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History of Art

Navigating the West George Caleb Bingham and the River

Luarca-Shoaf Nenette, Barry Claire, Heugh Nancy, Kornhauser Elizabeth Mankin, Mahon Dorothy, Walker Andrew J, Turk Janeen, Conrads Margaret C., Benjamin Brent R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300206708, Yale University Press, October 2014
200 pp., 26.7x27.9 cm, 174 colour images and 10 black&white illus.

George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) moved to Missouri as a child and began painting the scenes of Missouri life, for which he is now famous, in the 1840s. "Navigating the West" explores how Bingham's iconic river paintings reveal the cultural and econom...

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Design

Nature Inspires

ISBN: HB: 9789881294333, Bookport, SendPoints, September 2014
272 pp., 28x21.6 cm, colour illus.

For sale in Balkans only! The inspiration of nature is usually expressed through natural materials. Natural themes can be used to express elements of texture and sensuality, with animalistic aesthetics and the strength of the forces of nature repre...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

New Colored Pencil Create Luminous Works with Innovative Materials and Techniques

Kutch Kristy Ann

ISBN: PB: 9780770436933, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, June 2014
176 pp., 21.9x21.9 cm, illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! Popular coloured pencil artist and teacher Kristy Kutch guides readers through the myriad of new developments in coloured pencil materials, techniques and practices, focusing on traditional, wax and watersoluble...

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History of Art

Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886-1904

Block Jane, Lee Ellen Wardwell

ISBN: HB: 9780300190847, Yale University Press, April 2014
260 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 105 colour images, 3 black&white illus.

Neo-Impressionism, the style pioneered by Georges Seurat (1859-1891), has long been associated with exquisite landscapes and intriguing scenes of urban leisure. Yet the movement's use of dotted brushwork and colour theory also produced arresting port...

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Contemporary Art

Niki De Saint Phalle

Weidemann Christiane

ISBN: PB: 9783791349756, Prestel Publishing, April 2014
128 pp., 24x19.3 cm, 100 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Whether you are an ardent follower of this fascinating artist, or just learning about her life and work, this lively volume offers an in-depth portrait of Niki de Saint Phalle's world, turbulent life and extraordinary art. Niki de Saint Phalle's bio...

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Photography

Nude in Photography

Martineau Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781606062661, Getty Publications, January 2014
112 pp., 22.6x18.6 cm, 89 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.

This is a stunning visual celebration of one of photography's most enduring and evocative subjects. Born like Venus on the half shell from the centuries-long tradition of the nude in painting, the nude first appeared as a subject matter in photograph...

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Photography

Naked Eye

Saatchi Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781861543400, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2013
252 pp., 21.6x16.5 cm, 112 colour and black&white illus.

A new book by Charles Saatchi based on extraordinary – and amazingly – un-photoshopped images, all the more extraordinary for being real, all the more fascinating for existing without computer manipulation. Some of the 112 images are the works of art...

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Contemporary Art

New Jersey as Non-Site

Baum Kelly

ISBN: HB: 9780300174373, Yale University Press, September 2013
176 pp., 27.9x20.4 cm, 150 colour illus.

Between 1950 and 1975, some of the postwar era's most innovative artists flocked to a very unexpected place: New Jersey. Appreciating what others tended to ignore or mock, they gravitated to the state's most desolate peripheries: its industrial waste...

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History of Art

The Italian List

Nymphs

Agamben Giorgio

ISBN: HB: 9780857420947, Seagull Books, September 2013
72 pp., 25x15 cm

In 1900, Dutch art historians Andre Jolles and Aby Warburg constructed an experimental dialogue in which Jolles supposed he had fallen in love with the figure of a young woman in a painting: "A fantastic figure – shall I call her a servant girl, or r...

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Photography

Nature

Nuvuk, the Northernmost Altered Land, Altered Lives in Barrow, Alaska

Inulak Lum Daniel James

ISBN: HB: 9781602231955, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2013
80 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 76 colour illus.

For years, tour guide Daniel Lum has brought visitors as well as his children out to the remote corners of Barrow, Alaska, one of the northernmost cities in the world, to witness polar bears and walrus on the dark, sandy beaches. Over time, snapping...

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