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Contemporary Art

In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde An Anthropologist Investigates the Contemporary Art Museum

Bunzl Matti

ISBN: PB: 9780226418124, ISBN: HB: 9780226173818, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 2008, anthropologist Matti Bunzl was given rare access to observe the curatorial department of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. For five months, he sat with the institution's staff, witnessing firsthand what truly goes on behind the scenes at...

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History of Art

Influences Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance

Quinlan-McGrath Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226421667, ISBN: HB: 9780226922843, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones, 14 line drawings

Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light rad...

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Contemporary Art

Imagine New Imagery in Italian Art 1960-1969

Barbero Luca Massimo

ISBN: PB: 9788831723787, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
288 pp., 28.7x23.6 cm, 319 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! A seminal experience on the Italian art scene of the 1960s. At the height of the economic miracle of the 1960s, artistic experiments in Italy kept following one another, mixed and merged with an extraordinary speed and inte...

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Design

It's My Type

ISBN: HB: 9789881470416, Bookport, SendPoints, August 2016
224 pp., 28.6x22.2 cm, 750 colour illus.

For sale in Balkans only! Type designers are fanatical; living, breathing and eating type as they strive to create fonts capable of withstanding the test of time. This new book aims to be the definitive resource for aspiring typographers with profi...

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History of Art

Iskandar Jalil Kembara Tanah Liat (Clay Travels)

ISBN: PB: 9789811101908, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, August 2016
364 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, colour illus.

Iskandar Jalil is celebrated as one of Southeast Asia's most prominent ceramicists. Known for his high level of discipline, tenacity and dedication, the Colombo Plan scholar is a recipient of multiple accolades including the prestigious Order of the...

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History of Art

Indian Court Painting The Kronos Collection

McInerney Terence, Kossak Steven M.

ISBN: HB: 9781588395900, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2016
272 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

This splendidly illustrated publication features over 90 important paintings from the predominantly Hindu Rajput tradition of Indian painting, and are highlights from the Kronos Collection, one of the finest holdings of Indian art. These remarkable w...

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History of Art

Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago

Townsend Richard F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300214833, Yale University Press, A+D Series, March 2016
368 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 500 colour illus.

This landmark publication catalogues the Art Institute of Chicago's outstanding collection of Indian art of the Americas, one of the foremost of its kind in the United States. Showcasing a host of previously unpublished objects dating from the Precol...

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Fashion

Isaac Mizrahi

Pearlman Chee, Lehmann Ulrich, Taxter Kelly, Yaeger Lynn

ISBN: HB: 9780300212143, Yale University Press, March 2016
236 pp., 33x25.4 cm, 202 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.

Beginning with Isaac Mizrahi's first fashion collection, which debuted to critical acclaim in 1986, and running though the present day, this stylish, lavishly illustrated book presents his signature couture collections. Mizrahi's exuberant couture st...

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Photography

Contemporary Art

Idol Structures Sculptures and Photographs by Matt Siber

Siber Matt, Raskin David, Harris Gregory J.

ISBN: PB: 9780985096014, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, March 2016
50 pp., 22.8x30.5 cm, 20 colour plates

"Idol Structures" accompanies an exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum of recent photographs and sculptures by Chicago-based artist Matt Siber, whose work explores the systems of corporate and mass-media communication that permeate the urban landscape....

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Contemporary Art

Inquisitive Eyes

Yarker Gwen

ISBN: PB: 9781908326850, Casemate, Sansom & Co, February 2016
132 pp., 27x21 cm, 100 colour illus.

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