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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Dare to Sketch A Guide to Drawing on the Go

Scheinberger Felix

ISBN: HB: 9780399579554, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, October 2017
160 pp., 23.8x16.8 cm, photos

Not for sale in selected countries! An inspirational, instructional, and visually stimulating guide to sketching and drawing from the author of "Urban Watercolor Sketching", filled with practical tips about which materials to use, a variety of subj...

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Design

Ruder Typography – Ruder Philosophy

Schmid Helmut

ISBN: PB: 9783037785416, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2017
226 pp., 30x23 cm, 310 illus.

The celebrated and much sought-after issue of the magazine idea focusing on a towering figure in Swiss graphic design, Emil Ruder, is now in print again. idea is a renowned Japanese magazine on international graphic art and typography. Its 333th edit...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Pollock's Modernism

Schreyach Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300223262, Yale University Press, September 2017
344 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 45 colour illus.

"Pollock's Modernism" provides a new interpretation of the art of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), one that is based on a phenomenological investigation of the pictorial effects of particular paintings. Focusing on major works that span the artist's care...

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Photography

50 Series

50 Photographers You Should Know New Edition

Stepan Peter

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791383590, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
160 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 90 colour illus., 46 black&white illus.

This dynamic introduction to the most important photographers from the inception of photography to today bears witness to the magic of the camera. From Felix Nadar's awe-inspiring aerial photos and Eugene Atget's images of fin de siecle France to Wal...

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Contemporary Art

Central Berlin DDR Limited

Schilgen Stephan, Wyst Andre M.

ISBN: HB: 9783954761869, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, August 2017
224 pp., 28x21 cm, 174 colour and black&white illus., language: English / German

Built between 1952 and 1958, Karl-Marx-Allee was socialist East Berlin's showcase boulevard. Well over a mile long, the wide street from Strausberger Platz to Frankfurter Tor is lined with seven- to nine-storey apartment blocks, the most extensive po...

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Photography

First Exposures Writings from the Beginning of Photography

Siegel Steffen

ISBN: PB: 9781606065242, Getty Publications, August 2017
520 pp., 25x15 cm, 53 black&white illus.

An exact date for the invention of photography is evasive. Scientists and amateurs alike were working on a variety of photographic processes for much of the early nineteenth century. Thus most historians refer to the year 1839 as the first year of ph...

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Contemporary Art

Mel Bochner Voices

Sigler Jeremy

ISBN: HB: 9780300230352, Yale University Press, August 2017
96 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 43 colour illus.

Mel Bochner (b. 1940) is recognized as one of the leading figures in the development of Conceptual art in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. He pioneered the introduction of the use of language in the visual, probing the way they relate to one another...

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History of Art

Illuminating Women in the Medieval World

Sciacca Christine

ISBN: HB: 9781606065266, Getty Publications, July 2017
120 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 106 colour illus.

When one thinks of women in the Middle Ages, the images that often come to mind are those of damsels in distress, mystics in convents, female laborers in the field, and even women of ill repute. In reality, however, medieval conceptions of womanhood...

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Contemporary Art

Recording Machine Art and Fact During the Cold War

Shannon Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9780300187274, Yale University Press, July 2017
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 30 colour illus., 125 black&white illus.

A revealing look at the irrevocable change in art during the 1960s and its relationship to the modern culture of fact. This refreshing and erudite book offers a new understanding of the transformation of photography and the visual arts around 1968....

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Contemporary Art

Metamorphosis

Schnetkamp Monika, Felix Zdenek

ISBN: HB: 9783954761920, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, June 2017
80 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, 50 colour illus., language: English / German

"Metamorphosis" means transformation, modification, mutation. Ovid's epic poem of the same title (ca. 8 CE) recounts stories of the transformations of gods, heroes, humans, plants, and animals. The book Metamorphosis presents works by five internat...

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