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Closer Look Conservation of Paintings

Bomford David, Dunkerton Jill, Wyld Martin

ISBN: PB: 9781857094411, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, August 2009
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 90 colour illus.

"A Closer Look" is the new series title for the updated and refreshed National Gallery Pocket Guide range. The series has been enhanced with a stronger format, attractive design, new photography, and additional information. The philosophy of modern...

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Closer Look Colour

Bomford David, Roy Ashok

ISBN: PB: 9781857094428, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, August 2009
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 90 colour illus.

"A Closer Look" is the new series title for the updated and refreshed National Gallery Pocket Guide range. The series has been enhanced with a stronger format, attractive design, new photography, and additional information. It is self-evident that...

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Call of the Coast Art Colonies of New England

Denenberg Thomas Andrew, Kurtz Lansing Amy

ISBN: PB: 9780300151626, Yale University Press, June 2009
128 pp., 26x22.6 cm, 100 colour illus.

The early twentieth century brought renewed focus upon the image of the coast and witnessed the formation of art colonies in Old Lyme, Connecticut, and Ogunquit and Monhegan, Maine. These creative communities became an inspiration for artists and art...

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Craftsman Revealed Adriaen De Vries, Sculptor in Bronze

Bassett Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780892369195, Getty Publications, September 2008
352 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 100 colour illus., 220 black&white illus.

Dutch sculptor Adriaen de Vries (1556-1626) spent much of his life working for the most discerning royal courts of the age, including that of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. A master of composition and technique, De Vries was relatively unkno...

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Collected Writings on Velazquez

Brown Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780300144932, Yale University Press, August 2008
410 pp., 25.4x18.5 cm, 170 colour illus.

In this stimulating book, a leading authority on the Spanish master Diego Velazquez discusses this enigmatic artist and explores the mysteries presented by his paintings. The essays collected here, written over the course of Jonathan Brown's distingu...

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Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe

Penny Nicholas, Schmidt Eike D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300121605, Yale University Press, May 2008
512 pp., 28x23 cm, 383 black&white illus., 56 colour illus.

Among the precursors of today's public museums, perhaps the most important are collections of sculpture formed in the early modern era by royal families, aristocratic amateurs, and artists. In this, the first book to survey the practice of collecting...

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Carmontelle's Landscape Transparencies Cinema of the Enlightenment

Brancion Laurence de

ISBN: HB: 9780892369096, Getty Publications, April 2008
144 pp., 25.4x23.7 cm, 134 colour illus.

Louis de Carmontelle was an eighteenth-century French draftsman, painter, and garden designer. In 1783, he began painting a series of panoramas on translucent paper that, when cranked through a backlit viewing box gave viewers the experience of journ...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Carroll Dunham Prints

Kemmerer Alison N., DeRose Elizabeth C., Dunham Carroll

ISBN: HB: 9780300121650, Yale University Press, April 2008
320 pp., 28.6x22.9 cm, 300 colour illus.

Widely known for his vibrant paintings that employ a variety of styles – including abstraction, figuration, pop, and cartoon – Carroll Dunham (b. 1949) is also one of the most prolific printmakers of his generation. An integral part of the artistic p...

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Chinese Calligraphy

Wang Youfen, Ouyang Zhongshi, Fong Wen C., Cao Baolin, Cong Wenjun, Huang Dun, Wang Jingxian, Wang Shizheng, Wang Yuchi, Ye Peigui

ISBN: HB: 9780300121070, Yale University Press, October 2007
520 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 550 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

Chinese calligraphy, with its artistic as well as utilitarian values, has been treasured for its formal beauty for more than three millennia. This lavishly illustrated book brings to English language readers for the first time a full account of calli...

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Coming of Age American Art, 1850s to 1950s

Agee William C., Faxon Susan C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300115239, Yale University Press, August 2006
136 pp., 29.9x24.9 cm, 78 colour images, 7 black&white illus.

From the 1850s to the 1950s, American art and culture progressed from provincial status to international prominence, and American art developed from figurative depictions of the particular to abstract interpretations of universal ideals. This beautif...

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