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History of Art

Fogg Sam, Butler-Wheelhouse Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781911300120, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, November 2016
72 pp., 30x24.5 cm, 95 colour illus.

The rich variety of languages, religious traditions and schools of art of the Indian subcontinent are brought together in this exceptional library of Indian manuscripts. Religious and philosophical texts from Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Jain, Sikh and...

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Photography

Landscapes Photographs 1926-1946

Sander August

ISBN: HB: 9780226399461, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
112 pp., 31.7x26.7 cm, 59 black&white photographs, 1 map

In 1975, German readers were introduced to the "Rheinlandschaften", a collection of stunning images of the Rhineland captured in the first half of the twentieth century by photographer August Sander (1876-1964). This fresh edition, now in English, br...

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History of Art

Lawrence Alma-Tadema At Home in Antiquity

Prettejohn Elizabeth, Trippi Peter

ISBN: HB: 9783791355528, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 246 colour illus.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema's paintings were immensely popular among his contemporaries, and have since enchanted a wide audience through the medium of cinema. Anyone who has ever enjoyed the great epic films of antiquity – from Italian silent classics to R...

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History of Art

Leonardo da Vinci and Gian Giacomo Capro The Enigma of a Painting

Zecchini Maurizio

ISBN: PB: 9788831726115, DAP, Marsilio Editori, October 2016
206 pp., 29.8x21.5 cm, 179 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Salai" is the name that Leonardo da Vinci liked to use, as is documented in his writings from 1494 onward, for the boy whom he had taken into his home four years earlier, when he was just ten years old, and who lived with...

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Europe

Photography

Liberation of Europe 1944-1945 The Photographers who Captured History from D-Day to Berlin

Barnes Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781612004020, Casemate, September 2016
336 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 400 illus.

The Second World War presented a huge range of challenges to press photography both in terms of its execution and getting the results in print. Life on the home front was the main subject until the invasion of France changed everything in 1944. Pho...

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History of Art

Live Form Women, Ceramics, and Community

Sorkin Jenni

ISBN: HB: 9780226303116, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour plates, 70 halftones

Ceramics had a far-reaching impact in the second half of the twentieth century, as its artists worked through the same ideas regarding abstraction and form as those found in other creative mediums".Live Form" shines new light on the relation of ceram...

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Contemporary Art

Local History Castellani, Judd, Stella

Norden Linda

ISBN: PB: 9780986060632, DAP, Dominique Levy, July 2016
144 pp., 30.2x23.6 cm, 78 colour illus., 5 duotones

Not for sale in Estonia! "Local History" brings together rarely seen works from the 1950s through the early 1970s by Enrico Castellani, Donald Judd and Frank Stella, juxtaposing these with later examples that reveal each artist's distinct evolution...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Lessons in Classical Painting Essential Techniques from Inside the Atelier

Aristides Juliette

ISBN: HB: 9781607747895, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, July 2016
248 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 300 photos

Not for sale in selected countries! A companion volume to "Lessons in Classical Drawing" that breaks down the foundational skills and techniques of painting in a format that is accessible and manageable for all readers. With the same direct, easy-t...

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Fashion

Little Black Dress From Mourning to Night

Meyer Shannon

ISBN: PB: 9781883982843, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, April 2016
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 75 colour plates

What's the most important garment in a woman's closet? More often than not, the answer is "the little black dress". For decades, fashion magazines have touted the LBD as the perfect solution to almost every fashion crisis. Dressed up or down, with fl...

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Contemporary Art

America

Lofts of SoHo Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950-1980

Shkuda Aaron

ISBN: HB: 9780226334189, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 3 tables

American cities entered a new phase when, beginning in the 1950s, artists and developers looked upon a decaying industrial zone in Lower Manhattan and saw, not blight, but opportunity: cheap rents, lax regulation, and wide open spaces. Thus, SoHo was...

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