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Decorative Arts

Rene Lalique Enchanted by Glass

Elliott Kelley Jo, Wight Karol, Everton Elizabeth, Oldknow Tina

ISBN: HB: 9780300205114, Yale University Press, July 2014
384 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 463 colour illus.

Rene Lalique, a master artist and designer of early 20th-century France, initially achieved fame for his jewellery creations that were widely admired and collected. He began experimenting with glass in the 1890s, and was so captivated by the material...

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Contemporary Art

Richard Estes' Realism A Retrospective

Sims Patterson, May Jessica, Ferrulli Helen

ISBN: PB: 9780300205121, Yale University Press, July 2014
192 pp., 23.5x29.2 cm, 88 colour and black&white illus.

Richard Estes (b. 1932) is one of the most celebrated adopters of photorealism; his paintings are characterized by painstaking detail that mimics the clarity and accuracy of photographs. Estes' most famous canvases from the 1970s depict New York's ur...

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History of Art

Enduring Bronze Ancient Art, Modern Views

Mattusch Carol C.

ISBN: PB: 9781606063262, Getty Publications, July 2014
272 pp., 21.7x16.6 cm, 99 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.

This is a revealing consideration of ancient bronzes from their halcyon days in antiquity to their allure today. Ancient bronze statuary provides a sense of immediacy, a window directly back to the classical world. The wistful expression of a young R...

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Contemporary Art

Mel Bochner Strong Language

Kleeblatt Norman L., Bochner Mel

ISBN: HB: 9780300197341, Yale University Press, July 2014
144 pp., 23.5x20.3 cm, 101 colour images, 11 black&white illus.

Mel Bochner (b 1940) is celebrated as a key Conceptual artist of the 1960s. Less well-known are his paintings made after that period: complex works based on an exploration of language, often crowded with typography in lush, contrasting hues that both...

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Contemporary Art

Jeff Koons A Retrospective

Rothkopf Scott, Damasio Antonio, Deitch Jeffrey, Graw Isabelle, Hochdorfer Achim, Kuo Michelle, Kushner Rachel, Lee Pamela M., Nagel Alexander, Surowiecki James

ISBN: HB: 9780300195873, Yale University Press, July 2014
288 pp., 33x27.9 cm, 200 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

Examining the breadth and depth of thirty-five years of work by Jeff Koons (b. 1955), one of the most influential and controversial artists of the 20th century, this highly anticipated volume features all of his most famous pieces. In an engaging ove...

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Photography

Sport

Futebol Urban Euphoria in Brazil

Finotti Leonardo, Viggiani Ed

ISBN: HB: 9783037784310, Lars Muller Publishers, July 2014
64 pp., 23x17 cm, 32 illus.

In Brazil soccer is more than just a sport. It is hope for a better future, a distraction from everyday life, creator of identity and community. If there is no ball around, people kick fruit or cans; when there is no field, they make one. Soccer mark...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

El Lissitzky The Experience of Totality

ISBN: HB: 9788415691532, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, July 2014
226 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, illus.

This is a fascinating and sumptuously illustrated overview of the work of El Lissitzky, one of the 20th-century's most influential and experimental artists. Eliezer (Lazar) Markovich Lissitzky, El Lissitzky (1890-1941) was one of the most experimenta...

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Postcards

26 Postcards from the Collections A Bodleian Library A to Z

ISBN: PB: 9781851244041, Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2014
26 pp., 16.5x12 cm, 26 colour illus.

The Bodleian Library is home to innumerable cultural treasures from every corner of the globe, assembled over a period of four hundred years of collecting. Structured around the alphabet, this book contains twenty-six detachable postcards, each featu...

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History of Art

Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism 34 Drawings (1920)

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311033, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, July 2014
64 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 2 illus., 34 plates

A facsimile edition of Kazimir Malevich, "SUPREMATISM: 34 Drawings", was published in 1990 by Artists Bookworks accompanied by an introduction to the drawings by Patricia Railing; it is now out-of-print. This 2014 reprint of Malevich's little book co...

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Cartoon Art

Comics and Media A Special Issue of "Critical Inquiry"

Chute Hillary L., Jagoda Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780226208466, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 97 colour plates, 110 halftones

The past decade has seen the medium of comics reach unprecedented heights of critical acclaim and commercial success".Comics and Media" reflects that, bringing together an amazing array of contributors, creators and critics alike, to discuss the stat...

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