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Contemporary Art

Be-Bomb The Transatlantic War of Images and All That Jazz. 1946-1956

Guilbaut Serge

ISBN: PB: 9788489771475, Bookport, MACBA, December 2007
784 pp., 21.6x17.1 cm

French historian, Serge Guilbaut, explores the aesthetic quarrels between Paris and New York of the 40s and 50s, analysing the art that became cultural and commercial icons, with works by Picasso, de Kooning, Dubuffet, Gorky, Kandinsky, Matisse, Newm...

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History of Art

Fragile Modernism Whistler and His Impressionist Followers

Gruetzner-Robins Anna

ISBN: HB: 9780300135459, Yale University Press, December 2007
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 40 colour images, 90 black&white illus.

Whistler embarked on a new project in the 1880s, working on a small scale in oil, pastel and watercolour, representing new London subjects and painting portraits of new urban types. This book is the first critical study of Whistler and his Impression...

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History of Art

Again Selected Interviews and Essays

Blair Dike

ISBN: PB: 9780945323143, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2007
144 pp., 21.4x17.4 cm, 24 colour plates

Dike Blair is part of a tradition of artists who also write. From an early point in his career Blair has worked on parallel paths, with his writing both reflecting and influencing his artistic production. His paintings and sculptures celebrate moment...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

How to Draw Noir Comics The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling

Martinbrough Shawn

ISBN: PB: 9780823024063, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, December 2007
144 pp., 27.9x21.7 cm, colour illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! Noir is just as powerful in comics as it is in films: dark angles, shadowy, high contrast images, moody lighting, an anti-hero that struggles with moral conflicts: all these elements work to create a somber, dark...

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Contemporary Art

Making a Home Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York

Shiner Eric C., Tomii Reiko

ISBN: HB: 9780300126341, Yale University Press, November 2007
250 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

Since the 1950s, many Japanese artists have made their homes and careers in New York, some for enhanced exposure to the international art world or to challenge themselves to take their artwork in new directions, and others to escape restrictions face...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Marsden Hartley and the West The Search for an American Modernism

Hole Heather, Buhler Lynes Barbara

ISBN: HB: 9780300121490, Yale University Press, November 2007
208 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 47 colour images, 88 black&white illus.

Considered the greatest of the early American modernists, the painter Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) travelled the United States and Europe in his search for a distinctive American aesthetic. His stay in New Mexico resulted in an extraordinary series of...

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History of Art

Picturing Animals in Britain 1750-1850

Donald Diana

ISBN: HB: 9780300126792, Yale University Press, November 2007
256 pp., 27x22 cm, 140 colour images, 140 black&white illus.

From fine art paintings by such artists as Stubbs and Landseer to zoological illustrations and popular prints, a vast array of animal images was created in Britain during the century from 1750 to 1850. This highly original book investigates the rich...

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History of Art

Ancient World

Pots and Plays Interactions Between Tragedy Vase-Painting of the Fourth Century B.C.

Taplin Oliver

ISBN: HB: 9780892368075, Getty Publications, November 2007
304 pp., 28x28 cm, 76 colour illus., 48 black&white illus.

Greek painted pottery from the fourth century BC is one of the largest and most remarkable bodies of theatrically informed material that still survives. "Pots and Plays" is a thorough and insightful re-evaluation of over 100 Greek vases – mostly from...

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Photography

Edward Weston's Book of Nudes

Weston Edward, Newhall Nancy

ISBN: HB: 9780892369034, Getty Publications, November 2007
96 pp., 28.5x26.7 cm, 70 duotone photos

Edward Henry Weston (1886-1958) first started taking photographs at the age of sixteen with a camera given to him by his father. Over the next five decades, he would come to be regarded by his peers as one of the greatest photographers of the twentie...

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Decorative Arts

American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 1: Early Colonial Period: The Seventeenth Century and William and Mary Styles

Gruber Safford Frances

ISBN: HB: 9780300116472, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2007
464 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 158 colour illus., 170 black&white illus.

The Metropolitan Museum's preeminent collection of early colonial furniture is expertly documented in this long-awaited publication. It covers the full spectrum of furniture forms made during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, from chair...

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