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Hard Life

Morrison Jasper

ISBN: HB: 9783037785140, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2017
208 pp., 30x22 cm, 230 illus.

By what means did so much beauty and ingenuity appear in articles of everyday rural life in Portugal? How did the shape of these objects balance necessity and formal perfection so skillfully? This book explores the effect that generations of trial an...

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History of Art

Art and Nature in the Middle Ages

Myers Nicole, Pastoureau Michel, Taburet-Delahaye Elisabeth, Zink Michel

ISBN: PB: 9780300227055, Yale University Press, March 2017
136 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 115 colour illus.

This splendidly illustrated book explores the universal and multifaceted theme of nature as manifested in Western European art of the Middle Ages. Fascinating essays consider the concept in the context of medieval philosophy, theology, and poetry. Th...

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Contemporary Art

Nick Cave Until

Markonish Denise

ISBN: HB: 9783791356051, Prestel Publishing, February 2017
192 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 200 colour illus.

This generously illustrated book takes readers inside Nick Cave's newest work: an enormous, elaborate journey through the workings of the artistic mind. Nick Cave's "Soundsuits" – exuberant, brightly colored wearable sculptures adorned with buttons,...

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History of Art

Women of Abstract Expressionism

Marter Joan M., Chanzit Gwen Finkel, Hobbs Robert, Landau Ellen G., Landauer Susan, Sandler Irving

ISBN: HB: 9780300208429, Yale University Press, February 2017
208 pp., 30.5x54 cm, 144 colour illus.

The artists Jay DeFeo, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and many other women played major roles in the development of Abstract Expressionism, which flourished in New York and San Francisco in the 194...

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History of Art

Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Painings and Icons

Mathews Thomas F., Muller Norman

ISBN: HB: 9781606065099, Getty Publications, February 2017
256 pp., 25x15 cm

Staking out new territory in the history of art, this book presents a compelling argument for a lost link between the panel-painting tradition of Greek antiquity and Christian paintings of Byzantium and the Renaissance. While art historians place the...

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Decorative Arts

American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago

McGoey Elizabeth, Barquist David L., Barter Judith A., Harvey Medill Higgins, Kane Patricia E., Wagner Ann, Ward Gerald W. R., Waters Deborah Dependahl, Wees Beth Carver, Bach Deborah Schmidt

ISBN: HB: 9780300222364, Yale University Press, A+D Series, February 2017
224 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 151 black&white illus., 196 colour illus.

The history of American silver offers invaluable insights into the economic and cultural history of the nation itself. Published here for the first time, the Art Institute of Chicago's superb collection embodies innovation and beauty from the colonia...

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Contemporary Art

Richard Patterson Matters of Life and Death

Moorhouse Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781910221129, Casemate, Anomie Publishing, February 2017
104 pp., 29.2x24.5 cm, 49 illus.

"Matters of Life and Death" is a limited-edition publication documenting the remarkable new and recent paintings of celebrated Dallas-based British artist Richard Patterson (b. 1963). An engaging introduction by Paul Moorhouse, Senior Curator at th...

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Photography

Documenting the World Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record

Mitman Gregg, Wilder Kelley

ISBN: HB: 9780226129112, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 colour plates, 40 halftones

Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camps of Auschwitz, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Apollo lunar landing. It would b...

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Contemporary Art

Carmen Herrera Lines of Sight

Miller Dana, Lemoine Serge, Mosquera Gerardo, Sullivan Edward J., Espinel Monica

ISBN: HB: 9780300221862, Yale University Press, January 2017
232 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 180 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.

An overdue evaluation of the life and work of a prolific and significant contemporary artist Cuban-born artist Carmen Herrera (b. 1915) has painted for more than seven decades, though it is only in recent years that acclaim for her work has catapulte...

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Contemporary Art

Strange Worlds The Vision of Angela Carter

Mulvey-Roberts Marie, ? Robinson Fiona

ISBN: PB: 9781908326980, Casemate, Sansom & Co, December 2016
144 pp., 27x21 cm, 70 colour illus.

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