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Contemporary Art

Calder and Abstraction From Avant-Garde to Iconic

Barron Stephanie, Gabrielle Mark Lisa

ISBN: HB: 9783791353098, Prestel Publishing, November 2013
208 pp., 31x23.5 cm, 200 colour illus.

Alexander Calder's most beloved creations – from his mobiles to his public sculpture – are examined from every angle in this stunning book. Widely considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Alexander Calder revolutionized mode...

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Contemporary Art

Robert Indiana The American Dream

Haskell Barbara, Barilleaux Rene Paul, Nicholas Sasha

ISBN: HB: 9780300196863, Yale University Press, November 2013
256 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 175 colour illus.

Robert Indiana's popular LOVE works have made the esteemed Pop artist a household name. Their fame and ubiquity have also served to eclipse the rest of his dynamic, conceptually charged work. "Robert Indiana: The American Dream" is a compelling reass...

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History of Art

Decorative Arts

First Treatise on Museums Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, 1565

Meadow Mark A., Robertson Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9781606061497, Getty Publications, November 2013
188 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

This is a new translation of Quiccheberg's seminal 16th century text on the collection and display of objects. "Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones", first published in Latin in 1565, is an ambitious effort to demonstrate the pragmatic value of curios...

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Photography

Itinerant Languages of Photography

Cadava Eduardo L., Nouzeilles Gabriela, Fontcuberta Joan, Gonzalez Valeria, Keenan Thomas, Lissovsky Mauricio, Mraz John

ISBN: HB: 9780300174366, Yale University Press, November 2013
224 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 70 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

While photographs have been exchanged, appropriated and mobilized in different contexts since the 19th century, their movement is now occurring at an unprecedented speed. "The Itinerant Languages of Photography" examines photography's capacity to cir...

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Contemporary Art

Portraits Luc Tuymans

Sutton Susan, Elliott Clare

ISBN: HB: 9780300196443, Yale University Press, November 2013
128 pp., 29.2x23.5 cm, 65 colour illus.

Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) is a painter engaged with "figuration", using imagery that he reworks in a critical or self-critical way. He combines images from various sources – photographs, film stills, even mirror images – with a spare palette, unexpected...

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History of Art

Van Gogh Repetitions

Rathbone Eliza E., Robinson William H., Steele Elizabeth, Steele Marcia

ISBN: HB: 9780300190823, Yale University Press, November 2013
208 pp., 24.1x24.1 cm, 125 colour illus.

Popular perceptions of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) frequently envision the painter working before nature in an emotional frenzy, yet the artist's method was more often controlled and deliberate. "Van Gogh Repetitions" is the first book to focus on t...

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Decorative Arts

Greek Vase Art of the Storyteller

Oakley John H.

ISBN: HB: 9781606061473, Getty Publications, November 2013
114 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

This richly illustrated volume offers a fascinating introduction to ancient Greek vases for the general reader. It presents vases not merely as beautiful vessels to hold water and wine, but also as instruments of storytelling and bearers of meaning....

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Decorative Arts

Jewels by JAR

Sassoon Adrian

ISBN: HB: 9780300198683, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2013
120 pp., 22.9x20.3 cm, 65 colour illus.

Called "the Faberge of our time" by Diane von Furstenberg, Joel A. Rosenthal, who works in Paris under the name JAR, is one of the most acclaimed jewellery designers of the past thirty years. JAR is known for his use of precious and semi-precious sto...

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Photography

Inside CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research

Pol Andri

ISBN: PB: 9783037782750, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2013
432 pp., 27.5x20 cm, 295 illus.

For most people locations that hold a particular importance for the development of our society and for the advancement of science and technology remain hidden from view. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is best known for its gian...

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History of Art

Facing the Modern The Portrait in Vienna, 1900

Blackshaw Gemma, De Waal Edmund, Gronberg Tag, Johnson Julie, Lehmann Doris, Shapira Elana, Wieber Sabine, Costello Mary

ISBN: HB: 9781857095616, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2013
216 pp., 28.9x22 cm, 140 colour illus.

During the great flourishing of modern art in fin-de-siecle Vienna, artists of that city focused on images of individuals. Their portraits depict artists, patrons, families, friends, intellectual allies, and society celebrities from the upwardly mobi...

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