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Spectacular Rubens The Triumph of the Eucharist Series
ISBN: PB: 9781606064306, Getty Publications, October 2014
112 pp., 27.9x24 cm, 88 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.
This lavishly illustrated volume offers a fascinating glimpse into Ruben's artistic process. The six glorious scenes that make up the Triumph of the Eucharist series by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) are highlights of the Museo Nacional del Prado's su...
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£18,99
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it was always there, it's just grown stronger
ISBN: HB: 9783037784556, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2014
144 pp., 16.5x24 cm, 100 illus.
Over the now more than forty-five years that he has been studying and exploring photography, Christian Vogt has discovered new visual vocabularies again and again. In his new work, consisting almost exclusively of contrasting pairs of pictures, he co...
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£22,00
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Vital Art Nouveau 1900 From the Collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague
ISBN: PB: 9788074670541, DAP, Museum of Decorative Arts Prague, October 2014
304 pp., 24.7x20.9 cm, 539 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Vital Art Nouveau 1900" presents a selection of the most outstanding works of Czech and European Art Nouveau style from the collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, all of which are on permanent display at th...
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£57,00
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Jan Svoboda
ISBN: PB: 9788072154241, DAP, Torst, September 2014
140 pp., 17.7x16.5 cm, 92 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! Czech artist Jan Svoboda (1934-1990) spent a lifetime laboring to redefine the language of photography. This catalogue gives an overview of his career, from early still lifes to works that questioned the rules and boundarie...
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Rembrandt's Themes Life into Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300201536, Yale University Press, August 2014
224 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 60 colour images, 170 black&white illus.
Rembrandt van Rjin (1606-1669) was among the few celebrated old masters who enjoyed considerable freedom in his choice of subject matter. Living and working in the Protestant Netherlands, he painted largely for private patrons and the open market, se...
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£25,00
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Michael Snow Photo-centric
ISBN: PB: 9780300196412, Yale University Press, March 2014
60 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 34 colour images, 2 black&white illus.
Canadian filmmaker and artist Michael Snow (b. 1929) is known as a pioneer of conceptualist and multimedia practice. His seminal film Wavelength (1967), described as a "45-minute zoom", investigates the relationship between time and space, a subject...
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£15,00
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Place by Place
ISBN: HB: 9783037784051, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2014
402 pp., 24x30 cm, 615 illus.
"Place by Place" is the latest publication by the artist Felice Varini, constituting a re-examination of his complete oeuvre based on his most recent works. His fascinating spatial installations make use of urban landscapes, walls, and rooms as "scre...
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Fernand Leger and the Modern City
ISBN: PB: 9780300197662, Yale University Press, December 2013
256 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 238 colour images, 11 black&white illus.
With his landmark 1919 painting "The City, Fernand Leger" (1881-1955) inaugurated a vitally experimental decade during which he and others redefined the practice of painting in confrontation with the forms of cultural production that were central to...
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Harlem The Unmaking of a Ghetto
ISBN: HB: 9780226853369, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
269 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 268 colour plates
For more than a century, Harlem has been the epicenter of black America, the celebrated heart of African American life and culture – but it has also been a byword for the problems that have long plagued inner-city neighborhoods: poverty, crime, viole...
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Pop Art 50 Works of Art You Should Know
ISBN: PB: 9783791348452, Prestel Publishing, August 2013
144 pp., 24x19.3 cm, 100 colour illus.
The most important and best-loved artists of the Pop art movement are gathered in this accessible book of painting, photography, film, and sculpture. When it emerged in the 1950s, the Pop art movement presented a challenge to fine art with its incor...
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