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African Royal Court Art
ISBN: HB: 9780226115757, University of Chicago Press, December 1998
189 pp., 28.7x22.4 cm, 52 colour plates, 102 halftones, 2 maps
In this visually stunning work, anthropologist Michele Coquet presents the power and the brilliance of African court arts. Grounding her analysis in the social and historical context of traditional royalty systems, Coquet examines the diverse roles p...
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£41,50
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Manet's Modernism or, The Face of Painting in the 1860s
ISBN: PB: 9780226262178, University of Chicago Press, November 1998
676 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 16 colour plates, 201 halftones
"Manet's Modernism" is the culminating work in a trilogy of books by Michael Fried exploring the roots and genesis of pictorial modernism. Fried provides an entirely new understanding not only of the art of Manet and his generation but also of the wa...
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£56,50
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Art Forms in Nature Prints of Ernst Haekel
ISBN: PB: 9783791319902, Prestel Publishing, September 1998
140 pp., 31x24 cm, 100 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, continue to influence artists and designers to this day. This attractive volume highlights the research and findings of this outstanding natural sc...
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£16,99
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Mark Rothko The Works on Canvas
ISBN: HB: 9780300074895, Yale University Press, August 1998
708 pp., 29.2x29.2 cm, 875 colour illus., 75 black&white illus.
This extraordinary book is the first volume of the definitive catalogue raisonne of the work of Mark Rothko, one of the greatest abstract artists of the twentieth century. It documents Rothko's entire output of paintings on canvas and panel, reproduc...
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£190,00
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Struggle for Utopia Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946
ISBN: PB: 9780226505169, University of Chicago Press, June 1998
276 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 107 halftones
Following World War I, a new artistic-social avant-garde emerged with the ambition to engage the artist in the building of social life. Through close readings of the works of Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy whose careers cov...
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£25,50
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Art and Objecthood Essays and Reviews
ISBN: PB: 9780226263199, University of Chicago Press, April 1998
352 pp., 22.5x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 72 halftones
Much acclaimed and highly controversial, Michael Fried's art criticism defines the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. This volume contains twenty-seven pieces, including the influential introduction to the catalog for "Three American Pain...
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£31,00
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Still More Distant Journeys The Artistic Emigrations of Lasar Segall
ISBN: PB: 9780935573190, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 1998
284 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 137 colour plates, 168 halftones
The first major retrospective of the work of Lasar Segall, this catalog explores the artist's changing cultural and artistic identities as demonstrated in over 224. Segall was an influential artist who infused Brazilian modernism with the color, ps...
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£30,00
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150 Years of American Painting, 1794-1944
ISBN: HB: 9780842523189, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, January 1998
196 pp., 31.4x23.5 cm, 73 colour plates, 18 halftones
This lavishly illustrated catalog accompanies the first exhibition from the permanent collection at Brigham Young University's Museum of Art. The book highlights seventy-three of the finest American paintings from that collection, including works by...
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£40,00
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Guerrero Viejo
ISBN: HB: 9780965526807, University of Chicago Press, January 1998
100 pp., 29.7x24 cm, 49 halftones
Celebrated as a triumphant collaboration between the American and Mexican governments, the damming of the Rio Grande in the early 1950s was expected to prove highly beneficial to the valley inhabitants of both countries. The success of this project,...
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£36,00
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Arts Club of Chicago The Collection 1916-1996
ISBN: PB: 9780964344037, University of Chicago Press, January 1998
136 pp., 29.7x23.4 cm, 31 colour plates, 44 halftones
Founded in 1916, the "Arts Club of Chicago" has long been committed to innovation in the visual and performing arts. Through the years, important commissions, purchases, and gifts from artists and patrons have formed an impressive collection of moder...
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£19,00
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