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Contemporary Art

Still Life Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum

Dominguez Rubio Fernando

ISBN: PB: 9780226714080, ISBN: HB: 9780226713922, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones, 4 line drawings

How do you keep the cracks in "Starry Night" from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph eternal – or should you attempt it at all? These are some of the questions that...

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Contemporary Art

Tale of Today Nate Young and Mika Horibuchi

Sumah Kekeli

ISBN: PB: 9780578657356, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2020
100 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates

The second exhibition in the Driehaus Museum's initiative to bring contemporary art into the Gilded Age era Nickerson Mansion focuses on two Chicago-based artists: Nate Young and Mika Horibuchi, whose works engage our expectations of the 1883 buildin...

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Contemporary Art

TO LOSE YOUR HEAD (IDOLS) Catalonia in Venice

Azara Pedro

ISBN: PB: 9788494423444, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 200 halftones

For their 2019 Venice Biennale pavilion, Catalonia presented an exhibition exploring the life of public statues and reflecting on the capacity of artworks to possess agency. The project considers the often-intense relationship that forms between huma...

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History of Art

Laurits Tuxen The Court Paintings

Fonss-Lundberg Thyge Christian, Svanholm Lise

ISBN: HB: 9788763546782, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, July 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 247 colour plates, 36 halftones

Laurits Tuxen (1853-1927) was a phenomenally talented artist who, thanks to his skills within both painting and diplomacy, established himself as one of the most important European court painters in the nineteenth century – active, among other places...

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Biography & Memoires

Cartoon Art

Stan Lee A Life in Comics

Leibovitz Liel

ISBN: HB: 9780300230345, Yale University Press, June 2020
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.

Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he created – Spider-Man and Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four – occupy Hollywood's imagination and production schedules, generate billions at t...

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Design

Pattern Euphoria New Designs for Home Interiors and Fashion (New Edition)

Shaoqiang Wang

ISBN: PB: 9788417412722, Hoaki, June 2020
240 pp., 28.5x21 cm, fully illustrated in colour

The patterns collected in this book, which have been created by talented designers from all over the world, are inspired by botanic shapes, the animal kingdom, geometry or abstract forms. The book presents the work of fifty designers who specialize i...

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History of Art

America's Impressionism Echoes of a Revolution

Burdan Amanda C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300247701, Yale University Press, June 2020
192 pp., 27.4x25.4 cm, 170 colour and black&white illus.

From the late 19th century to the Second World War, American painters adapted Impressionism to their own ends, shaping one of the most enduring, complex, and contradictory styles of art ever produced in the United States. This comprehensive book pres...

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Photography

Anne Brigman The Photographer of Enchantment

Pyne Kathleen

ISBN: HB: 9780300249941, Yale University Press, June 2020
248 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 60 colour illus., 96 black&white illus.

In the first book devoted to Anne Brigman (1869-1950), Kathleen Pyne traces the groundbreaking photographer's life from Hawai'i to the Sierra and elsewhere in California, revealing how her photographs emerged from her experience of local place and cu...

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Design

Interior Design

Visual Merchandasing and Display Best Practices for Window Displays and Store Designs

Belli Silvia

ISBN: PB: 9788417656065, Hoaki, June 2020
240 pp., 29.4x20.8 cm, fully illustrated in colour

This comprehensive textbook constitutes an essential tool for students and professionals who want to work in the field of visual merchandising in retail, a discipline which combines the principles of marketing, creativity and design. It covers all as...

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History of Art

Bernini's Michelangelo

Mangone Carolina

ISBN: HB: 9780300247732, Yale University Press, June 2020
288 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 143 colour illus.

Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), like all ambitious artists, imitated eminent predecessors. What set him apart was his lifelong and multifaceted focus on Michelangelo Buonarroti – the master of the previous age. Bernini's Michelangelo is the first co...

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