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Photography

Common Ground German Photographic Cultures Across the Iron Curtain

James Sarah E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300184440, Yale University Press, April 2013
320 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 10 colour images, 170 black&white illus.

This ambitious publication is the first book to thoroughly evaluate the photography that emerged during Germany's geopolitical division from the 1950s to the 1980s. With richly illustrated and exhaustively researched analyses of photographic projects...

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America

Civil War and American Art

Jones Harvey Eleanor

ISBN: HB: 9780300187335, Yale University Press, November 2012
352 pp., 31.8x25.4 cm, 177 colour images, 37 black&white illus.

The American Civil War was arguably the first modern war. Its grim reality, captured through the new medium of photography, was laid bare. American artists could not approach the conflict with the conventions of European history painting, which glamo...

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Contemporary Art

Lovely, Human, True, Heartfelt The Letters of Alina Szapocznikow and Ryszard Stanislawski, 1948-1971

Jakubowska Agata

ISBN: PB: 9788393381869, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, October 2012
380 pp., 19x14 cm, 12 facsimiles and drawings, 81 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! Although she is only now just coming into much deserved global renown, the Polish sculptor Alina Szapocznikow has long been recognized in her country as one of the most accomplished female artists of the twentieth century. C...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Unearthed Recent Archaeological Discoveries from Northern China

Juliano Annette L., An Jiayao

ISBN: HB: 9780300179675, Yale University Press, July 2012
288 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 150 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

In 1908, the American adventurer Robert Sterling Clark organized a scientific expedition to northern China to create a detailed geographical survey, photograph the region and it people, and collect samples of the flora and fauna. Inspired by this imp...

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Contemporary Art

Tantra Song Tantric Painting from Rajasthan

Jamme Franck Andre

ISBN: HB: 9780979956270, DAP, Siglio, October 2011
112 pp., 28.4x21.1 cm, 50 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This collection of rare, abstract Tantra drawings was conceived when the French poet Franck Andre Jamme stumbled on a small catalogue of Tantric art at a Paris bookseller's stall. The volume included writings by Octavio Paz...

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What Ever Happened to Modernism?

Josipovici Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9780300178005, Yale University Press, August 2011
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 6 black&white illus.

The quality of today's literary writing arouses the strongest opinions. For novelist and critic Gabriel Josipovici, the contemporary novel in English is profoundly disappointing – a poor relation of its groundbreaking Modernist forebears. This agile...

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History of Art

Alina Szapocznikow Awkward Objects

Jakubowska Agata

ISBN: PB: 9788392404460, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
288 pp., 19x14 cm, 85 colour illus.

Not for sale in Poland! The volume entitled, "Alina Szapocznikow" is a collection of materials from the international conference "Alina Szapocznikow. Works. Documents. Interpretations". (May 15-16, 2009), which accompanied the exhibition organised...

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Contemporary Art

As Soon As. Open My Eyes. See a Film Experiments in Yugoslav art in the 60s and 70s

Janevski Ana

ISBN: PB: 9788392404439, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
344 pp., 23.5x18 cm, 120 halftones, 40 colour illus.

Not for sale in Poland! "As soon as I open my eyes I see a film – Experiments in Yugoslav art in the 60s and 70s", edited by Ana Janevski, discussed the key moments in the history of the Yugoslav art scene. In the late 60s and 70s, artists rejected...

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Contemporary Art

Under Destruction

Jetzer Gianni, Basel Chris

ISBN: HB: 9783942405171, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, January 2011
136 pp., 28x24 cm, 100 colour illus., language: English / German

In 1960, the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely was asked to build a sculpture to be installed in the Sculpture Garden of New York's Museum of Modern Art. In collaboration with other artists and engineers, he constructed the self-destructive machine Homage t...

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Tanagras. Figurines for Life and Eternity The Musee du Louvre's Collection of Greek Figurines

Jeammet Violaine

ISBN: PB: 9788484711711, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
300 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 268 colour plates, 19 drawings, 127 halftones

Named for the city in Greece where they were first discovered in the 1870s, Tanagra statuettes are an elegant example of ancient Greek terra-cotta sculpture from the fourth and third centuries BC. Mainly found in tombs in this city, the small statuet...

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