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Other Transatlantic Kinetic and Op Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America

Dziewanska Marta, Roelstraete Dieter, Winograd Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9788364177422, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, February 2018
250 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 20 colour plates, 50 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! "The Other Transatlantic" is attuned to the brief but historically significant moment in the postwar period between 1950 and 1970 when the trajectories of the Eastern European art scenes on the one hand, and their Latin Amer...

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Kinaesthetic Knowing Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design

Alexander Zeynep Celik

ISBN: HB: 9780226485201, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 10 colour plates, 99 halftones

Is all knowledge the product of thought? Or can the physical interactions of the body with the world produce reliable knowledge? In late-nineteenth-century Europe, scientists, artists, and other intellectuals theorized the latter as a new way of know...

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Contemporary Art

Power of Material / Politics of Materiality

Witzgall Susanne, Stakemeier Kerstin

ISBN: PB: 9783037349878, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2018
256 pp., 21.6x16 cm, 155 colour plates, 2 line drawings, 4 halftones

Materiality has emerged as a new focus for art, design, and architecture. Where there was once the belief that the form of a work offered more capacity to bestow meaning, "New Materialism" asserts the agency of material within the artistic process, e...

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Present of the Future

Witzgall Susanne, Stakemeier Kerstin

ISBN: PB: 9783037349861, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2018
230 pp., 21.6x16 cm, 81 colour plates, 16 halftones

As the world teeters on the brink of crisis and potentially catastrophic change, outlooks for the future have come to be characterized by anxiety. The skepticism that meets utopian visions of the future has given rise to collective nostalgia for seem...

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Paintings from Murano by Paolo Veronese Restored by Venetian Heritage with the Support of Bulgari

Veronese Paolo

ISBN: PB: 9788831728263, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2018
96 pp., 22.2x16.5 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! A new undertaking by Venetian Heritage and Bulgari for Venetian art offers the occasion to rediscover two paintings by Paolo Veronese, a great master of Venetian Renaissance art. Two paintings by Paolo Veronese, Saint Jero...

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Architecture

Drawing after Architecture Renaissance Architectural Drawings and their Reception

Yerkes Carolyn

ISBN: PB: 9788831726740, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2018
288 pp., 24.9x20.3 cm, 185 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Why did early modern architects continue copying drawings long after the invention of print should have made such copying obsolete? Carolyn Yerkes answers that question in a fresh investigation into the status of architectu...

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Gilbert & George: The General Jungle or Carrying on Sculpting Late Summer 1971

Bracewell Michael

ISBN: HB: 9781944379179, DAP, Levy Gorvy, February 2018
104 pp., 31.1x28.5 cm, 42 colour illus., 5 duotone

Not for sale in Estonia! Since 1967, renowned artists Gilbert & George (born 1943 and 1942) have made themselves into their art, sacrificing their individual identities to devote themselves to a more democratic art practice, which they call "Art fo...

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Monet the Collector

Mathieu Marianne, Lobstein Dominique

ISBN: HB: 9780300232622, Yale University Press, January 2018
312 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 150 colour illus.

Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the founder of French Impressionism and remains one of the world's best-known and most beloved painters. His works are on view in many of the finest museums, and details of his storied life are well documented. Less well...

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Are Communists Allowed to Dream? The Gallery of the Palace of the Republic

Philipp Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783791357522, Prestel Publishing, January 2018
128 pp., 30x24 cm, 50 colour illus.

The Palace of the Republic was opened in 1976 to house East Germany's parliament and to provide a cultural and historical center for the public to enjoy. During its construction, the government commissioned sixteen artists to create paintings in resp...

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Colours of Impressionism Masterpieces from the Musee d'Orsay

Kisiel Marine, Perrin Paul

ISBN: PB: 9789811145155, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, January 2018
208 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, colour illus.

One of the great innovations of the Impressionists was their radical use of colour: their application of strokes of complementary or contrasting hues captured the shifting effects of light and foregrounded the nature of vision. Using colour as the le...

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