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Contemporary Art

Global Work of Art World's Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience

Jones Caroline A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226291741, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 37 colour plates, 128 halftones

Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists' engagement with large-scale international exhibitions has a much longer history that has influenced the present in important ways. Going back to the earliest world's fairs...

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History of Art

Art in England The Saxons to the Tudors: 600-1600

James Sara N.

ISBN: HB: 9781785702235, Casemate, Oxbow Books, June 2016
448 pp., 28x21.6 cm

"Art in England" fills a void in the scholarship of both English and medieval art by offering the first single volume overview of artistic movements in Medieval and Early Renaissance England. Grounded in history and using the chronology of the reign...

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Design

Upholstery: A Complete Course 2nd Revised Edition

James David

ISBN: PB: 9781784941253, GMC Group, GMC, April 2016
320 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 56 colour illus., 500 black&white illus.

In this second revised edition David James provides an encyclopaedic guide to the techniques and materials involved in upholstery. The book covers everything from traditional handwork to the latest industrial techniques, giving a complete overview of...

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Contemporary Art

Experimental Group Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes

Jackson Matthew Jesse

ISBN: PB: 9780226317960, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
336 pp., 25.4x21.5 cm, 69 colour plates, 89 halftones, 1 line drawing

A compelling study of unofficial postwar Soviet art, "The Experimental Group" takes as its point of departure a subject of strange fascination: the life and work of renowned professional illustrator and conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov. Kabakov's art –...

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History of Art

Art of Empire The Roman Frescoes and Imperial Cult Chamber in Luxor Temple

Jones Michael, McFadden Susanna

ISBN: HB: 9780300169126, Yale University Press, November 2015
240 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 97 colour illus., 54 black&white illus.

The Luxor Temple of Amun-Re, built to commemorate the divine power of the pharaohs, is one of the iconic monuments of New Kingdom Egypt. In the 4th century C.E., the Roman Imperial government, capitalizing on the site's earlier significance, converte...

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History of Art

Culture Studies

Lived Practice

Jacob Mary Jane, Zeller Kate

ISBN: PB: 9780982879887, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, August 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

"A Lived Practice" examines the reciprocal relationship of art and life: Artist-practitioners are shaped by their experiences, and they in turn create and enhance the experience of others. Based on a symposium held at the School of the Art Institute...

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History of Art

The Swiss List

Pilgrim's Bowl Giorgio Morandi

Jaccottet Philippe

ISBN: HB: 9780857422286, Seagull Books, March 2015
64 pp., 19.5x13.9 cm, 10 colour plates

In "The Pilgrim's Bowl", Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet meditates on the work of Italian artist Giorgio Morandi and its power to evoke a complexity of emotions and astonishment. Jaccottet examines Morandi's ascetic still lifes, contrasting his artisti...

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Contemporary Art

Le Mouvement Performing the City

Jetzer Gianni, Sharp Chris

ISBN: HB: 9783954760831, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, October 2014
296 pp., 28x21 cm, 220 colour illus., language: English / German / French

he 12th iteration of the Swiss sculpture exposition "Le Mouvement" writes a brilliant new chapter in the project's sixty-year history with the most radical presentation the format has yet seen. In keeping with its tradition of thought-provoking inter...

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Contemporary Art

Surrealism and the Dream

Jimenez Jose

ISBN: HB: 9788415113461, DAP, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, April 2014
368 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Estonia! Can't the dream be used in solving the fundamental problems of life? asked Andre Breton, in the "First Surrealist Manifesto". For the Surrealists, dreams were the ultimate site of possibility, the realm in which the artist...

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Design

Interwoven Kvadrat Textile and Design

Judah Hettie

ISBN: HB: 9783791348582, Prestel Publishing, August 2013
264 pp., 28x28.5 cm, 200 colour illus.

In electrifying color and exquisite detail, this survey of Kvadrat, the renowned Danish textile company, tells the complete story from inception to collaborations with world-famous visual artists and designers. One of the world's leading textile man...

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