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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Biographic: Monet Great Lives in Graphic Form

Wiles Richard

ISBN: HB: 9781781452899, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, December 2016
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey eac...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Biographic: Van Gogh Great Lives in Graphic Form

Collins Sophie

ISBN: HB: 9781781452752, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, December 2016
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey eac...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Book on the Floor Andrew Malraux and the Imaginaru Museum

Grasskamp Walter

ISBN: HB: 9781606065013, Getty Publications, November 2016
240 pp., 25x15 cm

In 1954, the French writer, politician, and publisher Andre Malraux (1901-1976) posed at home for a photographer from the magazine "Paris Match", surrounded by pages from his forthcoming book "Le musee imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale". The enchan...

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Decorative Arts

Bringing Heaven to Earth Silver Jewellery and Ornament in the Late Qing Dynasty

Herridge Elizabeth, Wood Francis

ISBN: PB: 9780995557703, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, November 2016
200 pp., 28x24 cm, 150 illus.

The prowess of Chinese creative abilities in the decorative arts in the 19th and early 20th centuries was well known globally, but, while much has been written about Chinese textiles and on the influence of the East on European styles of the time, th...

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Contemporary Art

Before Pictures

Crimp Douglas

ISBN: HB: 9780226423456, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 151 colour plates

Douglas Crimp is the rare art critic whose work profoundly influenced a generation of artists. He is best known for his work with the "Pictures Generation" – the very name of which Crimp coined to define the work of artists like Robert Longo and Cind...

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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...

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Design

Brutal London Construct Your Own Concrete Capital

Zupagrafika

ISBN: HB: 9783791383002, Prestel Publishing, September 2016
72 pp., 28x24 cm, 47 colour illus., 1 black&white illus.

In this fun and intellectually stimulating book, readers can recreate a number of London's most renowned Brutalist buildings. Opening with an informative history of the origins and philosophy of Brutalist architecture, the book then focuses on 9 buil...

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History of Art

Beyond Boundaries Connecting Visual Cultures in the Provinces of Ancient Rome

Alcock Susan

ISBN: HB: 9781606064719, Getty Publications, August 2016
404 pp., 25x15 cm, colour and black&white illus.

The Roman Empire had a rich and multifaceted visual culture, which was often variegated due to the sprawling geography of its provinces. In this remarkable work of scholarship, a group of international scholars has come together to find alternative w...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

History of Art

Baule Monkeys

Bruno Claessens, Jean-Louis Danis, Vogel Susan M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222449, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, August 2016
192 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 113 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.

The Baule people of the Ivory Coast are renowned for their refined sculptural work of masks and figures. This book is the first to focus exclusively on an antithetic aspect of Baule culture-rough zoomorphic sculptures representing monkeys. These awe-...

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Contemporary Art

Bentu Chinese Artists in a Time of Turbulence and Transformation

Page Suzanne

ISBN: PB: 9780300222388, Yale University Press, August 2016
180 pp., 28.6x21 cm, 100 colour illus.

Through a detailed look at twelve contemporary Chinese artists, this fascinating book offers a fresh assessment of the creative forces at work in a country whose economic, political, and cultural climates are of widespread and enduring interest. View...

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