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Legacy The Emily Fisher Landau Collection

Miller Dana

ISBN: HB: 9780300171082, Yale University Press, April 2011
448 pp., 31.8x25.4 cm, 392 colour illus.

In May 2010, New York philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau promised 370 works by more than 85 artists to the Whitney Museum of American Art. This handsome volume highlights each of the artists in the gift, including Carl Andre, Jasper Johns, Willem de...

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Children's Books

Great Wave A Children's Book Inspired by Hokusai

Massenot Veronique

ISBN: HB: 9783791370583, Prestel Publishing, March 2011
32 pp., 32x24 cm, 32 colour illus.

Hokusai's classic woodcut of a majestic wave becomes the starting point for a storybook children will want to read again and again. On a stormy winter's day, a baby boy, Naoki, is swept into a fisherman's boat by a great wave. Years pass, but still...

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Journey on a Cloud A Children's Book Inspired by Marc Chagall

Massenot Veronique

ISBN: HB: 9783791370576, Prestel Publishing, March 2011
32 pp., 32x24 cm, 32 colour illus.

One of artist Marc Chagall's most enduring paintings is the basis for this beautifully crafted children's book that tells an enchanting story. This book tells the story of the postman Zephyr, who lives in a little blue village in the mountains where...

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Contemporary Art

Gerhard Richter Early Work, 1951-1972

Mehring Christine, Nugent Jeanne, Seydl Jon

ISBN: HB: 9781606060407, Getty Publications, February 2011
176 pp., 26.1x19.7 cm, 14 colour illus., 67 black&white illus.

This title takes an illuminating look at the unique work and artistic vision of Gerhard Richter. Born in Dresden in 1932, Gerhard Richter was first educated under the prevailing doctrine of Socialist Realism, but retrained after emigrating to West Ge...

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History of Art

George Inness in Italy

Mitchell Mark D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300171167, Yale University Press, February 2011
60 pp., 27.8x20.4 cm, 10 black&white illus., 35 colour illus.

A canonical figure in American painting, George Inness (1825-1894) is widely admired as the pioneer of the landscape aesthetic known as Tonalism, which is distinguished by soft focus and diaphanous layers of paint. This is the first book about the ar...

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History of Art

Afterall Autumn/Winter 2010, Issue 25

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Lafuente Pablo, Roelstraete Dieter

ISBN: PB: 9781846380693, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 100 colour plates

"Afterall" is a journal of art, context, and inquiry that offers in-depth consideration of the work of contemporary artists from around the world, along with essays that set the work in a broader context. Articles on art history and critical theory a...

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History of Art

How to Read Greek Vases

Mertens Joan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300155235, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2010
112 pp., 30x23.5 cm, 75 black&white illus., 100 colour illus.

How is it possible today to gain insight into the culture that flourished in ancient Greece over 2,500 years ago? Works of art are eloquent intermediaries. This generously illustrated volume provides an introduction to the painted pottery that served...

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Imagining the Past in France History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500

Morrison Elizabeth, Hedeman Anne D.

ISBN: PB: 9781606060292, ISBN: HB: 9781606060285, Getty Publications, November 2010
384 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 194 colour illus., 1 map

This beautiful volume examines the most important illuminations found in French history manuscripts. From around the mid 13th to the end of the 16th century, the most important and original work being done in secular illumination was unquestionably i...

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Eva Hesse Spectres 1960

McKinnon E. Luanne

ISBN: HB: 9780300164152, Yale University Press, October 2010
130 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 30 colour illus.

In 1960 Eva Hesse (1936-1970) created an unusual group of oil paintings that, when considered in contrast to her sculptural assemblages from 1965 to 1970, foretell her desire to embody emotional states in abstract form. Contrary to existing scholarsh...

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Petah Coyne Everything That Rises Must Converge

Markonish Denise

ISBN: PB: 9780300167702, Yale University Press, September 2010
144 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 64 colour illus.

Unlike many contemporary artists who focus on social or media-related issues, Petah Coyne (b. 1953) imbues her work with a magical quality to evoke intensely personal associations. Her sculptures convey an inherent tension between vulnerability and a...

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