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History of Art

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311019, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm

Pigments described by the English chemist, Robert Dossie, the French artists' colourman, Jean Felix Watin, and the London-based pigment maker, Constant de Massoul. 18th century European painting saw the introduction of new pigments to the painters' p...

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1st Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311149, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
88 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 12 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.

The sources of pigments used in European painting are found in classical antiquity, 1st. century B.C. to 1st century A.D. The over 40 pigments in use were described by Vitruvius, Pliny the Elder and Dioscorides, complemented by 3rd century B.C. Theop...

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History of Art

Lake Keitele Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Robbins Anne

ISBN: HB: 9781857096248, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2017
72 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 35 colour and black&white illus.

Relatively unknown outside of his homeland, Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931) was a leading figure in modern Finnish painting and the decorative arts. This publication focuses on four versions of his shimmering depictions of Lake Keitele (1904-1905),...

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Scale

Roberts Jennifer L.

ISBN: PB: 9780932171597, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, November 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 80 colour plates

Scale is perhaps the most spectacularly overlooked aspect of artistic production. As photographic and digital reproductions have essentially dematerialized art, critical and historical research dealing with scale – both within the American critical t...

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Contemporary Art

Design, Form, and Chaos

Rand Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300230918, Yale University Press, October 2017
240 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 70 colour illus., 55 black&white illus.

Paul Rand (1914-1996) was a pioneer in the field of advertising design and typography, and his work still exerts a profound influence on the design profession. First published to critical acclaim in 1993, and long unavailable, Design, Form, and Chaos...

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Contemporary Art

From Lascaux to Brooklyn

Rand Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300230925, Yale University Press, October 2017
200 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 60 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Hailed upon its publication as "discriminating, erudite, and eclectic", From Lascaux to Brooklyn is now available to readers once again. First published in 1996, the year of Paul Rand's death, the volume embarks on a wonderful journey from the time b...

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Conversation Piece Making Modern Art in 18th-Century Britain

Retford Kate

ISBN: HB: 9780300194807, Yale University Press, October 2017
448 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 150 colour illus., 85 black&white illus.

Pioneered by William Hogarth (1697-1764) and his peers in the early 18th century, and then revitalized by Johan Zoffany (1733-1810), the conversation piece was an innovative mode of portraiture, depicting groups posed in landscape or domestic setting...

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Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran

Roxburgh David J., Knipe Penley, McWilliams Mary, Barnes Trent, Braxton Mycah, Collaco Gwendolyn, Dokhani Farhad, Gulkis Bronwen, Mirseyedi Sarah, Poier Veronika

ISBN: HB: 9780300229189, Yale University Press, October 2017
244 pp., 36.8x24.8 cm, 237 colour illus.

The Harvard Qajar Album is an outstanding compendium of nearly 150 beautiful drawings, paintings, and a print produced during the Qajar dynasty of Iran, from the late 18th to early 20th century. The wide-ranging works – spanning narrative composition...

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Cartoon Art

Heath Robinson How to be a Perfect Husband

Robinson W. Heath, Browne K. R. G.

ISBN: HB: 9781851244904, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2017
128 pp., 18.5x12 cm, 120 black&white illus.

What makes a perfect husband? In this tongue-in-cheek guide, illustrated by Heath Robinson's inimitable cartoons and contraptions, there are many charmingly old-fashioned tips for how to succeed in almost all aspects of married life. First published...

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Contemporary Art

Sonia Delaunay Art, Design and Fashion

Ruiz del Arbol Marta, Godefroy Cecile, de Leeuw-de Monti Matteo

ISBN: HB: 9788417173012, DAP, Fundacion Coleccion Thyssen-Bornemisza, October 2017
236 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, 184 colour illus., 52 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Sonia Delaunay: Art, Design, Fashion" provides a unified vision of the modernist pioneer's work in painting, theatrical sets, advertising, interiors, fashion and textiles. Published for a landmark exhibition at Museo Thyss...

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