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Finger A Handbook

Trumble Angus

ISBN: PB: 9780300179071, Yale University Press, September 2011
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

<p>In this collision between art and science, history and pop culture, the acclaimed art historian Angus Trumble examines the finger from every possible angle. His inquiries into its representation in art take us from Buddhist statues in Kyoto to the...

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Contemporary Art

Gutai Decentering Modernism

Tiampo Ming

ISBN: PB: 9780226801667, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
264 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 1 map, 69 halftones, 12 colour illus.

"Gutai" is the first book in English to examine Japan's best-known modern art movement, a circle of postwar artists whose avant-garde paintings, performances, and installations foreshadowed many key developments in American and European experimental...

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Manuals

Expanded Guide: Techniques Understanding Exposure

Taylor David

ISBN: PB: 9781906672997, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, March 2011
192 pp., 17.8x14.5 cm, photos

"Understanding Exposure" is an invaluable guide to taking better photographs using today's sophisticated digital SLR and compact digital cameras. Aimed at the novice or more experienced amateur photographer, jargon-free text explains the theory behin...

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Contemporary Art

Independent Eye Contemporary British Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie

Trumble Angus

ISBN: HB + CD: 9780300171396, Yale University Press, February 2011
144 pp., 31.2x25.6 cm, 105 colour illus.

This beautifully illustrated book takes readers inside Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie's dynamic private collection of contemporary British art, an intended gift to the Yale Center for British Art. Spanning the past four decades, the collection includes m...

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History of Art

Impressionist Children Childhood, Family, and Modern Identity in French Art

Thomas Greg M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300112856, Yale University Press, January 2011
224 pp., 26x21 cm, 150 black&white illus., 25 colour illus.

Images of children and families abound in the works of the French Impressionists, from Claude Monet's portraits of his young sons to Mary Cassatt's endearing images of mother and child. In "Impressionist Children", Greg Thomas offers new perspectives...

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Contemporary Art

Limits of Art Two Essays

Todorov Tzvetan

ISBN: HB: 9781906497620, Seagull Books, December 2010
96 pp., 25x15 cm

Tzvetan Todorov, one of Europe's leading intellectuals, explores the complex relations between art, politics, and ethics in the essays that make up "The Limits of Art". In one essay, "Artists and Dictators", Todorov traces the intimate relationship b...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Echoes of the Past The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtansgshan

Tsiang Katherine R.

ISBN: PB: 9780935573503, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2010
257 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 3 charts, 3 tables, 1 map, 160 colour illus.

Carved into the mountains of northern China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan were the crowning cultural achievement of the sixth-century Northern Qi dynasty. Once home to a magnificent array of limestone sculptures, the caves were heavily...

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Decorative Arts

Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement

Tucker Kevin W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300118025, Yale University Press, September 2010
272 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 170 colour illus.

With its emphasis on social reform and simplicity in design – bold lines, honest use of materials, and redeeming qualities of handmade goods – the Arts and Crafts movement offered an antidote to the perceived ills of a rapidly changing world and the...

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History of Art

On Curating Interviews with Ten International Curators

Thea Carolee

ISBN: PB: 9781935202004, DAP, January 2010
144 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 50 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "On Curating", Carolee Thea's second volume of interviews with ten of today's leading curators, explores the intellectual convictions and personal visions that lay the groundwork for the most prestigious and influential exh...

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History of Art

Arts of Ancient Vietnam From River Plain to Open Sea

Tingley Nancy, Reinecke Andreas, Manguin Pierre-Yves, Nguyen-Long Kerry, Dinh Chien Nguyen

ISBN: PB: 9780300146967, Yale University Press, January 2009
416 pp., 29.2x19.1 cm, 3 maps, 246 colour illus.

Once a strategic trading post that channeled the flow of riches and ideas among countries situated along the South China Sea and places as far away as India and Rome, Vietnam has a fascinating history and an artistic heritage to match it. This lavish...

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