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Painting 1909 Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Henri Bergson, Comics, Albert Einstein, and Anarchy

Folgarait Leonard

ISBN: HB: 9780300218015, Yale University Press, January 2017
240 pp., 21x15.2 cm, 22 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

In 1909, renowned artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) embarked on a series of stylistic experiments that had a dramatic effect on modern art. This book examines the ways in which Picasso's art of 1909 intertwines and engages with the larger intellectual...

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Design

Our World to Change!

Baur Ruedi

ISBN: PB: 9783037785294, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2017
256 pp., 16x12 cm, 260 illus.

To explain the desperate state of our world, its functioning and malfunctioning, is the ambitious goal of this book by Ruedi and Vera Baur. To achieve this goal they have joined forces with the globalization-critical organization Attac, which has pro...

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History of Art

Golden Age of European Art Celebrating Fifty Years of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Clifton James, Baert Barbara, Bayer Andrea, Dunlop Anne, Ostrow Steven F., Pon Lisa, Postle Martin, Wheelock Arthur K. Jr.

ISBN: HB: 9780300207811, Yale University Press, January 2017
272 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus., 45 black&white illus.

Marking the 50th anniversary of the acclaimed Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, this commemorative book presents masterpieces from the foundation's collection. The works span more than 400 years, from the 16th through the early 20th century, and fea...

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History of Art

Raphael's Tapestries The Grotesques of Leo X

Karafel Lorraine

ISBN: HB: 9780300181999, Yale University Press, January 2017
200 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 100 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

Around 1515, Raphael (1483-1520) designed a set of tapestries for Leo X, the first Medici pope. Each was sumptuously woven in gold, silver, and silk, and depicted scenes from classical mythology with inventive grotesques. Now lost, these spectacular,...

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Contemporary Art

Concrete Body Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci

Archias Elise

ISBN: HB: 9780300217971, Yale University Press, January 2017
240 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 36 colour illus., 93 black&white illus.

Offering an incisive rejoinder to traditional histories of modernism and postmodernism, this original book examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body. Findin...

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Posters

Design

True Print

Kuhne Da

ISBN: HB: 9783037785096, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2017
152 pp., 30x24 cm, 182 illus.

Dafi Ku?hne is a Swiss designer who works with analogue and digital techniques to produce fresh and unique letterpress-printed posters. Using very different kinds of tools – from a computer to a pantograph – for his compositions, he pushes the bounda...

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History of Art

Bouchardon Royal Artist of the Enlightenment

Kopp Edouard, Scherf Guilhem, Desmas Anne-Lise, Trey Juliette

ISBN: HB: 9781606065068, Getty Publications, January 2017
448 pp., 25x15 cm

One of the most imaginative and fascinating artists of eighteenth-century France, Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) was instrumental in the transition from Rococo to Neoclassicism and in the artistic rediscovery of classical antiquity. Much celebrated in h...

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Art Conservation

History of Art

National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Volume 37

Roy Ashok

ISBN: PB: 9781857096101, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2017
104 pp., 29.9x21 cm, 155 colour illus.

This volume continues the National Gallery's acclaimed series of Technical Bulletins with a selection of studies across the range of the collection, jointly authored by experts in the field of conservation and the scientific examination of paintings....

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Contemporary Art

Ken Price A Survey of Sculpture and Drawings

Schimmel Paul

ISBN: HB: 9783791356136, Prestel Publishing, January 2017
144 pp., 28x24 cm, 192 colour illus.

This comprehensive monograph of Ken Price's sculptures and works on paper pays tribute to a highly influential career and personality. Part of a generation of artists that emerged in postwar Los Angeles, Ken Price transformed the art of ceramic scul...

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Design

Pattern Euphoria Graphic Design Elements Series

Shaoqiang Wang

ISBN: HB: 9788416504558, Hoaki, January 2017
240 pp., 27.9x21 cm, richly illustrated

This book includes patterns designed for textiles, stationery, interiors, and other products that have been created by international designers and that are inspired by plant and animal shapes, and geometric and abstract forms. In each chapter an inte...

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