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History of Art

De Bievre Elisabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300205626, Yale University Press, October 2015
492 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 100 colour illus., 180 black&white illus.

Traditionally Dutch art is seen and presented as a coherent phenomenon-the product of state formation in the late 16th century. Elisabeth de Bievre challenges this view and its assumptions in a radical new account. Arguing that the Dutch Golden Age w...

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History of Art

Decoding Magritte

Levy Silvano

ISBN: HB: 9781906593957, Casemate, Sansom & Co, October 2015
280 pp., 28x21 cm, 100 illus.

In a groundbreaking analysis, Silvano Levy unravels the hidden structures of Magritte's paintings. Decoding Magritte puts forward the theory that aphasia, the injury-induced inability to produce and comprehend language, is the elusive key to an under...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

De.Fi.Cien.Cy Andrzej Wroblewski, Rene Daniels, Luc Tuymans

Loock Ulrich

ISBN: HB: 9783954761210, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, September 2015
216 pp., 26x19.5 cm, 135 colour illus., 3 black&white illus., language: English / Polish

United in DE.FI.CIEN.CY are three artists from different generations and national backgrounds. Andrzej Wroblewski, perhaps Poland's preeminent postwar painter, died in 1957 at the age of thirty, and ill health forced Rene Daniels (b. Eindhoven, 1950)...

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Design

Designing Your Identity Stationery Design

Shaoqiang Wang

ISBN: HB: 9788415967446, Hoaki, September 2015
240 pp., 28.5x21 cm, richly illustrated

This book brings together utterly fresh and creative stationery materials produced by designers from all over the world. The projects featured range from business cards and letterheads to CD packaging, memoranda and notepads. This title shows that a...

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Design

Damascus Tiles Mamluk and Ottoman Architectural Ceramics from Syria

Millner Arthur

ISBN: HB: 9783791381473, Prestel Publishing, September 2015
320 pp., 34x29 cm, 394 colour illus.

One of art history's previously overlooked treasures – the vibrant ceramic tiles of Syria and especially Damascus – are the subject of this fascinating study by a leading Islamic art expert. Architectural ceramic decoration is one of the most celebr...

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Contemporary Art

Daguerreotypes Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects

Saltzman Lisa

ISBN: HB: 9780226242033, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 halftones

In the digital age, photography confronts its future under the competing signs of ubiquity and obsolescence. While technology has allowed amateurs and experts alike to create high-quality photographs in the blink of an eye, new electronic formats hav...

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History of Art

Disguise Masks and Global African Art

McClusky Pamela, Massaquoi Erika Dalya

ISBN: HB: 9780300208740, Yale University Press, July 2015
104 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 80 colour illus.

While masks are a major art form in many parts of Africa, their use has taken new turns in the 21st century. "Disguise: Masks and Global African Art" explores how themes related to masking and disguise in the past are now transitioning into new platf...

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Culture Studies

Photography

DEAD A Celebration of Mortality

Saatchi Charles

ISBN: HB: 9781861543592, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, June 2015
250 pp., 24.5x18 cm

In his new book, "DEAD: A Celebration of Mortality", Charles Saatchi confronts the inescapable subject of death, decay and mortality in a series of perversely entertaining essays written in his characteristically dry, sardonic and amusing style . The...

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Fashion

Dressing Up Fashion Week NYC

Friedlander Lee, Ryan Kathy

ISBN: HB: 9780300179859, Yale University Press, May 2015
84 pp., 33x28 cm, 59 duotone illus.

Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) is one of the most renowned photographers of his generation. Through Friedlander's lens, people in their everyday environments are transformed into arresting portraits, and the banal features of roadsides, storefronts, and c...

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Design

Designing Design

Hara Kenya

ISBN: PB: 9783037784501, Lars Muller Publishers, February 2015
472 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 389 illus

Representing a new generation of designers in Japan, Kenya Hara (born 1958) pays tribute to his mentors, using long overlooked Japanese icons and images in much of his work. In "Designing Design", he impresses upon the reader the importance of "empti...

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