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History of Art

Facing the Modern The Portrait in Vienna, 1900

Blackshaw Gemma, De Waal Edmund, Gronberg Tag, Johnson Julie, Lehmann Doris, Shapira Elana, Wieber Sabine, Costello Mary

ISBN: HB: 9781857095616, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2013
216 pp., 28.9x22 cm, 140 colour illus.

During the great flourishing of modern art in fin-de-siecle Vienna, artists of that city focused on images of individuals. Their portraits depict artists, patrons, families, friends, intellectual allies, and society celebrities from the upwardly mobi...

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Photography

Gardening

Fruit Edible, Inedible, Incredible (Compact Edition)

Stuppy Wolfgang, Kesseler Rob

ISBN: HB: 9781906506421, GMC Group, Papadakis, November 2013
264 pp., 22.9x20.3 cm, colour illus.

Following the award-winning Seeds: Time Capsules of Life, Wolfgang Stuppy and Rob Kesseler explore the fascinating world of fruits through a unique presentation of extraordinary images from around the world accompanied by a lively explanatory text. F...

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History of Art

Fictions of Art History

Hatt Michael, Ledbury Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300191929, Yale University Press, October 2013
256 pp., 24.1x17.8 cm, 90 black&white illus.

"Fictions of Art History", the most recent addition to the Clark Studies in the "Visual Arts" series, addresses art history's complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art his...

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History of Art

Art Conservation

Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks

Gifford E. Melanie, Barbour Daphne S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197426, Yale University Press, September 2013
192 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 115 colour illus.

The National Gallery of Art introduces a new journal presenting the latest conservation research on works in its collection. Named for "the manner in which things are made", "Facture" addresses aspects of conservation from treatment and technical art...

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History of Art

From Still Life to the Screen Print Culture, Display, and the Materiality of the Image in Eighteenth-Century London

Monteyne Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300196351, Yale University Press, August 2013
288 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 55 colour images, 101 black&white illus.

"From Still Life to the Screen" explores the print culture of 18th-century London, focusing on the correspondences between images and consumer objects. In his lively and insightful text, Joseph Monteyne considers such themes as the display of objects...

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Contemporary Art

Feast Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art

Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780935573527, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, August 2013
380 pp., 30.4x20.3 cm, 320 colour illus.

The companion to a one-of-a-kind exhibition at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, "Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art" explores the role of the meal in contemporary art. Feast offers the first survey of the artist-orchestrat...

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Photography

From Here On Postphotography in the Age of Internet and the Mobile

ISBN: PB: 9788415118459, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, July 2013
136 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, colour photos

This catalogue deals precisely with the evolution of the image as a result of the use of new technologies. The transit from the analog to the digital image and the globalization of access to internet and mobile telephones has radically changed the wo...

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Design

Interior Design

Fashion Salon Interiors

ISBN: HB: 9789881683571, Bookport, SendPoints, April 2013
320 pp., 30x23 cm, colour illus.

For sale in Balkans only! A good hair salon in a sense resembles a theatre, with an atmosphere that inspires the staff to create and helps clients relax. The interior design of salon is vital in communicating the brand value, for consumers are incl...

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Contemporary Art

Frantisek Skala Headlands, The Land of Heads

ISBN: HB: 9788087164907, DAP, Arbor Vitae, March 2013
152 pp., 22.9x22.6 cm, 163 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Headlands" is Czech artist Frantisek Skala's (born 1956) homage to the Headlands of Marin County, north of San Francisco, where he lived in the 1990s. It contains his journal entries and reproduces his sculptural heads mad...

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Contemporary Art

Frantisek Skala

ISBN: PB: 9788074670046, DAP, Arbor Vitae, March 2013
228 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 405 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Heir to the postwar Surrealist traditions of his native Czechoslovakia, Frantisek Skala (born 1956) has made remarkable objects, installations and paintings since the early 1980s, while also working in children's illustrati...

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