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Contemporary Art

Between Reality and Dream The Aesthetic Vision of K. G. Subramanyan

Richardson Margaret

ISBN: HB: 9780857420060, Seagull Books, August 2013
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour illus.

K. G. Subramanyan is one of the most influential Indian artists, teachers, and theorists of the twentieth century. Born in 1924, Subramanyan has lived and worked during a transformative period in Indian history, one shaped by the contradictions of co...

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History of Art

Byzantine Things in the World

Peers Glenn, Barber Charles, Caffey Stephen, Franses Henri, Haskell Caitlin, Rodriguez James, Shiff Richard, Steiner Shannon, Sutton Susan, Williams Robin

ISBN: HB: 9780300191783, Yale University Press, June 2013
192 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus.

How did Byzantine culture understand its own objects we now call "art"? This enlightening publication proposes that they saw and experienced clay pilgrim tokens, relief stamps, and icons of saints as dynamic and fully capable of affecting the world....

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Photography

Box of Photographs

Grenier Roger

ISBN: HB: 9780226308319, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
120 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 16 halftones

Most attempts to generalize about photography as a medium run up against our experience of the photographs themselves. We live with photos and cameras every day, and philosophies of the photographic image do little to shake our intimate sense of how...

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Contemporary Art

Black Square Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism

Shatskikh Aleksandra, Schwartz Marian

ISBN: HB: 9780300140897, Yale University Press, January 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 41 scattered black&white illus.

Kazimir Malevich's painting "Black Square" is one of the twentieth century's emblematic paintings, the visual manifestation of a new period in artistic culture at its inception. None of Malevich's contemporary revolutionaries created a manifesto, an...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Basic Drawing Made Amazingly Easy

Hart Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780823082766, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, June 2012
160 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, 600 black&white illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! Targeted to each new generation of aspiring beginners eager to learn the fundamentals of drawing in an easy and accessible way. The third title in a bestselling series, "Basic Drawing Made Amazingly Easy" is a co...

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History of Art

Berthe Morisot

Mathieu Marianne

ISBN: PB: 9780300182019, Yale University Press, April 2012
264 pp., 28.5x22 cm, 200 colour illus.

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) was a woman of extraordinary talent who carved for herself a career within the art world of nineteenth-century Paris. She was one of only a handful of women who exhibited with both the Paris Salon and the influential and in...

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Contemporary Art

Be the Worst You Can Be Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue

Saatchi Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781419703737, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, April 2012
160 pp., 21.2x15.2 cm, 175 two-colour illus.

Charles Saatchi founded the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency in 1970, which grew to become the largest of its kind in the world. At the same time he started collecting art and, later, opened his first gallery in London. He championed young Britis...

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Biography & Memoires

Cartoon Art

Backing into Forward A Memoir

Feiffer Jules

ISBN: PB: 9780226240350, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
456 pp., 23x15 cm

Subversive, funny, and effortlessly droll, Jules Feiffer's cartoons were all over New York in the 1960s and '70s – featured in the "Village Voice", but also cut out and pinned to bulletin boards in offices and on refrigerators at home. Feiffer descri...

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Photography

Boris Mikhailov Time is out of Joint

ISBN: HB: 9783942405645, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2012
176 pp., 27.5x23 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English / German

Since starting out as a photographer in the mid-1960s, Boris Mikhailov (b. Kharkov, Ukraine, 1938; lives and works in Kharkov and Berlin) has built a wide-ranging and strikingly multifaceted oeuvre. A virtuoso of his art, he has explored a great vari...

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Contemporary Art

Baby Ikki at the Museum

Smith Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300181043, Yale University Press, March 2012
28 pp., 17.8x17.8 cm, 14 colour illus.

Michael Smith (b. 1951) is known for his groundbreaking work in performance art as well as his immersive mixed media installations. Since 1979, the majority of his work has centered on his extraordinarily prescient and sympathetic character, Mike. Sm...

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