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History of Art

Van Dyck, Rembrandt, and the Portrait Print

Sancho Lobis Victoria, Warren Maureen

ISBN: HB: 9780300218824, Yale University Press, A+D Series, May 2016
112 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 65 colour illus.

In the last decade of his life, Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) undertook a printmaking project that changed the conventions of portraiture. In a series later named the Iconography, he portrayed artists alongside kings, courtiers, and diplomats-a radica...

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Van Gogh's Bedrooms

Groom Gloria, Tilborgh Louis van, Getsy David J., Fiedler Inge, Hendricks Ella, Meedendorp Teio, Menu Michel, Salvant Johanna

ISBN: HB: 9780300214864, Yale University Press, A+D Series, March 2016
176 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 130 colour illus.

Vincent van Gogh's The Bedroom, a painting of his room in Arles, is arguably the most famous depiction of a bedroom in the history of art. The artist made three versions of the work, now in the collections of the Van Gogh Museum, the Art Institute of...

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History of Art

Vision in Motion Streams of Sensation and Configurations of Time

Zimmermann Michael F.

ISBN: HB: 9783037345221, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
528 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 30 colour plates, 85 halftones

Vision is not just a simple recognition of what passes through our field of sight, the reflection and observation of light and shape. Even before Freud posited dreams as a way of "seeing" even as we sleep, the writings of philosophers, artists, and s...

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Contemporary Art

Vik Muniz

Ollman Arthur

ISBN: HB: 9783791355191, Prestel Publishing, January 2016
192 pp., 30.4x24.8 cm, 150 colour illus.

This exhilarating overview of the acclaimed artist Vik Muniz traces the development of his work from the very beginning of his career to his most recent astonishing large-scale works. Vik Muniz is celebrated for his joyful, quirky, dark, and occasio...

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Visual Contemplations Paintings Inspired by Gregory of Nyssa's "The Life of Moses"

Delevoryas Lillian

ISBN: PB: 9781908326843, Casemate, Sansom & Co, November 2015
80 pp., 24x16.8 cm, colour illus.

A novel presentation of 20 original paintings, arranged as a story that delights the eye, engages the mind and feeds the heart Stunningly original works, direct and vivid in composition, yet profoundly resonant With the skill of an iconographer, the...

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Design

Vignelli Canon

Vignelli Massimo

ISBN: PB: 9783037782255, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2015
112 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 142 illus.

The famous Italian designer Massimo Vignelli allows us a glimpse of his understanding of good design in this book, its rules and criteria. He uses numerous examples to convey applications in practice – from product design via signaletics and graphic...

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Van Gogh and Nature

Kendall Richard, Van Heugten Sjraar, Stolwijk Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780300210293, Yale University Press, August 2015
256 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 200 colour illus.

The celebrated painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) had a lifelong fascination with the natural world. He spent his youth in rural Holland, and the country's flat landscapes, trees, flowers, and birds would feature in his early art. After he moved to...

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Van Gogh The Birth of an Artist

Van Heugten Sjraar, Vellekoop Marije, Jansen Leo, Moens Bart, Tilly Pierre, Laloux Pierre-Olivier, Vouters Bruno, Daloze Marcel

ISBN: HB: 9780300212129, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2015
304 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 230 colour illus.

In 1878, at age 25, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) arrived in the area of Belgium known as the Borinage to work as a Protestant evangelist in rural coal mining communities. He failed in that vocation, and after months of soul-searching, in August 1880,...

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Contemporary Art

Varda Caivano The Density of the Actions

Ovstebo Solveig

ISBN: HB: 9780941548656, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2015
112 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm

This catalogue was published on the occasion of Varda Caivano's exhibition The Density of the Actions, February 22 – April 19, 2015 at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. The book features texts by Barry Schwabsky, Paula van den B...

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Viktor Wynd's Cabinet of Wonders

Wynd Viktor

ISBN: HB: 9783791349060, Prestel Publishing, October 2014
200 pp., 28x24 cm, 160 colour illus.

Let the inimitable aesthete Viktor Wynd guide you through a subversive celebration of curiosities, art, mess, decay, and selfindulgence, passionately arguing that the world is full of wonder that is in danger of being sanitised and that collectors ar...

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