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Tudor Textiles

Lynn Eleri

ISBN: HB: 9780300244120, Yale University Press, April 2020
208 pp., 26.6x21.5 cm, 132 colour illus.

At the Tudor Court, textiles were ubiquitous in decor and ceremony. Tapestries, embroideries, carpets, and hangings were more highly esteemed than paintings and other forms of decorative art. Indeed, in 16th-century Europe, fine textiles were so cost...

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Contemporary Art

Transmissions

Mauss Nick

ISBN: PB: 9780300246841, Yale University Press, April 2020
160 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Over the past decade, Nick Mauss (b. 1980) has pursued a hybrid mode of working that melds the roles of curator, artist, and scholar. This catalogue leans heavily into the scholarship side of his practice, building on his 2018 Whitney Museum exhibiti...

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History of Art

Titian Love, Desire, Death

Wivel Matthias

ISBN: HB: 9781857096552, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, March 2020
224 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 165 colour and black&white illus.

Titian (active 1506-1576) produced a masterful group of paintings for Philip II of Spain, celebrating the loves of gods, goddesses, and mortals. Depicting scenes from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, Titian named them "poesie" and considered the...

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Children's Books

That's Good, That's Bad

Lexau Joan M.

ISBN: HB: 9783791374192, Prestel Publishing, March 2020
40 pp., 27.5x24.5 cm, 40 colour illus.

A boy is sitting on a rock in the jungle when a tiger approaches him. "Run!" says the tiger, "or I will eat you!" But the boy is too tired to run and in order to avoid being eaten he tells the tiger a story. What follows is a thrilling tale that will...

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Contemporary Art

Think of Them as Spaces Brice Marden's Drawings

Montana Kelly, Helfenstein Josef

ISBN: FLEXI: 9780300233131, Yale University Press, February 2020
128 pp., 24.7x19.6 cm, 120 colour illus.

In 1979, Brice Marden (b. 1938) asked that his drawings be thought of "as spaces", reflecting the idea that drawing is a medium that is much more than its two physical dimensions. Looking closely at six series of drawings that span nearly the entiret...

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Contemporary Art

Thinking in Thin Air Anthology of a Decade Engadin Art Talks

Bechtler Cristina, Canonica Finn

ISBN: PB: 9783037786246, Lars Muller Publishers, February 2020
312 pp., 21x15 cm, 87 illus.

E.A.T. / Engadin Art Talks, the forum in Zuoz in the crystalline winter-wonderland of the Swiss Alps, takes place at the end of January each year and has become famous as a meeting point for thought leaders and disruptive minds. The event is curated...

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Contemporary Art

Traces of Modernism Art and Politics from the First World War to Totalitarianism

Cioli Monica, Ricciardi Maurizio, Schiera Pierangelo

ISBN: PB: 9783593510309, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
222 pp., 21.2x13.9 cm, 6 colour plates, 4 halftones

"Traces of Modernism" surveys the competing social and political visions that marked the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, and the complex relationships and connections between these visions. A host of international contributor...

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Contemporary Art

Theater of Operations The Gulf Wars 1991-2011

Eleey Peter, Katrib Ruba

ISBN: FLEXI: 9780996893084, DAP, MoMA PS1, December 2019
275 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 100 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The 1991 Gulf War marked the start of a lengthy period of American-led military involvement in Iraq that led to more than a decade of sanctions, the 2003 Iraq War, and ongoing repercussions throughout the region. Though the...

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Photography

Theo Elias Smoke

ISBN: HB: 9788417769116, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, November 2019
116 pp., 26x16.5 cm, colour and black&white illus.

In the summer of 2011 Theo Elias travelled to the north of Sweden, fleeing from his daily life and dreaming about the idea of creating a new identity for himself in an unknown territory. Solitude enabled him to discover other lives and share tobacco...

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Photography

TransEurope European Photography and Visual Arts Forum

ISBN: PB: 9788417769123, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, November 2019
132 pp., 32x24 cm, colour and black&white illus.

In 2018, and thanks to the support of the European programme Creative Europe, three European institutions jointly promoted the TransEurope programme, which culminated in the publication of this contemporary photography magazine, displaying the work o...

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