New Art Books
Compiled by Raymond J. Steiner
ART TIMES Fall 2015
ABBEVILLE PRESS: The Art of the Pastel
by Thea Burns & Philippe Saunier.337 pp.; 9 5/8" x 12 ¼"; 337 Color Illus.; Technical Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Artists. $95.00 Hardcover. *****
The New Art of the Fifteenth Century by Shirley Neilson Blum.314 pp.; 10 ¼" x 12 ¼"; 182 Color Illus.; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index. $85.00 Hardcover. *****
Art & Science (2nd Edition) by Eliane Strosberg.256 pp.; 8" x 10"; 265 B/W & Color Illus,; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Subjects. $34.95 Softcover. ****
Treasures of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2nd Edition Tiny Folio) by Adam Tessier. 335 pp.; 4 ¼" x 4 ½"; 280 Color Illus.; Index of Artists & Works. $12.95 Hardcover. *****
D GILES LTD: Nineteenth-Century Art Highlights from the Tanenbaum Collection at The Art Gallery of Hamilton by Alison McQueen. 168 pp.; 9 ½" x 11"; 83 Color Illus.; List of Artists. $59.95 Hardcover *****
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS: Irby Brown: Southwest Landscape Paintings by Richard Brunson. 200 pp.; 13" x 10 ¼"; 116 Color Illus.; Appendix; Notes; Works Cited; About the Author. $50.00 Hardcover. *****
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS: Edna Andrade
(Ed.) Debra Bricker Balken. 176 pp.; 10" x 12 ¼"; 170 Color Illus.; Bibliography; List of Works; Index. $49.95 Hardcover ****
Framing Fraktur: Pennsylvania German Material Culture and Contemporary Art (Ed.) Judith Tannenbaum. 104 pp.; 8" x 10"; 110 Color Illus.; Checklist. $39.95 Hardcover. ***
DUNDURN TORONTO: Inner Places: The Life of David Milne by James King. 392 pp.; 6 ¼:" x 9 1/4:"; 110 B/W & Color Illus,; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index. $45.00 Hardcover*****
WOODSTOCK ARTS: Living Large: Wilna Hervey and Nan Mason by Joseph P. Eckhardt. 200 pp.; 8 3/8" x 10 ¼"; B/W & Color Illus.; Endnotes; List of Illustrations; Index. $39.50 Hardcover*****
PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS: Inside the Artist's Studio by Joe Fig. 256pp.; 7" x 9 ½"; 25 B/W Photos; About the Artists. $35.00 Softcover ****
DK PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE: Art a Visual History
by Robert Cumming. 416 pp.; 7 7/8" x 9 ½"; Color Illus.; Glossary; Index. $30.00 Hardcover/Slipcased. *****
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE: Freehand Figure Drawing for Illustrators: Mastering the Art of Drawing from Memory: by David H. Ross. 208 pp.; 8 ½" x 10 7/8"; 300 B/ Illus.; Index. $22.99 Softcover *****
BASIC BOOKS: Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century by Jed Rasula. 384 pp.; 6 ½" x 9 ½"; B/W Illus.; Notes; Bibliographic Sources; Index. $29.99 Hardcover ***
THE OVERLOOK PRESS: Netsuke: 100 Miniature Masterpieces from Japan by Noriko Tsuchiya. 224 pp.; 7 ½" x 7½"; 240 Color Illus.; Further Reading; Index. $24.95 Hardcover. *****
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