WHAT WE'RE READING**Arts & Music
Wendy Phillips
"Material Man"
by Giannino Malossi
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0810927098/wendysmall09
"Material Man" is Fashion Engineering Unit Giannino Malossi's
edited collection of articles and photo-essays, developing a
snapshot of the changing shape of masculinity within the
increasingly powerful fashion system. Malossi and others assess
the value added to "fashion products through the processes of
design, communications and style".
"The Oxford History of Western Art"
by Martin Kemp
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198600127/wendysmall09
Art historian Professor Martin Kemp and his team have undertaken
a monumental task to produce "The Oxford History of Western Art".
The volume groups this huge and complex genre into five phases
from the art of Classical Antiquity, from c.600 BC to the fall
of Rome in AD 410, through to Modernism and after, 1914 to 2000.
"Art Nouveau"
By Paul Greenhalgh
Publication date: March 31, 2000
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1851772774/wendysmall09
April sees the opening of a glittering retrospective on that
turn-of-the 20th-century sensation, Art Nouveau. Paul
Greenhalgh's accompanying, beautifully illustrated book, covers
all the important designers of this innovative period, which
transformed European and American art forms in the early 1900s.
Wendy
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