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Media Studies

Sensing the Future Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts

Botar Oliver

ISBN: HB: 9783037784334, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2014
192 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 80 illus.

Life in the digital economy of information and images enriches us but often induces a sense of being overwhelmed. "Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts" considers the impact of technology by exploring ways it was addressed in the pract...

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History of Art

Spectacular Rubens The Triumph of the Eucharist Series

Vegara Alejandro, Woollett Anne

ISBN: PB: 9781606064306, Getty Publications, October 2014
112 pp., 27.9x24 cm, 88 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

This lavishly illustrated volume offers a fascinating glimpse into Ruben's artistic process. The six glorious scenes that make up the Triumph of the Eucharist series by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) are highlights of the Museo Nacional del Prado's su...

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Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" and the Art of Invention

Antoine Jean-Philippe, Bellion Wendy, Bjelajac David, Brownlee Peter John, DeLue Rachael Ziady, Gillespie Sarah Kate, Mayer Lance, Myers Gay, McClellan Andrew, Nemerov Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300207613, Yale University Press, October 2014
224 pp., 25.4x24.1 cm, 135 colour illus.

Samuel F. B. Morse's (1791-1872) large-scale painting Gallery of the Louvre (1831-33) is one of the most significant, and enigmatic, works of early-19th-century American art. It is also one of the last works Morse painted before turning his attention...

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Culture Studies

Support Networks

Satinsky Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780982879856, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

When artists break boundaries of traditional forms and work outside of institutionalized systems, they often must create new infrastructures to sustain their practices".Support Networks" looks to Chicago's deeply layered history of artists, scholars,...

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Silent Partners Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish

Munro Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780300208221, Yale University Press, September 2014
304 pp., 28x23 cm, 220 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

The articulated human figure made of wax or wood has been a common tool in artistic practice since the 16th century. Its mobile limbs enable the artist to study anatomical proportion, fix a pose at will, and perfect the depiction of drapery and cloth...

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Sculpture Victorious Art in an Age of Invention, 1837-1901

Droth Martina, Edwards Jason, Hatt Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300208030, Yale University Press, September 2014
432 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 275 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

"Sculpture Victorious "highlights the diversity, originality and ubiquity of sculptural production during the reign of Queen Victoria. This lavishly illustrated book examines how colourful marbles, bronzes, finely wrought silver, and exquisitely deta...

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Sixteenth Century Netherlandish Paintings, with French Paintings Before 1600

Campbell Lorne

ISBN: HB: 9781857093704, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, July 2014
900 pp., 28.5x21.6 cm, 700 colour images, 175 black&white illus.

The National Gallery, London possesses an important collection of paintings by 16th-century Netherlandish artists, including Joachim Beuckelaer, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jean Gossart, and Quinten Massys. They are grouped here with...

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Strange Beauty German Paintings at the National Gallery

Bugler Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9781857095708, Yale University Press, February 2014
112 pp., 19.1x17.1 cm, 70 colour illus.

This book of highlights from the National Gallery's collection of German art presents masterpieces by some of the world's favourite Renaissance artists – Hans Holbein, Albrecht Durer, Lucas Cranach and Adam Elsheimer – as well as wonderful paintings...

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St. Albans Psalter Painting and Prayer in Medieval England

Collins Kristen, Kidd Peter, Turner Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781606061459, Getty Publications, September 2013
104 pp., 27.6x19.8 cm, 94 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.

This is a fascinating look at one of the world's most important and renowned 12th-century manuscripts. "The St. Albans Psalter" is one of the most important, famous, and puzzling books produced in 12th-century England. It was probably created between...

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Decorative Arts

History of Art

Stained Glass Radiant Art

Raguin Virginia Chieffo

ISBN: PB: 9781606061534, Getty Publications, September 2013
112 pp., 23x15.4 cm, 80 colour illus.

This is a beautifully illustrated discussion on the making of stained glass and its enduring iconography. Stained glass is a monumental art, a corporate enterprise dependent on collaboration between patron and artist. Combining the fields now known a...

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