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Contemporary Art

Walter De Maria Trilogies

Elliott Clare, Helfenstein Josef, Wakefield Neville

ISBN: HB: 9780300175783, Yale University Press, March 2012
104 pp., 25.4x24.8 cm, 61 colour illus.

Walter De Maria (b. 1935) is known for the expansive and perfectly ordered land art and installations he created in the 1970s. From constructing minimalist spare wooden boxes to using the earth itself as a site for, and element of, his sculpture, his...

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Design

World Without Words

Morrison Jasper

ISBN: PB: 9783037782071, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2012
112 pp., 15.4x10.8 cm, 104 illus.

What feeds the inspiration of the designer? Observation. In Jasper Morrison's collection of pictures, icons of design history meet up with the unassuming objects of everyday life, and curious findings with the archetypes of modernism. Every picture t...

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History of Art

Washington Crossing the Delaware Restoring an American Masterpiece

Rebora Barratt Carrie, Mayer Lance, Myers Gay, Smeaton Suzanne, Wilner Eli

ISBN: PB: 9780300176421, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2012
48 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 55 colour images, 10 black&white illus.

Emanuel Leutze's life-size "Washington Crossing the Delaware" commemorates the critical moment in the American Revolution when George Washington led a surprise attack against troops supporting the British forces in Trenton, New Jersey. When Leutze cr...

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Fashion

What Clothes Reveal The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America

Baumgarten Linda

ISBN: PB: 9780300181074, Yale University Press, January 2012
256 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 355 colour images, 36 black&white illus.

Paintings of upper-class men and women tell an important part of the history of costumes, but surviving garments themselves reveal even more. Every crease, stitch, and stain in a piece of clothing supplies information about its wearer and its era. Th...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Watercolor Painting A Comprehensive Approach to Mastering the Medium

Hoffmann Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780823006731, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, January 2012
160 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, 140 colour illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! For serious watercolourists seeking a vibrant expressive quality in their work. Watercolor Painting is designed to promote a more thoughtful, fresh and original approach to watercolour. A medum known for its begu...

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Design

White

Hara Kenya

ISBN: HB: 9783037781838, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2011
64 pp., 19.5x13.5 cm, 4 black&white illus.

"White" is not a book about colors. It is rather Kenya Haras attempt to explore the essence of "White", which he sees as being closely related to the origin of Japanese aesthetics – symbolizing simplicity and subtlety. The central concepts discussed...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

William Nicholson Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings

Reed Patricia, Baron Wendy, James Merlin

ISBN: HB: 9780300170542, Yale University Press, October 2011
672 pp., 28.4x26.4 cm, 640 colour reproductions, 90 black&white illus.

William Nicholson (1872-1949) is among the most admired and elusive painters in the history of British art. Neither academic nor overtly modernist, his ravishing paintings are a singular achievement of the early twentieth century. Nicholson made his...

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Posters

Design

Windows on the War Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945

Kort Zegers Peter, Druick Douglas W., Akinsha Konstantin, Bird Robert, Bugajski Jill, Jolles Adam

ISBN: HB: 9780300170238, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2011
400 pp., 32.4x24.8 cm, 300 colour images, 140 black&white illus.

"Windows on the War" is a groundbreaking publication – the first in English to focus on posters designed by the Soviet Union's "TASS" news agency to bolster support for the Soviet war effort. "TASS" posters were created by a large collective of Sovie...

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Contemporary Art

Where Do We Migrate To?

Van Tomme Niels

ISBN: HB: 9781890761141, DAP, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, UMBC, September 2011
44 pp., 25.4x17.1 cm, 21 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Where Do We Migrate To?" explores displacement and exile through the work of 19 artists and collectives, including Acconci Studio, Svetlana Boym, Blane De St. Croix, Lara Dhondt, Brendan Fernandes, Claire Fontaine, Nicole...

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History of Art

What Ever Happened to Modernism?

Josipovici Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9780300178005, Yale University Press, August 2011
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 6 black&white illus.

The quality of today's literary writing arouses the strongest opinions. For novelist and critic Gabriel Josipovici, the contemporary novel in English is profoundly disappointing – a poor relation of its groundbreaking Modernist forebears. This agile...

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