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Contemporary Art

Vallye Anna, Derouet Christian, Gough Maria, Liebman Stuart, Papapetros Spyros, Wild Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780300197662, Yale University Press, December 2013
256 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 238 colour images, 11 black&white illus.

With his landmark 1919 painting "The City, Fernand Leger" (1881-1955) inaugurated a vitally experimental decade during which he and others redefined the practice of painting in confrontation with the forms of cultural production that were central to...

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Made in the U.S.A. American Masterworks from The Phillips Collection

Behrends Frank Susan, Rathbone Eliza E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300196153, Yale University Press, December 2013
256 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 143 colour, 92 black&white illus.

American art has been essential to The Phillips Collection since its founding by Duncan Phillips in 1921. Phillips' collecting interests were decidedly against the grain: he acquired the work of living American artists when it was unpopular to do so...

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Art of the American Frontier The Buffalo Bill Center of the West

Mayer Heydt Stephanie, Besaw Mindy A., Hansen Emma I.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197389, Yale University Press, December 2013
160 pp., 25.4x30.5 cm, 320 colour illus.

The visual history of the American West calls to mind iconic artworks and nostalgia for the past. "Art of the American Frontier" presents more than 300 artworks and artefacts from 1830 to 1930, showcasing the premier collections of the Buffalo Bill C...

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Religious Poverty, Visual Riches Art in the Dominican Churches of Central Italy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Cannon Joanna

ISBN: HB: 9780300187656, Yale University Press, December 2013
368 pp., 28x23 cm, 80 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

The Dominican friars of late-medieval Italy were vowed to a life of religious poverty. Yet their churches contained many visual riches, as this groundbreaking study reveals. Works by supreme practitioners – Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto and Simone Martini...

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Collecting Chinese and Japanese Porcelain In Pre-Revolutionary Paris

Castelluccio Stephane

ISBN: HB: 9781606061398, Getty Publications, December 2013
224 pp., 27.7x21.1 cm, 145 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.

This is a revealing look at porcelain collecting in the reign of Louis XIV through the 18th century. This beautifully illustrated volume traces the changing market for Chinese and Japanese porcelain in Paris from the early years of the reign of Louis...

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American West in Bronze, 1850-1925

Tolles Thayer, Smith Thomas B., Clark Carol, Dippie Brian W., Hassrick Peter H., Lemmey Karen, Murphy Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780300197433, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2013
256 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 245 colour images and black&white illus.

"Themes of the American West" have been enduringly popular, and The American West in Bronze features sixty-five iconic bronzes that display a range of subjects, from portrayals of the noble Indian to rough-and-tumble scenes of rowdy cowboys to tribut...

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Contemporary Art

Antonio Berni Juanito and Ramona

Ramirez Mari Carmen, Pacheco Marcelo E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300196481, Yale University Press, December 2013
464 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 270 colour illus.

Argentinian figurative artist Antonio Berni (1905-1981) is known for his aesthetic originality and for art steeped in social commentary. In the 1950s, he inaugurated a series of works that documented the lives of two fictional characters, Juanito Lag...

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Education

Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies Terminology For Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural Works (Updated Edition)

Harping Patricia, Baca Murtha

ISBN: PB: 9781606061503, Getty Publications, December 2013
258 pp., 24x17.8 cm, 68 black&white illus.

This is a practical tool and comprehensive introduction to the use of controlled vocabularies. This authoritative and detailed volume presents readers with a "how-to" guide to building controlled vocabulary tools, cataloguing and indexing cultural ma...

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Kurt Schwitters Space, Image, Exile

Luke Megan R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226085180, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
352 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 22 colour plates, 98 halftones

German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is best known for his pioneering work in fusing collage and abstraction, the two most transformative innovations of twentieth-century art. Considered the father of installation art, Schwitters was also a theo...

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God is Beautiful and Loves Beauty The Object in Islamic Art and Culture

Blair Sheila S., Bloom Jonathan M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300196665, Yale University Press, November 2013
496 pp., 29x23 cm, 400 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

The Islamic world, spanning centuries and far-flung regions, is renowned for its diverse cultural and artistic traditions. This sumptuous book delves into that vast creative output, examining a dozen exquisite objects in the Museum of Islamic Art, in...

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