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Fragonard Drawing Triumphant
ISBN: HB: 9781588396013, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2016
320 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 250 colour illus.
An exquisitely illustrated volume that emphasizes the importance of drawing in Fragonard's creative process One of the most forward-looking artists in 18th-century France, Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is considered the preeminent draftsman of hi...
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£45,00
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Francis Bacon Unsichtbare Raume / Invisible Rooms
ISBN: HB: 9783791355764, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
256 pp., 28x23 cm, 150 colour illus.
This fascinating and beautifully illustrated book on the work of Francis Bacon, one of the 20th century's greatest painters, takes an in-depth look at his trademark motif of figures imprisoned within ghostly frames. Arguably one of the most influenti...
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£35,00
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From Kandinsky to Pollock The Art of the Guggenheim Collections
ISBN: PB: 9788831723824, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
352 pp., 28.9x24.1 cm, 215 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! A reconstruction of the artistic milieu surrounding Peggy Guggenheim. The catalog contains more than 100 masterpieces of European and American art ranging from the 1920s to the 1960s, reconstructing relationships on both si...
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£38,99
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Futurist Painting Sculpture (Plastic Dynamism)
ISBN: PB: 9781606064757, Getty Publications, June 2016
112 pp., 25x15 cm, 36 black&white illus., 28 colour illus.
This fiery and influential book, available for the first time in English, presents an Italian Futurist's radical ideas about art and architecture "Futurist Painting Sculpture (Plastic Dynamism)", a truly radical book by Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916),...
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£40,00
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Floral Ghost
ISBN: HB: 9780986281495, DAP, Planthouse, March 2016
36 pp., 16.8x17 cm, 33 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! This one-of-a-kind collaboration between acclaimed author Susan Orlean and celebrated artist Philip Taaffe unites the literary and the visual, the nostalgic and the optimistic, and brings greenery to your bookshelf. Taking...
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£20,00
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Frederic Church The Art and Science of Detail
ISBN: HB: 9780300208375, Yale University Press, October 2015
240 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 60 colour illus., 43 black&white illus.
Frederic Church (1826-1900), the most celebrated painter in the United States during the mid-19th century, created monumental landscapes of North and South America, the Arctic, and the Middle East. These paintings were unsurpassed in their attention...
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£55,00
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From Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic Landscape Painting in the Americas
ISBN: HB: 9780300211504, Yale University Press, September 2015
320 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 260 colour illus.
As nations in the Americas gained independence in the early 19th century, a pictorial landscape tradition emerged. By 1840, landscape painting had become the primary medium for articulating conceptions of land and nation in the development of North a...
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£55,00
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Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History Volume 2: Art in Context
ISBN: PB: 9780300217087, Yale University Press, September 2015
184 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 193 colour illus., black&white illus.
"Facture" presents the latest conservation research on masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, spanning the early Renaissance through the present and encompassing a range of media. Volume 2 examines great art of two very different...
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£25,00
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Freedom Principle Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now
ISBN: PB: 9780226319308, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
320 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 300 colour plates
On the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s, African American artists and musicians grappled with new language and forms inspired by the black nationalist turn in the Civil Rights movement.  "The Freedom Principle", which accompanies an exhibition on t...
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£26,50
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Flemish Merchant of Venice Daniel Nijs and the Sale of the Gonzaga Art Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780300209686, Yale University Press, April 2015
256 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 40 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.
During the years 1627 and 1628, Charles I of England purchased the cream of the Gonzaga art collection, belonging to the dukes of Mantua, in what would become the greatest art deal of the 17th century. Among the treasures sold were ancient statues an...
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£50,00
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