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Contemporary Art

Sabiduras and Other Texts Writings by Gego

Huizi Maria Elena, Manrique Josefina, Ramirez Mari Carmen

ISBN: HB: 9780300111637, Yale University Press, September 2005
256 pp., 25x25 cm, 47 colour illus.

The German-born Venezuelan artist Gego (1912-1994) was renowned for her abstract drawings, prints, three-dimensional works, hanging net pieces and wire constructions. In 1999, a folder was found in a storage trunk that had belonged to Gego, with the...

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History of Art

Origins of European Printmaking Fifteenth-century Woodcuts and Their Public

Parshall Peter, Schoch Rainer, Field Richard S., Schmidt Peter, Areford David

ISBN: HB: 9780300113396, Yale University Press, September 2005
372 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 150 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

This highly anticipated and beautifully illustrated book examines the evolution of early printmaking in late medieval Europe. Through their means of production and the evidence of their utility, prints are explored in a broad social and economic cont...

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Decorative Arts

Design

Modernism in American Silver 20th-century Design

Stern Jewel, Tucker Kevin W., Venable Charles L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300109276, Yale University Press, September 2005
384 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 300 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.

From teaspoons to cocktail shakers and unique objects made for New York World's Fairs, this stunning book examines the influence of modernism upon industrially produced silverware made in the United States from 1925 to 2000. Featuring the Dallas Muse...

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Contemporary Art

Photography

Dora Lives The Authorized Story of Miki Dora

Stecyk C. R., Kampion Drew

ISBN: HB: 9781890481179, DAP, September 2005
142 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 60 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The surfing iconoclast who became an icon, Miki Dora was the epitome of 1960s beach culture. His dark good looks were the envy of Malibu. His talent earned him trophies (which he disdained) and the nickname "Da Cat". And in...

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History of Art

Paintings and Drawings in the Wrightsman Collection

Fahy Everett, Rosenberg Pierre, Barker Elizabeth E., Goldner George, Ives Colta, Rewald Sabine, Stein Perrin, Tinterow Gary

ISBN: HB: 9780300107197, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2005
320 pp., 28x22.8 cm, 180 colour illus.

This lavish catalogue presents 150 European paintings, pastels, and drawings from the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century that have been given to the Metropolitan Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman or are still held in Mrs. Wrightsman...

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Contemporary Art

Hotel Terminus

Lapthisophon Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780945323006, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, August 2005
478 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 430 halftones

"Hotel Terminus" continues along trajectories found throughout artist Stephen Lapthisophon's installations and collages. It weaves fragments of an everyday variety into a complex structural dialogue. Individual images are often altered and slightly t...

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Photography

Eva Davidova

Farova Anna

ISBN: PB: 9788072152346, DAP, Torst, August 2005
112 pp., 18.4x16.5 cm, 108 duotones

Not for sale in Estonia! Ethnographer, sociologist, art historian and photographer, Eva Davidova is one of the founders of Gypsy (Roma) studies in the Czech Republic and has been illuminating and investigating this secretive society for half a cent...

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History of Art

After Sir Joshua, Volume 15 Essays on British Art and Cultural History

Wendorf Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300107340, Yale University Press, July 2005
256 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 16 colour images, 26 black&white illus.

Following in the methodological footsteps of his prize-winning Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society, Richard Wendorf's new book on British art in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is an experiment in cultural history, combining the analy...

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History of Art

French Art in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Morris Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780300106893, Yale University Press, July 2005
384 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 160 illus.

Early in the nineteenth century French art was largely rejected by British artists, critics and patrons. This rejection reflected both constant political opposition to France over the preceding 130 years and the growth of cultural nationalism in Brit...

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History of Art

Nationalism and French Visual Culture, 1870-1914

Hargrove June, McWilliam Neil

ISBN: HB: 9780300107555, Yale University Press, June 2005
336 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 17 colour images, 144 black&white illus.

Between its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and the outbreak of World War I, France experienced a tremendous rise in populist nationalism, the aftershocks of which can still be felt today. In examining the forces that shaped the arts of this period...

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