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Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art at the Dallas Museum of Art

MacDonald Heather, Brettell Richard R., Dombrowski Andre, Eisenman Stephen, Galvez Paul, House John, Kendall Richard, Kosinski Dorothy M., Le Normand-Romain Antoinette, Locke Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780300187571, Yale University Press, September 2013
144 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 150 colour illus.

"Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Dallas Museum of Art" offers a series of intimate case studies in the history of 19th-century European art. Inspired by a series of public lectures given at the Dallas Museum of Art between 2009 and 2013,...

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Design

In Praise of Hands The Art of Fine Jewelry at Van Cleef & Arpels

Cologni Franco

ISBN: HB: 9788831714860, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2013
200 pp., 34x29.2 cm, 157 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! A trip to the discovery of jewelry manufacturing. Founded in Paris in 1896, Van Cleef & Arpels is perhaps the most renowned maison of fine jewelry in the world. The book reveals for the first time the secrets of the Mains d...

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Design

Interwoven Kvadrat Textile and Design

Judah Hettie

ISBN: HB: 9783791348582, Prestel Publishing, August 2013
264 pp., 28x28.5 cm, 200 colour illus.

In electrifying color and exquisite detail, this survey of Kvadrat, the renowned Danish textile company, tells the complete story from inception to collaborations with world-famous visual artists and designers. One of the world's leading textile man...

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History of Art

Imran Qureshi

Wagstaff Sheena, Alteveer Ian, Najat Haidar Navina

ISBN: PB: 9780300197754, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2013
65 pp., 22.9x20.3 cm, 50 colour illus.

Named the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year for 2013, Imran Qureshi combines traditional motifs and techniques of Islamic art with contemporary reflections on the relationship between Islam and the West. His investigations into ornamentation reference...

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History of Art

Interaction of Color

Albers Josef, Fox Weber Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780300179354, Yale University Press, July 2013
192 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 64 colour illus., 16 line illus.

Josef Albers' "Interaction of Color" is a masterwork in art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this influential book presents Albers' singular explanation of complex colour theory principles. O...

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History of Art

Ireland and the Picturesque Design, Landscape Painting, and Tourism, 1700-1840

O'Kane Finola

ISBN: HB: 9780300185386, Yale University Press, May 2013
288 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 120 colour images, 45 black&white illus.

That Ireland is picturesque is a well-worn cliche, but little is understood of how this perception was created, painted and manipulated during the long eighteenth century. This book positions Ireland at the core of the picturesque's development and a...

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Impressionist Line from Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec Drawings and Prints from the Clark

Clarke Jay A., Weaver Chapin Mary, Higonnet Anne, Kendall Richard, Wright Alastair

ISBN: PB: 9780300191936, Yale University Press, March 2013
160 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 80 colour illus.

This book offers a new look at works by notable French artists represented in the collection of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Colour reproductions of fifty-eight works – ranging from chalk drawings by Charles Francois Daubigny and Ed...

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Photography

I, Jack Russell A Photographer and a Dog's Eye View

Hughes Andy

ISBN: PB: 9781861543219, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, December 2012
232 pp., 25.5x20.3 cm, full-colour illus.

This thought and the fact that he had many more photographs of his dogs than his family and friends, led photographer Andy Hughes to this visual exploration of the relationship between dogs and their human companions and how they are increasingly int...

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History of Art

Illuminating the End of Time The Getty Apocalypse Manuscript

Morgan Nigel J.

ISBN: HB: 9781606060711, Getty Publications, November 2012
180 pp., 32.5x23 cm, 82 colour illus., 34 black&white illus., 6 line drawings

This is a fascinating and gloriously illustrated exploration of this 13th-century English Apocalyptic manuscript. The visionary nature of the "Apocalypse" – the biblical book of "Revelation" – along with its detailed descriptions of the end of the wo...

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Contemporary Art

Computer Science & Internet

Islands of Benoit Mandelbrot Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking

Samuel Nina

ISBN: PB: 9780300186437, Yale University Press, October 2012
176 pp., 22.2x15.9 cm, 160 colour and black&white illus.

Over the last few decades, the "pictorial turn" in the natural sciences, prompted by the computer's capacity to produce visual representations, has generated considerable theoretical interest. Poised between their materiality and the abstract level t...

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