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Contemporary Art

Kara Walker Dust Jackets for the Niggerati

Als Hilton, Hannaham James, Stackhouse Christopher, Young Kevin

ISBN: HB: 9780982681367, DAP, Gregory R. Miller & Co., September 2013
144 pp., 31.1x23.4 cm, 78 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! African-American artist Kara Walker (born 1969) has been acclaimed internationally for her candid investigations of race, sexuality and violence through the lens of reconceived historical tropes. She had her first solo show...

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Design

Koloman Moser Designing Modern Vienna 1897-1907

Witt-Dorring Christian

ISBN: HB: 9783791352947, Prestel Publishing, May 2013
400 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 400 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.

Tracing the career of Koloman Moser, one of the most influential figures in 20th-century design, this stunning book focuses on Moser's accomplishments in the decorative arts. During his short career, Koloman Moser became a towering figure in Viennes...

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Design

Kawaii! Japan's Culture of Cute

Okazaki Manami

ISBN: PB: 9783791347271, Prestel Publishing, March 2013
224 pp., 24x19.3 cm, 240 colour illus.

Showcasing Japan's astonishingly varied culture of cute, this volume takes the reader on a dazzling and adorable visual journey through all things kawaii. Although some trace the phenomenon of kawaii as far back as Japan's Taisho era, it emerged mos...

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Contemporary Art

Koo Jeong A Constellation Congress

Raymond Yasmil, Nesbit Molly, Nicolao Federico, Parreno Philippe, Price Cedric, Sky Rehberg Vivian, Sasselov Dimitar D., Wyn Evans Cerith, Yankelevich Matvei

ISBN: HB: 9780300188806, Yale University Press, January 2013
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 127 colour illus.

Since the early 1990s, Koo Jeong A (b. 1967) has created ephemeral environments, sculptures, and drawings that examine the poetics of everyday life and the mysteries of imagination. This book, the first critical study of Koo's work, looks at the past...

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Photography

Literary Criticism

Kind of Touching Beauty Photographs of America by Pedro Meyer, Text by Jean-Paul Sartre

Meyer Pedro, Sartre Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780857425843, Seagull Books, May 2012
160 pp., 24x24 cm, 100 halftones

Photographer Pedro Meyer is one of the pioneers of contemporary photography and was an early leader in its digital revolution. In "A Kind of Touching Beauty" his lens is focused on the American city, capturing its growth and transition through the 19...

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History of Art

Knowing Nature Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840

Meyers Amy R. W., Ford Lisa L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300111040, Yale University Press, January 2012
424 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 325 colour illus.

Philadelphia developed the most active scientific community in early America, fostering an influential group of naturalist-artists, including William Bartram, Charles Willson Peale, Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon, whose work has been address...

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History of Art

Medieval

Knightly Art of Battle

Mondschein Ken

ISBN: PB: 9781606060766, Getty Publications, October 2011
128 pp., 22.9x16.1 cm, 86 colour illus.

This is an extravagantly illustrated and engrossing exploration of the art of medieval fighting. This volume offers an intriguing look into the world of late medieval martial arts, from wrestling to swordsmanship and to the subtle tricks that could b...

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History of Art

Keith Vaughan Gouaches, Drawings & Prints

Hastings Gerard

ISBN: HB: 9780956419958, Casemate, Osborne Samuel Gallery, October 2011
96 pp., 26.5x20.5 cm, colour illus.

John Keith Vaughan (23 August 1912 – 4 November 1977) was a British painter. Born in Selsey, Vaughan attended Christ's Hospital school. He worked in an advertising agency until the war, when as an intending conscientious objector he joined the St Joh...

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Design

Fashion

Knoll Textiles, 1945-2010

Martin Earl

ISBN: HB: 9780300170696, Yale University Press, July 2011
400 pp., 26.5x21.6 cm, 300 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

In 1940, Hans Knoll founded a company in New York that soon earned a reputation for its progressive line of furniture. Florence Schust joined the firm and helped establish its interior design division, the Knoll Planning Unit. In 1947, the year after...

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Contemporary Art

Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence Painting with White Border

Smithgall Elsa

ISBN: HB: 9780300170788, Yale University Press, June 2011
128 pp., 25x15 cm, 75 colour illus.

Russian artist and theoretician Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a significant figure in 20th-century abstraction. His masterwork "Painting with White Border" (1913, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), inspired by his native Moscow, emerged during an inte...

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