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Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" and the Art of Invention
ISBN: HB: 9780300207613, Yale University Press, October 2014
224 pp., 25.4x24.1 cm, 135 colour illus.
Samuel F. B. Morse's (1791-1872) large-scale painting Gallery of the Louvre (1831-33) is one of the most significant, and enigmatic, works of early-19th-century American art. It is also one of the last works Morse painted before turning his attention...
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Egon Schiele Portraits
ISBN: HB: 9783791354194, Prestel Publishing, October 2014
296 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 227 colour illus., 72 black&white illus.
This book accompanies a major exhibition devoted to portraits created by Austrian artist Egon Schiele, whose figurative work exhibits intense emotion and technical brilliance. Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth...
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Malevich Writes A Theory of Creativity Cubism to Suprematism
ISBN: HB: 9780946311088, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, October 2014
704 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 115 black&white illus.
Collection of 30 texts, 1915-1928 and 3 facsimiles, some in first English translation, plus Nina Kogan on Cubism and Ilya Chashnik on Suprematism. Chronological sections trace Malevich's analyses of Cubism and Futurism, the Supremus Society of Artist...
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Woman's Eye, Woman's Hand Making Art and Architecture in Modern India
ISBN: HB: 9789381017142, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 78 halftones
Post-independence, a generation of Indian women entered career fields such as architecture and design that had previously been closed to them. These educated professionals emerged as a pronounced political force – becoming important patrons of art, a...
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Support Networks
ISBN: PB: 9780982879856, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones
When artists break boundaries of traditional forms and work outside of institutionalized systems, they often must create new infrastructures to sustain their practices".Support Networks" looks to Chicago's deeply layered history of artists, scholars,...
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Experimenters Chance and Design at Black Mountain College
ISBN: HB: 9780226067988, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
256 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 58 halftones
In the years immediately following World War II, Black Mountain College, an unaccredited school in rural Appalachia, became a vital hub of cultural innovation. Practically every major artistic figure of the mid-twentieth century spent some time there...
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Ink, Paper, Politics WPA-Era Prints from the Needles Collection
ISBN: PB: 9780978907488, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, October 2014
90 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 20 colour plates, 45 halftones
The Works Progress Administration gave federal financial support to a wide range of artistic projects during the Depression, from fiction to fine art. Of all these forms, however, the printmaking supported by the WPA is perhaps the one of most enduri...
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John Singer Sargent Volume 8: Figures and Landscapes, 1908-1913 (The Complete Paintings)
ISBN: HB: 9780300177367, Yale University Press, September 2014
424 pp., 31x24.8 cm, 420 colour images, 58 black&white illus.
After John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) determined to curtail his internationally successful portrait practice, he had more freedom to paint where and what he wanted. Volume VIII of the John Singer Sargent catalogue raisonne transports us to the artist...
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Dutch Painting
ISBN: PB: 9781857095791, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, September 2014
96 pp., 21.5x21 cm, 43 colour illus.
The National Gallery, London is home to a world-renowned collection of Dutch paintings that includes masterpieces by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals, Cuyp and Ruisdael, among many others. Still lifes painted with painstaking attention to detail, sublime lan...
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Silent Partners Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish
ISBN: HB: 9780300208221, Yale University Press, September 2014
304 pp., 28x23 cm, 220 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
The articulated human figure made of wax or wood has been a common tool in artistic practice since the 16th century. Its mobile limbs enable the artist to study anatomical proportion, fix a pose at will, and perfect the depiction of drapery and cloth...
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