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History of Art

Hollein Max

ISBN: PB: 9781588397003, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2019
456 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 600 colour illus.

More than a simple souvenir book, "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide" provides a comprehensive view of art history spanning five millennia and the entire globe, beginning with the ancient world and ending in contemporary times. It includes media a...

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Contemporary Art

I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like The Art of Bill Viola

Hanhardt John, Carlson Thomas, Perov Kira

ISBN: PB: 9780300244755, Yale University Press, July 2019
192 pp., 27.3x22.9 cm, 125 colour illus.

Bill Viola (b. 1951) is one of today's premier video installation artists whose apparently straightforward imagery belies a decades-long investigation into the human imagination and its various states of consciousness. This unique and accessible guid...

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Photography

Mountains By Magnum Photographers

Herschdorfer Nathalie, Cittera Annalisa, Giglio Pietro

ISBN: HB: 9783791384696, Prestel Publishing, July 2019
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 180 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

Magnum Photos is arguably the most celebrated photographic cooperative ever created and these images represent the world's most iconic photographers capturing the world's most breathtaking peaks. Robert Capa portrays the glamour of skiing the Austria...

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History of Art

Art Purposes Object Lessons for the Liberal Arts

Homann Joachim

ISBN: HB: 9783791358178, Prestel Publishing, June 2019
224 pp., 28x24 cm, 200 colour illus.

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art features nearly 24,000 works spanning antiquity to today, housed on Bowdoin's campus in coastal Maine. Since it began collecting in 1811, the museum has served as a unique resource for students, scholars, and visitor...

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History of Art

Gauguin Portraits

Homburg Cornelia, Riopelle Christopher, Childs Elizabeth, Gamboni Dario, Goddard Linda, Guitton Claire, Jumeau-Lafond Jean-David, Wright Alastair

ISBN: HB: 9780300242737, Yale University Press, June 2019
260 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 170 colour and black&white illus.

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) broke with accepted conventions and challenged audiences to expand their understanding of visual expression. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in his portraits, a genre he remained engaged with throughout all phase...

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History of Art

Power of Color Five Centuries of European Painting

Hall Marcia B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300237191, Yale University Press, May 2019
312 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 204 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.

This expansive study of color illuminates the substance, context, and meaning of five centuries of European painting. Between the mid-15th and the mid-19th centuries, the materials of painting remained remarkably unchanged, but innovations in their u...

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Cartoon Art

Painting and Drawing Manuals

Blank Comic Book Draw Your Own!

Hart Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781640210332, GMC Group, Sixth & Spring, May 2019
104 pp., 27.7x21.6 cm

Let your story unfold in words and images with this draw-your-own-comic-book blank journal. This versatile book allows aspiring comic book, manga and graphic-novel artists to create their very own story through words and pictures. Each page offers bl...

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History of Art

Mark Rothko Toward Clarity

Haag Sabine, Sharp Jasper, Rothko Christopher, Crow Thomas E., Heitzer Anja

ISBN: HB: 9780300243758, Yale University Press, April 2019
184 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 100 colour illus.

While Mark Rothko (1903-1970) has long been considered a preeminent figure in 20th-century art, few publications have examined his work within the broader context of Western art, even though Rothko himself continuously sought it out as inspiration. R...

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Contemporary Art

Sea Star Sean Scully at the National Gallery

Herrmann Daniel, Wiggins Colin, McBride Eimear, Capildeo Vahni, Grovier Kelly

ISBN: PB: 9781857096453, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, April 2019
128 pp., 30.5x24.4 cm, 50 colour illus.

Sean Scully (b.1945) is an Irish-born, American-based painter and printmaker, best known for his monumental oil paintings which draw on the traditions of Abstract Expressionism. This beautiful catalogue showcases a new body of work inspired by the...

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Design

Upcycling with Style A Step-by-Step Workbook

Heeringa Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781869664961, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, March 2019
192 pp., 25x21 cm, 120 illus.

Rather than mimicking interior design trends this book provides both the inspiration and practical information to upcycle tired objects and give them a new lease of life. Give an old couch a revamp, make quirky cushions, revitalise a tired garden cor...

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