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Couture Unfolded Innovative Pleats, Folds and Draping in Fashion Design

Giannangeli Brunella

ISBN: HB: 9788416851911, Hoaki, August 2018
120 pp., 25.4x18.4 cm, richly illustrated

Working from the simplest possible form the book addresses all major dimensional techniques, shows how they are related and gives examples of variations both traditional and modern. This book can be considered as an encyclopaedia of folding manipulat...

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Photography

Winslow Homer and the Camera Photography and the Art of Painting

Goodyear Frank H., Byrd Dana E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300214550, Yale University Press, July 2018
208 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 138 colour illus.

One of the greatest American painters of the 19th century, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) also maintained a deep engagement with photography throughout his career. Focusing on the important, yet often-overlooked, role that photography played in Homer's ar...

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History of Art

My Soul Has Grown Deep Black Art from the American South

Griffey Randall, Peck Amelia, Pinckney Darryl

ISBN: HB: 9781588396099, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018
240 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

A celebration of contemporary art by self-taught Black Southern artists. This book examines the art-historical significance of a major group of self-taught artists from the American South. "My Soul Has Grown Deep" features works by Black painters an...

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Contemporary Art

Adel Abdessemed Otchi Tchiornie / L'Antidote

Gielen Denis, Raspail Thierry, de Chassey Eric, Grau Donatien, Nash Mark, Ardenne Paul, Daoud Kamel, Robecchi Michele, Zaya Octavio

ISBN: PB: 9780300236880, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, June 2018
256 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 85 colour illus.

The Algerian-born French artist Adel Abdessemed (b. 1971) works in a wide variety of media including animation, installation, performance, sculpture, and video; through his art he addresses contemporary themes and he reflects the bleak picture of the...

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Contemporary Art

Plato in L.A. Contemporary Artists' Visions

Grau Donatien

ISBN: PB: 9781606065747, Getty Publications, June 2018
112 pp., 22.9x19.1 cm, 20 colour illus.

No thinker in the West has had a wider and more sustained influence than the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. From philosophy to drama, religion to politics, it is difficult to find a current cultural or social phenomenon that is not in some aspect i...

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Contemporary Art

Keith Sonnier Until Today

Grove Jeffrey, Sultan Terrie

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791357324, Prestel Publishing, June 2018
160 pp., 30.5x25.5 cm, 33 colour illus.

A monograph on Keith Sonnier, the revolutionary pioneer of the Process Art movement, this book documents five decades of the artist's prolific and ever-evolving exploration of three-dimensional art. One of the first artists to use light, specificall...

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History of Art

Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters

Gilio Givanni Andrea, Bury Michael, Byatt Lucinda, Richardson Carol M.

ISBN: PB: 9781606065563, Getty Publications, April 2018
280 pp., 25.2x17.9 cm, 37 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.

Giovanni Andrea Gilio's "Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters" (1564) is one of the first treatises on art published in the post-Tridentine period. It remains a key primary source for the discussion of the reform of art as it unfolded at the...

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Photography

Inadvertent Images A History of Photographic Apparitions

Geimer Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780226471877, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 18 colour plates, 58 halftones

As an artistic medium, photography is uniquely subject to accidents, or disruptions, that can occur in the making of an artwork. Though rarely considered seriously, those accidents can offer fascinating insights about the nature of the medium and how...

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History of Art

Ancient World

Art of Libation in Classical Athens

Gaifman Milette

ISBN: HB: 9780300192278, Yale University Press, February 2018
196 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 127 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

This handsome volume presents an innovative look at the imagery of libations, the most commonly depicted ritual in ancient Greece, and how it engaged viewers in religious performance. In a libation, liquid – water, wine, milk, oil, or honey – was pou...

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Contemporary Art

Kiki Smith Procession

Giloy-Hirtz Petra

ISBN: HB: 9783791356266, Prestel Publishing, February 2018
224 pp., 27x23 cm, 110 colour illus.

Artist Kiki Smith has produced an astoundingly varied body of work that deals powerfully with the political, social, philosophical, and spiritual aspects of human nature – especially in the way they relate to women. Smith's earlier works reflect the...

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