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Asia

Museum on the Roof of the World Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet

Harris Clare E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213170, ISBN: HB: 9780226317472, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
328 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 19 colour plates, 50 halftones, 1 line illus.

For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics...

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Cartoon Art

Painting and Drawing Manuals

Make Comics Like the Pros The Inside Scoop on How to Write, Draw, and Sell Your Comic Books and Graphic Novels

Pak Greg, Van Lente Fred

ISBN: PB: 9780385344630, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, November 2014
160 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, 200 illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! Every aspiring comic book creator wants to know: what separates the beloved comics of major publishers like Marvel, DC, Valiant and Image from all the rest? Fan-favourite comic book writers Greg Pak and Fred Van...

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Contemporary Art

Make it New Abstract Painting from the National Gallery of Art, 1950-1975

Cooper Harry, Breslin David, Jolly Matt

ISBN: PB: 9780300207903, Yale University Press, October 2014
140 pp., 33x22.2 cm, 60 colour illus.

Featuring thirty-five outstanding abstract paintings made between 1950 and 1975 from the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, this fascinating book casts a new glance at a renowned period in the history of art, including works by Ly...

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History of Art

Masterpieces in Detail Early Netherlandish Art from Van Eyck to Bosch

Borchert Till-Holger

ISBN: HB: 9783791381091, Prestel Publishing, October 2014
496 pp., 39x30 cm, 350 colour illus.

Forty works by early Netherlandish masters from van Eyck to Bosch – reproduced in exquisite detail – are the subject of this breathtaking book that leads readers deep into the paintings to reveal each artist's astonishing technique and brilliant appl...

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History of Art

Malevich Writes A Theory of Creativity Cubism to Suprematism

Railing Patricia

ISBN: HB: 9780946311088, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, October 2014
704 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 115 black&white illus.

Collection of 30 texts, 1915-1928 and 3 facsimiles, some in first English translation, plus Nina Kogan on Cubism and Ilya Chashnik on Suprematism. Chronological sections trace Malevich's analyses of Cubism and Futurism, the Supremus Society of Artist...

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History of Art

Matisse's Sculpture The Pinup and the Primitive

McBreen Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780300171037, Yale University Press, September 2014
288 pp., 28x23 cm, 50 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Long perceived as a side pursuit to his celebrated painting career, Henri Matisse's sculpture receives an overdue critical examination in this book. Beginning in 1906, soon after the artist acquired his first African sculpture, Matisse found inspirat...

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Design

Max Bill's View of Things Die gute Form: An Exhibition 1949

ISBN: HB: 9783037783726, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2014
160 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 120 illus.

The international touring exhibition "Die gute Form" was conceived by Max Bill on behalf of the Swiss Werkbund and was shown for the first time in 1949 at the Basel Mustermesse trade fair. The exhibition consisted of 80 display panels, designed by Bi...

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Manuals

Mastering: Landscape Photography The Definitive Guide for Photographers

Taylor David

ISBN: PB: 9781781450840, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, August 2014
176 pp., 24.8x24.8 cm, colour illus.

Landscape photography can be a solitary experience, but award-winning landscape photographer David Taylor believes creativity requires a certain amount of peaceful contemplation to flourish. What skills or requirements, therefore, does a successful l...

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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

Matthew Day Jackson Total Accomplishment

Beitin Andreas, Hartung Martin

ISBN: HB: 9783954760589, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, June 2014
424 pp., 30x23 cm, 400 colour illus., language: English

The work of Matthew Day Jackson (b. Panorama City 1974, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) opens up a dialogue between various aspects of the history of Western culture and progress, including technology and pop culture, as well as art history an...

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