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History of Art

From Court to Caravan Chinese Tomb Sculptures from the Collection of Anthony M. Solomon

Bower Virginia L., Mowry Robert D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300096965, Yale University Press, November 2002
160 pp., 19.6x28 cm, 10 black&white illus., 90 colour illus.

During the Han (206 BC-AD 220) and Tang (AD 618-907) dynasties, terra cotta sculptures were placed in elaborate tombs to protect and to serve the spirit of the deceased. These fascinating sculptures took the form of soldiers, courtiers, musicians, me...

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Future Present

Farrelly Liz, Skeens Nick

ISBN: HB: 9781861541468, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2002
204 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, full-colour illus.

This volume documents a selection of items from the "Millennium Products" chosen by the UK's Design Council as a showcase of ground-breaking work by Britain's leading designers, inventors, manufacturers and retailers. These products exemplify fantast...

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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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History of Art

Flesh and the Ideal Winkelmann and the Origins of Art History

Potts Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780300087369, Yale University Press, October 2000
302 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 43 illus.

A biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 18th-century German philosopher and aesthetician. Analyzing Winckelmann's magnum opus, "History of the Art of Antiquity", it explains the fundamental importance to art history of this account of the aestheti...

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History of Art

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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History of Art

French Art at the Hermitage Bouguereau to Matisse 1860-1950

Kostenevich Albert

ISBN: HB: 9781861541369, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, September 1999
472 pp., 29.8x26 cm

A comprehensive survey of the Hermitage Museum's collection of French art from 1860 to 1950. This collection comprises paintings, sculptures and drawings by many significant artists of this period, as well as works by early Salon artists who were hig...

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History of Art

Fine Arts in America

Taylor Joshua C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226791517, University of Chicago Press, February 1981
280 pp., 21.5x18.7 cm, 250 halftones

Contents: Series Editor's Preface Author's Preface Introduction 1670-1776 Beginnings 1776-1860 Art and the New Republic The Art of Recording America Europe and the Great Tradition The Identification of Art with America The Persistence of...

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