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Contemporary Art

Ed Ruscha Course of Empire

Riopelle Christopher, McCarthy Tom, Herrmann Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9781857096323, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, July 2018
48 pp., 31.1x24.8 cm, 30 colour illus.

Over the span of his six-decade career, Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) has created a distinctively stylized vision of the modern American landscape of gas stations, highways, and industrial buildings. Incorporating text, stark typography, and commercial logos,...

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Contemporary Art

Manuel Neri The Human Figure in Plaster and on Paper

Reynolds Jock

ISBN: HB: 9780300233025, Yale University Press, June 2018
124 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 87 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

This engaging publication examines the prodigious body of work of American sculptor Manuel Neri (b. 1930) through the unique perspective of one of Neri's former students. A near-contemporary of other notable California-based artists Richard Diebenkor...

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Contemporary Art

Tomma Abts

Rondeau James, Carey-Thomas Lizzie, Nesin Kate, Rebentisch Juliane

ISBN: HB: 9780300233872, Yale University Press, June 2018
204 pp., 34.3x22.9 cm, 100 colour illus.

With a rigorous approach and self-imposed limitations to both scale and composition, Tomma Abts (b. 1967) has reinvigorated painterly abstraction and its relevance within contemporary art. Using a fixed canvas size and a vertical format, Abts deploys...

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Art Conservation

Keep it Moving? Conserving Kinetic Art

Rivenc Rachel, Bek Reinhard

ISBN: PB: 9781606065389, Getty Publications, May 2018
208 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Kinetic art not only includes movement but often depends on it to produce an intended effect and therefore fully realize its nature as art. It can take a multiplicity of forms and include a wide range of motion, from motorized and electrically driven...

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Design

Max Lamb Exercises in Seating

Ryan Zoe

ISBN: PB: 9780300233889, Yale University Press, May 2018
128 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 145 colour illus.

One of the most exciting designers working today, Max Lamb (b. 1980) has received international acclaim for his innovative experiments with materials, craft, and technology. Drawn to the form of the chair and its relationship to the human body, Lamb...

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Posters

Design

Poster Collection 30 Self-Promotion

Richter Bettina

ISBN: PB: 9783037785584, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2018
192 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 323 illus.

Self-Promotion, the 30th edition of the Poster Collection series, features a compilation of posters the Museum fur Gestaltung in Zurich has commissioned over the years to promote their own exhibitions. Most of them were designed by Swiss designers, t...

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Contemporary Art

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today

Respini Eva

ISBN: HB: 9780300228250, Yale University Press, February 2018
316 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 236 colour illus.

Featuring essays by leading curators, scholars, and critics, this book provides an in-depth look at how the internet has impacted visual art over the past three decades. From the fall of the Berlin Wall to Black Lives Matter, the internet's promise t...

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Contemporary Art

Inventur Art in Germany, 1943-55

Roth Lynette, Voermann Ilka

ISBN: HB: 9780300229202, Yale University Press, February 2018
430 pp., 27x22.9 cm, 308 colour and black&white illus.

As Germany went through a period of intense physical and moral stocktaking in the wake of World War II, the country's artists responded by creating highly charged works and engaging in heated debates about artistic practice and its relationship to th...

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History of Art

16th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311132, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm

Three texts by two Italian Renaissance painters – Leonardo da Vinci and Gian Paolo Lomazzo – and a compendium of the 53 standard pigments commonly found on artists' palettes for painting in oil on panel and on canvas as outlined by the writer, Raffae...

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History of Art

17th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311101, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 16 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.

Ten 17th century writers described the pigments in use in their countries – England, Sweden, Flanders, France, Spain, and Italy. The theme of their treatises was studio practice and the pigments were discussed as they were set on the palette. Surpris...

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