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Fashion

Exposed A History of Lingerie

Hill Colleen, Steele Valerie

ISBN: HB: 9780300208863, Yale University Press, November 2014
172 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 80 colour illus.

Lingerie is a subject of enduring fascination. As the final barrier to the fully nude body, it is simultaneously modest and erotic. This compelling and eye-catching publication surveys lingerie from the mid-18th century to the present, covering a bro...

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Contemporary Art

Sculptures of Jeddah An Encounter with a Rare Collection of 20th-Century Public Art

ISBN: HB: 9781861543387, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2014
192 pp., 27.9x23.3 cm, full-colour illus.

When Mohamed Said Farsi became Mayor of Jeddah in 1972, at a pivotal moment in the Saudi Arabian city's history, he set himself the task of not only creating a modern city, but also to include in the concept a plan for public art: "To bring delight t...

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Photography

Past's Threshold Essays on Photography

Kracauer Siegfried

ISBN: PB: 9783037346914, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
160 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 40 halftones

Siegfried Kracauer was a leading intellectual figure of the Weimar Republic and one of the foremost representatives of critical theory. Best known for a wealth of writings on sociology and film theory, his influence is felt in the work of many of the...

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Photography

Kracauer. Photographic Archive

Zinfert Maria

ISBN: HB: 9783037346716, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
272 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 30 colour plates, 280 halftones

Siegfried Kracauer was a leading figure on the Weimar arts scene and one of the foremost representatives of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Best known for a wealth of writings on sociology and film theory, his influence is felt in the work o...

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Asia

Museum on the Roof of the World Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet

Harris Clare E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213170, ISBN: HB: 9780226317472, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
328 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 19 colour plates, 50 halftones, 1 line illus.

For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics...

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History of Art

Communities of Style Portable Luxury Arts, Identity, and Collective Memory in the Iron Age Levant

Feldman Marian H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226105611, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
264 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 41 halftones, 3 line drawings

"Communities of Style" examines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200-600 BCE). In particular it focuses on how societies in flux came together around the material effects of art and...

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History of Art

Resisting Abstraction Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism

Hughes Gordon

ISBN: HB: 9780226159065, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
184 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 92 colour plates, 46 halftones

Robert Delaunay was one of the leading artists working in Paris in the early decades of the twentieth century, and his paintings have been admired ever since as among the earliest purely abstract works. With "Resisting Abstraction", the first Engli...

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Photography

Bad Luck, Hot Rocks Conscience Letters and Photographs from the Petrified Forest

Thompson Ryan, Orr Phil

ISBN: PB: 9780989785914, DAP, The Ice Plant, November 2014
144 pp., 26.4x19 cm, 140 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The Petrified Forest National Park in Northeast Arizona protects one of the largest deposits of petrified wood in the world. Despite stern warnings, visitors remove several tons of petrified wood from the park each year, of...

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Cartography

Towards a New Cultural Cartography

Marta Karen

ISBN: PB: 9789948207825, DAP, Sharjah Art Foundation, November 2014
275 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm, illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Estonia! In this volume, curators, theorists, artists and writers argue for methods of map-making that go beyond geographic representation. The artist emerges as a new cartographer, who intervenes in existing maps to reveal the know...

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Photography

Lisa Kereszi The More I Learn About Wom

ISBN: HB: 9780989531115, DAP, J&L Books, November 2014
112 pp., 21.6x15.2 cm, 100 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! While photographer Lisa Kereszi (born 1973) was researching for her previous book, "Joe's Junk Yard", her father, Joe Jr., gave her a worn and tattered old photo album that he had compiled in the 1970s and 80s. Inside were...

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