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History of Art

Collector The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces

Semenova Natalya, Delocque-Fourcaud Andre-Marc

ISBN: PB: 9780300254815, ISBN: HB: 9780300234770, Yale University Press, September 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.

Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was one of the first to appreciate the qualities of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and to a...

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Design

David King Designer, Activist, Visual Historian

Poynor Rick

ISBN: HB: 9780300250107, Yale University Press, September 2020
240 pp., 29.2x20.3 cm, 260 illus.

This book offers a comprehensive overview to the work and legacy of David King (1943-2016), whose fascinating career bridged journalism, graphic design, photography, and collecting. King launched his career at Britain's Sunday Times Magazine in the 1...

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Contemporary Art

Going There Black Visual Satire

Powell Richard J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300245745, Yale University Press, September 2020
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 76 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.

In this groundbreaking study, Richard J. Powell investigates the visual forms of satire produced by black artists in 20th- and 21st-century America. Underscoring the historical use of visual satire as antiracist dissent and introspective critique, Po...

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Photography

Bernd & Hilla Becher Basic Forms

ISBN: HB: 9783791386652, Prestel Publishing, September 2020
160 pp., 24x17 cm, 61 colour illus.

During their 40-year career, Bernd and Hilla Becher created their own architectural typology as they photographed buildings in a unique style. Basic Forms represents the culmination of their career. Although the subject matter is unglamorous – mine s...

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History of Art

Art Conservation

Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project

Svoboda Marie, Cartwright Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9781606066546, Getty Publications, September 2020
228 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 160 colour illus. illus; 26 diagrams, tables

Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these paintings...

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History of Art

Monet and Chicago

Groom Gloria, Gopnik Adam

ISBN: HB: 9780300250831, Yale University Press, September 2020
144 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 104 colour and black&white illus.

In 1903, the Art Institute of Chicago became the first American museum to buy a painting by Claude Monet (1840–1926), beginning a tradition of collecting that has inextricably connected this midwestern city to the French Impressionist master. Tracing...

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History of Art

James Ensor Chronicle of His Life, 1860-1949

Tricot Xavier

ISBN: PB: 9780300253979, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, September 2020
224 pp., 24.8x20 cm, 200 illus.

The Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949) was a major figure in the Belgian avant-garde of the late 19th century and an important precursor to the development of Expressionism in the early 20th century. Daring and socially engaged, Ensor included po...

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History of Art

Making the Modern Artist Culture, Class and Art-Educational Opportunity in Romantic Britain

Myrone Martin

ISBN: HB: 9781913107154, Yale University Press, September 2020
288 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 200 illus.

The artist has been a privileged figure in the modern age, embodying ideals of personal and political freedom and self-fulfillment. Does it matter who gets to be an artist? And do our deeply held beliefs stand up to scrutiny? "Making the Modern Artis...

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Manuals

Journals

52 Assignments Nature Photography

Hoddinott Ross, Hall Ben

ISBN: HB: 9781781454053, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, September 2020
128 pp., 21x14 cm, 90 colour illus.

"52 Assignments: Nature Photography" is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalised journal and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft. Small enough to fit into your rucksack, it is filled wit...

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Fiction

ELT

No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels: Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare William

ISBN: PB: 9781411479890, GMC Group, Spark Notes, September 2020
216 pp., 22.6x15 cm, colour illus.

Based on the No Fear Shakespeare translations, this dynamic graphic novel – now with color added – is impossible to put down. The illustrations are distinctively offbeat, slightly funky, and appealing to teens. Includes: - An illustrated cast of ch...

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