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Hannes Wettstein Seeking Archetypes

Haemmerli Thomas, Kung Max

ISBN: HB: 9783037782651, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2011
292 pp., 29x23 cm, 662 illus.

We sit on them, write with them, ride them, listen to music through them, and live inside them. The furniture, product, and interior designs of Swiss designer Hannes Wettstein, who died in 2008, have left their mark on everyday life and shaped contem...

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History of Art

Hokusai Mountains and Water, Flowers and Birds

Forrer Matthi

ISBN: PB: 9783791346144, Prestel Publishing, September 2011
96 pp., 27x18.5 cm, 50 colour illus.

Now available again, this delightful selection of prints depicting nineteenth century Japan's natural beauty is a colorful introduction to the country's most beloved artist. The Japanese artist Hokusai spent the second half of his life sketching and...

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History of Art

House Paints, 1900-1960 History and Use

Standeven Harriet A. L.

ISBN: PB: 9781606060674, Getty Publications, May 2011
176 pp., 27.9x20.1 cm, 11 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.

This title provides an extensive and comprehensive examination of the history and use of modern house paints. The versatility of modern commercial house paints has ensured their use in a broad range of applications, including the protection and decor...

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History of Art

Art Flexi-Series

Hiroshige Prints and Drawings

Forrer Matthi

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791345406, Prestel Publishing, April 2011
256 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 200 colour illus.

This highly regarded survey of the works of a master of Japanese printmaking is now available in a convenient and attractively priced flexi edition. Utagawa Hiroshige holds an assured place in the history of art as one of the greatest and best-loved...

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Posters

Health for Sale Posters from the H. Helfand Collection

Helfand William H., Ittmann John, Howe Shoemaker Innis

ISBN: PB: 9780300171174, Yale University Press, April 2011
60 pp., 27.2x20.3 cm, 5 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

Since the late 1960s, William H. Helfand has donated more than 1,000 posters, prints, and ephemera to the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Ars Medica Collection, the world's only collection of medical prints housed in an art museum. This fascinating volu...

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History of Art

Hogarth's Marriage A-la-Mode

Egerton Judy

ISBN: HB + DVD: 9781857095104, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2011
80 pp., 19.6x18.4 cm, 11 black&white illus., 34 colour illus.

Directing his pointed wit at the upper echelons of 18th-century British society, William Hogarth, a painter, printmaker, and social critic, mocked the politics and customs of his day. His series of satirical paintings and engravings, which still abso...

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History of Art

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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History of Art

Hidden in the Shadow of the Master The Model-Wives of Cezanne, Monet, and Rodin

Butler Ruth

ISBN: PB: 9780300164503, Yale University Press, May 2010
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 59 black&white illus.

Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, and Auguste Rodin – The names of these brilliant nineteenth-century artists are known throughout the world. But what is remembered of their wives? What were these unknown women like? What roles did they play in the lives a...

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History of Art

Hogarth to Turner British Painting

Govier Louise

ISBN: PB: 9781857094879, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, May 2010
72 pp., 28x23 cm, 80 colour illus.

Innovation is at the heart of the National Gallery's British collection. William Hogarth developed a fascinating new form of satirical narrative painting; George Stubbs turned horse painting into an epic art form; and, Joseph Wright captured the dram...

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Contemporary Art

Harry Smith The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular

Perchuk Andrew, Singh Rani

ISBN: PB: 9780892367351, Getty Publications, March 2010
296 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 39 colour illus., 53 black&white illus.

This title presents a superbly illustrated and insightful examination of the life and works of Harry Smith, one of America's most significant post-war creative talents. Filmmaker, musicologist, painter, ethnographer, graphic designer, mystic, and col...

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