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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 53, 2018

ISBN: PB: 9780226602639, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Metropolitan Museum Journal" is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum's collection. Highlights of volume 53 include an exquisite pair of 17th-century Chinese birthday-gift portraits of an elderly couple, a...

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History of Art

Michelangelo's Sculpture

Steinberg Leo

ISBN: HB: 9780226482576, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
320 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 121 colour plates, 127 halftones

Leo Steinberg was one of the most original and daring art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretative risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures that ranged from old maste...

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Design

Craft

Macrame Decor 25 Boho-chic Patterns and Project Ideas

ISBN: HB: 9784865051681, Nippan IPS, October 2018
112 pp., 25.7x18.2 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus., language: English

"Macrame Decor" introduces fashionable and useful interior decor items created with macrame – a form of textile created using knotting techniques. "Boho chic style" decor, which borrows from both bohemian styles and hippie styles, is currently quite...

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Contemporary Art

M. Pablo's Holidays Picasso in Antibes Juan-les-Pins, 1920-1946

Andral Jean-Louis, McCully Marilyn, Raeburn Michael, Cowling Elizabeth, Philippot Emilia

ISBN: HB: 9780300243604, Yale University Press, October 2018
144 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.

Picasso began to spend his summer holidays in Antibes Juan-les-Pins in 1920, returning most summers to the Cote d'Azur until the outbreak of war. During those years, he produced paintings and drawings of the villas where he stayed with his family, as...

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Mantegna and Bellini

Campbell Caroline, Korbacher Dagmar, Rowley Neville, Vowles Sarah, De Marchi Andrea, Dunkerton Jill, Hartweig Bebette, Weick-Jock Katharina

ISBN: HB: 9781857096347, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, October 2018
304 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 180 colour and black&white illus.

Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431-1506) and Giovanni Bellini (active c. 1459; died 1516) each produced groundbreaking paintings, marked by pictorial and technical innovations, that are among the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance. Exploring the fruitful...

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History of Art

Mark Rothko From the Inside Out

Rothko Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780300238419, ISBN: HB: 9780300204728, Yale University Press, October 2018
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 74 colour illus., 7 black&white illus.

Mark Rothko (1903-1970), world-renowned icon of Abstract Expressionism, is rediscovered in this wholly original examination of his art and life written by his son. Synthesizing rigorous critique with personal anecdotes, Christopher, the younger of th...

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Contemporary Art

Martha Rosler Irrespective

Rosler Martha, Backer Shira, Deutsche Rosalyn, Volpato Elena, Nesbit Molly

ISBN: HB: 9780300230277, Yale University Press, October 2018
256 pp., 24.8x23.5 cm, 300 colour illus.

The work of Martha Rosler is perennially incisive, provocative, political, and timely, exploring a range of issues from everyday life and the media to architecture and the built environment, especially as they affect women. Over her prolific career,...

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Mathias Goeritz Modernist Art and Architecture in Cold War Mexico

Josten Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9780300228601, Yale University Press, October 2018
352 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 84 colour illus., 93 black&white illus.

The first major work in English on Mathias Goeritz (1915-1990), this book illuminates the artist's pivotal role within the landscape of twentieth-century modernism. Goeritz became recognized as an abstract sculptor after arriving in Mexico from Germa...

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Matisse and Decoration

Klein John

ISBN: HB: 9780300135640, Yale University Press, October 2018
272 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 200 colour illus.

Between 1935 and his death at midcentury, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) undertook many decorative projects and commissions. These include mural paintings, stained glass, ceramic tiles, lead crystal pieces, carpets, tapestries, fashion fabrics, and access...

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History of Art

Martin Lister and his Remarkable Daughters The Art of Science in the Seventeenth Century

Roos Anna Marie

ISBN: HB: 9781851244898, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2018
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 46 colour illus., 33 black&white illus.

Martin Lister, royal physician and fellow of the Royal Society, was an extraordinarily prolific natural historian with an expertise in shells and molluscs. Disappointed with the work of established artists, Lister decided to teach his daughters, Sus...

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