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History of Art

Murillo The Self-Portraits

Salomon Xavier F., Treves Letizia, Alvarez-Garcillan Maria, Centeno Silvia, Garcia-Maiquez Jaime, Keith Larry, Mahon Dorothy, Ryder Nicole

ISBN: HB: 9780300225686, Yale University Press, November 2017
144 pp., 30.2x24.1 cm, 65 colour illus.

This beautiful publication accompanies an exhibition that brings together the only two known self-portraits by Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), one of the finest painters of the Spanish Golden Age. Painted almost twenty years apart, these two r...

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Contemporary Art

Prospect.4 The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp

Schoonmaker Trevor

ISBN: HB: 9783791356792, Prestel Publishing, November 2017
192 pp., 28.5x23 cm, 144 colour illus.

Now in its fourth iteration, Prospect New Orleans draws its inspiration from the city itself, a place of graceful beauty that thrives in adverse conditions. By positioning itself in the city of New Orleans, the Prospect triennial aims to echo the cit...

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History of Art

Monet Framing Life

Shaw Jill

ISBN: PB: 9780300229172, Yale University Press, November 2017
64 pp., 19.1x15 cm, 30 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

This beautiful publication highlights a treasured painting in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts – "Rounded Flower Bed" ("Corbeille de fleurs") by Claude Monet (1840-1926). The canvas was painted while Monet lived in the Paris suburb of...

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Between Worlds Raden Saleh and Juan Luna

Storer Russell

ISBN: PB: 9789811146848, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, November 2017
208 pp., 29.5x22.9 cm

National heroes and enigmatic figures, 19th-century painters Raden Saleh and Juan Luna traversed the colonial territories of Southeast Asia and the imperial cities of Europe. Their agile navigation of these competing positions resulted in dramatic pa...

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Design

Motion Graphics 100 Design Projects You Can't Miss

Shaoqiang Wang

ISBN: HB: 9788416851294, Hoaki, October 2017
240 pp., 28.6x21 cm, richly illustrated

Motion graphics – a digital technique that combines the language of traditional graphic design with the creative visual language of film and animation – has become a fast growing area within the practice of graphic design. With the function of storyt...

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Contemporary Art

Notes Towards a Conditional Art

Simms Matthew, Irwin Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781606065501, Getty Publications, October 2017
352 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Robert Irwin began his career in the 1950s as an abstract painter. As a pioneer of the Light and Space movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s and early '80s, Irwin focused on exploring aesthetic perception as the fundamental feature of art, culminating...

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Fashion

Fabrics in Fashion Design The Way Successful Fashion Designers Use Fabrics (New Edition)

Sposito Stefania

ISBN: PB: 9788416851287, Hoaki, October 2017
336 pp., 24.5x23.8 cm, richly illustrated

Fabrics are the base for the world of fashion: they determine the way designers conceive their pieces and their creativity. This book is a bridge uniting materials and their creators by visually showing the profound relationship between fabrics and f...

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Literary Criticism

History of Art

Unpacking My Library Artists and Their Books

Steffens Jo, Neumann Matthias, Proust Marcel

ISBN: HB: 9780300216981, Yale University Press, October 2017
184 pp., 14x20.3 cm, 270 colour illus.

Taking its inspiration from Walter Benjamin's seminal 1931 essay, the "Unpacking My Library" series charts a spirited exploration of the reading and book collecting practices of today's leading thinkers. "Artists and Their Books" showcases the person...

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Contemporary Art

From Anselm to Zilla The Peter and Elisabeth Bosshard Collection of the Stiftung Kunst(Zeug)Haus

Stohler Peter, Giezendanner Petra, Gubelmann Anja

ISBN: PB: 9783037785478, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2017
320 pp., 30x24 cm, 390 illus.

This catalogue presents one of the largest collections of Swiss contemporary art in print for the first time. In the early 1970s, Peter and Elisabeth Bosshard, collectors and patrons of the arts, began to bring together works by Swiss artists. Over t...

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Soutine's Portraits Cooks, Waiters and Bellboys

Serres Karen, Wright Barnaby

ISBN: PB: 9781911300212, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, October 2017
144 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus.

Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) produced some of the most powerful and expressive portraits of modern times. His ability to capture in paint the character, humanity and emotion of his sitters is the hallmark of Soutine's greatest work. The major exhibition...

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