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Design

Konstantin GRCIC Decisive Design

Ryan Zoe

ISBN: PB: 9780300151046, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2009
96 pp., 21.6x13.3 cm, 90 colour illus.

The hip, functional, and versatile furniture and products of Konstantin Grcic – widely recognized as one of the most important designers working today – are transforming the landscape of contemporary design. This book accompanies the first exhibition...

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History of Art

Arts of Africa at the Dallas Museum of Art

Walker Roslyn Adele

ISBN: HB: 9780300138955, Yale University Press, November 2009
304 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 130 colour illus.

This beautifully illustrated book showcases 110 objects from the Dallas Museum of Art's world-renowned African collection. In contrast to Western "art for art's sake", tradition-based African art served as an agent of religion, social stability, or s...

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Photography

Alias Man Ray

Klein Mason, Baker George, Foresta Merry L., Dickens Lauren

ISBN: HB: 9780300146837, Yale University Press, November 2009
288 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 192 colour images, 54 black&white illus.

Born Emmanuel Radnitzky, the artist known as Man Ray (1890-1976) revealed multiple artistic identities over the course of his career – New York Dedaist, Parisian Surrealist, international portraitist, and fashion photographer – and produced important...

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History of Art

Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism The Annenberg Collection

Bailey Colin B., Rishel Joseph J., Rosenthal Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300124026, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2009
324 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 60 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

The Walter and Lee Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolours, and drawings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art comprises one of the most remarkable groupings of avantgarde works of art from the mid-19th to the...

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Contemporary Art

Max Neuhaus

Neuhaus Max

ISBN: HB: 9780300151671, Yale University Press, November 2009
144 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 40 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

In 1977, Max Neuhaus turned a triangle of pedestrian space between 45th and 46th Streets in Times Square into an island of harmonic sound. The rich textures of that sound continue today, emanating from beneath the sidewalk grating, to anonymously rea...

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Contemporary Art

Design

Steve Wolfe on Paper

Foster Carter E., Sirmans Franklin

ISBN: PB: 9780300158984, Yale University Press, November 2009
96 pp., 28.6x19.1 cm, 45 colour illus.

Working in the tradition of trompe l'oeil, Steve Wolfe (b. 1955) creates careful replicas of classic books, worn album covers, and vinyl records, crafted from modeling paste, screenprints, drawings, and many other media. Wolfe's reproductions embrace...

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History of Art

Sacred Spain Art and Belief in the Spanish World

Kasl Ronda, Alcala Luisa Elena, Christian William A., Cuadriello Jaime, Portlfonso Javier

ISBN: HB: 9780300154719, Yale University Press, November 2009
400 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 125 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

The art of Spain and Spanish America during the seventeenth century is overwhelmingly religious – it was intended to arouse wonder, devotion, and identification. Its forms and meanings are inextricably linked to the beliefs and religious practices of...

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Architecture

Contemporary Art

Modern Wing Renzo Piano and the Art Institute of Chicago

Cuno James, Goldberger Paul, Rosa Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300141122, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2009
160 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 120 colour images, 20 duotone illus.

This handsome book examines the remarkable new addition to the Art Institute of Chicago, designed by Renzo Piano and scheduled to open in May 2009. This expansion to The Art Institute of Chicago, already one of the largest museums in the country, wil...

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History of Art

Irises Vincent Van Gogh in the Garden

Helvey Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9780892362264, Getty Publications, November 2009
208 pp., 18.7x14 cm, 70 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

Filled with outstanding colour illustrations, here is a landmark study of one of Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings. Vincent van Gogh painted Irises in the last year of his life, in the garden of the asylum at Saint-Remy, where he was recuperat...

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Contemporary Art

Heartland

Esche Charles, Niemann Kerstin, Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780935573473, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, November 2009
176 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 90 colour plates

Throughout the vast interior of the United States, contemporary artists are responding to the world around them and reshaping it in unexpected ways. Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name that first appeared last year in the Nether...

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