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Contemporary Art

Colour from Coast to Coast Alice Mumford

Massey Ian

ISBN: PB: 9781908326676, Casemate, Sansom & Co, September 2015
80 pp., 25.5x21 cm, 100 illus.

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History of Art

Condition The Ageing of Art

Taylor Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781907372797, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, September 2015
264 pp., 24.2x16.8 cm, 140 colour illus.

Anyone writing about a work of art needs to establish at the outset how much it has changed since it was first made. This simple, informative and pracrical book, full of fascinating and revelatory photography, will take the reader through both the te...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Sybil Andrews and the Grosvenor School Linocuts

Leaper Hana

ISBN: HB: 9780993078644, Casemate, Osborne Samuel Gallery, September 2015
90 pp., 24.5x19.5 cm, colour illus.

Sybil Andrews was a printmaker first and foremost and, like her Grosvenor School colleagues, was encouraged by their mentor and teacher Claude Flight (1881-1955). They adopted a Cubist-Futurist-Vorticist pictorial language that discarded the outrageo...

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Architecture

History of Art

On Loos, Ornament and Crime Columns of Smoke: Volume II

Lahuerta Juan Jose, Thomson Graham

ISBN: PB: 9788493923150, University of Chicago Press, Editorial Tenov, September 2015
112 pp., 21x15.8 cm, 56 halftones

In his Columns of Smoke series, Juan Jose Lahuerta takes on the enormously ambitious task of re-reading modernity, offering us fresh ways of looking at it while drawing new links between the ideas of architecture and ornamentation, with a special foc...

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Philosophy

History of Art

After the Beautiful Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226325583, ISBN: HB: 9780226079493, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 colour plates, 36 halftones

In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility – the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel's approach to art has been influen...

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Contemporary Art

After Year Zero Geographies of Collaboration

Busch Annett, Franke Anselm

ISBN: PB: 9788364177255, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, September 2015
220 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates, 50 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! Published in conjunction with an exhibition that has traveled to the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw from Berlin's Haus der Kulturen der Welt, this volume takes as its starting point the realignment of global ties after 1945...

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Contemporary Art

Media Studies

Revisions Zen for Film

Holling Hanna B.

ISBN: PB: 9781941792049, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, September 2015
220 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 22 halftones

How do works of art endure over time in the face of aging materials and changing interpretations of their meaning? How do decay, technological obsolescence, and the blending of old and new media affect what an artwork is and can become? And how can c...

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Design

Panerai

ISBN: HB: 9788831720748, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2015
232 pp., 33.7x33.4 cm, 105 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The recent history of Officine Panerai is exceptional: from small craft workshop to manufacturer of fine sports watches, it has become now a leading player on the world's markets, given the remarkable speed with which the b...

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History of Art

The Poetry of Light Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Washington

Robison Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9788831720502, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2015
384 pp., 29.1x24.3 cm, 185 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The extraordinary collection of Venetian drawings in the national Gallery of Art of Washington is presented for the first time in this book: a hundred and forty-four works by the greatest Venetian masters (from Mantegna to...

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Photography

Lee Friedlander Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom

King Martin Luther Jr., Randolph A. Philip, Wilkinsr Roy

ISBN: HB: 9780871300713, DAP, Eakins Press Foundation, September 2015
88 pp., 22.8x21.5 cm, 58 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! On May 17, 1957, through the generosity of Bayard Rustin, Lee Friedlander was given full access to photograph the participants of the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom in Washington, D.C. This extraordinary event, organized by...

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