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Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism

Schwabsky, Barry · D.A.P.
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From fantastical worlds to political topologies: a global survey of landscape painting in the 21st centuryAlthough the fact may be surprising to some, landscape painting is positively thriving in the 21st century -- indeed, the genre has arguably never felt as vital as it does today. The reasons...
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Hitler's Last Hostages: Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich

Mary M. Lane · PublicAffairs
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Adolf Hitler's obsession with art not only fueled his vision of a purified Nazi state--it was the core of his fascist ideology. Its aftermath lives on to this day.Nazism ascended by brute force and by cultural tyranny. Weimar Germany was a society in turmoil, and Hitler's rise was achieved...
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Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.

Van Pelt, Robert Jan · Abbeville Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

This book tells a story to shake the conscience of the world. It is the catalogue of the first-ever traveling exhibition about the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people -- mostly Jews, but also non-Jewish Poles, Roma, and others -- lost their lives. More than 280 objects...
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