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World Heritage Japan

Lander John, Iyer Pico, Kawaguchi Yoko

ISBN: PB: 9786164510111, Prestel Publishing, River Books, February 2020
232 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 184 colour and black&white illus.

Author and photographer John Lander takes the magnificent UNESCO World Heritage sites of Japan as a starting point for exploring the country's architecture, history, customer and festivals. Lander, who has lived in Japan for 35 years, travelled to al...

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History of Art

Where the Truth Lies The Art of Qiu Ying

Little Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9783791359137, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
240 pp., 29x22 cm, 200 colour illus.

Celebrated for his masterful brushstrokes, depictions of nature, and use of translucent blue-green pigments, Qiu Ying is the least known of the four Ming Dynasty masters of the Wu School. This elegantly produced and groundbreaking monograph, the firs...

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Contemporary Art

William Trost Richards Hieroglyphs of Landscape

Howe Jeffery W.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850393, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, January 2020
215 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 277 colour plates

This catalog accompanies the first monographic examination of the art of William Trost Richards in Boston. The exhibition, presented at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, features oil paintings, watercolors, and drawings, including many ra...

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Contemporary Art

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When Home Won't Let You Stay Migration through Contemporary Art

Respini Eva, Erickson Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780300247480, Yale University Press, November 2019
240 pp., 29.2x22.2 cm, 134 colour illus.

In this timely volume, artists and thinkers join in conversation around the topic of global migration, examining both its cultural impact and the culture of migration itself. Individual voices shed light on the societal transformations related to mig...

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Contemporary Art

With Pleasure Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1985

Katz Anna

ISBN: HB: 9780300239942, Yale University Press, November 2019
328 pp., 27.9x22.2 cm, 300 colour illus.

The Pattern and Decoration movement emerged in the 1970s as an embrace of long-dismissed art forms associated with the decorative. Pioneering artists such as Miriam Schapiro (1923-2015), Joyce Kozloff (b. 1942), Robert Kushner (b. 1949), and others a...

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Contemporary Art

Warhol Women

Gopnik Blake, Tillman Lynne, Gingeras Alison M.

ISBN: HB: 9781944379308, DAP, Levy Gorvy, October 2019
192 pp., 33.7x25.4 cm, 118 colour illus., 41 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Dedicated to Andy Warhol's (1928-87) portraits of women from the early 1960s through the 1980s, and featuring five trifolds and a tipped-on cover, "Warhol Women" explores the artist's female subjects and his complex relatio...

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Design

What Images Really Tell Us Visual Rhetoric in Graphic Design, Art and Advertising

Mariani Massimo

ISBN: PB: 9788417656041, Hoaki, September 2019
288 pp., 22.8x13.9 cm, fully illustrated in colour

How do images hold and convey meaning? How do we understand them? What are they trying to say? How do they persuade and influence us? The author writes a complete account analyzing the meaning and construction of images, throughout history to present...

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Design

Watch A Twentieth-Century Style History

Barter Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9783791385068, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
336 pp., 30x24 cm, 400 colour illus.

Offering the perfect blend of high-quality imagery and impeccable research, this magnificent book takes readers through the 20th century to show how the watch, in all its forms, evolved. It charts the early rise of the wristwatch, shows how the catac...

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Photography

Women Studies

Women War Photographers From Lee Miller to Anja Niedringhaus

Beckmann Anne-Marie, Korn Felicity

ISBN: HB: 9783791358680, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
224 pp., 28x24 cm, 163 colour illus.

Women have been on the front lines of war for more than a century. With access to places men cannot go, the women who photograph war lend a unique perspective to the consequences of conflict. From intimate glimpses of daily life to the atrocities of...

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History of Art

Witnessing Slavery Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition

Thomas Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9781913107055, Yale University Press, September 2019
304 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 168 colour and black&white illus.

Gathering together over 160 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints, this book offers an unprecedented examination of the shifting iconography of slavery in British and European art between 1760 and 1840. In addition to considering how the work...

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