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Contemporary Art

Klee and Kandinsky Neighbors, Friends, Rivals

Hoberg Annegret

ISBN: HB: 9783791354804, Prestel Publishing, July 2015
360 pp., 27x23 cm, 303 colour illus., 62 black&white illus.

Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, two of the most influential figures in the modernist movement, are the subject of this illuminating book that opens a dialogue between their work, friendship, and influence on each other. Klee and Kandinsky were towe...

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Architecture

Becoming an Architect in Renaissance Italy Art, Science, and the Career of Baldassarre Peruzzi

Huppert Ann C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300203950, Yale University Press, June 2015
240 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 35 colour illus., 140 black&white illus.

A leading architect of the Italian Renaissance, Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481-1536) has, until now, been a little-known, enigmatic figure. A paucity of biographical documentation and a modest number of surviving buildings, coupled with an undeservedly cr...

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Biography & Memoires

My Concept of Art

Hore Somnath

ISBN: PB: 9788170463429, Seagull Books, February 2015
72 pp., 17.8x17.8 cm, illustrated thoughout

One of India's foremost artists of the twentieth-century, Somnath Hore had a long and storied career that overlapped the boundaries between art and activism. "My Concept of Art" is a quasi-autobiographical essay that leads the reader through differen...

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Tea-Garden Journal

Hore Somnath

ISBN: PB: 9788170463412, Seagull Books, February 2015
108 pp., 31.7x19 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Famous for their Darjeeling tea, the tea gardens of Bengal were the birthplace of a worker's union movement in the 1930s, while India was under British colonial rule. Protesting oppression by owners and managers, the workers formed unions, organized...

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Neo-Impressionism and the Dream of Realities Painting, Poetry, Music

Homburg Cornelia, Smith Paul, Corey Laura D., Kelly Simon, Paulson Noelle C., Riopelle Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300190830, Yale University Press, December 2014
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 130 colour illus.

This stunning catalogue explores the creative exchange between Neo-Impressionist painters and Symbolist writers and composers in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Symbolism, with its emphasis on subjectivity, dream worlds, and spirituality, has often b...

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Treasures from India

Haidar Navina Najat

ISBN: HB: 9780300208870, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2014
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 100 colour illus.

India's rich tradition of jewelled arts has produced extravagant and opulent creations that range from ornaments for every part of the body to ceremonial court objects such as boxes, daggers and thrones. Starting with the Mughal rulers of India (1526...

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Nothing but the Clouds Unchanged Artists in World War I

Hughes Gordon, Blom Philipp

ISBN: HB: 9781606064313, Getty Publications, November 2014
192 pp., 26.2x21 cm, 67 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.

This is a fascinating and superbly illustrated look at how the First World War influenced an entire generation of visual artists. Much of how WWI is understood today is rooted in the artistic depictions of the brutal violence and extensive destructio...

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Asia

Museum on the Roof of the World Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet

Harris Clare E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213170, ISBN: HB: 9780226317472, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
328 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 19 colour plates, 50 halftones, 1 line illus.

For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics...

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Resisting Abstraction Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism

Hughes Gordon

ISBN: HB: 9780226159065, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
184 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 92 colour plates, 46 halftones

Robert Delaunay was one of the leading artists working in Paris in the early decades of the twentieth century, and his paintings have been admired ever since as among the earliest purely abstract works. With "Resisting Abstraction", the first Engli...

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Alphonse Mucha

Husslein-Arco Agnes, Gaillemin Jean Louis, Hilaire Michel, Lange Christiane

ISBN: PB: 9783791353975, Prestel Publishing, August 2014
356 pp., 32x24 cm, 403 colour illus., 78 black&white illus.

Now available in a new edition, this gorgeous volume surveys the entire breadth of Alphonse Mucha's work – from illustration and decorative arts to his photography and the historical paintings that were his life's passion. Alphonse Mucha is known la...

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