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Harlem

Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty

ISBN: HB: 9780857420848, Seagull Books, January 2013
80 pp., 25x15 cm, 24 colour illus.

W. E. B. Du Bois has described the African American at the end of the nineteenth century as "two souls in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder". In the United States today, the hyphen between these two souls – A...

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Design

Geometrix New Trends in Graphic Design

Sandu

ISBN: HB: 9788492810598, Hoaki, December 2012
240 pp., 29x21.5 cm, richly illustrated

"Geometrix" is a visual delight that illustrates and explains geometry’s numerous potential applications in creating motifs, patterns and designs that make use of abstract shapes such as lines, circles, ellipses, triangles, rectangles and polygons. T...

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Interior Design

Night Time Innovative Design for Clubs and Bars

Sandu

ISBN: HB: 9788492810604, Hoaki, December 2012
240 pp., 29x21.5 cm, richly illustrated

There has been a huge surge in the growth of destination style night spots that provide a relaxing and glamorous alternative to warehouse clubbing. This book identifies the latest tastes and current trends in nightclub space design with supplemented...

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History of Art

S. J. Peploe

Strang Alice, Fowle Frances, Cumming Elizabeth, Peploe Guy

ISBN: HB: 9780300189766, Yale University Press, November 2012
96 pp., 26.6x24.1 cm, 88 colour illus.

Samuel John Peploe (1871-1935) was the eldest of the four artists popularly known as "The Scottish Colourists". Born in Edinburgh, he was drawn to France and returned to paint there frequently, moving in 1910 to Paris, where he moved in artistic avan...

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Contemporary Art

Computer Science & Internet

Islands of Benoit Mandelbrot Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking

Samuel Nina

ISBN: PB: 9780300186437, Yale University Press, October 2012
176 pp., 22.2x15.9 cm, 160 colour and black&white illus.

Over the last few decades, the "pictorial turn" in the natural sciences, prompted by the computer's capacity to produce visual representations, has generated considerable theoretical interest. Poised between their materiality and the abstract level t...

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Contemporary Art

Thinking Contemporary Curating

Smith Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780916365868, DAP, Independent Curators International, October 2012
256 pp., 20.1x14 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. These include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimaginatio...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Computer Science & Internet

Drawing Basics and Video Game Art Classic to Cutting Edge Art Techniques for Winning Video Game Design

Solarski Chris

ISBN: PB: 9780823098477, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, October 2012
208 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 250 full colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! Video games are not a revolution in art history, but an evolution. Whether the medium is paper or canvas, or a computer screen, the artist s challenge is to make something without depth seem like a window into a...

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Fashion

50 Series

50 Contemporary Fashion Designers You Should Know

Santlofer Doria

ISBN: PB: 9783791347134, Prestel Publishing, September 2012
160 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 150 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

This book of stunning images is an accessible overview of the most important contemporary fashion designers working now. Today's designers are savvier and more daring than ever before. Happy to exist within or outside the established houses of haute...

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History of Art

Europe

English Prize The Capture of the Westmorland, an Episode of the Grand Tour

Sanchez-Jauregu Alpanes Maria Dolores, Wilcox Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780300176056, Yale University Press, May 2012
400 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 350 colour illus.

Laden with works of art acquired by young British travellers on the Grand Tour in Italy, the British merchant ship Westmorland sailed from the Italian port of Livorno before being captured by French naval vessels and escorted to Malaga in southern Sp...

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Photography

Literary Criticism

Kind of Touching Beauty Photographs of America by Pedro Meyer, Text by Jean-Paul Sartre

Meyer Pedro, Sartre Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780857425843, Seagull Books, May 2012
160 pp., 24x24 cm, 100 halftones

Photographer Pedro Meyer is one of the pioneers of contemporary photography and was an early leader in its digital revolution. In "A Kind of Touching Beauty" his lens is focused on the American city, capturing its growth and transition through the 19...

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