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Contemporary Art

Window – Interface

Eckmann Sabine, Koepnick Lutz

ISBN: PB: 9780936316222, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, August 2007
96 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 40 colour plates

Windows both connect and divide interior and exterior, public and private spaces. Interfaces update the function of the window in today's world of omnipresent screens and digital information".Window's Interface", based on a forthcoming exhibition at...

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Photography

Images of the West Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860-1880

Griffith Bronwyn, Brunet Francois

ISBN: HB: 9780932171542, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, August 2007
136 pp., 28.6x23.3 cm, 100 colour plates

As American settlement expanded westward in the 1860s, the U. S. government undertook large-scale investigations of its new territories".Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections", 1860-1880 presents memorable glass-plate photograp...

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History of Art

War Paint Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939-1945

Foss Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780300108903, Yale University Press, July 2007
264 pp., 27x21.7 cm, 35 colour, 175 black&white illus.

In this groundbreaking examination of British war art during the Second World War, Brian Foss delves deeply into what art meant to Britain and its people at a time when the nation's very survival was under threat. Foss probes the impact of war art on...

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Contemporary Art

Escultura Social A New Generation of Art from Mexico City

Rodrigues Widholm Julie, Schmelz Itala

ISBN: PB: 9780300134278, Yale University Press, July 2007
224 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 130 colour illus.

Mexico City has emerged as a thriving centre of contemporary art. "Escultura Social" features recent work by a group of artists whose influence has already extended far beyond Mexico and focuses on how they have contributed to an international dialog...

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History of Art

Gates of Paradise Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece

Radke Gary M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300126150, Yale University Press, July 2007
184 pp., 30.5x19.7 cm, 269 colour illus.

In 1452, Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti unveiled a masterpiece that had been a quarter-century in the making: ten bronze panels depicting intricate scenes from the Old Testament. The monumental gilded bronze doors (each over 15 feet tall) were...

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History of Art

Alaska Native Art Tradition, Innovation, Continuity

Fair Susan W.

ISBN: PB: 9781889963822, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2007
312 pp., 26.8x21.5 cm, 220 colour plates, 85 halftones, 2 colour maps

Ranging from the islands of the Bering Sea to Alaska's interior forests,"Alaska Native Art" celebrates the rich art of Alaska's Native peoples, both setting their work in the context of historical traditions and demonstrating the vibrant role it cont...

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Photography

Iren Stehli

ISBN: PB: 9788072152841, DAP, Torst, July 2007
176 pp., 17.8x15.9 cm, 125 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This survey of Iren Stehli's images from 1973 to 2001 captures Czech life over an intense three decades. The artist, born in Zurich in 1953, studied photography in Prague in the mid-70s. In the late 60s, her adopted country...

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History of Art

Painted Face Portraits of Women in France, 1814-1914

Garb Tamar

ISBN: HB: 9780300111187, Yale University Press, June 2007
304 pp., 28x23 cm, 50 colour images, 150black&white illus.

While a painted portrait usually seems to need little explanation, a closer look may reveal that its meaning and even its subject are far more complex than expected. This book charts for the first time the history of French female portraiture from it...

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Design

Barnbrook Bible

Narnbrook Jonathan, Lasn Kalle

ISBN: HB: 9781861542397, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, June 2007
320 pp., 27.3x21.5 cm, full-colour illus.

Keynote An innovative and controversial designer and typographer with a worldwide reputation Jonathan Barnbrook, creates a ground-breaking monograph revisiting his most successful projects and presenting his views on design and his personal graphic w...

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Fashion

Alaska Eskimo Footwear

Oakes Jill

ISBN: PB: 9781602230064, ISBN: HB: 9781889963808, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2007
176 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 153 colour plates, 2 maps, 2 line drawings

"Alaska Eskimo Footwear" celebrates the incredible beauty and spiritual significance of the shoes and boots worn by Alaska Native peoples. Stunning photography brings the harsh and striking environment of the North alive and demonstrates how essentia...

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