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History of Art

Stones to Stains The Drawings of Victor Hugo

Burlingham Cynthia, Pesenti Allegra

ISBN: HB: 9783791357645, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
208 pp., 26.7x24.4 cm, 120 colour illus.

Focusing on the little-known but remarkable drawings of Victor Hugo, this book sheds light on the novelist, poet, and playwright's artistic practice and creative brilliance. Accompanying a major exhibition, this book brings together around 120 of th...

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Photography

Biography & Memoires

Vivian Maier A Photographer's Life and Afterlife

Bannos Pamela

ISBN: PB: 9780226599236, ISBN: HB: 9780226470757, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to b...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Autumn/Winter 2018, Issue 46

Bilbao Ana, Meta Bauer Ute, Esche Charles, Stankievech Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781846381973, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm

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Contemporary Art

Emerging from Shadow

Bo Fan

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783954762521, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, August 2018
234 pp., 28.5x22 cm, colour illus., language: English / Chinese

Fan Bo (born 1966 in Tianjin, lives in Guangzhou, China) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is guided by perception. In his early works, he created portraits in a figurative painting style of a variety of people wearing objects from their dail...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Portraying Children Expressions, Proportions, Drawing and Painting Techniques

Brambilla Daniela

ISBN: HB: 9788416851553, Hoaki, August 2018
208 pp., 29.7x21.5 cm, richly illustrated

Portraying people is undoubtedly one of the most difficult aspects of drawing. Expressions, movements, emotions and gazes add a series of challenges not present in still life and landscape techniques. In addition, the scant number of books specifical...

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History of Art

Italian Renaissance Nude

Burke Jill

ISBN: HB: 9780300201567, Yale University Press, June 2018
240 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 120 colour illus.

The first scholarly monograph to focus on the inception of the Italian Renaissance nude, this lively study subverts the idea that the nude in this period was a triumph of classical revival. Looking again at familiar (even overly familiar) images by a...

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Contemporary Art

Dubuffet and the City People, Place, and Urban Space

Berrebi Sophie

ISBN: PB: 9783906915111, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, June 2018
250 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Estonia! This is the first in-depth study to address the role of the city in the work of French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901-1984). Dubuffet promoted the art of children and the mentally ill as Art Brut, and sought to emulate the imme...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Die Spuren

Balka Miroslaw

ISBN: HB: 9783954762330, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, May 2018
132 pp., 26.1x19.7 cm, black&white illus., language: English / German

Miroslaw Balka (born 1958 in Warsaw, lives and works in Otwock, Poland) doesn't shy away from emptiness, nothingness, and death. With his existential questions, Balka counts among the internationally bestknown Polish artists of his generation. Along...

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Fashion

Heavenly Bodies Fashion and the Catholic Imagination

Bolton Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781588396457, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2018
336 pp., 33x22.9 cm, 330 colour illus.

Since antiquity, religious beliefs and practices have inspired many of the masterworks of art. These works of art have, in turn, fueled the imagination of fashion designers in the 20th and 21st centuries, yielding some of the most innovative creation...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Spring/Summer 2018, Issue 45

Bilbao Ana, Bauer Ute Meta, Kreuger Anders, Morris David, Stankievech Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226578163, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 80 colour plates

Launched in 1999, "Afterall" is a journal of contemporary art that offers in-depth analysis of artists' work, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Its academic format differentiates it from popular review magazines. I...

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