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History of Art

New Eyes on America The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville

Peterson Heyrman Joy, Delamaire Marie-Stephanie, Gordon Eric, Rockman Seth, Wierich Jochen

ISBN: PB: 9780300194500, Yale University Press, March 2013
144 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 129 colour images, 7 black&white illus.

During a tragically short career, Richard Caton Woodville (1825-1855) produced iconic works depicting mid-century America. Born in Baltimore and trained in Dusseldorf, Woodville painted 19th-century America in a new way. His paintings depict contempo...

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History of Art

Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Lees Sarah, Rand Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300179651, Yale University Press, January 2013
1008 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 475 colour illus.

The core of the Clark's collection was assembled by Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), who once declared, "I like all kinds of art if it is good of its kind". This monumental, two-volume publication is the first fully-documented catalogue of European...

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Interior Design

Night Time Innovative Design for Clubs and Bars

Sandu

ISBN: HB: 9788492810604, Hoaki, December 2012
240 pp., 29x21.5 cm, richly illustrated

There has been a huge surge in the growth of destination style night spots that provide a relaxing and glamorous alternative to warehouse clubbing. This book identifies the latest tastes and current trends in nightclub space design with supplemented...

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History of Art

Nature Drawings of Peter Karklins

Kirkland Sean D.

ISBN: PB: 9780978907457, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, August 2012
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 1 colour plate, 34 halftones

The German-born, Chicago-based Latvian artist Peter Karklins creates small, pencil-and-paper drawings that capture the processes and energies just below the surface of all human life. The complexity of his organic forms is matched by the artist's met...

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History of Art

New Painting of the 1860s Between the Pre-raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement

Staley Allen

ISBN: HB: 9780300175677, Yale University Press, October 2011
400 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 200 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

This handsome volume is the first authoritative survey of one of the most intriguing periods of British art – the radically innovative decade of the 1860s. This book explores new developments in English painting of this period, focusing on the early...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Natalia Stachon Matter Shifted

Strauss Dorothea

ISBN: HB: 9783942405393, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, September 2011
128 pp., 21x21 cm, 65 colour illus., language: English / German

Over the past several years, Natalia Stachon (b. Katowice, Poland, 1976; lives and works in Berlin) has developed a vocabulary of lyrical-minimalist forms that manifest themselves in her objects, sculptures, and installations. After graduating from t...

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Photography

Media Studies

No Caption Needed Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy

Hariman Robert, Lucaites John Louis

ISBN: PB: 9780226316123, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
432 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 53 halftones

In "No Caption Needed", Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. Their critical analyses of nine individual icons explore the photographs themselves and their subseq...

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Architecture

Interior Design

New Commercial Architecture

ISBN: HB: 9789881961075, Bookport, SendPoints, March 2011
312 pp., 30x23 cm, colour illus.

For sale in Balkans only! What is commercial architecture? Commercial architecture is the building for people engaged in various business activities. Include:1) Retail stores shopping malls, wholesale markets for all kinds of daily necessities and...

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History of Art

Nineteenth Century Irish Sculpture Native Genius Reaffirmed

Murphy Paula

ISBN: HB: 9780300159097, Yale University Press, May 2010
320 pp., 28x22 cm, 250 black&white illus., 60 colour illus.

Paula Murphy, the leading expert on Irish sculpture, offers an extensive survey of the history of sculpture in Ireland in the nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on the large public works produced during the Victorian period. The works of su...

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Contemporary Art

Nancy Spero Torture of Women

Pearson Lisa

ISBN: HB: 9780979956225, DAP, Siglio, April 2010
156 pp., 22.9x20.3 cm, 96 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Torture of Women", Spero's epic, 14 panels, 125-foot-long collage work, fuses startling imagery from ancient mythology with hand-printed and typewritten first-person testimonies of abuse – from ancient times through the pr...

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