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History of Art

Pelican History of Art

Arts of China to AD 900

Watson William

ISBN: PB: 9780300082845, Yale University Press, April 2000
280 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 300 black&white illus., 96 colour illus.

This is a survey of China's wealth of art, architecture and artefacts from prehistoric times to the 20th century. It investigates the beginnings of the traditions on which much of the art rests, moving from Neolithic and Bronze Age China to the era o...

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Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family Volume 5: Autobiography of Charles Willson Peale

Willson Peale Charles, Miller Lillian B., Hart Sidney, Ward David C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300075472, Yale University Press, March 2000
552 pp., 24.5x16.5 cm, 83 black&white illus., 13 colour illus.

This autobiography, written by Peale when he was in his eighties, spans American history from the 1740s to the 1820s, an era in which Peale was a primary actor in many of the young nation's significant cultural and political events. Peale begins by d...

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Chardin

Rosenberg Pierre, Beamish Caroline

ISBN: HB: 9780300083484, Yale University Press, March 2000
360 pp., 31.9x24.3 cm, 35 black&white illus., 127 colour illus.

Widely acknowledged in his time as a premier painter of still-life and genre scenes, Jean-Baptiste-Simion Chardin (1699-1779) created unsentimentalised works that appeal to viewers today for their richness of feeling and simplicity of composition. Th...

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Fragmented Devotion Medieval Objects from the Schnutgen Museum in Cologne

Netzer Nancy, Reinburg Virginia

ISBN: PB: 9781892850010, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, March 2000
150 pp., 27.6x20.1 cm, 15 colour plates, 80 black&white photographs

Medieval art survives today as fragments of larger works, usually displayed by historical period, geographic location, artistic medium, or iconographic theme".Fragmented Devotion" is the first exhibition to explore the meanings these fragments have i...

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Postcards

Walker Evans A Gallery of Postcards

Rosenheim Jeff L.

ISBN: PB: 9780871300607, DAP, Eakins Press Foundation, March 2000
0 pp., 15.2x10.2 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! The eight scrupulously tritone dry-trap printed postcards that make up "A Gallery of Postcards" were originally produced by Walker Evans in 1936 by contact printing sections of his 8 x 10-inch negatives onto the smaller Kod...

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Contemporary Art

Exhibiting Experimental Art in China

Hung Wu

ISBN: PB: 9780935573336, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 2000
224 pp., 28.1x18.6 cm, 111 colour plates, 29 halftones

In his new book, Wu Hung raises timely questions about artistic freedom and censorship. Here, as in the Smart Museum's exhibition "Canceled: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China", Wu uses the government's cancellation of the exhibition It's Me (Beiji...

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Sculptures of the Parthenon Aesthetics and Interpretation

Rossholm Lagerlof Margaretha

ISBN: HB: 9780300073911, Yale University Press, January 2000
212 pp., 21x15 cm, 51 black&white illus., 6 colour illus.

This generously illustrated book provides a complete overview of current knowledge about the sculptures of the Parthenon and suggests new interpretations of the ancient temple's sculptural creations. Margaretha Lagerlof steps back from viewing the fr...

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Decorative Arts

Catalogue Raisonne

Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin With Catalogue Raisonnae

Weber Soros Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300081596, Yale University Press, December 1999
298 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 240 colour plates, 120 black&white illus.

A study of the furniture designs of E. W. Godwin. Taking the form of a catalogue raisonne, it documents and reproduces all known examples of his secular furniture and related furniture designs. It traces the development of his style, examines its sou...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Georgia O'Keeffe

Buhler Lynes Barbara

ISBN: HB: 9780300081763, Yale University Press, November 1999
1198 pp., 31.5x27 cm, 2050 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

Georgia O'Keeffe's magnificent landscape paintings, flower studies, abstract art, and other works are greatly admired, yet the full range of her subjects, her working methods, and her stylistic development have never been accurately explored. This be...

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Legends in Limestone Lazarus, Gislebertus, and the Cathedral of Autun

Seidel Linda

ISBN: HB: 9780226745152, University of Chicago Press, October 1999
200 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 78 halftones, 9 line drawings, 2 maps, 2 tables

Whereas twelfth-century pilgrims flocked to the church of St-Lazare in Autun to visit the relics of its patron saint, present-day pilgrims journey there to admire its superb sculpture, said to have been created by the artist Gislebertus whose name is...

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