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Masters of Art

Masters of Art Botticelli

Poletti Frederico

ISBN: PB: 9783791346182, Prestel Publishing, September 2011
160 pp., 21x17 cm, 80 colour illus.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Botticelli makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. The Florentine painter Botticelli personifies the Golden Age of the early Renaissance. Best known for T...

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History of Art

Proof The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California

Lehmbeck Leah

ISBN: HB: 9781606060933, Getty Publications, September 2011
256 pp., 29.3x24.7 cm, 200 colour illus.

This is a lavishly illustrated exploration of the rise of printmaking in Southern California and its legacy on post-war American art. The first goal of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, founded in Los Angeles in 1960, was to "create a pool of master...

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Masters of Art

Masters of Art Rembrandt

Zuffi Stefano

ISBN: PB: 9783791346205, Prestel Publishing, September 2011
160 pp., 21x17 cm, 80 colour illus.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Rembrandt makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. Celebrated for his penetrating portraits, richly detailed landscapes, and evocative narrative paintings,...

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Fashion

Daphne Guinness

Steele Valerie, Guinness Daphne

ISBN: HB: 9780300176636, Yale University Press, September 2011
192 pp., 28x23 cm, 100 colour illus.

"She is one of the – if not the – most stylish women living", says designer and film director Tom Ford, speaking of Daphne Guinness, the subject and co-author of this extraordinary book. From her platinum-and-black striped hair to her towering 10-inc...

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Contemporary Art

Stieglitz and His Artists Matisse to O'Keeffe

Mintz Messinger Lisa, Dabrowski Magdalena, Michael Cora, Murphy Jessica, Rewald Sabine, Rippner Samantha, Tolles Thayer

ISBN: HB: 9780300175882, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2011
352 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 440 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

A master photographer, Alfred Stieglitz was also a visionary promoter and avid collector of modern American and European art from the first half of the 20th century. This publication is the first fully-illustrated catalogue of works in the unparallel...

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Edward Hopper Portraits of America

Schmied Wieland

ISBN: PB: 9783791346137, Prestel Publishing, September 2011
128 pp., 27x18.5 cm, 27 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.

Now available again, this book is a penetrating exploration of the American realist painter Edward Hopper, who was able to capture the many moods of the nation he called home. From his images of deserted small towns and solitary figures in empty off...

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Contemporary Art

Richard Diebenkorn The Ocean Park Series

Bancroft Sarah C., Landauer Susan, Levitt Peter

ISBN: HB: 9783791351384, Prestel Publishing, September 2011
256 pp., 30.5x25.5 cm, 150 colour illus.

This stunning exhibition catalogue celebrates in-depth for the first time Richard Diebenkorn's seminal Ocean Park works, serving as a major reference and a source of new scholarship on the series.

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Contemporary Art

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

Alcantara Isabel, Egnolff Sandra

ISBN: PB: 9783791346151, Prestel Publishing, September 2011
120 pp., 27x18.5 cm, 61 colour illus., 22 black&white illus.

Now available again, this bestselling book reveals the story of two creative geniuses, their important contributions to twentieth-century art, and their tumultuous romance. This captivating book delves into the forces that shaped Frida Kahlo and Die...

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Contemporary Art

Abdulnasser Gharem Art of Survival

Hemming Henry

ISBN: HB: 9781861543240, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, September 2011
200 pp., 38x30 cm, full-colour illus.

"Adulnasser Gharem: Art of Survival" explores the extraordinary life and work of one of the Gulf's most radical young artists. Gharem, who is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the Saudi Arabian army, is widely regarded as a pioneer in the region for his f...

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Controversy of Renaissance Art

Nagel Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226567723, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
376 pp., 25.7x22.4 cm, 100 halftones, 60 colour illus.

Many studies have shown that images – their presence in the daily lives of the faithful, the means used to control them, and their adaptation to secular uses – were at the heart of the Reformation crisis in northern Europe. But the question as it aff...

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