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Mexico's Revolutionary Avant-Gardes From Estridentismo to 30-30!

Flores Tatiana

ISBN: HB: 9780300184488, Yale University Press, July 2013
376 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 48 colour images, 122 black&white illus.

In December 1921, the poet Manuel Maples Arce (1898-1981) papered the walls of Mexico City with his manifesto Actual No. 1, sparking the movement Estridentismo (Stridentism). It is inspired by Mexico's rapid modernization following the Mexican Revolu...

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Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 47, 2012

ISBN: PB: 9780226059129, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 284 colour plates

"The Metropolitan Museum Journal", issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collections and the areas of investigation they represent. Volume 47 includes essays on the Tell Basta Treausur...

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Afterall Summer 2013, Issue 33

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Kreuger Anders, Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9781846381201, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm

Since its launching in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a yea...

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Byzantine Things in the World

Peers Glenn, Barber Charles, Caffey Stephen, Franses Henri, Haskell Caitlin, Rodriguez James, Shiff Richard, Steiner Shannon, Sutton Susan, Williams Robin

ISBN: HB: 9780300191783, Yale University Press, June 2013
192 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus.

How did Byzantine culture understand its own objects we now call "art"? This enlightening publication proposes that they saw and experienced clay pilgrim tokens, relief stamps, and icons of saints as dynamic and fully capable of affecting the world....

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Vermeer and Music The Art of Love and Leisure

Wieseman Marjorie E.

ISBN: PB: 9781857095678, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2013
72 pp., 26.7x19.7 cm, 60 colour illus.

Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) is one of the world's most captivating artists. Renowned for his sublimely beautiful depictions of everyday Dutch life, Vermeer created exquisite paintings that are sought out by any art lover. Music was a key facet of 17...

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Distinguished Images Prints and the Visual Economy in Nineteenth Century France

Bann Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300177275, Yale University Press, May 2013
224 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 10 colour images, 95 black&white illus.

This multifaceted book reviews the vast range of types of printmaking that flourished in France during the 19th century. Studies of this period's printmaking tend to be confined to histories of individual processes, such as lithography or steel engra...

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Paula Modersohn-Becker The First Modern Woman Artist

Radycki J. Diane

ISBN: HB: 9780300185300, Yale University Press, May 2013
256 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 64 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

Considered one of the most important of the early German modernists, the painter Paula Modersoln-Becker (1876-1907) challenged traditional representations of the female body in art. She was the first modern woman artist to paint herself nude, as well...

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Alice Aycock Drawings

Fineberg Jonathan, Sultan Terrie

ISBN: PB: 9780300191103, Yale University Press, May 2013
160 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 102 colour images, 15 black&white illus.

Alice Aycock (b. 1946) emerged onto the New York art scene in the 1970s and is best known for her large-scale public sculptures that often combine an industrial appearance with references to weightlessness as well as to science and cosmology. Aycock...

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Ireland and the Picturesque Design, Landscape Painting, and Tourism, 1700-1840

O'Kane Finola

ISBN: HB: 9780300185386, Yale University Press, May 2013
288 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 120 colour images, 45 black&white illus.

That Ireland is picturesque is a well-worn cliche, but little is understood of how this perception was created, painted and manipulated during the long eighteenth century. This book positions Ireland at the core of the picturesque's development and a...

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Roman Fever Influence, Infection, and the Image of Rome, 1700-1870

Wrigley Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300190212, Yale University Press, May 2013
270 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 50 colour images, 65 black&white illus.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, artists and travellers were lured to Rome, the home of civilized values and artistic beauty. But the history of visiting Rome had a pathological side – not only crisis and disorientation but repulsion at its filth...

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