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State Hermitage Museum Catalogue British Painting: 16th-19th Centuries

Renne Elizaveta

ISBN: HB: 9780300170467, Yale University Press, April 2011
400 pp., 31x25.7 cm, 650 colour illus.

The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg houses a relatively small but choice collection of 16th- to 19th-century British paintings, among them Thomas Gainsborough's vibrant Portrait of "A Lady in Blue" (c. 1770) and his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds...

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David Smith Invents

Frank Susan Behrends

ISBN: HB: 9780300169652, Yale University Press, April 2011
112 pp., 27.9x19.8 cm, 25 black&white illus., 60 colour illus.

Abstract Expressionist artist David Smith (1906-1965) was one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century, and yet few publications dedicated to his creative output currently exist. "David Smith Invents" is the first book to focus on...

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Symbols of Power in Art

Rapelli Paola, Garnier-Pelle Nicole

ISBN: PB: 9781606060667, Getty Publications, April 2011
384 pp., 20x13.7 cm, 400 colour illus.

This title is a superbly illustrated and insightful guide to the symbols of power in Western art. This latest volume in the acclaimed "Guide to Imagery series" examines the way that sovereign rulers have employed well-defined symbols, attributes and...

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Education

Teaching in the Art Museum Interpretation as Experience

Burnham Rika, Kai-Kee Elliott

ISBN: PB: 9781606060582, Getty Publications, April 2011
136 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 7 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.

This title offers an insightful exploration of the mission, history, theory, practice and future of museum education. At the heart of all good art museum teaching is an effort to bring people and artworks together in meaningful ways. But what constit...

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Kings, Queens, and Courtiers Art in Early Renaissance France

Wolff Martha

ISBN: HB: 9780300170252, Yale University Press, A+D Series, March 2011
208 pp., 31x23.9 cm, 190 colour illus.

This sumptuous catalogue provides an overview of French art circa 1500, a dynamic, transitional period when the country, resurgent after the dislocations of the Hundred Years' War, invaded Italy and all media flourished. What followed was the emergen...

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China on Paper European and Chinese Works From the Late Sixteenth to Early Nineteenth Century

Ree Marcia, Dematte Paola

ISBN: PB: 9781606060681, Getty Publications, February 2011
280 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 35 colour illus., 66 black&white illus.

This title explores the curiosity and collaboration that has existed between East and West for centuries. The striking illustrated books, maps, and prints featured in China on Paper are some of the most notable among the printed works produced at the...

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Encountering Genius Jean-Antoine Houdon's Sculpted Portraits of Benjamin Franklin

Hinton Jack, Meighan Melissa S., Lins Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300141641, Yale University Press, February 2011
100 pp., 27.8x22.4 cm, 18 black&white illus., 85 colour illus.

Benjamin Franklin caused a sensation when he arrived in Paris in December 1776 seeking support for America's struggle for independence: nobles vied to entertain him, and artists scrambled to portray him. Although several artists produced sculpted bus...

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American Experiment George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters

Corbett David Peters

ISBN: PB: 9781857095272, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2011
56 pp., 23.4x19.3 cm, 32 colour illus.

In the first decades of the 20th century, painters of the Ashcan School, a loosely connected group of gritty, urban realists, created images of New York City from street level. Following older artist Robert Henri's insistence that artists should make...

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Romare Bearden, American Modernist

Fine Ruth, Francis Jacqueline

ISBN: HB: 9780300121612, Yale University Press, February 2011
304 pp., 28.7x23.4 cm, 95 black&white illus., 105 colour illus.

Romare Bearden (1911-1988) was a modernist artist renowned for his experimental and socially conscious works. Bearden is best known for his paintings and collages but also made significant contributions to the fields of printmaking, theatrical design...

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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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