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Photography

Cristina Garcia Rodero PHotoBolsillo

ISBN: PB: 9788492841004, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, May 2008
108 pp., 18x13 cm, black&white photos

Cristina Garcia Rodero has managed to collect snapshots that best express the rites and customs in different societies, because of the influence that meant for her to conect with a tradition that had in anthropologist Julio Caro Baroja Navarre one of...

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Contemporary Art

Puppet Show

Schaffner Ingrid, Kuoni Carin

ISBN: PB: 9780884541134, DAP, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, May 2008
128 pp., 25.4x18.4 cm, 100 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! At first glance, "The Puppet Show" seems a flip title. Organized by Philadelphia ICA Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner and Carin Kuoni, this exhibition catalogue focuses – with both humor and gravity – on the surprisingly pro...

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History of Art

Railway Art in the Age of Steam

Kennedy Ian, Treuherz Julian, Beaumont Matthew, Freeman Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300138788, Yale University Press, April 2008
288 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

Steam locomotives gripped the imagination when they first appeared in nineteenth-century Europe and America. Aboard these great machines, passengers travelled at faster speeds than ever before while watching the scenery transform itself and take on n...

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History of Art

Carmontelle's Landscape Transparencies Cinema of the Enlightenment

Brancion Laurence de

ISBN: HB: 9780892369096, Getty Publications, April 2008
144 pp., 25.4x23.7 cm, 134 colour illus.

Louis de Carmontelle was an eighteenth-century French draftsman, painter, and garden designer. In 1783, he began painting a series of panoramas on translucent paper that, when cranked through a backlit viewing box gave viewers the experience of journ...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Carroll Dunham Prints

Kemmerer Alison N., DeRose Elizabeth C., Dunham Carroll

ISBN: HB: 9780300121650, Yale University Press, April 2008
320 pp., 28.6x22.9 cm, 300 colour illus.

Widely known for his vibrant paintings that employ a variety of styles – including abstraction, figuration, pop, and cartoon – Carroll Dunham (b. 1949) is also one of the most prolific printmakers of his generation. An integral part of the artistic p...

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Photography

Meaning of Photography

Kelsey Robin, Stimson Blake, Batchen Geoffrey, Brunet Francois, Harper Sharon, LoCurto Lilla, Outcault William, Tan Fiona

ISBN: PB: 9780300121506, Yale University Press, April 2008
208 pp., 24.1x17.8 cm, 75 black&white illus.

How can we write the histories of photography? How should art history and visual studies integrate the special technical and aesthetic challenges posed by the medium and respond to the intense interest it has provoked in the art world in recent years...

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History of Art

One Hundred Details from the National Gallery

Clark Kenneth

ISBN: HB: 9781857094268, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, April 2008
160 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Originally published in 1938 when Kenneth Clark was director of the National Gallery, London, this book presents Clark's favorite details from paintings in the museum's collection. Newly updated and handsomely illustrated, this landmark book juxtapos...

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Contemporary Art

Lightning Field

Baker Kenneth, Cooke Lynne

ISBN: HB: 9780300138948, Yale University Press, April 2008
192 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm

Walter De Maria's Lightning Field (1977) is one of the twentieth century's most significant works of art. Situated in a remote area of desert in southwestern New Mexico, it comprises 400 polished, stainless-steel poles (spaced 220 feet apart) install...

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Postcards

Postcards from the Russian Revolution

Roberts Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781851243860, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2008
96 pp., 12.6x17 cm, 88 colour illus.

The Bolshevik revolution of 1917 was one of the most important events of the 20th century. It has been studied from many angles, but never before from the visual perspective of postcards, a surprising number of which were published around the event,...

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Postcards

Postcards from the Trenches

Roberts Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781851243914, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2008
112 pp., 12.6x17 cm, 106 colour illus.

The First World War was unique in being fought largely in trenches. Men ate, slept, fought, played, sang, prayed, and died in the trenches. This book brings together a collection of postcards which portray this strange subterranean world in its vario...

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