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Tatlin's Tower Monument to Revolution

Lynton Norbert

ISBN: HB: 9780300111309, Yale University Press, June 2009
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 10 colour images, 45 black&white illus.

The plans for the gigantic Monument to the Third International were completed in 1920 by Vladimir Tatlin, the Russian painter and visionary designer who was a key figure of Russian constructivism. Planned as the headquarters and monument of the Comin...

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Art Conservation

Papers on Special Techniques in Athenian Vases

Lapatin Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780892369010, Getty Publications, September 2008
264 pp., 27.9x19.7 cm, 140 colour and black&white illus.

In June 2006, the J. Paul Getty Museum hosted an international symposium to coincide with the exhibition The Colours of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases. The themes of the exhibition – vases executed in bilingual, coral-red gloss, outline,...

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Blind Spot An Essay on the Relations Between Painting and Sculpture in the Modern Age

Lichtenstein Jacqueline

ISBN: HB: 9780892368921, Getty Publications, September 2008
240 pp., 23.8x17.1 cm, 16 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.

Beginning in the seventeenth century, many of Europe's greatest writers and artists became embroiled in a debate that centered on the priority of paintings or sculpture, touch or sight, colour or design, ancient or modern. "The Blind Spot" guides us...

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Modern Paints Uncovered Proceedings From the Modern Paints Uncovered Symposium, May 16-19, 2006, Tate Modern, London

Learner Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780892369065, Getty Publications, May 2008
372 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 104 colour illus., 64 duotone illus., 58 line drawings, 27 tables

Over the past seventy years, a staggering array of new pigments and binders have been developed and used in the production of paint and twentieth-century artists have readily applied these materials to their canvasses. Paints intended for houses, boa...

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David After David Essays on the Later Work

Ledbury Mark, Bajou Valerie, Bordes Philippe, Crow Thomas, Fried Michael, Harkett Daniel, Grimaldo Grigsby Darcy, Guegan Stephane, Janzing Godehard, Johnson Dorothy

ISBN: HB: 9780300121513, Yale University Press, November 2007
256 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 16 colour illus., 140 black&white illus.

With essays by Valerie Bajou, Philippe Bordes, Thomas Crow, Michael Fried, Tom Gretton, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Stephane Guegan, Daniel Harkett, Godehard Janzing, Dorothy Johnson, Mehdi Korchane, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Issa Lampe, Mark Ledbury, Simon L...

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Pollock Matters

Landau Ellen G., Cernuschi Claude

ISBN: PB: 9781892850133, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, November 2007
178 pp., 28x28 cm, 282 colour plates

Legendary abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is most famous for the frenetic, highly textured works created through his trademark "drip" technique in which he poured paint from its can directly onto the canvas".Pollock Matters...

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Titian Remade Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art

Loh Maria

ISBN: HB: 9780892368730, Getty Publications, August 2007
216 pp., 26.7x19 cm, 26 colour illus., 43 black&white illus.

This insightful volume explores the use of imitation and the modern cult of originality through a consideration of the disparate fates of two Venetian painters – the canonized master Titian (c. 1488-1576) and his artistic heir, the little known Padov...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Euan Uglow The Complete Paintings

Lampert Catherine, Kendall Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300123494, Yale University Press, May 2007
320 pp., 29.5x24.5 cm, 310 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.

Never particularly keen on exhibiting his work, British artist Euan Uglow (1932-2000) maintained a lower profile than other artists of his generation and kept many of his paintings out of the public view. Even so, his name is increasingly well known,...

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Design

Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design

Long Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300121025, Yale University Press, April 2007
224 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 42 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.

Arriving in the United States in 1914, Viennese-born Paul T. Frankl (1886-1958) brought with him an outsider's fresh perspective and an enthusiasm for forging a uniquely American design aesthetic. In the years between the two world wars he, more than...

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History of Art

Imagining Childhood Themes in the Imagery of Childhood

Langmuir Erika

ISBN: HB: 9780300101317, Yale University Press, October 2006
256 pp., 27x20.4 cm, 45 colour images, 55 black&white illus.

The images of children that abound in Western art do not simply mirror reality; they are imaginative constructs, representing childhood as a special stage of human life, or emblematic of the human condition itself. In a compelling book ranging widely...

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