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History of Art

Pelican History of Art

Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880-1940

Heard Hamilton George

ISBN: PB: 9780300056495, Yale University Press, October 1993
610 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 75 colour plates, 232 black&white illus.

Traces the origins and growth of modern art, assessing the intrinsic qualities of individual works and describing the social forces in play. The book covers various areas including works of Impressionism, Cubism, Constructivism and Surrealism.

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Tekstura Russian Essays on Visual Culture

Efimova Alla, Manovich Lev

ISBN: PB: 9780226951249, ISBN: HB: 9780226951232, University of Chicago Press, October 1993
264 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 15 halftones, 3 line drawings, 2 figures

Fascinated by the myth of the Russian avant-garde and scornful of official art, the West has been selective in its engagement with Russian visual culture. Yet how do contemporary Russian scholars and critics themselves approach the history of visual...

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Architecture

Art and Architecture in Italy, 1250-1400

White John

ISBN: PB: 9780300055856, Yale University Press, May 1993
684 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 306 black&white illus., 75 colour illus.

The 14th century in Italian art is a very rich one, and Professor White's book gives architecture equal weight with painting and sculpture. The story of the Gothic style and the prehistory of the Renaissance is given: all the facts are related, but a...

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Color Harmonies

Garau Augusto

ISBN: PB: 9780226281964, University of Chicago Press, May 1993
100 pp., 20.5x20.5 cm, 10 halftones, 40 colour plates

Because theories of visual perception have traditionally concentrated on form, artists have generally dealt with the problem of color through their own observation and intuition. In "Color Harmonies", Augusto Garau systematically investigates the rol...

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Artist, His Model, Her Image, His Gaze Picasso's Pursuit of the Model

Kleinfelder Karen L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226439839, University of Chicago Press, April 1993
273 pp., 24.7x23.3 cm, 154 halftones

Although Pablo Picasso's name is virtually synonymous with modernity, his late graphics repeatedly turn back to the traditional theme of the artist and model. Had the aging artist turned reactionary, or is Picasso's treatment of the theme more subver...

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Canvases and Careers Institutional Change in the French Painting World

White Harrison C., White Cynthia A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226894874, University of Chicago Press, March 1993
198 pp., 21.9x14.2 cm, 13 halftones

In the nineteenth century, the Academie des Beaux Arts, and institution of central importance to the artistic life of France for over two hundred years, yielded much of its power to the present system of art distribution, which is dependent upon crit...

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History of Art

Pelican History of Art

Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700-89

Levey Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300053449, Yale University Press, February 1993
332 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 225 black&white illus., 75 colour illus.

During the last years of France's ancien regime, an outpouring of creative activity and patronage resulted in the production of many works of painting and sculpture. In this book, Michael Levey discusses the major painters and sculptors of this perio...

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