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Experience

Nemerov Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9780932171634, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, October 2017
216 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 72 colour illus.

In his noteworthy theoretical essay "Experience", Ralph Waldo Emerson writes that humans by nature cannot fully grasp life as lived. If this is so, how capable are we of expressing our experiences in works of art? Despite this formidable challenge, f...

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Thannhauser Gallery Marketing Van Gogh

Koldehoff Stefan, Stolwijk Chris, Koldehoff Nora, Hageman Monique, Fontanella Megan M., Herzog Gunter

ISBN: HB: 9780300226591, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, September 2017
304 pp., 26.7x19.7 cm, 95 colour illus., 75 black&white illus.

While legend has it that Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) sold only one work during his lifetime, it was not long after his death that sales of his paintings began to shatter auction house records. In this carefully researched book, leading Van Gogh scho...

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50 Series

50 Women Artists You Should Know New Edition

Weidemann Christiane

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791383613, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
160 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 80 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

This beautifully produced, richly detailed, and comprehensive survey of fifty influential women artists from the Renaissance to the Post-Modern era details their vast contributions to the art world. From the Early Baroque painter Artemisia Gentilesch...

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Islam

By the Pen and What They Write Writing in Islamic Art and Culture

Blair Sheila S., Bloom Jonathan M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300228243, Yale University Press, September 2017
318 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 235 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.

Considered by Muslims as the only true art, calligraphy has played a prominent role in Islamic culture since the time of the prophet Muhammad. Exploring this central role of the written word in Islam and how writing practices have evolved and adapted...

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Neuroarthistory From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki

Onians John

ISBN: PB: 9780300229547, ISBN: HB: 9780300126778, Yale University Press, September 2017
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

This provocative book offers a fascinating account of one of the newest and most exciting fields in the human sciences: neuroarthistory. In recent decades there has been a dramatic increase in both the quantity and the quality of our knowledge about...

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Contemporary Art

Pollock's Modernism

Schreyach Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300223262, Yale University Press, September 2017
344 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 45 colour illus.

"Pollock's Modernism" provides a new interpretation of the art of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), one that is based on a phenomenological investigation of the pictorial effects of particular paintings. Focusing on major works that span the artist's care...

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Golden Kingdoms Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas

Pillsbury Joanne, Potts Timothy, Richter Kim N.

ISBN: HB: 9781606065488, Getty Publications, September 2017
320 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring some three hundred works of art rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity u...

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Military

How to Read European Armor

LaRocca Donald

ISBN: PB: 9781588396297, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2017
176 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 175 colour illus.

This engaging book offers an introduction to and overview of armor in Europe from the Middle Ages through the 17th century, focusing in particular on the 16th century when plate armor reached its peak of stylistic beauty and functional perfection. Cr...

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Contemporary Art

Frida Kahlo The Story of Her Life

Vinci Vanna

ISBN: HB: 9783791383880, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
160 pp., 27x21 cm

The perfect subject for a graphic novel, Frida Kahlo's brief life was dramatic and romantic, tragic and painful. In this illustrated "biography", Vanna Vinci captures the spirit of Kahlo's world in boldly colored, minutely detailed illustrations. Ble...

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Modigliani Unmasked

Klein Mason, Nathanson Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300225495, Yale University Press, September 2017
172 pp., 29.8x20.3 cm, 165 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

One of the great artists of the 20th century, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) is celebrated for revolutionizing modern portraiture, particularly in his later paintings and sculpture. "Modigliani Unmasked" examines the artist's rarely seen early works o...

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