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History of Art

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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Media Studies

Sensing the Future Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts

Botar Oliver

ISBN: HB: 9783037784334, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2014
192 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 80 illus.

Life in the digital economy of information and images enriches us but often induces a sense of being overwhelmed. "Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts" considers the impact of technology by exploring ways it was addressed in the pract...

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Gothic Wonder Art, Artifice and the Decorated Style, 1290-1350

Binski Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300204001, Yale University Press, October 2014
448 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 175 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

In this wide-ranging, eloquent book, Paul Binski sheds new light on one of the greatest periods of English art and architecture, offering ground-breaking arguments about the role of invention, making and the powers of Gothic art. His richly documente...

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Design

Grand Design Pieter Coecke Van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry

Cleland Elizabeth A. H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208054, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2014
400 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 350 colour illus.

Renowned throughout Renaissance Europe, Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502–1550) produced works for the wealthiest and most important patrons of the time, including Emperor Charles V, Francis I of France, Henry VIII of England, the Habsburgs, and Cosimo d...

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Flora Illustrata Great Works from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden

Fraser Susan M., Sellers Vanessa Bezemer

ISBN: HB: 9780300196627, Yale University Press, October 2014
288 pp., 21.6x26 cm, 279 colour and black&white illus.

The renowned LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden counts among its holdings many of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical and horticultural works ever created. More than eight centuries of knowledge, from the twelfth centu...

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Navigating the West George Caleb Bingham and the River

Luarca-Shoaf Nenette, Barry Claire, Heugh Nancy, Kornhauser Elizabeth Mankin, Mahon Dorothy, Walker Andrew J, Turk Janeen, Conrads Margaret C., Benjamin Brent R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300206708, Yale University Press, October 2014
200 pp., 26.7x27.9 cm, 174 colour images and 10 black&white illus.

George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) moved to Missouri as a child and began painting the scenes of Missouri life, for which he is now famous, in the 1840s. "Navigating the West" explores how Bingham's iconic river paintings reveal the cultural and econom...

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Contemporary Art

Cubism The Leonard A. Lauder Collection

Rabinow Rebecca, Braun Emily F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208078, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2014
448 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

This groundbreaking new history of Cubism, based on works from the most significant private collection in the world today, is written by many of the field's premier art historians and scholars. The collection, recently donated to The Metropolitan Mus...

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Masterpieces in Detail Early Netherlandish Art from Van Eyck to Bosch

Borchert Till-Holger

ISBN: HB: 9783791381091, Prestel Publishing, October 2014
496 pp., 39x30 cm, 350 colour illus.

Forty works by early Netherlandish masters from van Eyck to Bosch – reproduced in exquisite detail – are the subject of this breathtaking book that leads readers deep into the paintings to reveal each artist's astonishing technique and brilliant appl...

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James Northcote, History Painting, and the Fables

Ledbury Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300208139, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 120 colour and black&white illus.

The artistic accomplishments of James Northcote (1746-1831) have tended to be overshadowed by his role as a biographer of Joshua Reynolds, first President of the Royal Academy of Arts, with whom Northcote apprenticed. Here, Mark Ledbury constructs a...

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Spectacular Rubens The Triumph of the Eucharist Series

Vegara Alejandro, Woollett Anne

ISBN: PB: 9781606064306, Getty Publications, October 2014
112 pp., 27.9x24 cm, 88 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

This lavishly illustrated volume offers a fascinating glimpse into Ruben's artistic process. The six glorious scenes that make up the Triumph of the Eucharist series by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) are highlights of the Museo Nacional del Prado's su...

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