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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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History of Art

50 Series

50 Women Artists You Should Know New Edition

Weidemann Christiane

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791383613, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
160 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 80 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

This beautifully produced, richly detailed, and comprehensive survey of fifty influential women artists from the Renaissance to the Post-Modern era details their vast contributions to the art world. From the Early Baroque painter Artemisia Gentilesch...

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Contemporary Art

Adrian Villar Rojas The Roof Garden Commission: The Theater of Disappearance

Galilee Beatrice, Rojas Adrian Villar

ISBN: PB: 9781588396211, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2017
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 68 colour illus.

Known for his ephemeral, interconnected installations and monumental sculpture, Argentinian artist Adrian Villar Rojas (b. 1980) transformed The Met Roof into an immersive banquet scene for the 2017 Roof Garden Commission. This book retraces the arti...

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Fashion

Knitwear Fashion Design The Secrets of Drawing Knitted Fabrics and Garments

Lafuente Maite

ISBN: FLEXI: 9788416851171, Hoaki, September 2017
160 pp., 26x22 cm, richly illustrated

"Knitwear Fashion Design" aims to help fashion students to understand the basic design elements in knitwear and learn how illustrate them. Whether handmade or industrially- produced, deconstructive or avant-garde, knitwear has now become a staple col...

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Contemporary Art

Ann Hamilton habitus

Phillips Patricia C.

ISBN: HB: 9783791357096, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
192 pp., 32x23 cm, 100 colour illus.

"Held by cloth's hand, we are swaddled at birth, covered in sleep, and wound in death", muses artist Ann Hamilton. Rather than documenting the experience of her enormous immersive 2016-17 installation in Philadelphia, Hamilton offers here a document...

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Contemporary Art

Julia Jacquette Unrequited and Acts of Play

Adler Tracy L.

ISBN: HB: 9783791356723, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
120 pp., 35.6x27 cm, 93 colour illus.

Through her richly detailed paintings featuring imagery drawn from advertisements, New York–based artist Julia Jacquette addresses the challenges of navigating the contemporary media landscape that so directly influences our sense of personal identit...

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History of Art

Islam

By the Pen and What They Write Writing in Islamic Art and Culture

Blair Sheila S., Bloom Jonathan M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300228243, Yale University Press, September 2017
318 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 235 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.

Considered by Muslims as the only true art, calligraphy has played a prominent role in Islamic culture since the time of the prophet Muhammad. Exploring this central role of the written word in Islam and how writing practices have evolved and adapted...

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Art Conservation

Conservation and Presentation of Mosaics: At What Cost? Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the INTL Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics

Teutonico Jeanne Marie, Friedman Leslie, Nardi Roberto

ISBN: HB: 9781606065334, Getty Publications, September 2017
422 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

In recent years, funding for the conservation of cultural heritage has become increasingly difficult to obtain, and this trend shows no sign of changing significantly in the foreseeable future. The twelfth triennial meeting of the International Commi...

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History of Art

Neuroarthistory From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki

Onians John

ISBN: PB: 9780300229547, ISBN: HB: 9780300126778, Yale University Press, September 2017
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

This provocative book offers a fascinating account of one of the newest and most exciting fields in the human sciences: neuroarthistory. In recent decades there has been a dramatic increase in both the quantity and the quality of our knowledge about...

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Photography

Photography in Argentina Contradiction and Continuity

Keller Judith, Alonso Idurre

ISBN: HB: 9781606065327, Getty Publications, September 2017
332 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

From its independence in 1810 until the economic crisis of 2001, Argentina has been seen, in the national and international collective imaginary, as a modern country with a powerful economic system, a massive European immigrant population, an especia...

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