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Contemporary Art

American Studio Ceramics Innovation and Identity, 1940 to 1979

Lynn Martha Drexler

ISBN: HB: 9780300212730, Yale University Press, November 2015
432 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 150 colour illus.

In the mid-20th century, ceramics evolved from a utilitarian craft or therapeutic hobby into a well-recognized fine art that continues to occupy a place in today's art world. In this pioneering study, leading scholar Martha Drexler Lynn explores how...

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History of Art

Decoding Magritte

Levy Silvano

ISBN: HB: 9781906593957, Casemate, Sansom & Co, October 2015
280 pp., 28x21 cm, 100 illus.

In a groundbreaking analysis, Silvano Levy unravels the hidden structures of Magritte's paintings. Decoding Magritte puts forward the theory that aphasia, the injury-induced inability to produce and comprehend language, is the elusive key to an under...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

De.Fi.Cien.Cy Andrzej Wroblewski, Rene Daniels, Luc Tuymans

Loock Ulrich

ISBN: HB: 9783954761210, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, September 2015
216 pp., 26x19.5 cm, 135 colour illus., 3 black&white illus., language: English / Polish

United in DE.FI.CIEN.CY are three artists from different generations and national backgrounds. Andrzej Wroblewski, perhaps Poland's preeminent postwar painter, died in 1957 at the age of thirty, and ill health forced Rene Daniels (b. Eindhoven, 1950)...

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History of Art

Kongo Power and Majesty

LaGamma Alisa

ISBN: HB: 9781588395757, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
308 pp., 28x23.4 cm, 261 colour illus.

Artists from the kingdom of Kongo – a vast swath of Central Africa that today encompasses the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola-were responsible for outstanding creative achievements. With the influx of Portuguese, Dutch...

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History of Art

Decorative Arts

How to Read Chinese Ceramics

Leidy Denise Patry

ISBN: PB: 9781588395719, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
144 pp., 26.7x20.7 cm, 180 colour illus.

Chinese ceramics are among the most significant and widely collected decorative arts produced anywhere in the world, with a history that spans millennia. Despite the saturation of Chinese ceramics in global culture – in English, the word "china" has...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Sybil Andrews and the Grosvenor School Linocuts

Leaper Hana

ISBN: HB: 9780993078644, Casemate, Osborne Samuel Gallery, September 2015
90 pp., 24.5x19.5 cm, colour illus.

Sybil Andrews was a printmaker first and foremost and, like her Grosvenor School colleagues, was encouraged by their mentor and teacher Claude Flight (1881-1955). They adopted a Cubist-Futurist-Vorticist pictorial language that discarded the outrageo...

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Architecture

History of Art

On Loos, Ornament and Crime Columns of Smoke: Volume II

Lahuerta Juan Jose, Thomson Graham

ISBN: PB: 9788493923150, University of Chicago Press, Editorial Tenov, September 2015
112 pp., 21x15.8 cm, 56 halftones

In his Columns of Smoke series, Juan Jose Lahuerta takes on the enormously ambitious task of re-reading modernity, offering us fresh ways of looking at it while drawing new links between the ideas of architecture and ornamentation, with a special foc...

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Decorative Arts

Luxus The Sumptuous Arts of Greece and Rome

Lapatin Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9781606064221, Getty Publications, July 2015
296 pp., 25x15 cm, 243 colour illus.

This elegantly produced book brings the luxury arts of antiquity back into brilliant life. In contrast to other histories of ancient art that typically privilege well-preserved works of ceramics or stone, "Luxus" offers an integrated contextual analy...

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Decorative Arts

British Silver State Hermitage Museum Catalogue

Lopato Marina

ISBN: HB: 9780300213201, Yale University Press, July 2015
400 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 750 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

Despite its comparatively small size-just over 370 items, dating mainly from the 18th century-the collection of British silver in the Hermitage is renowned for its variety and quality. Over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries, the introduction...

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Cartoon Art

Complete Guide to Self-Publishing Comics How to Create and Sell Comic Books, Manga, and Webcomics

Love Comfort, Withers Adam

ISBN: PB: 9780804137805, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, July 2015
240 pp., 26.6x21.6 cm, 500 illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! For the first time in history, those looking to break into comics have an enormous number of realistic, proven options for doing so all by themselves, without having to rely on big comics publishers. It's an exci...

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