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Contemporary Art

Architecture

Automatic Cities The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art

Clark Robin

ISBN: HB: 9780934418713, DAP, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, November 2009
160 pp., 23.5x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The "architectural imaginary" describes architecture in its broadest sense: images of cities drawn from collective experience and imagination. Hailing from 11 countries, each of the 14 artists who have contributed to "Autom...

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Photography

Edge of Faith

Dalrymple William, Dasgupta Prabuddha

ISBN: HB: 9781906497316, Seagull Books, November 2009
140 pp., 25.1x24.9 cm, 70 halftones

Located on the west coast of India along the Arabian Sea, Goa officially became an Indian state in 1987 after nearly 500 years of Portuguese rule. This conflict of cultures is captured by Indian photographer Prabuddha Dasgupta in "The Edge of Faith"....

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History of Art

Dutch New York, Between East and West The World of Margrieta Van Varick

Krohn Deborah L., Miller Peter N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300154672, Yale University Press, October 2009
352 pp., 28.7x22.2 cm, 275 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Commemorating the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage and the lasting legacy of Dutch culture in New York, this book explores the life and times of a fascinating woman, her family, and her things. Margrieta was born in the Netherlands but live...

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Contemporary Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Nexus New York Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis

Cullen Deborah, Saborit Antonio, Manthorne Katherine Emma, Fuentes Elvis, Wechsler James, Rogers Katy, Greet Michele

ISBN: PB: 9780300158960, Yale University Press, October 2009
272 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 60 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

Between 1900 and 1942, New York City was the site of extraordinary creative exchange where artists could share ideas in a global context. The swiftly-changing urban landscape before and between the World Wars inspired the erosion of artistic boundari...

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History of Art

Woodcut in Fifteenth-century Europe

Parshall Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300121636, Yale University Press, October 2009
352 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 124 duotones, 124 colour illus.

More than a generation before the invention of Gutenberg's celebrated press, the new technology of image printing emerged. In this book, a distinguished group of scholars treats the earliest manifestations of printing in all aspects: technical experi...

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History of Art

Leonardo Da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture

Radke Gary M., Bernardoni Andrea, Kemp Martin J., Marani Pietro C., Mozzati Tommaso, Senechal Philippe, Stine Darin

ISBN: HB: 9780300154733, Yale University Press, October 2009
224 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 154 colour illus.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is renowned as a painter, designer, draftsman, architect, engineer, scientist, and theorist. His work as a sculptor is not commonly acknowledged, and many have argued that Leonardo believed that sculpture was an inferior...

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Photography

History of Art

Buddhist Art An Historical and Cultural Journey

Beguin Giles

ISBN: HB: 9789749863879, Prestel Publishing, River Books, October 2009
400 pp., 32.2x25.1 cm, colour photos

Buddhism and its art is the one truly unifying factor of the entire Asian continent and has become a fundamental part of our shared world heritage. To draw a unique portrait of this art in a single work is a formidable undertaking due to the great pl...

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Decorative Arts

Apostles of Beauty Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago

Barter Judith A., Kelly Sarah E., Ruud Brandon K., Obniski Monica

ISBN: HB: 9780300141139, Yale University Press, A+D Series, October 2009
208 pp., 27.3x22.9 cm, 220 colour illus.

The Arts and Crafts movement in architecture, interior design, and decorative arts reached its peak between 1880 and 1910 in Britain and North America. The movement's emphasis on aesthetic quality and a high level of craftsmanship, promoted as an ant...

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Contemporary Art

What Is Contemporary Art?

Smith Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780226764313, University of Chicago Press, October 2009
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 75 halftones

Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today's multifaceted definition, Terry Smith brilliantly shows that an hist...

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Contemporary Art

Modernologies Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism

Klinger Cornelia, Mari Bartomeu

ISBN: PB: 9788492505135, Bookport, MACBA, September 2009
256 pp., 24.8x20.3 cm

It is evident that modernity is a popular mountain for analyses and reflection of a largely controversial nature. Numerous theories have also been written about the beginning as well as the end of modernity. The aim of the Modernologies exhibition is...

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