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Zvi Goldstein The Limits of My Knowledge: Works 1969-2013

Meyer-Hermann Eva

ISBN: HB: 9783954760725, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, December 2014
344 pp., 30x23.5 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English

Zvi Goldstein (b. Transylvania, 1947; lives and works in Jerusalem) is a conceptual artist who creates object-like sculptures of great sensual and intellectual radiance. Living in Milan from 1969 until 1978, he made art that combined an analytical-sy...

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Painting in Latin America, 1550-1820 From Conquest to Independence

Alcala Luisa Elena, Brown Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300191011, Yale University Press, December 2014
480 pp., 29.8x23.5 cm, 250 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

"Painting in Latin America, 1550-1820: From Conquest to Independence" surveys the diverse styles, subjects and iconography of painting in Latin America between the 16th and 19th centuries. While European art forms were widely disseminated, copied and...

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Schwarz Black

Trautwein Katrin

ISBN: HB: 9783037783825, Lars Muller Publishers, December 2014
64 pp., 23.2x28.5 cm, 24 colour charts

In this publication, color expert Katrin Trautwein allows subtle differences in a "black palette" to be experienced by means of 24 high-quality screenprints. Made using genuine, water-based pigment paints, the screenprints show how rich and sensual b...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonne of the Works on Paper, Volume 1: 1956-1976

Turvey Lisa, Cooper Harry

ISBN: HB: 9780300209495, Yale University Press, December 2014
350 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 1040 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

This highly anticipated book – the first in a series of three – comprehensively chronicles the first two decades of Ed Ruscha's work on paper, which comprises the largest component of his production of original works. Over 1,000 works on paper are do...

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Marble Index Roubiliac and Sculptural Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Baker Malcolm

ISBN: HB: 9780300204346, Yale University Press, December 2014
400 pp., 28x23 cm, 100 colour images, 300 black&white illus.

The first wide-ranging study of sculptural portraiture in eighteenth-century Britain, this book examines the significance of the bust and the statue as modes of representation within that culture. Adding a missing dimension to accounts of eighteenth-...

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Neo-Impressionism and the Dream of Realities Painting, Poetry, Music

Homburg Cornelia, Smith Paul, Corey Laura D., Kelly Simon, Paulson Noelle C., Riopelle Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300190830, Yale University Press, December 2014
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 130 colour illus.

This stunning catalogue explores the creative exchange between Neo-Impressionist painters and Symbolist writers and composers in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Symbolism, with its emphasis on subjectivity, dream worlds, and spirituality, has often b...

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Roman Art

Zanker Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781606061015, Getty Publications, December 2014
216 pp., 24x17.2 cm, 60 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.

Presented in very clear and accessible language, "Roman Art" offers new and fascinating insights into the evolution of the forms and meanings of Roman art. Traditional studies of Roman art have sought to identify an indigenous style distinct from Gre...

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Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Art of the Figure

Cole Michael W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208207, Yale University Press, December 2014
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

In late 1504 and early 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti were both at work on commissions they had received to paint murals in Florence's City Hall. Leonardo was to depict a historic battle between Florence and Milan, Michelangelo o...

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Ancient Bronzes Through a Modern Lens Introductory Essays on the Study of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Bronzes

Ebbinghaus Susanne, Anderson Lisa, Bewer Francesca G., Bielfeldt Ruth, Eremin Katherine, Hemingway Sean, Lie Henry, Mattusch Carol C., Riederer Josef

ISBN: PB: 9780300207798, Yale University Press, December 2014
208 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 107 colour images, 18 black&white illus.

This publication brings together prominent art historians, conservators and scientists to discuss fresh approaches to the study of ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern works of bronze. Featuring significant bronzes from the Harvard Art Museums' hol...

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Faces of Impressionism Portraits from the Musee d'Orsay

Shackelford George T. M., Cogeval Guy, Pludermacher Isolde, Rey Xavier

ISBN: PB: 9780300207736, Yale University Press, December 2014
250 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 150 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

"Faces of Impressionism" explores the development of the portrait in French painting and sculpture between 1860 and 1910 as showcased in one of the world's greatest collections of Impressionist art – the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. Splendidly illustrated...

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