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Robert Mapplethorpe The Photographs

Martineau Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781606064696, Getty Publications, March 2016
330 pp., 30.9x24.9 cm, colour and black&white illus.

A fascinating look at one of photography's most controversial and beloved icons. The legacy of Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) is rich and complicated, triggering controversy, polarizing critics, and providing inspiration for many artists who followe...

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Photography

Robert Mapplethorpe The Archive

Terpak Frances

ISBN: HB: 9781606064702, Getty Publications, March 2016
240 pp., 30.7x24.7 cm, 410 colour illus.

Celebrated photographer Robert Mapplethorpe challenged the limits of censorship and conformity, combining technical and formal mastery with unexpected, often provocative content that secured his place in history. Mapplethorpe's artistic vision helped...

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Contemporary Art

Jan Fabre Troubleyn/Laboratorium

Bousset Sigrid, Bruyneel Katrien, Peeters Frank, Synghel Koen van, Dekeyser Jan, Sels Nadia, Van Den Dries Luc

ISBN: HB: 9780300220124, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2016
224 pp., 24.8x19 cm, 130 colour illus.

This handsome book peers into Troubleyn/Laboratorium, the workspace, collective art space, and creative incubator of Belgian multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre (b. 1958), whose performances, staged since the 1980s, have brought him international accl...

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History of Art

Van Gogh's Bedrooms

Groom Gloria, Tilborgh Louis van, Getsy David J., Fiedler Inge, Hendricks Ella, Meedendorp Teio, Menu Michel, Salvant Johanna

ISBN: HB: 9780300214864, Yale University Press, A+D Series, March 2016
176 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 130 colour illus.

Vincent van Gogh's The Bedroom, a painting of his room in Arles, is arguably the most famous depiction of a bedroom in the history of art. The artist made three versions of the work, now in the collections of the Van Gogh Museum, the Art Institute of...

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History of Art

Power of Prints The Legacy of William Ivins and Hyatt Mayor

Spira Freyda, Parshall Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781588395856, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2016
208 pp., 26.7x22.2 cm, 200 colour illus.

Metropolitan Museum curators William M. Ivins and his protege A. Hyatt Mayor not only assembled a vast collection of prints, from Renaissance masterworks to ephemeral works, but also expanded the appreciation of prints as aesthetic objects, socio-his...

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Fashion

Denim Fashion's Frontier

McClendon Emma, Dennis Fred

ISBN: HB: 9780300219142, Yale University Press, March 2016
176 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 100 colour illus.

Denim is one of the world's favorite fabrics, and today it accounts for the largest segment of the clothing industry. The market for jeans alone is worth over 55 billion dollars. Experiments with denim by designers have helped to develop a vast vocab...

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Photography

Thrill of the Chase The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum

Martineau Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781606064672, Getty Publications, March 2016
234 pp., 28.4x24.8 cm, colour and black&white illus.

With more than 26,000 works, the Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr. collection of photographs is the largest single group of artworks in any medium at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Wagstaff (1921-1987) amassed his extraordinary collection between 1973 and 1984, reco...

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Contemporary Art

Sensory Systems

Skrebowski Luke, Parry Richard

ISBN: PB: 9781910221105, Casemate, Anomie Publishing, March 2016
64 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 30 illus.

"Sensory Systems" documents an engaging group exhibition presented at the Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, in autumn 2015. The exhibition is the first in a new annual programme by the gallery each autumn that will revolve around the theme of light, and...

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Contemporary Art

Charles Cundall (1890-1971)

Llewellyn Sasha, Liss Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780956713988, Casemate, Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, March 2016
160 pp., 27x21.5 cm, colour illus.

The first book to appear on the 20th century British artist Charles Cundall, this publication examines aspects of Cundall work done at home in England, abroad – Cundall made numerous painting trips to the continent, but also to the United States – an...

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Contemporary Art

Maria Bartuszova Provisional Forms

Dziewanska Marta

ISBN: PB: 9788364177262, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, March 2016
250 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 60 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! The work of Slovak sculptor Maria Bartuszova (1936-1996) was first presented to international audiences in Kassel in 2007. Although her art has appeared in influential exhibitions and been included in prestigious contemporar...

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