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Contemporary Art

Rainer Fetting

Arndt Matthias

ISBN: HB: 9783954761999, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, August 2017
128 pp., 27x22 cm, 57 colour illus., language: English / German

If Berliners have heard of Rainer Fetting (b. Wilhelmshaven, 1949; lives and works in Berlin and Sylt), it is probably for his larger-than-life bronze statue of Willy Brandt at the Social Democratic Party's headquarters. But Fetting is actually best...

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Photography

Revolution and Ritual The Photographs of Sara Castrejon, Graciela Iturbide, and Tatiana Parcero

MacNaughton Mary Davis

ISBN: PB: 9781606065457, Getty Publications, August 2017
190 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

This richly illustrated catalogue features photographs by three Mexican women, each representing a different generation, who have explored and transform notions of Mexican identity in works that range from the documentary to the poetic. Revolution an...

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History of Art

Restless Figure Expression in Czech Sculpture 1880-1914

Wittlich Petr, Baborovska Sandra

ISBN: HB: 9788024634289, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2017
240 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 200 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! At the end of the nineteenth century, Czech figural sculpture achieved an artistic quality comparable to that of contemporary artworks produced in the main artistic centers of Europe, incl...

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Contemporary Art

Recording Machine Art and Fact During the Cold War

Shannon Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9780300187274, Yale University Press, July 2017
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 30 colour illus., 125 black&white illus.

A revealing look at the irrevocable change in art during the 1960s and its relationship to the modern culture of fact. This refreshing and erudite book offers a new understanding of the transformation of photography and the visual arts around 1968....

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History of Art

Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test

Witkovsky Matthew S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300225716, Yale University Press, A+D Series, July 2017
368 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 430 colour and black&white illus.

Groundbreaking new insight into a rich spectrum of early Soviet art and its spaces of display. Published on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this landmark book gathers information from the forefront of current research in early Soviet art, p...

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History of Art

Roman Mosaics in the J.Paul Getty Mueseum

Belis Alexis

ISBN: PB: 9781606064979, Getty Publications, June 2017
88 pp., 27.9x21.7 cm, illus.

The mosaics in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum span the second through the sixth centuries AD and reveal the diversity of compositions found throughout the Roman Empire during this period. Elaborate floors of stone and glass tesserae trans...

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Decorative Arts

Rothschild Renaissance A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum

Shirley Pippa, ? Thornton Dora

ISBN: PB: 9780861592128, Casemate, British Museum Press, June 2017
200 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 230 illus.

In 1898, Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild bequeathed to the British Museum the contents from the New Smoking Room at Waddesdon Manor, a collection of nearly 300 objects to be known as the Waddesdon Bequest. The Bequest contains some of the most beautifu...

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Contemporary Art

Rauschenberg / Dante Drawing a Modern Inferno

Krcma Ed

ISBN: HB: 9780300221565, Yale University Press, May 2017
224 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 80 colour illus., 38 black&white illus.

Dante's "Inferno" inspired Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) to create a series of 34 drawings that comprise one of the most remarkable creative enterprises of 20th-century American art. Completed between 1958 and 1960, "XXXIV Drawings for Dante's Infe...

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Fashion

Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garcons Art of the In-Between

Bolton Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781588396204, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2017
256 pp., 34.3x24.1 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.

A revelatory look at the influential and enigmatic designer behind Comme des Garcons. The great pantheon of fashion designers produces only a handful of creators who are masters of their metier. Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons is one of them. Wide...

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Contemporary Art

Robert Ryman

Martin Courtney J., Hoban Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300226713, Yale University Press, May 2017
304 pp., 26.7x19 cm, 120 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

A comprehensive study highlighting the interplay of context and meaning in Robert Ryman's work. This remarkable volume, featuring new photography and original essays by a formidable array of scholars and curators, is the most expansive and thorough...

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