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Fashion

True Originals Quartet and Trumps

Knispel Marlon

ISBN: cards: 9783944721507, Bookport, seltmann and sohne, October 2017
0 pp., 10.6x8.1 cm, 32 cards with 32 super rare sneakers

Stuffed with the rarest original adidas® models of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. 32 quartet cards take you through the "golden era of sneakers" – a time when Hip Hop, breakdancing and graffiti made their way to Germany and the term "sneakers" was yet unknow...

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History of Art

Technologies of the Image Art in 19th-Century Iran

Roxburgh David J., McWilliams Mary, Emami Farshid, Schwerda Mira Xenia

ISBN: HB: 9780300229196, Yale University Press, October 2017
192 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 232 colour and black&white illus.

The diverse and beautiful art of Qajar Iran (1779-1925) has long been understudied and underappreciated. This insightful publication reassesses Qajar art, particularly its four principal mediums – lacquer, painting and drawing on paper, lithography,...

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Design

Ten Principles for Good Design Dieter Rams

de Jong Cees W.

ISBN: HB: 9783791383668, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
416 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 400 colour illus.

For decades, anyone who cared about product design looked to the Braun label when choosing their appliances, radios, and other consumer items. Now Dieter Rams, the guiding force behind the Braun look, breaks down his design principles and processes i...

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History of Art

Thannhauser Gallery Marketing Van Gogh

Koldehoff Stefan, Stolwijk Chris, Koldehoff Nora, Hageman Monique, Fontanella Megan M., Herzog Gunter

ISBN: HB: 9780300226591, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, September 2017
304 pp., 26.7x19.7 cm, 95 colour illus., 75 black&white illus.

While legend has it that Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) sold only one work during his lifetime, it was not long after his death that sales of his paintings began to shatter auction house records. In this carefully researched book, leading Van Gogh scho...

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Decorative Arts

Things of Beauty Growing British Studio Pottery

Adamson Glenn, Droth Martina, Olding Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780300227468, Yale University Press, September 2017
472 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 316 colour illus.

For nearly a century British potters have invigorated traditional ceramic forms by developing or reinventing techniques, materials, and means of display. "Things of Beauty Growing" explores major typologies of the vessel – such as bowl, vase, and cha...

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Contemporary Art

Teresita Fernandez Wayfinding

Markonish Denise

ISBN: HB: 9783791356822, Prestel Publishing, August 2017
256 pp., 29.5x24 cm, 480 colour illus.

Teresita Fernandez creates elaborate installations that pull viewers into other worlds and environments, playing with scale, material and how we understand and navigate the landscape. The idea of wayfinding – moving from place to place or even gettin...

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Fashion

Tudor Fashion Dress at Court

Lynn Eleri

ISBN: HB: 9780300228274, Yale University Press, August 2017
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 180 colour illus.

The Tudor monarchs and their courtiers are some of the best-known figures in history. They continue, even today, to spark our curiosity and imagination. Their enduring popularity is no doubt partly due to the iconic portraits in which they are depict...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Towards an Aesthetics of Production

Egenhofer Sebastion

ISBN: PB: 9783037348857, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2017
208 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 48 halftones

Throughout the twentieth century, art history has been too narrowly focused on formalism. As a result, analyses regularly reduced works of art to their materials, texture, and composition. By contrast, art historian Sebastian Egenhofer takes Gilles D...

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Fashion

Traces Fashion & Migration

Blumhardt Olga, Drinkuth Antje

ISBN: PB: 9783954761975, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, July 2017
200 pp., 29x22 cm, 120 colour illus., 20 black&white illus., language: English / German

Fashions have always also been reflections of issues in society. Migration is a more topical, volatile, and controversial issue right now than it has been in a long time. Cultural diversity is embraced when it comes to musical, linguistic, or culinar...

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Interior Design

Tastemaker Elizabeth Gordon, House Beautiful, and the Postwar American Home

Penick Monica

ISBN: HB: 9780300221763, Yale University Press, June 2017
256 pp., 27.9x20.7 cm, 96 colour illus., 90 black&white illus.

From 1941 to 1964, "House Beautiful" magazine's crusading editor-in-chief Elizabeth Gordon introduced and promoted her vision of "good design" and "better living" to an extensive middle-class American readership. Her innovative magazine-sponsored ini...

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