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Fashion

Zandra Rhodes 50 Fabulous Years in Fashion

Nothdruft Dennis

ISBN: HB: 9780300244304, Yale University Press, September 2019
208 pp., 29.2x20.3 cm, 260 colour and black&white illus.

"Zandra Rhodes" provides a luscious documentary of this leading British designer, spanning her 50-year career in fashion and textile design. The book showcases not only Rhodes's work but also her vivid personality and creative energy. Both a fashion...

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Gardening

History of Art

Heritage Apples

Ball Caroline

ISBN: HB: 9781851245161, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2019
248 pp., 22x18 cm, 110 colour illus.

What would a greengrocer say if you were to ask for half a dozen Grenadiers and a couple of Catsheads? In the course of the past century we have lost much of our rich heritage of orchard fruits, but with taste once again triumphing over shelf-life an...

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Contemporary Art

America

Art of Return The Sixties and Contemporary Culture

Meyer James

ISBN: HB: 9780226521558, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
302 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 94 colour plates, 38 halftones

More than any other decade, the sixties capture our collective cultural imagination. And while many Americans can immediately imagine the sound of Martin Luther King Jr. declaring "I have a dream!" or envision hippies placing flowers in gun barrels,...

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Photography

Europe

Dark Lens Imaging Germany, 1945

Meltzer Francoise

ISBN: HB: 9780226625638, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 41 halftones

The ruins of war have long held the power to stupefy and appall. Can such ruins ever be persuasively depicted and comprehended? Can images of them force us to identify with the suffering of the enemy and raise uncomfortable questions about forgivenes...

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History of Art

Theme and Variations The Multiple Sorceries of Felix Buhot

Leonard Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780935573596, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2019
60 pp., 15.2x24.1 cm, 60 colour plates

In the late nineteenth century, French printmaker Felix Buhot effected a kind of sorcery on his etching plates, making each impression into a unique work of art simply by varying the inking technique and the inks and papers used. With his evocative,...

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Contemporary Art

Lenore Tawney Mirror of the Universe

Patterson Karen

ISBN: HB: 9780226664835, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
304 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 200 colour plates

Recent years have seen an enormous surge of interest in fiber arts, with works made of thread on display in art museums around the world. But this art form only began to transcend its origins as a humble craft in the late nineteenth and early twentie...

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Contemporary Art

Let me consider it from here

Ovstebo Solveig

ISBN: PB: 9780941548762, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, September 2019
104 pp., 21.5x17.7 cm, 52 colour plates

Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, "Let me consider it from here" features color reproductions of artworks by Saul Fletcher, Brook Hsu, and Tetsumi Kudo and transcriptions of the audio works of Constance DeJong, alongside newly co...

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Contemporary Art

Please RSVP Questions on Collaborative Aesthetics, Trans-Subjectivity, and the Politics of Love

Durham April

ISBN: PB: 9781512603682, ISBN: HB: 9781512603453, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It's no secret that working with others, rather than alone, on a creative project can often yield the most unexpected results, a new and surprising sum greater than the whole of its parts. "Please RSVP" presents a bold new theory of just how powerful...

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Contemporary Art

Alejandro Cesarco Song

Cesarco Alejandro

ISBN: HB: 9780941548748, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, September 2019
112 pp., 26.6x19 cm, 28 colour plates

"Alejandro Cesarco: Song", published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Renaissance Society, brings together both new commissions and existing works. In the exhibition, Cesarco creates rhythm by incorporating silences and withh...

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Contemporary Art

Allure of Matter Material Art from China

Hung Wu, Cacchione Orianna, Mehring Christine, Smith Trevor

ISBN: HB: 9780935573602, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2019
264 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 257 colour plates

From the 1980s, many Chinese artists have experimented with a range of unconventional materials. Their works–in plastic, paper, silk, ash, and tobacco–form a major trend in Chinese art. "The Allure of Matter" offers the first serious consideration of...

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