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Eaglemania Collecting Japanese Art in Gilded Age America
ISBN: PB: 9781892850348, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, March 2019
165 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 85 colour plates, 40 halftones
"Eaglemania" celebrates Boston College's mascot, a monumental Japanese bronze eagle, following its recent conservation and return to view. Donated in the 1950s by the estate of diplomat and collector Larz Anderson (1866-1937) and his wife, Isabel (18...
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£27,00
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Boilly Scenes of Parisian Life
ISBN: HB: 9781857096439, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2019
96 pp., 26x24.8 cm, 40 colour illus.
In a long career that spanned the French Revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon, and the Bourbon Restoration, Louis-Leopold Boilly (1761-1845) created innovative and daring paintings in the midst of the most turbulent times. Bringing together two...
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£16,95
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Freedom of the Presses Artists' Books in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: PB: 9780692166789, DAP, Brooklyn, January 2019
236 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 60 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Freedom of the Presses" is at once a textbook and a toolbox for using artists' books and creative publications to further community engagement and social justice projects. Far from being a staid survey of an art historica...
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£22,00
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Lola Alvarez Bravo Picturing Mexico
ISBN: HB: 9780300238709, Yale University Press, November 2018
96 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 70 colour illus.
This stunning and lyrical volume highlights the personal work of Lola Alvarez Bravo (1903-1993), one of Mexico's foremost photographers. alvarez Bravo worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, portraitist, and educator and played a critic...
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£20,00
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National Gallery Catalogues The Eighteenth-Century French Paintings
ISBN: HB: 9781857093384, Yale University Press, November 2018
632 pp., 28.6x21.6 cm, 440 colour illus.
The impressive collection of 18th-century French paintings at the National Gallery, London, includes important works by Boucher, Chardin, David, Fragonard, Watteau, and many others. This volume presents over seventy detailed and extensively illustrat...
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£75,00
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Charles Ray
ISBN: HB: 9780980108651, DAP, Glenstone Museum, October 2018
52 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 14 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In his sculptural practice, American artist Charles Ray (born 1953) has long been fascinated by the concept of representation, the depiction of the human form and questions of scale. Known for his keen sense of – and respec...
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£30,00
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Cy Twombly
ISBN: HB: 9780980108699, DAP, Glenstone Museum, October 2018
64 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 21 colour illus., 7 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Though perhaps best known for his paintings, Cy Twombly (1928-2011) developed a singular body of sculpture over the course of his 60-year career. These sculptures are made from quotidian materials such as wood, metal and fo...
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Louise Bourgeois To Unravel Torment
ISBN: HB: 9780999802915, DAP, Glenstone Museum, October 2018
208 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 95 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Celebrated for her singular contributions to 20th-century sculpture, drawing, painting, printmaking, installation and writing, French-born American artist Louise Bourgeois' (1911-2010) explorations of the human condition or...
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£45,00
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Agents of Faith Votive Objects in Time and Place
ISBN: HB: 9780300222968, Yale University Press, September 2018
384 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 250 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.
Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention of being offered as acts of faith. Common across historical periods, religions, and cultures, they are presented as tokens of gratitude for prayers answ...
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£55,00
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Ambitious Alignments New Histories in Southeast Asian Art, 1945-1990
ISBN: PB: 9780909952921, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, June 2018
400 pp., 24.4x17.3 cm, illustrations throughout
Ten essays by emerging scholars draw upon unexplored archives and works of art, bearing witness to rich local histories and uncovering complex artistic exchanges across Southeast Asia and beyond. This volume sheds new light on the significance of arc...
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£26,00
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