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Contemporary Art

Same River Twice Contemporary Art in Athens

Norton Margot, Bell Natalie

ISBN: PB: 9786185039356, DAP, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, August 2019
248 pp., 26.4x21.1 cm, 132 colour illus., 12 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Published on the occasion of the 2019 exhibition "The Same River Twice", organized by the DESTE Foundation and the New Museum in collaboration with the Benaki Museum in Athens, this catalog features the work of over 30 Athe...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Five Simple Steps to Sketching Flowers with Watercolors

Nakamura Ai

ISBN: PB: 9784865051698, Nippan IPS, October 2018
112 pp., 25.7x19 cm, 200 colour and back&white illus., language: English

The most fundamental part of painting watercolor flowers is to draw each flower precisely. "Think Twice, Draw Once" is a major theme from Nakamura throughout the book. There are "five steps", accompanied by detailed illustrations, important points an...

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Contemporary Art

William Forsythe Choreographic Objects

Neri Louise, Respini Eva

ISBN: HB: 9783791357966, Prestel Publishing, October 2018
240 pp., 30.5x25 cm, 200 colour illus.

This stunning and comprehensive book presents acclaimed artist William Forsythe, whose work is at the intersection of performance, sculpture, and installation. Since the 1990s, parallel to his stage productions, Forsythe has developed a body of work...

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Contemporary Art

Hairy Who? 1966-1969

Nichols Thea Liberty, Goldstein Ann, Pascale Mark, Blackwell Tyler, Hull Richard, Mullen Lydia, Owens Laura, Pocock Antonia

ISBN: HB: 9780300236903, Yale University Press, October 2018
256 pp., 29.2x20.3 cm, 220 colour and black&white illus.

This generously illustrated catalogue explores the history and significance of the Hairy Who, a group of six Chicago artists who transformed imagery from popular culture into highly personal works of art in a variety of media. New scholarship based o...

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Contemporary Art

Ideas Have No Smell: Three Belgian Surrealist Booklets Transfigured Publicity / Abstractive Treatise on Obeuse / For Balthazar

Nouge Paul, Colinet Paul, Scutenaire Louis

ISBN: PB: 9781946433138, DAP, Ugly Duckling Presse, October 2018
60 pp., 14.6x12 cm, 1 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The Belgian surrealist movement, like its contemporary French cousin, included both visual artists – Rene Magritte most famously – and writers, who were also its theorists. They shared with the Parisians a fierce commitment...

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History of Art

Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence

Nethersole Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780300233513, Yale University Press, June 2018
320 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 233 colour and black&white illus.

This study is the first to examine the relationship between art and violence in 15th-century Florence, exposing the underbelly of a period more often celebrated for enlightened and progressive ideas. Renaissance Florentines were constantly subjected...

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Contemporary Art

Vija Celmins

Nickas Bob

ISBN: HB: 9781944929138, DAP, Matthew Marks Gallery, March 2018
144 pp., 26x22.8 cm, 70 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The Latvian-born, New York-based artist has been rendering nature imagery from black-and-white photographic sources since the 1960s, exploring the same subjects repeatedly in paintings, drawings and prints. Here, she focuse...

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History of Art

Klimt and Rodin An Artistic Encounter

Natter Tobias G.

ISBN: HB: 9783791357089, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
224 pp., 29x24 cm, 163 colour illus.

Although they worked in different media, Auguste Rodin and Gustav Klimt were two artists whose output generated both incredible enthusiasm and virulent denunciation in their lifetimes. On the centenary of their deaths, in 1917 and 1918 respectively,...

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History of Art

Experience

Nemerov Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9780932171634, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, October 2017
216 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 72 colour illus.

In his noteworthy theoretical essay "Experience", Ralph Waldo Emerson writes that humans by nature cannot fully grasp life as lived. If this is so, how capable are we of expressing our experiences in works of art? Despite this formidable challenge, f...

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Photography

Catching the Light A Journey Across Myanmar

Neiser Birgit, Larkin Emma

ISBN: PB: 9786167339832, Prestel Publishing, River Books, September 2017
200 pp., 25.5x23.7 cm, black&white photos

Much has changed in Burma since Birgit Neiser first visited in 1981.The country is now known as Myanmar, and military rule - which lasted nearly half a century - has given way to a tentative democratic process. Returning in 2010, at the cusp of this...

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