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The Secret of the Night Watch
Hardcover || Marc Pos || Terra || met inkijkexemplaar
This lavishly illustrated book records the high profile restoration of Rembrandt van Rijn's 17th century masterpiece, The Night Watch, one of the world's most famous paintings. Many questions about the creation of this work have been answered by extensive technical studies done in conjunction with the restoration. The popular Dutch TV program The Secret of the Master has documented the restoration of The Night Watch in four episodes, assisted in this by various external specialists. This book...
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Casting Our Own Shadows
Recreating the Medieval Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
Paperback || Scott Montgomery || Monbeaulivre.fr || met inkijkexemplaar
During the summer of the year 2000, Medieval Art Historian Scott Montgomery and Early Modern Historian Alice Bauer undertook the task of retracing the medieval pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela. This book documents their thousand-mile, sixty-seven-day journey walking from Le Puy en Velay, France to the tomb of St. James at Santiago de Compostela, Spain. It also examines the historical background and numerous historical lessons gleaned from the experience.
As academics, Montgomery ...
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Curating Digital Art
From Presenting and Collecting Digital Art to Networked Co-Curation
2021 || Paperback || Annet Dekker || Valiz
What is the role of the curator when organizing digital art exhibitions in offline and online spaces? Analyzing the influence and impact of curating digital art, the book focuses on how the experiments of curators, artists and designers opened the possibility to reconfigure traditional models and methods for presenting and accessing digital art. In the process, it addresses how web-based practices challenge certain established museological values and precipitate alternative ways of understand...
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Performing Mourning
Laments in Contemporary Art
2021 || Paperback || Guy Cools || Valiz
‘Each person’s grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in common is that no matter how they grieve, they share a need for their grief to be witnessed.’
David Kessler (2019)
The pandemic has once again made us more aware of the fragility of life and the importance of being able to properly mourn the dead. Dramaturg Guy Cools has been researching laments and other rituals of mourning. He is particularly interested in how the emotions of loss need to be externalized....
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Residences Reimagined
renovation and Expansion
2022 || Hardcover || Images (ACC)
- Forms an important and useful reference for architects, interior designers, and home owners
- Richly illustrated with more than 30 case studies from around the globe
- Provides detailed analysis of the process undergone in each case study
- Includes helpful before and after pictures
An inspiring guide showcasing skillful renovations and adaptions of old homes for the modern lifestyle Renovation continues to be an important and fundamental part of modern architecture, whether it be throu...
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Fearless Females
Mothers, Hunters and Teachers
Hardcover || teNeues || Persell Trading
An infotainment photo book that tells the most exciting, spectacular, or bizarre stories of the female side of the animal kingdom in pictures and text. Text in English and German.
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Rainbow One Line a Day
A Five-Year Memory Book
Address book || Kindah Khalidy || Chronicle Books
The bestselling One Line A Day series has sold over 2 million copies! This new rainbow-coloured One Line A Day is a cheerful and easy way to record and reflect.
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Raveel Ontmoet Ensor (NL/F)
Hardcover || Xavier Tricot || Exhibitions International
Op het eerste gezicht lijken James Ensor (1860-1949) en Roger Raveel (1921-2013), alsook hun werk, totaal van elkaar te verschillen. Niet alleen behoren beide Belgische schilders tot een andere generatie, ook door hun afkomst en milieu onderscheiden ze zich. Doch bij nader toezien kunnen we gemeenschappelijke kenmerken ontdekken. Wat beiden typeert is hun gehechtheid aan hun geboortegrond. Zoals Ensor Oostende niet kon verlaten, zo bleef Raveel zijn gehele leven aan Machelen trouw. Beide schi...
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The Ultimate Kiss
Jacqueline de Jong
2021 || Paperback || Devrim Bayar e.a. || Exhibitions International || met inkijkexemplaar
In dit prachtig geïllustreerde werk werpt een internationaal team van auteurs en curatoren een nieuwe blik op de lange carrière en de wervelende monumentale schilderijen van de Nederlandse kunstenares Jacqueline de Jong.
De Nederlandse avant-garde kunstenares Jacqueline de Jong (geb. 1939) staat vooral bekend om haar deelname aan de Situationist International en om haar wervelende monumentale schilderijen, hoewel ze zich gedurende haar gevarieerde, zes decennia lange carrière ook waagde aa...
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Morten Løbner Espersen
Complex Simplicity; skin deep; deep skin
2021 || Paperback || Glenn Adamson e.a. || nai010 uitgevers publishers
As one of the most successful Danish ceramists of his generation, Morten Lobner Espersen (1965) explores the materials of the discipline – clay and glazes – and their sensuous pleasures in objects of sublime beauty.
As curator and author Glenn Adamson puts it in his essay for this book, Espersen is ‘the rigorous maker and colorist, who has learned his glaze chemistry backwards and forwards. He’s also the intuitive sculptor, finding the form as he makes it, and the elusive dreamer, ...