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History of Art

Looking at Tintoretto with John Ruskin A Venetian Anthology

Sdegno Emma

ISBN: PB: 9788831790000, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2019
176 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 89 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! For John Ruskin (1819-1900), the discovery of Tintoretto's (1519-1594) works in 1845 was revelatory. His visit to the Scuola Grande di San Rocco that year would inspire Ruskin to write "The Stones of Venice", beloved by wri...

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Photography

Lola Alvarez Bravo Picturing Mexico

Weissberg Stephanie, Reiman Karen Cordero

ISBN: HB: 9780300238709, Yale University Press, November 2018
96 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 70 colour illus.

This stunning and lyrical volume highlights the personal work of Lola Alvarez Bravo (1903-1993), one of Mexico's foremost photographers. alvarez Bravo worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, portraitist, and educator and played a critic...

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History of Art

Le Corbusier Drawing as Process

Pauly Daniele, Hendricks Genevieve

ISBN: HB: 9780300230994, Yale University Press, November 2018
304 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 362 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

"Each day of my life has been dedicated in part to drawing. I have never stopped drawing and painting, seeking, where I could find them, the secrets of form" – Le Corbusier Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier (1887-1965), is famous for...

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Contemporary Art

Let's Talk Abstract

Scharpff-Striebich Carolin

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783954762453, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, October 2018
232 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 60 colour illus., language: English / German

Time and again, lay people interested in art and professionals alike stand dumbfounded before abstract paintings. Following the invention of photog- raphy in the late 19th century, painting gradually liberated itself from a representational depiction...

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Photography

Laurie Simmons Big Camera/Little Camera

Karnes Andrea

ISBN: HB: 9783791357621, Prestel Publishing, October 2018
262 pp., 32x25 cm, black&white illus.

Accompanying a major survey of the work of the American artist Laurie Simmons, this generously illustrated book features every important step of her ever-evolving career – from small black-and-white photographs of miniature furniture to large-scale,...

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History of Art

Leonardo: Discoveries from Verrocchio's Studio Early Paintings and New Attributions

Kanter Laurence, Piccione Albertson Rita, Mottin Bruno

ISBN: HB: 9780300233018, Yale University Press, October 2018
150 pp., 28.6x20.3 cm, 102 colour illus., 17 black&white illus., including 3 gatefolds

This groundbreaking reexamination of the beginnings of Leonardo da Vinci's (1452-1519) life as an artist suggests new candidates for his earliest surviving work and revises our understanding of his role in the studio of his teacher, Andrea del Verroc...

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Contemporary Art

Louise Bourgeois To Unravel Torment

Wei Rales Emily, Nemerov Ali

ISBN: HB: 9780999802915, DAP, Glenstone Museum, October 2018
208 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 95 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Celebrated for her singular contributions to 20th-century sculpture, drawing, painting, printmaking, installation and writing, French-born American artist Louise Bourgeois' (1911-2010) explorations of the human condition or...

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Contemporary Art

Lygia Pape

Alberro Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9783906915142, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, October 2018
144 pp., 32.3x24.1 cm, 94 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! A founding member of Brazil's Neoconcrete movement, Lygia Pape (1927-2004) pioneered a unique approach to abstraction and valued art that favored the primacy of viewers' sensorial experiences. This catalog, published on the...

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Contemporary Art

Learning from Madness Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art

Cabanas Kaira Marie

ISBN: HB: 9780226556284, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 61 halftones

Throughout the history of European modernism, philosophers and artists have been fascinated by madness. Something different happened in Brazil, however, with the "art of the insane" that flourished within the modernist movements there. From the 1920s...

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Contemporary Art

Legible – Visible Between the Film Frame and the Page

Davila Mela, Munoz Maite

ISBN: PB: 9788494423437, University of Chicago Press, Tenov Books, September 2018
124 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 214 halftones

"Legible – Visible" explores the relationship between print publications and audio-visual documents, two of the most important media in the social and cultural landscape of our time – and two forms that also define the evolution of contemporary art i...

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