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Contemporary Art

Gyula Kosice in Conversation with Gabriel Perez-Barreiro

Giunta Andrea

ISBN: HB: 9780982354483, DAP, Fundacion Cisneros, November 2012
180 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 41 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Gyula Kosice (born 1924) is an innovative Argentine artist and poet. His constructions and sculptures were inspired as much by local discussions and disputes in the cafes of 1940s Buenos Aires as by the international avant-...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Draw 50: Monsters The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Creeps, Superheroes, Demons, Dragons, Nerds, Ghouls, Giants, Vampires, Zombies and Other Scary Creatures

Ames Lee J.

ISBN: PB: 9780823085842, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, November 2012
64 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, 350 line drawings

Not for sale in selected countries! Draw 50 Monsters teaches aspiring artists how to draw with ease by following simple, step-by-step instructions. Celebrated author Lee J. Ames shows readers how to draw an array of frightening characters, includin...

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Photography

Seduced by Art Photography Past and Present

Kingsley Hope, Riopelle Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9781857095456, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, October 2012
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus.

Today's photography is part of our own cultural moment, but it also arises from artistic traditions of the past. Seduced by Art looks at the effects of art and its history on the creation of photographs, tracing continuities in aims, visual style, an...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

John Singer Sargent Volume 7: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907 (The Complete Paintings)

Ormond Richard, Kilmurray Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780300177350, Yale University Press, October 2012
400 pp., 31x24.8 cm, 392 colour images, 73 black&white illus.

From 1900 to 1907, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) travelled considerably, visiting the Alps, Italy, Spain, Norway, and Palestine. In Palestine in 1905, he painted a significant group of oils and watercolours as well as a group of studies of the Bedo...

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Photography

Jose Manuel Ballester Abstraction in Reality

ISBN: HB: 9788415303329, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, October 2012
116 pp., 29.8x22.9 cm, black&white photos

This is a magnificently illustrated look at the most recent work of award-winning Spanish photographer Jose Manuel Ballester. The photography of Jose Manuel Ballester reveals the ephemeral and instantaneous in a way that seems a-temporal, even before...

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History of Art

Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and "Life Line"

Foster Kathleen A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300185478, Yale University Press, October 2012
104 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 110 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

"The Life Line", a thrilling scene of rescue on the high seas, firmly established Winslow Homer (1836-1910) as one of the leading American painters of his day, and one of the foremost maritime artists of all time. Combining a close analysis of Homer'...

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Photography

Skogen

Adams Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300187816, Yale University Press, October 2012
100 pp., 24.1x21 cm, 46 tritone illus.

Skogen is the Swedish word for forest, and while the dense woods featured in Robert Adams' most recent series of photographs grow near his home in Oregon, the pictures evoke a wild utopia, and convey a hushed, primeval awe. In this volume, the latest...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Caro Close Up

Bryant Julius, Droth Martina, Storr Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300176032, Yale University Press, October 2012
250 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.

With a career spanning more than sixty years, Anthony Caro (b. 1924) is one of Britain's most acclaimed and best-known sculptors. "Caro: Close Up" accompanies the first survey exhibition of his work in an American museum since his retrospective at th...

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History of Art

Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images

Paleotti Gabriele, McCuaig William

ISBN: HB: 9781606061169, Getty Publications, October 2012
368 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 11 black&white illus.

This is the first English translation of Gabriele Paleotti's 16th century treatise on the role of art in society. In the wake of the Counter-Reformation, Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti, the archbishop of Bologna, wrote a remarkable treatise on art during...

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Landscape Architecture

Design

Carscapes The Motor Car, Architecture, and Landscape in England

Morrison Kathryn A., Minnis John

ISBN: HB: 9780300187045, Yale University Press, October 2012
400 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 225 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

When the motor car first came to England in the 1890s, it was a luxury item with little practical purpose – drivers couldn't travel very far or very quickly without paved roads or traffic laws. Thus began a transformation that has affected the archit...

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