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Design

Optical Illusions Graphic Design Elements Series

Shaoqiang Wang

ISBN: HB: 9788416504503, Hoaki, October 2016
240 pp., 27.9x21 cm, richly illustrated

In "Optical Illusions", lines and graphics are turned into communication weapons. This showcase of the most intriguing and eye-deceiving graphic designs includes waves and mazes formed by simple lines, overlapping images, 3D effects, and anamorphic s...

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Photography

America

North of Dixie Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South

Speltz Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781606065051, Getty Publications, October 2016
160 pp., 25x15 cm, 100 black&white illus.

The history of the civil rights movement is commonly illustrated with well-known photographs from Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma-leaving the visual story of the movement outside the South remaining to be told. In North of Dixie, historian Mark Spe...

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History of Art

Lawrence Alma-Tadema At Home in Antiquity

Prettejohn Elizabeth, Trippi Peter

ISBN: HB: 9783791355528, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 246 colour illus.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema's paintings were immensely popular among his contemporaries, and have since enchanted a wide audience through the medium of cinema. Anyone who has ever enjoyed the great epic films of antiquity – from Italian silent classics to R...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Street Art Anthology From Graffiti to Contextual Art

Danysz Magda

ISBN: PB: 9788416504459, Hoaki, October 2016
239 pp., 23.1x17 cm, richly illustrated

What is behind the tidal wave of street art that is sweeping through the cultural scene today? What are its artistic features? What are its codes and its language? How has its production, which was originally almost exclusively centered in the urban...

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History of Art

Fragonard Drawing Triumphant

Stein Perrin, Dupuy-Vachey Marie-Anne, Williams Eunice, Brosnan Kelsey

ISBN: HB: 9781588396013, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2016
320 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 250 colour illus.

An exquisitely illustrated volume that emphasizes the importance of drawing in Fragonard's creative process One of the most forward-looking artists in 18th-century France, Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is considered the preeminent draftsman of hi...

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Contemporary Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Richard Diebenkorn The Catalogue Raisonne

Livingston Jane, Liguori Andrea, Elderfield John, Nash Steven, Fine Ruth E., Nordland Gerald, Grant Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300184501, Yale University Press, October 2016
2176 pp., 31.1x25.1 cm, vol. 1: 299 colour illus.; vol. 2: 1645 colour illus.; vol. 3: 2344 colour illus.

A four-volume definitive resource on the career and unique works of the postwar American artist Richard Diebenkorn The celebrated American artist Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) was a singular figure in postwar American art. Early in his career, he cr...

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History of Art

Matisse/Diebenkorn

Bishop Janet, Rothkopf Katherine

ISBN: HB: 9783791355344, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
184 pp., 27.9x24.4 cm, 120 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.

Featuring stunning pairings of more than 80 paintings and drawings, this book charts the evolution of Matisse's impact on Diebenkorn over the course of Diebenkorn's career. Though they never met, Matisse was an enduring source of inspiration for the...

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Contemporary Art

Max Beckmann in New York

Rewald Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9781588396006, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2016
160 pp., 26.1x23.6 cm, 114 colour illus.

An up close and personal look at the life and work of a major 20th-century artist. The prominent German Expressionist painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950) is known for allegorical, autobiographical works that capture the doom and grotesquerie of World Wa...

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Contemporary Art

No Limits Zao Wou-Ki

Walt Melissa, Yun Michelle, Weitz Ankeney

ISBN: HB: 9780300220186, Yale University Press, October 2016
184 pp., 29.9x23.5 cm, 141 colour illus.

The Chinese-French painter Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013) developed a distinctive abstract style blending the visual poetry of Chinese painting and calligraphy with European pictorial traditions. This stunning volume presents a richly woven narrative of the...

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Photography

Michael Kenna Rouge

Steward James

ISBN: HB: 9783791382975, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
192 pp., 28x24 cm, 100 black&white illus.

One of the world's most acclaimed photographers working exclusively in black-and-white, Michael Kenna has traveled the world to create stunning, magical images of nature and manmade objects. Known for the ethereal tone and incredibly nuanced detail o...

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