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Contemporary Art

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50 Contemporary Artists You Should Know New Edition

Weidemann Christiane, Finger Brad

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791384429, Prestel Publishing, April 2018
160 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 120 colour illus.

Now available in a new edition, this survey of great contemporary artists is the perfect introduction to the exciting world of art today. From painters and photographers to sculptors and performance artists, fifty of the most influential contemporar...

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Photography

Pompeii Archive

Wylie William

ISBN: HB: 9780300233667, Yale University Press, April 2018
120 pp., 27.9x32.4 cm, 83 duotone illus.

Handsomely illustrated and grand in scale, this book features images by American photographer William Wylie (b. 1957) taken over the course of five years. The photographs reanimate the ancient city of Pompeii, showing the ongoing cycles of deteriorat...

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Interior Design

Design

Color Collective's Palette Perfect Color Combinations Inspired by Fashion, Art and Style

Wager Lauren

ISBN: PB: 9788415967903, Hoaki, March 2018
304 pp., 21x14.8 cm, fully illustrated in colour

Aimed at fashion students and designers, "Palette Perfect" is both a practical guide and an inspirational book that proposes a reflection on the universe of colour combinations, the moods and atmospheres they evoke and how we associate particular pla...

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Decorative Arts

History of Art

Mirroring China's Past Emperors, Scholars, and Their Bronzes

Wang Tao

ISBN: HB: 9780300228632, Yale University Press, March 2018
264 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 305 colour illus., 85 black&white illus.

In ancient China (2000-221 b.c.) elaborate bronze vessels were used for rituals involving cooking, drinking, and serving food. This fascinating book not only examines the cultural practices surrounding these objects in their original context, but it...

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Contemporary Art

Mona Hatoum Terra Infirma

White Michelle, Chave Anna C., Shibli Adania, Solnit Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780300233148, Yale University Press, February 2018
192 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 289 colour and black&white illus.

The work of London-based artist Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) addresses the growing unease of an ever-expanding world that is as technologically networked as it is fractured by war and exile. Best known for sculptures that transform domestic objects such as...

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Literary Criticism

Design

Designing English

Wakelin Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9781851244751, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2018
224 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 92 colour illus.

Early manuscripts in the English language include religious works, plays, romances, poetry and songs, as well as charms, notebooks, science and medieval medicine. How did scribes choose to arrange the words and images on the page in each manuscript?...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Power of Material / Politics of Materiality

Witzgall Susanne, Stakemeier Kerstin

ISBN: PB: 9783037349878, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2018
256 pp., 21.6x16 cm, 155 colour plates, 2 line drawings, 4 halftones

Materiality has emerged as a new focus for art, design, and architecture. Where there was once the belief that the form of a work offered more capacity to bestow meaning, "New Materialism" asserts the agency of material within the artistic process, e...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Present of the Future

Witzgall Susanne, Stakemeier Kerstin

ISBN: PB: 9783037349861, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2018
230 pp., 21.6x16 cm, 81 colour plates, 16 halftones

As the world teeters on the brink of crisis and potentially catastrophic change, outlooks for the future have come to be characterized by anxiety. The skepticism that meets utopian visions of the future has given rise to collective nostalgia for seem...

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Fashion

Jil Sander Present Tense

Wagner Matthias K.

ISBN: HB: 9783791357515, Prestel Publishing, November 2017
264 pp., 32x25 cm, 124 colour illus., 56 black&white illus.

Published in a book for the first time: Jil Sander, one of the most influential fashion designers of her generation. Jil Sander is known for designing well sculptured, high quality clothes in subdued colors. This comprehensive book presents her work...

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History of Art

Behind the Mask Artists in the GDR

Westheider Ortrud, Philipp Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783791356952, Prestel Publishing, November 2017
248 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 colour illus.

"Behind the Mask: Artists in the GDR" focuses on the wide variety of artistic self-staging in the GDR, between public and private, prescribed collectivism and creative individuality. The intention of the GDR's official state art was to exert politica...

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