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History of Art

Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors

Homann Joachim

ISBN: HB: 9783791356068, Prestel Publishing, May 2017
176 pp., 28x24 cm, 160 colour illus.

Presenting historic and contemporary selections from one of the nation's oldest collections of drawings, this richly illustrated and highly engaging volume explores the significance and pleasures found in tracing movements of the hand on paper by ask...

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Contemporary Art

Whitney Biennial 2017

Lew Christopher Y., Locks Mia

ISBN: PB: 9780300223095, Yale University Press, May 2017
256 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 200 colour illus.

Always highly anticipated and beautifully packaged, this book is an essential record of the current trends in contemporary art in America. Since its introduction by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in 1932, the Whitney Biennial has charted new developmen...

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Contemporary Art

William Kentridge Being Led by the Nose

Taylor Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780226791203, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
224 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 71 colour plates, 6 halftones

South African artist William Kentridge's drawings, films, books, installations, and collaborations with opera and theater companies have established him as a world-class star in contemporary art, media, and theater. In 2010, and again in 2013, he sta...

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History of Art

Woven Splendour The Tapestries at St John's Conventual Church, Valletta Malta

de Glorgio Cynthia

ISBN: HB: 9789993276036, Casemate, Midsea Books, April 2017
144 pp., 26.5x22 cm, colour illus.

In 1697, as the Spanish Grand Master Ramon Perellos y Roccaful sat in his palace, contemplating on the gift which he should give to the conventual church of the Hospitaller Order of the Knights of St John the Baptist in order to immortalise his mages...

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Contemporary Art

Wustungen

Heinlein Anne, Gnaudschun Goran

ISBN: HB: 9783954761814, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2017
176 pp., 28x20.5 cm, 120 colour illus., language: English / German

In their book "Wustungen," Anne Heinlein (b. 1977) and Goran Gnaudschun (b. 1971) delve deep into recent German history. Between 1952 and 1988, the authorities razed more than a hundred villages, farms, hamlets, and homesteads on East German territor...

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Contemporary Art

Walter Leblanc

Farrell Robyn, Lemoine Serge, Pola Francesca, Wittocx Eva

ISBN: HB: 9780300225969, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2017
208 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.

Little is known about Walter Leblanc (1932-1986), one of the key representatives of kinetic and optical art in the mid-20th century. This comprehensive monograph, the first on this artist for an international audience, includes unpublished materials,...

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Contemporary Art

Willem de Kooning / Zao Wou-Ki

de Villepin Dominique, Harrist Robert, Swensen Cole, Ward Diane, Walt Melissa

ISBN: HB: 9781944379124, DAP, Dominique Levy, March 2017
192 pp., 33.7x25.3 cm, 30 colour illus., 15 duotones

Not for sale in Estonia! This volume explores the parallel careers of two celebrated postwar painters: Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) and Zao Wou-Ki (1921-2013). Published in conjunction with Dominique Levy's exhibition pairing the artists' abstract...

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History of Art

Women of Abstract Expressionism

Marter Joan M., Chanzit Gwen Finkel, Hobbs Robert, Landau Ellen G., Landauer Susan, Sandler Irving

ISBN: HB: 9780300208429, Yale University Press, February 2017
208 pp., 30.5x54 cm, 144 colour illus.

The artists Jay DeFeo, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and many other women played major roles in the development of Abstract Expressionism, which flourished in New York and San Francisco in the 194...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

William Hogarth A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings

Einberg Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300221749, Yale University Press, November 2016
432 pp., 29.9x24.8 cm, 390 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.

William Hogarth (1697-1764) was among the first British-born artists to rise to international recognition and acclaim and to this day he is considered one of the country's most celebrated and innovative masters. His output encompassed engravings, pai...

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History of Art

William Coldstream | Euan Uglow Daisies and Nudes

ISBN: PB: 9781901192452, Casemate, Piano Nobile, November 2016
68 pp., 29x25 cm, 37 colour illus.

Published to accompany the exhibition at Piano Nobile, "William Coldstream | Euan Uglow: Daisies and Nudes" is a fully illustrated publication examining for the first time the unique relationship between William Coldstream and Euan Uglow. Uglow stu...

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