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Contemporary Art

Jasper Johns Light Bulb

Davies Hugh M., Hanor Stephanie, Lancaster Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780934418690, DAP, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, November 2008
96 pp., 24.1x19 cm, 37 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The underlying subject matter of Jasper Johns' work is not the object represented, but the investigation of how we perceive, label and categorize objects. Published to accompany a traveling exhibition of the same name with...

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Contemporary Art

Philosophy

Subversion and Subsidy Contemporary Art and Aesthetics

Rochlitz Rainer

ISBN: PB: 9781905422715, ISBN: HB: 9781905422708, Seagull Books, November 2008
240 pp., 18.6x15.2 cm

Art today is in deep crisis. Criticism seems to have abandoned any notion of evaluation, the public has been denied the possibility of understanding, and aesthetics have lost all legitimacy. Formerly, artists claimed their right to decide for themsel...

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Contemporary Art

Literary Criticism

Correspondence Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein

Stein Gertrude, Picasso Pablo

ISBN: PB: 9780857425850, ISBN: HB: 9781905422913, Seagull Books, November 2008
390 pp., 21.3x19.6 cm

Pablo Picasso was one of the most prodigious and revolutionary artists in the history of Western painting. Gertrude Stein was an avant-garde American writer, art collector, eccentric and self-styled genius. Her Paris home was the leading salon for ar...

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Cartoon Art

Painting and Drawing Manuals

Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression

Faigin Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780823004324, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, November 2008
288 pp., 28x21 cm, 400 illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! Artists will love this book, the definitive guide to capturing facial expressions. In a carefully organised, easy-to-use format, author Gary Faigin shows readers the expressions created by individual facial muscl...

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Contemporary Art

Art and China's Revolution

Chiu Melissa, Shengtian Zheng

ISBN: HB: 9780300140644, Yale University Press, October 2008
280 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 150 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Although numerous books on the Cultural Revolution have been published, they do not analyze the profound shift in aesthetic values that occurred in China after the Communists took power. This fascinating book is the first to focus on artwork produced...

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History of Art

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

Bayer Andrea, Brown Beverly, Edwards Nancy, Fahy Everett, Krohn Deborah L., Musacchio Jacqueline Marie, Thornton Dora, Grantham Turner James, Syson Luke

ISBN: HB: 9780300124118, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2008
352 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Many famous Italian Renaissance artworks were made to celebrate love and marriage. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from the early Renaissance, of commemorating betrothal, marriage, and the birth of a child by commissioning extraordinar...

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Decorative Arts

Art of Japanese Craft 1875 to the Present

Fischer Felice

ISBN: PB: 9780300142129, Yale University Press, October 2008
60 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 74 colour images, 70 black&white illus.

From Japan's first forays onto the international stage of world's fairs in the late nineteenth century to the dynamic creativity of the 1920 and 1930s, from the heady post-World War II period to the present day, Japanese crafts have exhibited a rich...

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Interior Design

Cosmopolitan Interior Liberalism and the British Home, 1870-1914

Neiswander Judith

ISBN: HB: 9780300124903, Yale University Press, October 2008
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 70 black&white illus.

Literature on domestic interior decoration first emerged as a popular genre in Britain during the 1870s and 1880s, as middle-class readers sought decorating advice from books, household manuals, women's magazines, and professional journals. This intr...

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Photography

Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before

Fried Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300136845, Yale University Press, October 2008
320 pp., 27.5x19.5 cm, 70 colour images, 90 black&white illus.

From the late 1970s onward, serious art photography began to be made at large scale and for the wall. Michael Fried argues that this immediately compelled photographers to grapple with issues centering on the relationship between the photograph and t...

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History of Art

Design

William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones Interlacings

Arscott Caroline

ISBN: HB: 9780300140934, Yale University Press, October 2008
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 60 colour images, 40 black&white illus.

The friendship between William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones began when they met as undergraduates in 1853 and lasted until Morris' death in 1896, despite their differences in temperament and in attitudes to political engagement. This friendship was...

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