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Photography

Promising Paradise Cuban Allure, American Seduction

Mogul Jon

ISBN: PB: 9780996869959, DAP, Wolfsonian-Florida International University, August 2019
112 pp., 22.9x22.9 cm, 169 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Midcentury America witnessed a frenzy for Cuba and Latin culture. Beaches, nightclubs and casinos lured tourists south to a tropical playground, while Hollywood celebrities and Cuban performers fueled a craze for rumba, mam...

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History of Art

Pre-Raphaelite Language of Flowers

Mancoff Debra N.

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791385020, Prestel Publishing, July 2019
96 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 85 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.

Few artistic movements capture classic notions of beauty as romantically as the Pre-Raphaelites – a group of nineteenthcentury painters and poets who aimed to revive the purer art of the late medieval period. In this beautiful volume, Debra N. Mancof...

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Contemporary Art

Trenton Doyle Hancock Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass

Markonish Denise

ISBN: HB: 9783791358215, Prestel Publishing, July 2019
224 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 180 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

Trenton Doyle Hancock has transformed his childhood love of comic books, toys, and superhero culture into his own creation myth. That mythology and the fascinating, multimedia iterations that it has sparked are told in this captivating and revealing...

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Contemporary Art

Suffering from Realness

Markonish Denise

ISBN: HB: 9783791358192, Prestel Publishing, June 2019
224 pp., 24x18 cm, 172 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

In an age of national divisiveness, artists are creating moments of political resistance while also trying to forge paths towards reconciliation. This exciting and provocative collection shows how fifteen US-based multi-disciplinary artists are addre...

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Design

N. C. Wyeth New Perspectives

May Jessica, Podmaniczky Christine

ISBN: PB: 9780300243680, Yale University Press, June 2019
216 pp., 27.9x24.8 cm, 158 colour illus.

N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) was widely renowned for his iconic images of characters such as King Arthur, Robin Hood, and Robinson Crusoe that were reproduced as illustrations for books and magazines. The patriarch of the Wyeth family, father of Andrew Wy...

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History of Art

Book of Beasts The Bestiary in the Medieval World

Morrison Elizabeth, Grollemond Larisa

ISBN: HB: 9781606065907, Getty Publications, June 2019
356 pp., 25x15 cm, colour illus.

Brimming with lively animals both real and fantastic, the bestiary was one of the great illuminated manuscript traditions of the Middle Ages. Encompassing imaginary creatures, such as the unicorn, siren and griffin; exotic beasts, including the tiger...

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Contemporary Art

Less Is a Bore Maximalist Art & Design

Medvedow Jill

ISBN: PB: 9780997253849, DAP, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, June 2019
224 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 125 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design" is a multigenerational survey of strategies of pattern and decoration in art and design. Borrowing its ethos from Robert Venturi's infamous retort to Mies van der Rohe's modernist e...

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History of Art

For America Paintings from the National Academy of Design

McCarthy Jeremiah William, Thompson Diana, Rather Susan, Spear Elizabeth, Haltman Kenneth, Reason Akela, Greenhill Jennifer, Shahi Kimia, Walz Jonathan F., Nemerov Alexander, Wilson Alona C., Hills Patricia, Earnest Jarrett

ISBN: PB: 9780300244281, Yale University Press, April 2019
304 pp., 27.9x21 cm, 200 colour illus.

This stunning book provides an unprecedented glimpse into the past two centuries of American art, tracing artistic tradition and innovation at the National Academy of Design from its 19th-century founding to the present. The nation's oldest artist ho...

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Contemporary Art

Walks to the Paradise Garden A Lowdown Southern Odyssey

March Jones Phillip

ISBN: HB: 9781732848207, DAP, Institute 193, April 2019
352 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 100 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Walks to the Paradise Garden is the last unpublished manuscript of the late American poet, photographer, publisher, Black Mountain alumnus and bon viveur Jonathan Williams (1929-2008). This 352-page book chronicles Williams...

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Contemporary Art

Ellsworth Kelly Color Panels for a Large Wal

Mehring Christine

ISBN: HB: 9781944929145, DAP, Matthew Marks Gallery, April 2019
88 pp., 24.7x21.5 cm, 52 colour illus., 12 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! In the late 1970s Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) was commissioned by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to create an artwork for the lobby of a new office building underway in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Kelly respond...

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