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Contemporary Art

Stieglitz and His Artists Matisse to O'Keeffe

Mintz Messinger Lisa, Dabrowski Magdalena, Michael Cora, Murphy Jessica, Rewald Sabine, Rippner Samantha, Tolles Thayer

ISBN: HB: 9780300175882, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2011
352 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 440 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

A master photographer, Alfred Stieglitz was also a visionary promoter and avid collector of modern American and European art from the first half of the 20th century. This publication is the first fully-illustrated catalogue of works in the unparallel...

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History of Art

Steins Collect Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde

Bishop Janet, Debray Cecile, Rabinow Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780300169416, Yale University Press, May 2011
464 pp., 29.6x25.9 cm, 220 black&white illus., 400 colour illus.

As American expatriates living in Paris, the writer Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael's wife Sarah were absolutely pivotal in shaping the city's vibrant cultural life in the early 20th century. They hosted Saturday evening sal...

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Contemporary Art

Sharon Lockhart Lunch Break II

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: PB: 9780936316314, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, May 2011
96 pp., 30x20.8 cm, 125 halftones

This book evolved from an archive of images collected by artist Sharon Lockhart while researching her project "Lunch Break" – a series of films and photographs she produced from a long-term collaboration with the workers of Bath Iron Works in Maine,...

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History of Art

State Hermitage Museum Catalogue British Painting: 16th-19th Centuries

Renne Elizaveta

ISBN: HB: 9780300170467, Yale University Press, April 2011
400 pp., 31x25.7 cm, 650 colour illus.

The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg houses a relatively small but choice collection of 16th- to 19th-century British paintings, among them Thomas Gainsborough's vibrant Portrait of "A Lady in Blue" (c. 1770) and his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds...

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History of Art

Symbols of Power in Art

Rapelli Paola, Garnier-Pelle Nicole

ISBN: PB: 9781606060667, Getty Publications, April 2011
384 pp., 20x13.7 cm, 400 colour illus.

This title is a superbly illustrated and insightful guide to the symbols of power in Western art. This latest volume in the acclaimed "Guide to Imagery series" examines the way that sovereign rulers have employed well-defined symbols, attributes and...

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Photography

Culture Studies

Seen Black Style UK

Cunningham Jake, Lazarides Steve

ISBN: HB: 9781861542175, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, January 2011
192 pp., 27x24 cm, full-colour illus.

"Seen: Black Style UK" is the first publication to explore the immeasurable impact of Black subculture on British streets, dance floors, wardrobes and beauty parlours over the past three decades. It gives unique visual expression to the energy and in...

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History of Art

Sacred Possessions Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900

Feigenbaum Gail, Ebert-Schifferer Sybille

ISBN: PB: 9781606060421, Getty Publications, December 2010
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 86 black&white illus.

This is a brief history of and investigation into the collecting of sacred art. When works of art created for religious purposes outlive their original function, they often take on new meanings as they move from sacred spaces to secular collections....

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Art Conservation

Stone Conservation An Overview of Current Research

Doehne Eric, Price Clifford

ISBN: PB: 9781606060469, Getty Publications, December 2010
164 pp., 28x21.5 cm, black&white illus.

This is a detailed and informative overview of the latest research and development in stone conservation. Petra, Angkor, Copan, Venice, Lascaux, Easter Island – all are examples of irreplaceable cultural heritage built in stone and now slowly disappe...

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Architecture

Design

Structure of Light Richard Kelly and the Illumination of Modern Architecture

Neumann Dietrich

ISBN: HB: 9780300163704, Yale University Press, November 2010
256 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 131 black&white illus., 114 colour illus.

The potential of electric light as a new building "material" was recognized in the 1920s and became a useful design tool by the mid-century. Skilful lighting allowed for theatricality, narrative, and a new emphasis on structure and space. "The Struct...

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Photography

Still Rainin' Still Dreamin' Hall Anderson's Ketchikan

Anderson Hall

ISBN: PB: 9781889963907, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2010
118 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 100 halftones

A staff photographer for the Ketchikan Daily News, Hall Anderson counted among his early influences photographers like Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson, who understood the visual bounty to be found in photographing the candid side of life. For...

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