whether he's capturin...

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History of Art

Art Flexi-Series

Vincent Van Gogh

Kuhl Isabel

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791385983, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
144 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 130 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

Anyone studying a Van Gogh painting with its heavily articulated brushstrokes, dazzling color, and hypnotic perspective will wonder about the artist who created such masterpieces. Although some details of the Dutch artist's brief and tragic life have...

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Contemporary Art

Literary Criticism

Anselm Kiefer in Conversation with Klaus Dermutz

Kiefer Anselm, Dermutz Klaus

ISBN: HB: 9780857426031, Seagull Books, September 2019
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 34 colour plates

"I think in pictures. Poems help me with this. They are like buoys in the sea. I swim to them, from one to the other. In between, without them, I am lost. They are the handholds where something masses together in the infinite expanse" – Anselm Kiefer...

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Toward a Global Middle Ages Encountering the World through Illuminated

Keene Bryan C.

ISBN: PB: 9781606065983, Getty Publications, August 2019
296 pp., 25x15 cm, colour illus.

Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books – like today's museums – preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures and everyone's place in it. Often a Eurocentr...

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Photography

John Beasley Greene

Keller Corey

ISBN: HB: 9783791358468, Prestel Publishing, August 2019
176 pp., 26x24.8 cm, 130 colour illus.

Few figures in 19th-century photography remain as elusive and intriguing as John Beasley Greene (1832-1856). Over the course of an exceptionally brief career he created a body of photographs that were publicly admired by his peers and continue to cap...

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