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Contemporary Art

Guide to Chicago's Murals

Lackritz Gray Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226305998, University of Chicago Press, April 2001
520 pp., 19.7x15.6 cm, 204 colour plates, 35 halftones

Chicago is a city known for its fabulous architecture and public sculpture by artists such as Picasso and Calder, but anyone who has seen the gorgeous lunettes in the Auditorium Theater or the South Side's Wall of Respect, which inaugurated the city'...

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History of Art

Farewell to an Idea Episodes from a History of Modernism

Clark T. J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300089103, Yale University Press, March 2001
464 pp., 27.5x19.5 cm, 210 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.

In this intense and far-reaching book, acclaimed art historian T. J. Clark offers a new vision of the art of the past two centuries, focusing on moments when art responded directly in extreme terms to the ongoing disaster called "modernity". Modernis...

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American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 2: Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Between 1865 and 1885

Hassler Donna J., Marter Joan M., Tolles Thayer, Thompson Jerry L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300088472, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2001
350 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 182 black&white illus., 18 colour illus.

This is the second volume of a two-volume set that records the distinguished collection of late-nineteenth- and early-twentiety-century American sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book presents nearly two hundred works by seventy sculpt...

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History of Art

Transforming Images The Art of Silver Horn and His Successors

Donnelley Robert G., Greene Candace S., Berlo Janet Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9780935573312, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, March 2001
216 pp., 30.5x24.9 cm, 75 colour plates, 15 black&white photographs

Silver Horn's lifespan (1860-1940) placed him in the midst of extreme cultural transformations: by the time of his death, highways, silos, and gas stations dominated the land that had, at his birth, been the domain of buffalo herds and Plains Indians...

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American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 1: Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1865

Hassler Donna J., Marter Joan M., Tolles Thayer, Thompson Jerry L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300085174, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2001
480 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 198 black&white illus., 29 colour illus.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a distinguished and comprehensive collection of late nineteenth-century American sculpture, particularly strong in neoclassical and Beaux Arts works and acclaimed for its preeminent group of lifesize statues in marb...

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Contemporary Art

Joe Brainard I Remember

Padgett Ron

ISBN: PB: 9781887123488, DAP, Granary Books, February 2001
192 pp., 17.1x12.1 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! This volume offers the most comprehensive overview in print – and the first substantial English-language monograph in decades – on the great 17th-century Spanish painter Zurbaran. It spans his entire career, from his earlie...

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Posters

Design

Poster Collection 01 Revue 1926

ISBN: PB: 9783907078525, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2001
65 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 91 illus.

A cross-section of a year chosen at random, the poster collection casts its net in its own archive and presents posters from Paris, London, Moscow, New York, Zurich or Milan. They all have only one thing in common: the year in which they were produce...

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History of Art

Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Reynolds Joshua, Ingamells John, Edgcumbe John

ISBN: HB: 9780300087338, Yale University Press, December 2000
318 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 illus.

A collection of letters by Sir Joshua Reynolds. It is the first edition to be published since 1929, and since that date the number of known letters has almost doubled. This volume contains 308 letters by the artist to friends, family and patrons, all...

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History of Art

Eye on the Modern Century Selected Letters of Henry McBride

Watson Steven, Morris Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780300083262, Yale University Press, December 2000
374 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 illus.

Henry McBride (1867-1962) became a towering figure in art criticism during a long career that began in 1913 – the year of the famous Armory Show in New York that opened American eyes to avant-garde developments in European art – and continued until t...

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Design

Vaughan Oliver Visceral Pleasures

Poynor Rick

ISBN: HB: 9781861540720, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2000
224 pp., 30.5x23.1 cm, full-colour illus.

Vaughan Oliver is an influential member of the small group that changed the face of British graphics in the 1980s. Designed by Oliver himself, and written by Rick Poynor, this book illustrates the his intensely visual and emotive work in detail for t...

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