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Fernand Khnopff Portrait of Jeanne Kefer

Draguet Michel

ISBN: PB: 9780892367306, Getty Publications, March 2006
120 pp., 23.5x18.5 cm, 28 black&white illus., 52 colour illus.

The Belgian artist, illustrator, sculptor, and photographer "Fernand Khnopff" (1858-1921) became a popular society portraitist in the 1880s, using elements that had served him well as an avant-garde symbolist painter: visual realism and a mood of sil...

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Contemporary Art

History of the Surrealist Movement

Durozoi Gerard

ISBN: PB: 9780226174129, University of Chicago Press, December 2005
816 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 232 colour plates, 777 halftones

From Dada to the Automatists, and from Max Ernst to Andre Breton, Gerard Durozoi here provides the most comprehensive history of the Surrealist movement. Tracing the movement from its origins in the 1920s to its decline in the 1950s and 1960s, Durozo...

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Contemporary Art

Sebastian's Arrows Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca

Dali Salvador, Lorca Federico Garcia

ISBN: HB: 9780967880884, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, February 2005
248 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 24 colour plates

"Let us agree", Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, "that one of man's most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian". "In my 'Saint Sebastian' I remember you", Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had j...

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Painting the Word Christian Pictures and Their Meanings

Drury John

ISBN: PB: 9780300092943, Yale University Press, February 2002
210 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 30 black&white illus., 70 colour illus.

In this volume John Drury brings his knowledge and experience as both priest and biblical scholar to Christian paintings and presents them to us afresh. He shows how the images in works by artists from Duccio to Velazquez have a universal quality tha...

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History of Art

Transforming Images The Art of Silver Horn and His Successors

Donnelley Robert G., Greene Candace S., Berlo Janet Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9780935573312, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, March 2001
216 pp., 30.5x24.9 cm, 75 colour plates, 15 black&white photographs

Silver Horn's lifespan (1860-1940) placed him in the midst of extreme cultural transformations: by the time of his death, highways, silos, and gas stations dominated the land that had, at his birth, been the domain of buffalo herds and Plains Indians...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Copper into Gold Prints by John Raphael Smith (1752-1812)

D'Oench Ellen G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300076301, Yale University Press, April 1999
300 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 200 illus.

A highly important figure in the late eighteenth-century British art world, John Raphael Smith was the most robust and prolific printmaker of his time. Smith not only produced nearly 400 prints – about 130 of his own design and the others by such not...

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Still More Distant Journeys The Artistic Emigrations of Lasar Segall

D'Alessandro Stephanie

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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Judgment of Paris

Damisch Hubert

ISBN: PB: 9780226135120, ISBN: HB: 9780226135106, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
396 pp., 22.9x15.3 cm, 116 halftones

Drawing on Freudian theories of sexuality and Kant's conception of the beautiful, French art historian Hubert Damisch considers artists as diverse as Raphael, Picasso, Watteau, and Manet to demonstrate that beauty has always been connected to ideas o...

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Pelican History of Art

Pictorial Art of the West, 800-1200

Dodwell C. R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300064933, Yale University Press, October 1995
470 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 325 black&white illus., 75 colour illus.

Aims to provide a comprehensive guide to all forms of pictorial art – from wall and panel paintings to stained glass windows, mosaics and embroidery – and sets them against the historical and theological influences of the age. This study covers the p...

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