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Above the Clouds

Mead Scott

ISBN: HB: 9783791383330, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
128 pp., 30x26 cm, 50 colour illus.

Scott Mead captures the physical and emotional wonder of air travel with his awe-inspiring images of the world above the clouds. World traveler and acclaimed photographer Scott Mead documents gorgeous vistas from above the clouds. Mead views this se...

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Contemporary Art

Axis Mundo Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.

Chavoya C. Ondine, Frantz David Evans, Gomez-Barris Macarena

ISBN: HB: 9783791356693, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
414 pp., 32x23 cm, 500 colour illus., 42 black&white illus.

Working between the 1960s and early 1990s, the artists profiled in this compendium represent a broad cross section of L.A.'s art scene. With nearly 400 illustrations and ten essays, this volume presents histories of artistic experimentation and revea...

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History of Art

Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran

Roxburgh David J., Knipe Penley, McWilliams Mary, Barnes Trent, Braxton Mycah, Collaco Gwendolyn, Dokhani Farhad, Gulkis Bronwen, Mirseyedi Sarah, Poier Veronika

ISBN: HB: 9780300229189, Yale University Press, October 2017
244 pp., 36.8x24.8 cm, 237 colour illus.

The Harvard Qajar Album is an outstanding compendium of nearly 150 beautiful drawings, paintings, and a print produced during the Qajar dynasty of Iran, from the late 18th to early 20th century. The wide-ranging works – spanning narrative composition...

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Contemporary Art

Adrian Villar Rojas The Roof Garden Commission: The Theater of Disappearance

Galilee Beatrice, Rojas Adrian Villar

ISBN: PB: 9781588396211, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2017
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 68 colour illus.

Known for his ephemeral, interconnected installations and monumental sculpture, Argentinian artist Adrian Villar Rojas (b. 1980) transformed The Met Roof into an immersive banquet scene for the 2017 Roof Garden Commission. This book retraces the arti...

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Contemporary Art

Ann Hamilton habitus

Phillips Patricia C.

ISBN: HB: 9783791357096, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
192 pp., 32x23 cm, 100 colour illus.

"Held by cloth's hand, we are swaddled at birth, covered in sleep, and wound in death", muses artist Ann Hamilton. Rather than documenting the experience of her enormous immersive 2016-17 installation in Philadelphia, Hamilton offers here a document...

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Design

Art of Pop-Up The Magical World of Three-Dimensional Books (Second Edition)

Trebbi Jean-Charles

ISBN: PB: 9788416851263, Hoaki, September 2017
160 pp., 21x15 cm, richly illustrated

With a refreshing perspective, "The Art of Pop-Up" shows the designs of pop-up creators all around the world with some of their most innovative designs and practical examples to construct them. Full of colour illustration and inspiring force, "The Ar...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Alicja Kwade

Lorenz Ulrike

ISBN: HB: 9783954761234, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, August 2017
128 pp., 26.5x24 cm, 65 colour illus., language: English / German

Creation Dialectical acuity and lucid absurdity are the defining characteristics of the sculptures and object constellations created by Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, 1979; lives and works in Berlin). The artist deftly combines elementary materials and o...

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Decorative Arts

Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Bussiere Jean, Lindros Wohl Birgitta

ISBN: PB: 9781606065136, Getty Publications, August 2017
510 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 1 map, 56 line drawings

In the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum are more than six hundred ancient lamps that span the sixth century BCE to the seventh century CE, most from the Roman Imperial period and largely created in Asia Minor or North Africa. These lamps have m...

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Contemporary Art

Anna Maria Maiolino

Molesworth Helen, Barcena Bryan

ISBN: HB: 9783791356860, Prestel Publishing, August 2017
192 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 135 colour illus., 97 black&white illus.

Born in Calabria, Italy, in 1942, Anna Maria Maiolino is one of the leading artists of her generation. Her work reflects the major cultural and political realities of postwar Europe and South America as well as issues of patriarchy, feminism, and imm...

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History of Art

Afterall Spring/Summer 2017, Issue 43

Vilalta Helena, Kreuger Anders, Morris David, Stankievech Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781846381812, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 80 colour plates

Issue 43 of "Afterall" reflects on artistic practices that challenge the legacies of colonialism. Looking at the work of Chimurenga, Lubaina Himid, and Duane Linklater, among others, contributions ask how artists can create self-initiated structures...

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