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Henri Matisse Erotic Sketchbook

Wolf Norbert

ISBN: HB: 9783791383927, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
64 pp., 23x18.5 cm, 38 colour illus.

For Henri Matisse, drawing was an exercise as personal as it was essential to his art. These black and white and gently colored sketches allow the viewer to appreciate the quality of Matisse's lines, their confidence and ease, as well as the intense...

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Hiroshige

Forrer Matthi

ISBN: HB: 9783791382654, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
288 pp., 36.4x30 cm, 300 colour illus.

This lavishly produced authoritative monograph presents an in-depth view of the life and work of Utagawa Hiroshige, one of Japan's most revered artists. Presented in a style as stunning as the prints it celebrates, this survey of Hiroshige tells the...

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Drawn in Colour Degas at the Burrell Collection

Hamilton Vivien, Domercq Julien, Herring Sarah, Riopelle Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9781857096255, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, October 2017
112 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 50 colour illus.

The Burrell Collection in Glasgow houses more than twenty paintings, pastels, and drawings by Edgar Degas (1834-1917) that include his most recognisable motifs: ballet dancers, bathers, jockeys, and women at work. Together with a selection of the Nat...

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Conversation Piece Making Modern Art in 18th-Century Britain

Retford Kate

ISBN: HB: 9780300194807, Yale University Press, October 2017
448 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 150 colour illus., 85 black&white illus.

Pioneered by William Hogarth (1697-1764) and his peers in the early 18th century, and then revitalized by Johan Zoffany (1733-1810), the conversation piece was an innovative mode of portraiture, depicting groups posed in landscape or domestic setting...

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Notes Towards a Conditional Art

Simms Matthew, Irwin Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781606065501, Getty Publications, October 2017
352 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Robert Irwin began his career in the 1950s as an abstract painter. As a pioneer of the Light and Space movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s and early '80s, Irwin focused on exploring aesthetic perception as the fundamental feature of art, culminating...

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Klimt and Rodin An Artistic Encounter

Natter Tobias G.

ISBN: HB: 9783791357089, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
224 pp., 29x24 cm, 163 colour illus.

Although they worked in different media, Auguste Rodin and Gustav Klimt were two artists whose output generated both incredible enthusiasm and virulent denunciation in their lifetimes. On the centenary of their deaths, in 1917 and 1918 respectively,...

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Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran

Roxburgh David J., Knipe Penley, McWilliams Mary, Barnes Trent, Braxton Mycah, Collaco Gwendolyn, Dokhani Farhad, Gulkis Bronwen, Mirseyedi Sarah, Poier Veronika

ISBN: HB: 9780300229189, Yale University Press, October 2017
244 pp., 36.8x24.8 cm, 237 colour illus.

The Harvard Qajar Album is an outstanding compendium of nearly 150 beautiful drawings, paintings, and a print produced during the Qajar dynasty of Iran, from the late 18th to early 20th century. The wide-ranging works – spanning narrative composition...

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Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints, 1770-1850

Ittmann John, Breckman Warren, MacLeod Catriona, Frank Mitchell Benjamin, Schmid F. Carlo, Grewe Cordulia

ISBN: HB: 9780300197624, Yale University Press, October 2017
424 pp., 29.4x25.4 cm, 350 colour illus.

From the 1770s through the 1840s, German, Austrian, and Swiss artists used the medium of printmaking to create works that synthesized poetry, literature, music, and the visual arts in new and captivating ways. Finding an eager audience in the growing...

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Women Studies

Maternity Mothers and Children in the Arts of Africa

Cole Herbert M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300229158, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2017
400 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 500 colour illus.

On the African continent, images of mothers and children are found wherever the visual arts are, from early rock-art sites in Egypt and the Sahara to the contemporary arts of South Africa. Found in a variety of materials, from stone, ivory, and metal...

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Matisse – Bonnard Long Live Painting!

Kraemer Felix

ISBN: HB: 9783791356327, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
240 pp., 28x23 cm, 66 black&white illus., 174 colour illus.

With this rallying cry, Henri Matisse greeted his colleague Pierre Bonnard on a 1925 postcard from Amsterdam. Widely considered two of the greatest painters of French modernism, they were united by a forty-year-long friendship and a keen appreciation...

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