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El Lissitzky The Experience of Totality

ISBN: HB: 9788415691532, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, July 2014
226 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, illus.

This is a fascinating and sumptuously illustrated overview of the work of El Lissitzky, one of the 20th-century's most influential and experimental artists. Eliezer (Lazar) Markovich Lissitzky, El Lissitzky (1890-1941) was one of the most experimenta...

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Design

Interior Design

Experience Fashion Stores

ISBN: HB: 9789881294418, Bookport, SendPoints, April 2014
320 pp., 30x23 cm, colour illus.

For sale in Balkans only! The colors and diversity in the charming world of fashion make it a fascinating realm. Experience Fashion Stores features store designs characterized by LOHAS styles, the Ladies World, and the Gentlemen s Kingdom. Each of...

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Manuals

Expanded Guide: Techniques Understanding Composition

Taylor David

ISBN: PB: 9781781450512, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, April 2014
192 pp., 17.8x14.5 cm, photos

Professional photographer David Taylor's concise, jargon-free text guides the reader through the basics of composition, why it matters, and how to attune the mind to the art of looking. Beginning with a guide to choosing a camera – and how different...

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Photography

Erwin Blumenfeld

Eskildsen Ute

ISBN: PB: 9780300199383, Yale University Press, October 2013
240 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, 90 colour images, 90 black&white illus.

Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. His work offers a unique perspective on the society and politics of the 1930s through the 60s. Born in Berlin, Blumenfeld's peripatetic career took him fi...

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Fashion

Exhibiting Fashion Before and After 1971

Clark Judith, de la Haye Amy

ISBN: HB: 9780300125795, Yale University Press, October 2013
192 pp., 29.7x24 cm, 100 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

With the dramatic increase in popularity of fashion exhibitions over the past decade, this groundbreaking book provides a timely look at the evolution of the practice, taking as its anchor the seminal 1971 Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition "Fashi...

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History of Art

Exhibiting Englishness John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and the Formation of a National Aesthetic

Dias Rosie

ISBN: HB: 9780300196689, Yale University Press, August 2013
288 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 50 colour images, 95 black&white illus.

In the late 18th century, as a wave of English nationalism swept the country, the printseller John Boydell set out to create an ambitious exhibition space, one devoted to promoting and fostering a distinctly English style of history painting. With it...

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Contemporary Art

Experiments in Modern Realism World Making in Postwar European and American Art

Potts Alex

ISBN: HB: 9780300187687, Yale University Press, June 2013
320 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 60 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

This major study offers a new understanding of the aethetics and politics of postwar European and American art. Questioning the widespread assumption that the most innovative practices were non-representational, it shows how a powerful realist impuls...

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History of Art

Etruscan Art In the Metropolitan Museum of Art

De Puma Richard Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780300179538, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2013
368 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 450 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

This informative and engaging book on the Museum's outstanding collection of Etruscan art also provides an introduction to the fascinating and diverse culture of ancient Etruria, which thrived in central Italy from about 900 to 100 B.C. Masterpieces...

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History of Art

Edwardian Opulence British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Trumble Angus, Wolk Rager Andrea, Albinson A. Cassandra, Barringer Tim, Fletcher Pamela M., Hart Imogen, Mansfield Elizabeth C., Nemerov Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300190250, Yale University Press, March 2013
420 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 350 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

Views of the Edwardian era have swung between seeing the period as a golden summer afternoon of imperial and elite complacency and the starkly conflicting depiction of the decade as one of intense political, economic, and artistic instability leading...

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Photography

Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments

Heckert Virginia

ISBN: HB: 9781606061381, Getty Publications, March 2013
100 pp., 26.1x20.6 cm, 11 colour illus., 56 duatones illus.

This is a superbly illustrated look at the evolution of the photographic work of Ed Ruscha – the quintessential Los Angeles artist. Los-Angeles based contemporary artist Ed Ruscha is celebrated for his paintings, drawings, prints, and artist's books,...

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