In “Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now,” the issue crying out to be addressed is: where will sculpture go next?
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A Multi-faceted Look at Francis Bacon’s Psychology
The five essays in Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psychology call us to grapple with an artist whose life and work were anything but simple.
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Photographs from the Wildest Places on Earth
Peter and Beverly Pickford traveled to all seven continents for the stunning photographs in Wild Land: A Journey into the Earth’s Last Wilds.
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The Man Who Spent 60 Years Photographing the North American Railroad
Essential Witness features photographs from Jim Shaugnessy’s 60 years documenting the evolution of the North American railroad.
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The Golden Age of the Illustrated Book Dust Jacket
The Illustrated Dust Jacket, 1920-1970 chronicles the rise of the book dust jacket from disposable object to a creative platform for publishing design.
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Street-Level Photographs Capture the Citizens and Signage of Postwar NYC
The new book I See a City chronicles the 1940s and ’50s street photography of Todd Webb, who documented postwar New York City.
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Glowing Photographs of East and West Divided by the Iron Curtain
East/West features Harry Gruyaert’s photographs of Moscow, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas in the 1980s, each saturated with Kodachrome colors.
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Stamps of Vanished Countries, from Van Diemen’s Land to Biafra
Nowherelands: An Atlas of Vanished Countries, 1840-1975 features the postage stamps and histories of 50 former nations.
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From Chocolate Gramophones to MP3s: The History of Sound in Images
The Art of Sound: A Visual History for Audiophiles by Terry Burrows is an illustrated history of recorded sound, from gramophones to the rise of digital.
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Learn to Tesselate with an Islamic Design Workbook
The “Islamic Design Workbook” by Eric Broug encourages a better appreciation of Islamic art, through learning how to create its geometric patterns.
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An Artist’s 50-Year Project to Alter and Deconstruct a Victorian Novel
After five decades of mutating an obscure Victorian novel, Thomas Phillips’s A Humument is printed in its final form.
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The Kimono, Examined: A New Book and a Definitive Collection
In the West, is there any garment more elegant than a tuxedo, one that makes its wearer, no matter what size or age, almost always look (and feel) great? In the East — specifically, in Japan — the kimono may be a similar, inestimable costume.