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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 54, 2019

Allon Niv, D'Alessandro Stephanie, Graff Sarah, Najat Haidar Navina, Holcomb Melanie, Leona Marco, Mahon Dorothy, McDonald Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226676968, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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Contemporary Art

Manifesto of Artistic Research

Mersch Dieter, Henke Silvia, Strassle Thomas, Wiesel Jorg, van der Meulen Nicolaj

ISBN: PB: 9783035802207, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2020
128 pp., 29.2x17.7 cm

Since its beginnings in the 1990s, artistic research has become established as a new format in the areas of educational and institutional policy, aesthetics, and art theory. It has now diffused into almost all artistic fields, from installation to ex...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Cartoon Art

Manga Academy Learn to Draw Japanese Characters and Scenes

Howe Chihiro

ISBN: PB: 9781440300820, GMC Group, IMPACT Books, February 2020
128 pp., 27.7x21.1 cm, colour illus.

Make your dream of drawing Japanese-style manga a reality with Manga Academy! This book, loaded with Chihiro Howe's delightfully simple techniques, teaches all you need to know to get started creating your own manga. Learn tips for selecting the best...

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History of Art

Signac and the Independants

Genty Gilles, Desmarais Mary-Dailey

ISBN: HB: 9780300251982, Yale University Press, January 2020
382 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 550 black&white, colour illus.

In Paris at the turn of the 20th century, an artistic revolution was underway. The Salon des Independants was organized in 1884 by a group of artists and thinkers that included Albert Dubois-Pillet, Odilon Redon, Georges Seurat, and Paul Signac, who...

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Photography

Peter Lindbergh Images of Women

ISBN: HB: 9783791386935, Prestel Publishing, January 2020
312 pp., 29x19.5 cm, 189 black&white illus.

Peter Lindbergh's Images of Women is now available in this new unabridged compact edition. Lindbergh, who passed away in 2019, took a comprehensive look at his body of work from the 1980s and '90s and hand selected these black & white photographs of...

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History of Art

Bestowing Beauty Masterpieces from Persian Lands - Selections from the Hossein Afshar Collection

Froom Aimee

ISBN: HB: 9780300247022, Yale University Press, January 2020
304 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 175 colour illus.

"Bestowing Beauty" showcases an assortment of stunning works from one of the world's most distinguished private collections of Persian art. Featuring more than 100 exquisite objects spanning many centuries, from the eve of the Islamic period in the 6...

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Contemporary Art

Carole Solvay To Move Without Noise

Chang Alain, Prum Richard, Turine Roger Pierre

ISBN: HB: 9780300246551, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2020
208 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 115 illus.

This is the first book to explore the oeuvre of contemporary Belgian sculptor Carole Solvay (b. 1954). Using primarily feathers and thin wire, Solvay has over the past 25 years created ethereally beautiful sculptures that seem to defy gravity. This p...

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Contemporary Art

Drawing Is Everything Founding Gifts of the Menil Drawing Institute

Kopp Edouard, Elderfield John, Shiff Richard, Winters Terry

ISBN: HB: 9780300247121, Yale University Press, January 2020
256 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 224 colour illus.

Featuring outstanding 20th-century drawings promised or bequeathed to the Menil Collection for the opening of the Menil Drawing Institute, this elegant volume is a testament to the growing significance of drawings as stand-alone artworks over the pas...

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History of Art

Eternal Feast Banqueting in Chinese Art from the 10th to the 14th Century

Kwok Zoe S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300246902, Yale University Press, January 2020
196 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 137 colour illus.

Feasting was an important social and ritual activity in China beginning in the Bronze Age, and cuisine retains a strong cultural significance to this day. This book focuses on feasting in the 10th through 14th centuries, examining Chinese paintings o...

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History of Art

Albrecht Durer

Metzger Christof

ISBN: HB: 9783791359311, Prestel Publishing, January 2020
304 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 260 colour illus.

During his lifetime, Durer found tremendous success as a painter and printmaker, taking commissions from prominent figures such as Frederick the Wise and Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. His drawings and studies reveal his interest in human proportio...

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