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Noir The Romance of Black in 19th-century French Drawings and Prints

Hendrix Lee

ISBN: HB: 9781606064825, Getty Publications, May 2016
176 pp., 28.4x24.6 cm, colour and black&white illus.

Due to the technological advances of the nineteenth century, an abundance of black drawing media exploded onto the market. Charcoal, conte crayon, and fabricated black chalks and crayons; fixatives; various papers; and many lifting devices gave rise...

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History of Art

National Gallery Companion Guide

Langmuir Erika

ISBN: PB: 9781857095968, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, March 2016
368 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 230 colour illus.

For two decades, The National Gallery Companion Guide has introduced art lovers to one of the richest collections of Western European paintings in the world, including famous works by the greatest painters – Piero della Francesca, Titian, Rembrandt,...

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Nicolo Degiorgis: Hidden Islam Islamic Makeshift Places of Worship in North East Italy, 2009-2013

Degiorgis Nicolo, Parr Martin

ISBN: HB: 9788890981708, DAP, Rorhof, October 2015
90 pp., 24.6x17.2 cm, 43 colour illus., 84 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! In Italy the right to worship without discrimination is enshrined in the constitution. There are 1.35 million Muslims in Italy and yet, officially, only eight mosques in the whole country. Consequently, the Muslim populatio...

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Contemporary Art

Nathan Coley to the Bramley Family of Frestonia

Coley Nathan

ISBN: PB: 9781910221051, Casemate, Anomie Publishing, July 2015
190 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 60 colour and black&white illus.

Nathan Coley is a publication documenting a public art project in London by Glasgow-based contemporary artist Nathan Coley (b. 1967). At a time when housing and the property market are at the centre of much social, political and economic debate, Cole...

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Design

New Signage Design Connecting People and Spaces

Shaoqiang Wang

ISBN: HB: 9788415967279, Hoaki, April 2015
240 pp., 28.5x21 cm, richly illustrated

The proliferation of public places and spaces has created a shared environment that is increasingly difficult to navigate. People need to know their location and how to reach their destination, making the graphic design of orientation systems extreme...

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Noonday

Aetrba Annelies

ISBN: HB: 9783037783887, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2015
336 pp., 24x17.3 cm, 300 illus.

The artist Annelies Strba, best known for photographs of her children, now brings us in "Noonday" pictures of her grandchildren. In this "noonday dream" (a reference to Emily Bronte), we encounter a host of fairytale creatures, playing, sleeping, or...

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Neo-Impressionism and the Dream of Realities Painting, Poetry, Music

Homburg Cornelia, Smith Paul, Corey Laura D., Kelly Simon, Paulson Noelle C., Riopelle Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300190830, Yale University Press, December 2014
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 130 colour illus.

This stunning catalogue explores the creative exchange between Neo-Impressionist painters and Symbolist writers and composers in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Symbolism, with its emphasis on subjectivity, dream worlds, and spirituality, has often b...

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Nothing but the Clouds Unchanged Artists in World War I

Hughes Gordon, Blom Philipp

ISBN: HB: 9781606064313, Getty Publications, November 2014
192 pp., 26.2x21 cm, 67 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.

This is a fascinating and superbly illustrated look at how the First World War influenced an entire generation of visual artists. Much of how WWI is understood today is rooted in the artistic depictions of the brutal violence and extensive destructio...

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Neubau Forst Catalogue Urban Tree Collection for the Modern Architect and Designer

Gandl Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9783037784358, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2014
432 pp., 28x24 cm, 765 colour illus.

"Neubau Forst Catalogue" is the 432-page print catalogue of a digital collection of tree silhouettes and sculptures seen at different seasons. Working by hand, the Neubau designers digitally removed the trees from their original Berlin surroundings a...

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Contemporary Art

Nam June Paik Becoming Robot

Chiu Melissa, Yun Michelle, Digital Kenzo, Godfrey John, Hakuta Ken, Huffman Jon, Jankowski Christian, Joselit David, Maeda John, Kessler Jon

ISBN: PB: 9780300209211, Yale University Press, October 2014
224 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 140 colour illus.

This new, fully illustrated catalogue on the celebrated progenitor of video art, "Nam June Paik (1932-2006)", brings together a host of scholars, artists and Paik's own collaborators to illuminate the work of this innovative artist. An essay by curat...

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