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Art Conservation

Stories in Stone Conserving Mosaics of Roman Africa

Abed Aicha Ben

ISBN: HB: 9780892368037, Getty Publications, January 2007
200 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 140 colour illus.

During the reign of the Roman Empire, many of the town houses and rural estates in North Africa were decorated with beautiful and elaborate mosaics. These often stunning works were especially widespread in what is now modern-day Tunisia. This stunnin...

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Contemporary Art

Socrates Sculpture Park

Baker Alyson, Mestrovic Ivana, Di Suvero Mark, Hanrahan Thomas, Kastner Jeffrey, Sandler Irving

ISBN: HB: 9780300120981, Yale University Press, November 2006
256 pp., 28.6x22.9 cm, 175 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

Socrates Sculpture Park is one of the most acclaimed public art spaces in the country. The Park opened in 1986 and has been an outdoor studio to over 500 artists, a venue presenting more than 40 exhibitions of large-scale sculpture, and a vital park...

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Contemporary Art

Sweet Dreams Contemporary Art and Complicity

Drucker Johanna

ISBN: PB: 9780226165059, ISBN: HB: 9780226165042, University of Chicago Press, September 2006
264 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 16 colour plates, 32 halftones

Johanna Drucker's "sweet dream" is for a new and more positive approach to contemporary art. Calling for a revamping of the academic critical vocabulary used to discuss art into one more befitting current creative practices, Drucker argues that conte...

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History of Art

Surrealism and its Others Yale French Studies, Number 109

Conley Katherine, Taminiaux Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9780300110722, Yale University Press, August 2006
224 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm

This issue of "Yale French Studies" on "Surrealism and Its Others"examines the works and theories of writers, artists, and thinkers who positioned themselves and their productions in dialogue with Breton's surrealism. Although surrealism always sough...

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Design

Fashion

Soviet Textiles Designing the Modern Utopia

Kachurin Pamela Jill

ISBN: PB: 9780878467037, DAP, MFA Publications, August 2006
96 pp., 22.9x21 cm, 52 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Between 1927 and 1933, as the new Soviet Union emerged and the Communist party struggled to transform an agrarian country into an industrialized state, a group of young artists pitched in by designing fabrics depicting trac...

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History of Art

Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Netzer Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781892850102, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, June 2006
300 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 135 colour plates, 27 halftones

A major contribution to the study of medieval and Renaissance art, "Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century" studies nearly 100 works from the vast collections of the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in an effort to determine the m...

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History of Art

Societe Anonyme Modernism for America

Gross Jennifer R., Bohan Ruth L., Greenberg Susan, Joselit David, Kenney Elise K., Tashjian Dickran, Wilson Kristina

ISBN: HB: 9780300109214, Yale University Press, May 2006
280 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 302 colour images, 62 black&white illus.

This beautifully illustrated book highlights the unique history of the Societe Anonyme, Inc., an organisation founded in 1920 by the artists Katherine S. Dreier (1877-1952), Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), and Man Ray (1890-1976). As America's first 'exp...

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Design

Samuel Colt Arms, Art, and Invention

Houze Herbert G., Kornhauser Elizabeth Mankin, Cooper Carolyn C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300111330, Yale University Press, May 2006
288 pp., 30.4x24.8 cm, 255 colour images, 71 black&white illus.

Samuel Colt (1814-1862) first patented his 'Colt' revolver in 1835 and quickly redefined the architecture of handguns. This stunning book traces the evolution of Colt's most famous invention and examines his ambition for artistic excellence as well a...

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History of Art

Saints in Art

Giorgi Rosa

ISBN: PB: 9780892367177, Getty Publications, March 2006
384 pp., 19.5x13.5 cm, 400 colour illus.

Christian saints have been the objects of reverence and fascination throughout the past two millennia. Their likenesses, heroic acts, prayerful lives, and stories of martyrdom have been portrayed frequently in art of diverse media. Without familiarit...

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History of Art

Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens

Kaltsas Nikolaos

ISBN: HB: 9780892366866, Getty Publications, March 2006
375 pp., 31.1x24.2 cm, 28 colour illus., 670 black&white illus.

This catalogue contains all the sculptures on display in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, undoubtedly the most important collection of ancient Greek sculptures in the world. Each entry is supplemented by a full bibliography and is writte...

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