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Michelangelo Pistoletto From One to Many, 1956-1974

Basualdo Carlos

ISBN: HB: 9780300166163, Yale University Press, November 2010
320 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 100 black&white illus., 130 colour illus.

One of Europe's most influential contemporary artists, Michelangelo Pistoletto (born 1933) has persistently investigated and expanded the role of the spectator in art since the 1950s through painting, sculpture, and performance. His present standing...

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Gauguin's Paradise Remembered The Noa Noa Prints

Wright Alastair, Brown Calvin

ISBN: PB: 9780300149296, Yale University Press, November 2010
136 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 6 black&white illus., 87 colour illus.

In 1891, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) traveled to Tahiti in an effort to live simply and to draw inspiration from what he saw as the island's exotic native culture. Although the artist was disappointed by the rapidly westernizing community he encountered...

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Illuminated Manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands at the J. Paul Getty Museum

Kren Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9781606060148, Getty Publications, November 2010
96 pp., 24x17.1 cm, 85 colour illus.

This is a lavishly illustrated survey of the J. Paul Getty's collection of illuminated manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands. During the Middle Ages, the region now occupied by Belgium and Netherlands flourished economically and artistically....

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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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History of Art

Willem de Kooning The Artist's Materials

Lake Susan F.

ISBN: PB: 9781606060216, Getty Publications, November 2010
112 pp., 25.6x18.9 cm, 34 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

This is the first systematic and truly methodical study of de Kooning's idiosyncratic working methods and use of materials. This in-depth study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Dutch-born American abstract expressionist painter, fro...

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Closer Look Still Life

Langmuir Erika

ISBN: PB: 9781857095005, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 80 colour illus.

What is still life? We are familiar with the objects portrayed but have difficulty explaining the essence of this popular art form. Erika Langmuir examines the special fascination of still life, and what distinguishes it from other categories of pain...

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Decorative Arts

Closer Look Frames

Penny Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9781857094404, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 90 colour illus.

Formerly part of the popular "Pocket Guides" series, "Frames" is published in a new edition as "A Closer Look", with a wealth of beautiful reproductions. This informative guide offers an insight into the various forms of frame housing some of the fin...

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Real Real Thing The Model in the Mirror of Art

Steiner Wendy

ISBN: HB: 9780226772196, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
232 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 50 halftones

Our era is defined by the model. From Victoria's Secret and "America's Next Top Model" to the snapshots we post on Facebook and Twitter, our culture is fixated on the pose, the state of existing simultaneously as artifice and the real thing. In thi...

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Anthropology

Producing Local Color Art Networks in Ethnic Chicago

Grams Diane

ISBN: HB: 9780226305172, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 7 figures, 2 tables, 2 halftones

In big cities, major museums and elite galleries tend to dominate our idea of the art world. But beyond the cultural core ruled by these moneyed institutions and their patrons are vibrant, local communities of artists and art lovers operating beneath...

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