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Contemporary Art

Ruth Asawa Life's Work

Schenkenberg Tamara, D'Souza Aruna, Molesworth Helen

ISBN: HB: 9780300242690, Yale University Press, April 2019
160 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 100 colour illus.

Throughout her long and prolific career American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) developed innovative sculptures in wire, a medium she explored through increasingly complex forms using craft-based techniques she learned while traveling in Mexico in 194...

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Contemporary Art

Roni Horn When I Breathe, I Draw

White Michelle

ISBN: HB: 9780300233155, Yale University Press, March 2019
130 pp., 24.1x19 cm, 55 colour and black&white illus.

Describing drawing as her "primary activity", for over thirty years, Roni Horn (b. 1955) has created innovative and experimental works on paper marked by both conceptual and technical complexity. This carefully curated survey of the artist's drawings...

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Contemporary Art

Richard Rezac Address

Ovstebo Solveig

ISBN: HB: 9780941548731, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, March 2019
168 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm

The title of Richard Rezac's Renaissance Society exhibition, "Address", plays on the multivalent quality of the word. As a noun, it refers to a unique identifier of a precise location. As a verb, it refers to a form of communication crafted for a spe...

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Photography

Ralph Eugene Meatyard Stages for Being

Horodner Stuart, Welker Janie M.

ISBN: HB: 9781882007004, DAP, University of Kentucky Art Museum, March 2019
112 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 50 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Stages for Being" examines the photography that Ralph Eugene Meatyard created in and around Lexington, Kentucky, where he found abandoned houses in the countryside to use as sets, and directed friends and family members in...

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Decorative Arts

Renaissance Splendor Catherine de' Medici's Valois Tapestries

Cleland Elizabeth, Wieseman Marjorie E., Griffo Alessandra, Da Zara Costanza Perrone

ISBN: HB: 9780300237061, Yale University Press, February 2019
96 pp., 30.2x27.3 cm, 72 colour and black&white illus.

Featuring detailed scenes of court pageantry and life-size portraits of members of the French Valois dynasty woven in wool, silk, and precious metal-wrapped threads, the Valois Tapestries are one of the most extravagant sets of hangings produced in t...

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Design

Rise of Everyday Design The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and America

Penick Monica, Long Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300234985, Yale University Press, February 2019
256 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 210 colour illus.

In its spread from Britain to the United States, the Arts and Crafts Movement evolved from its roots in individual craftsmanship to a mainstream trend increasingly adapted for mass production by American retailers. Inspired by John Ruskin in Britain...

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Photography

Ruby Ray: Kalifornia Kool Photographs 1976-1982

Abrahamsson Carl

ISBN: HB: 9789198451238, DAP, Trapart Books, February 2019
200 pp., 24.8x24.8 cm, 12 colour illus., 160 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Spanning music, art and literature, the industrial and punk scenes of San Francisco in the late 1970s and early 1980s were diverse but united by a DIY, anti-authoritarian attitude. Photographer Ruby Ray was there to capture...

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History of Art

Renaissance Nude

Kren Thomas, Burke Dr. Jill, Campbell Stephen, Herrera Andrea, DePasquale Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9781606065846, Getty Publications, November 2018
432 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, illus.

Reflecting an era when Europe looked to both the classical past and a global future, this volume explores the emergence and acceptance of the nude as an artistic subject. It engages with the numerous and complex connotations of the human body in more...

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History of Art

Rembrandt Painter as Printmaker

Rutgers Jaco, Standring Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9780300234299, Yale University Press, October 2018
176 pp., 27.9x26 cm, 150 colour illus.

As a pioneering printmaker, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) stood apart from his contemporaries thanks to his innovative approach to composition and his skillful rendering of space and light. He worked with the medium as a vehicle for artistic express...

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Contemporary Art

Robert Grosvenor

Ovstebo Solveig

ISBN: HB: 9780941548724, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, October 2018
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 67 colour plates

Over a fifty-year career, Robert Grosvenor has produced a body of work that is at once solidly physical and conceptual, muscular and fluid. Grosvenor frequently uses industrial materials and found objects as he experiments with texture and scale, res...

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