ledochowicz.com

Music

Design

Art of the Blues A Visual Treasury of Black Music's Golden Age

Dahl Bill

ISBN: HB: 9780226396699, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 350 colour plates

This stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements that have shaped its identity over the past hundred years. The blues have been one of the most ubiquitous but diverse ele...

HB:

£26,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Beauty of a Social Problem Photography, Autonomy, Economy

Benn Michaels Walter

ISBN: PB: 9780226421186, ISBN: HB: 9780226210261, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
240 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 28 halftones, 4 line drawings

Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's "beauty and attraction" invisible. In "The Beauty of a Social Problem", Walter Benn Michaels explores the effort to overcome this difficulty thro...

PB:

£18,00

QTY:

HB:

£24,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Dwan Gallery Los Angeles to New York, 1959-1971

Meyer James

ISBN: HB: 9780226425108, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
384 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 325 colour plates, 90 halftones

Copublished with the National Gallery of Art in celebration of Virginia Dwan's gift to the Gallery of her extraordinary personal collection, "Dwan Gallery" explores her remarkable career. Dwan is one of the most influential figures in the history of...

HB:

£49,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Leonardo da Vinci and Gian Giacomo Capro The Enigma of a Painting

Zecchini Maurizio

ISBN: PB: 9788831726115, DAP, Marsilio Editori, October 2016
206 pp., 29.8x21.5 cm, 179 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Salai" is the name that Leonardo da Vinci liked to use, as is documented in his writings from 1494 onward, for the boy whom he had taken into his home four years earlier, when he was just ten years old, and who lived with...

PB:

£30,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Photography

Art of the Selfie Hong Kong Style

Badger Gerry, Baterna-Patena Jhoane

ISBN: PB: 9783944721859, Bookport, seltmann and sohne, September 2016
96 pp., 20.1x14.2 cm, colour illus.

For ten months, the Philippine photographer Jhoane Baterna-Patena observed people pursuing one of their favorite activities: the photographic staging of themselves. For this, she visited Golden Bauhinia Square in Hong Kong, a centrally located touris...

PB:

£22,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Decorative Arts

Maiolica Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wilson Timothy, Syson Luke

ISBN: HB: 9781588395610, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2016
392 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 365 colour illus.

The brightly colored tin-enameled earthenware called maiolica was among the major accomplishments of decorative arts in 16th-century Italy. This in-depth look at the history of maiolica, told through 140 exemplary pieces from the world-class collecti...

HB:

£50,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Kandinsky

Friedel Helmut, Hoberg Annegret

ISBN: HB: 9783791382920, Prestel Publishing, September 2016
320 pp., 32x22.2 cm, 250 colour illus.

This generously illustrated volume displays Vasily Kandinsky's brilliant use of color, shape, and composition through approximately 250 full-color illustrations. Essays by the world's leading Kandinsky experts focus on the evolution of his work throu...

HB:

£35,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Klimt and the Women of Vienna´s Golden Age, 1900-1918

Natter Tobias G.

ISBN: HB: 9783791355825, Prestel Publishing, September 2016
320 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 97 black&white illus., 229 colour illus.

Klimt was a central figure in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, and a crucial link between nineteenth-century Symbolism and Modernism. His sensual portrayals of women are among his most celebrated works and the focus of this book. Highligh...

HB:

£45,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Album Picabia

Calte Beverley

ISBN: PB: 9780300225563, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, September 2016
224 pp., 29.8x22.9 cm, 220 colour and black&white illus.

Album Picabia is an inspiring, artistic chronicle of Francis Picabia's life (1879-1953) as seen through the eyes of his last wife and creative protegee, Olga Mohler Picabia. Begun in 1936, four years before their marriage, and left unfinished in 1951...

PB:

£30,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Artist and Empire (En)Countering Colonial Legacies

Sze Wee Low

ISBN: HB: 9789811106088, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, September 2016
164 pp., 26.9x21 cm, illus.

Organised by National Gallery Singapore with Tate Britain, Artist and Empire critically examines the effects of the British Empire via the prism of art. Through essays, key artworks and comprehensive timelines, this catalogue underscores the fluidity...

HB:

£39,00

QTY:

add books to the list