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History of Art

Decorative Arts

First Treatise on Museums Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, 1565

Meadow Mark A., Robertson Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9781606061497, Getty Publications, November 2013
188 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

This is a new translation of Quiccheberg's seminal 16th century text on the collection and display of objects. "Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones", first published in Latin in 1565, is an ambitious effort to demonstrate the pragmatic value of curios...

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Design

Apple

Miki Ken

ISBN: PB: 9783037783863, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2013
164 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 224 illus.

With "Apple", Ken Miki playfully presents a complete basic course in visual communication – all based on a simple and familiar object: the apple. First, all five senses are activated in a step-by-step analysis of the apple by touching, looking at, sm...

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History of Art

Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art at the Dallas Museum of Art

MacDonald Heather, Brettell Richard R., Dombrowski Andre, Eisenman Stephen, Galvez Paul, House John, Kendall Richard, Kosinski Dorothy M., Le Normand-Romain Antoinette, Locke Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780300187571, Yale University Press, September 2013
144 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 150 colour illus.

"Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Dallas Museum of Art" offers a series of intimate case studies in the history of 19th-century European art. Inspired by a series of public lectures given at the Dallas Museum of Art between 2009 and 2013,...

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Contemporary Art

David Salle Ghost Paintings

Marta Karen

ISBN: PB: 9781891925382, DAP, The Arts Club of Chicago, September 2013
64 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 14 colour illus., 13 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! In the 1980s, American artist David Salle (born 1952) played a crucial role in the formulation of postmodernism in art, helping to reestablish painting as a dominant force. Often thought to use only found imagery, Salle act...

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History of Art

From Still Life to the Screen Print Culture, Display, and the Materiality of the Image in Eighteenth-Century London

Monteyne Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300196351, Yale University Press, August 2013
288 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 55 colour images, 101 black&white illus.

"From Still Life to the Screen" explores the print culture of 18th-century London, focusing on the correspondences between images and consumer objects. In his lively and insightful text, Joseph Monteyne considers such themes as the display of objects...

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History of Art

American Painters on Technique 1860-1945

Mayer Lance, Myers Gay

ISBN: HB: 9781606061350, Getty Publications, July 2013
276 pp., 23.7x16 cm, 20 colour illus.

This is an insightful survey on the materials and techniques of American artistis, from 1860 to 1945. This second volume in the "American Painter's on Technique" series is the first overview of an important but largely unknown aspect of American art...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Summer 2013, Issue 33

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Kreuger Anders, Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9781846381201, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm

Since its launching in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a yea...

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Contemporary Art

Systems We Have Loved Conceptual Art, Affect, and the Antihumanist Turn

Meltzer Eve

ISBN: HB: 9780226007885, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
256 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 62 halftones, 36 colour illus.

By the early 1960s, theorists like Levi-Strauss, Lacan, Foucault, and Barthes had created a world ruled by signifying structures and pictured through the grids of language, information, and systems. Artists soon followed, turning to language and its...

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Children's Books

Three Musicians A Children's Book Inspired by Pablo Picasso

Massenot Veronique

ISBN: HB: 9783791371511, Prestel Publishing, May 2013
32 pp., 32x24 cm, 32 colour illus.

Beautifully illustrated in the style of Pablo Picasso, this tale of music's ability to soothe a savage beast introduces children to aspects of the great artist's work. The kingdom of Mirador is terrified of a monstrous, fire-spewing beast that lurks...

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Contemporary Art

Glamour Is Theft A User's Guide to General Idea: 1969-1978

Monk Philip

ISBN: HB: 9780921972662, DAP, Art Gallery of York University, May 2013
256 pp., 26x20.3 cm, 8 colour illus., 71 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! From its origins in the mail art movement through to its "destruction" of "The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion" in 1977, the Canadian collective General Idea constructed a comprehensive body of work as a performative ficti...

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