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Transatlantic Encounters Latin American Artists in Paris Between the Wars

Greet Michele

ISBN: HB: 9780300228427, Yale University Press, February 2018
296 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 137 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

Paris was the artistic capital of the world in the 1920s and '30s, providing a home and community for the French and international avant-garde, whose experiments laid the groundwork for artistic production throughout the rest of the century. Latin Am...

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Photography

Modern Forms A Subjective Atlas of 20th-century Architecture (Compact Edition)

Grospierre Nicolas

ISBN: PB: 9783791384313, Prestel Publishing, February 2018
224 pp., 23x19.7 cm, 176 colour illus.

Now available in a new compact edition, this book offers a stunning visual archive of nearly 200 images of modern architecture by awardwinning photographer Nicolas Grospierre. Both a reference work and a personal exploration of modernist architectur...

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Design

Kantha

Gillow John, Pal Pratapaditya, McGowen Courtenay, Sidner Rob

ISBN: HB: 9781942185192, DAP, Radius Books, November 2017
224 pp., 31.8x25.4 cm, 90 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The part of Bengal where the Ganges River flows into the Bay of Bengal has historically been the source of the finest cotton ever produced. The kind of embroidery known as kantha is created from this material, for daily use...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Biographic: Cezanne Great Lives in Graphic Form

Greenwood Katie

ISBN: HB: 9781781453100, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, November 2017
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all...

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History of Art

Giovanni Bellini Landscape of Faith in Renaissance Venice

Gasparott Davide

ISBN: HB: 9781606065310, Getty Publications, October 2017
128 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Praised by Albrecht Du rer as being "the best in painting", Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1430-1516) is unquestionably the supreme Venetian painter of the quattrocento and one of the greatest Italian artists of all time. His landscapes assume a prominence un...

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Contemporary Art

Warhol's Working Class Pop Art and Egalitarianism

Grudin Anthony E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226347776, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 51 halftones

This book explores Andy Warhol's creative engagement with social class. During the 1960s, as neoliberalism perpetuated the idea that fixed classes were a mirage and status an individual achievement, Warhol's work appropriated images, techniques, and...

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Contemporary Art

Adrian Villar Rojas The Roof Garden Commission: The Theater of Disappearance

Galilee Beatrice, Rojas Adrian Villar

ISBN: PB: 9781588396211, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2017
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 68 colour illus.

Known for his ephemeral, interconnected installations and monumental sculpture, Argentinian artist Adrian Villar Rojas (b. 1980) transformed The Met Roof into an immersive banquet scene for the 2017 Roof Garden Commission. This book retraces the arti...

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Contemporary Art

Making Art Concrete Works from Argentina and Brazil in the Coleccion Patricia Phelps Cisneros

Gottschaller Pia, Learner Tom, Perchuk Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781606065297, Getty Publications, August 2017
192 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

In the years after World War II, artists in Argentinaand Brazil experimented with geometric abstractionand engaged in lively debates about the role of theartwork in society. Some of these artists used novelsynthetic materials, creating objects that o...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Biographic: Degas Great Lives in Graphic Form

Greenwood Katie

ISBN: HB: 9781781453032, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, August 2017
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all...

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History of Art

Edvard Munch Between the Clock and the Bed

Garrels Gary, Steihaug Jon-Ove, Wagstaff Sheena, Berman Patricia, Haskell Caitlin, Morehead Allison, Shiff Richard, Stein Mille, Ove Knausgaard Karl

ISBN: HB: 9781588396235, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2017
256 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 120 colour illus.

A penetrating reassessment of Munch's memorable painting and profound artistic legacy. This engaging book offers a fresh look at the exceptional works of Edvard Munch (1863-1944) by examining them in the light of his precarious mental state. Followi...

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