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Decorative Arts

Brilliant Effects A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewellery

Pointon Marcia R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300142785, Yale University Press, January 2010
368 pp., 29x24.5 cm, 150 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Diamonds are not for ever – nor necessarily are they a girl's best friend. Ranging from precious stones as raw wealth to the symbolic properties of gems whether in Antiquity and the Bible or in Victorian art and literature, this book examines how sma...

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History of Art

British Paintings in Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875

Baetjer Katharine

ISBN: HB: 9780300155099, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2010
512 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 215 black&white illus., 140 colour illus.

This is the first comprehensive publication on English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish paintings and pastels by artists born before 1841 in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ranging in date from the late 16th through the third quarter of...

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Fashion

American Beauty Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion

Mears Patricia

ISBN: HB: 9780300155358, Yale University Press, January 2010
192 pp., 30x23.5 cm, 120 colour illus.

This beautifully illustrated book is the first to examine the relationship between innovation and aesthetics as expressed by American couturiers and fashion designers from the late 1910s to the present day. The book, which accompanies a major exhibit...

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History of Art

Closer Look Saints

Langmuir Erika

ISBN: PB: 9781857094657, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 90 colour illus.

Drawing on the National Gallery's comprehensive collection of religious images, "A Closer Look: Saints" explains the importance of saints and their role in the history of European painting. Erika Langmuir underlines the fundamental importance of sai...

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History of Art

Closer Look Faces

Sturgis Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9781857094640, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 100 colour illus.

Faces are everywhere in the National Gallery's collection: in portraits and narrative scenes, in allegories and paintings of everyday life. It is often the faces shown that communicate most directly in a picture; their expressions may reveal the dram...

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History of Art

On Curating Interviews with Ten International Curators

Thea Carolee

ISBN: PB: 9781935202004, DAP, January 2010
144 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 50 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "On Curating", Carolee Thea's second volume of interviews with ten of today's leading curators, explores the intellectual convictions and personal visions that lay the groundwork for the most prestigious and influential exh...

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Photography

Circus Girl

Rae Nola

ISBN: HB: 9781906497330, Seagull Books, January 2010
146 pp., 23.9x23.6 cm, 79 halftones

Circuses provide surreal, fantastic entertainment. At times magical and at others chilling, the circus is a world of magic and spectacle for the viewer, but for the performer, a career in the circus often brings with it a nomadic, lonely life. In "Ci...

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