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William Kentridge
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Jane Taylor,Maria-Christina Villasenor,William Kentridge,Carolyn Christov Bakargiev,William Kentridge |
"William Kentridge (b. 1955, Johannesburg) has always addressed the more challenging and intimate aspects of contemporary life and of South Africa, both during Apartheid and in the post-Apartheid per… |
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Degas and the dance
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Richard Kendall,Jill DeVonyar,Jill De Vonyar |
"Known in his lifetime as "the painter of dancers," Edgar Degas has long been recognized as the foremost artist of the ballet. More than half of his vast body of work - created over five decades and … |
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Native American art
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Hans-Ulrich Sanner,Ethnologisches Museum Berlin.,Peter Bolz |
"Catalog and exhibition both begin with a prologue that looks critically at the cliche images that still influence the public conception of North American Indians. The less-well-known German contribu… |
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Hashem El Madani
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Karl Bassil,Zaatari, Akram,Le Feuvre, Lisa,Sara El Nusairi |
Hashem El Madani set up his first studio in his parents’ living room in 1948. In 1953, as his business grew, he moved to a modern space on the first floor of the prestigious Shehrazade building, whic… |
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Ettore Sottsass
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Enzo Cucchi,Milco Carboni,Barbara Radice,Ettore Sottsass |
Ettore Sottsass (1917- 2007) zählt zu den Protagonisten des italienischen Designs der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts und avancierte zu einem der weltweit erfolgreichsten Produktgestalter. Ausgeb… |
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Edvard Munch
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Gerd Woll,Carla Lathe,Reinhold Heller,Dieter Buchhart,Frank Hoifodt,Iris Müller-Westermann,Albrecht Schröder,Albertina Wien,Christoph Asendorf,Edvard Munch,Arne Eggum,Marian Bisanz-Prakken,Antonia Hoerschelmann |
Während eines achtmonatigen Aufenthalts in dem Sanatorium von Dr. Daniel Jacobsen in Kopenhagen verwandelt Munch sein Krankenzimmer in ein Atelier und entwickelt einen neuen extrovertierteren und exp… |
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Taishō chic
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Sharon Minichiello,Kendall H. Brown,Sharon A. Minichiello |
"Catalogue entries on popular songbooks, kimono, and decorative arts further investigate the potent relations between styles and ideologies imported from the West and those newly established as Japan… |
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The art of silver jewellery
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Rene Van Der Star,Ien Rappold,Hugo Krijger,John Beringen,Michiel Elsevier Stokmans |
"In thirty years of travel and passionate research, Rene van der Star has collected and catalogued with philological rigor an exceptional collection of silver jewellery from the most remote villages … |
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Sad songs
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Bill Conger,Martin Patrick,Whitney Bedford,Robert Blanchon,Benjamin Butler,Anya Gallaccio,Danielle Gustafson-Sundell,Jin Lee,Richard Hell,Keith Edmier,Rene Ricard |
In this volume, contemporary visual artists investigate sadness through painting, sculpture, photography, and video. Sad Songs features a diverse collection of works unified by their melancholic tone… |
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The poetry of everyday life
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Jacob van Ruisdael,Ronni Baer,Franz Hals,Balthasar van der Ast,Re Rembrandt,Jan van der Heyden |
"Seventeenth-century Dutch paintings were often made for a newly wealthy middle class and were of a size, subject, and scale appropriate to their homes. Predominantly Protestant and ruled by an oliga… |
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Citizens and kings
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Rosenblum, Robert.,Norman Rosenthal,Sebastien Allard,Guilhem Scherf,MaryAnne Stevens |
429 pages : 29 cm |
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Fashion in detail
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Avril Hart,Susan North |
Photographs of the Victoria and Albert's collection of historical dress, illustrating high fashion between 1600-1800. |
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Tobias Rehberger
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Laura Cherubini,Tobias Rehberger |
125, [1] p. : 28 cm |
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Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918
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Gustav Klimt,Gilles Néret |
Gustav Klimt's ornate art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society around the turn of the 20th century - a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness… |
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Eric Fischl, 1970-2007
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Arthur C. Danto,Robert Enright,Eric Fischl |
"This volume is an examination of the contemporary figurative painter Eric Fischl. More than 250 works, selected in conjunction with the artist, present the scope of Fischl's career: the formative wo… |
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Textile designs
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Joost Elffers,Susan Meller |
A key reference for all textile designers, this is a survey of the colourful patterned fabrics used for clothing and interior decoration over the past 200 years. There are five sections: floral; geom… |
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Kenneth Callahan
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Kenneth Callahan,Thomas Orton,Patricia Grieve Watkinson |
"Kenneth Callahan's life spanned most of the twentieth century, and during that time he made many contributions to the art of the Pacific Northwest and the nation. Although Callahan traveled widely, … |
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Hokusai and Hiroshige
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Hokusai Katsushika,Julia M. White,Yoko Woodson,Reiko Mochinaga Brandon |
By the 1800s, when the artists Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige lived and worked, commoners enjoyed the numerous amenities of Edo (Tokyo), the world's largest city (pop. ca. 800,000). They la… |
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Lines from an artistic life
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Aditi De,Krishen Khanna,Tanuj Berry,Jahangir Sabavala |
"Lines from an Artistic Life explores the drawings of eminent Indian artist KM Adimoolam, well-known in India and internationally for his meticulous pen-and-ink drawings on subjects ranging from real… |
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Max Beckmann
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Cornelia Homburg,Judith C. Weiss,Max Beckmann,Reinhard Spieler,Carla Schulz-Hoffmann |
"This panoramic presentation of Max Beckmann's painted oeuvre sheds new light on central themes such as the world of cabaret, music, and the theater, dreams and reality, staged sensuality, and the ro… |
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