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Decorative Textiles from Arab and Islamic Cultures Selected Works from the Al Lulwa Collection

Wearden Jennifer, Scarce Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9781907372872, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, April 2016
200 pp., 30x24.5 cm, 140 colour illus.

One of the most distinctive features of Islamic design is the evolution of an increasingly abstract and repetitive repertoire of motifs, which are shared among all media – metalwork, woodwork, ceramics, tilework and textiles. In textiles the main the...

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Picturing

DeLue Rachael Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780932171573, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, April 2016
216 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 62 colour plates

The history of American art is a history of objects, but it is also a history of ideas about how we create and consume these objects. As "Picturing" convincingly shows, the critical tradition in American art has given rise to profound thinking about...

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Contemporary Art

Artist and His Critic Stripped Bare The Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp and Robert Lebel

Franklin Paul B.

ISBN: HB: 9781606064436, Getty Publications, March 2016
384 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Robert Lebel, French art critic and collector, was instrumental in rendering Marcel Duchamp'soften hermetic life, art, and ideas accessible to a wider public across Europe and the United States, principally with his 1959 publication "Sur Marcel Ducha...

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Art Flexi-Series

Amedeo Modigliani Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings

Schmalenbach Werner

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791382067, Prestel Publishing, March 2016
226 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 113 black&white illus.

Now available in a new and beautifully produced edition, this important examination of Modigliani's art focuses on the enigmatic genius of the avant-garde. One of the most recognizable artists of his era, Amedeo Modigliani is also perhaps one of the...

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Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago

Townsend Richard F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300214833, Yale University Press, A+D Series, March 2016
368 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 500 colour illus.

This landmark publication catalogues the Art Institute of Chicago's outstanding collection of Indian art of the Americas, one of the foremost of its kind in the United States. Showcasing a host of previously unpublished objects dating from the Precol...

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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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Mapplethorpe + Munch

Steihaug Jon-Ove, Meyer Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300220100, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2016
256 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 150 colour illus.

This revelatory catalogue delves into the many affinities shared between two widely renowned and discussed artists, Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) and Edvard Munch (1863-1944), whose intensely studied work has, until now, never been considered in re...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Aubrey Beardsley A Catalogue Raisonne

Zatlin Linda Gertner

ISBN: HB: 9780300111279, Yale University Press, March 2016
960 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus., 1100 black&white illus.

This is the first book to bring together the recorded works of the English artist Aubrey Beardsley. Despite his early death from tuberculosis in 1898, at the age of 25, these amount to nearly 1100 completed works of art (plus many related sketches) a...

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Dance American Art, 1820-1960

DeFrantz Thomas F., Garafola Lynn, Hart Dakin, Hill Constance Valis, Leppanen-Guerra Analisa, Mercer Valerie J., Murphy Jacqueline Shea, Robertson E.Bruce, Myers Kenneth, Udall Sharyn Rohlfsen

ISBN: HB: 9780300211610, Yale University Press, March 2016
304 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 230 colour illus.

As an enduring wellspring of creativity for many artists throughout history, dance has provided a visual language to express such themes as the bonds of community, the allure of the exotic, and the pleasures of the body. This book is the first major...

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Hieronymus Bosch Visions of Genius

Ilsink Matthijs, Koldeweij Jos

ISBN: PB: 9780300220131, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2016
192 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 140 colour illus.

Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) lived and worked in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, where he created enigmatic paintings and drawings full of bizarre creatures, phantasmagoric monsters, and terrifying nightmares. He also depicted detailed landscap...

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