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American Pre-Raphaelites Radical Realists

Ferber Linda S., Anderson Nancy K., Barringer Tim, Dayer Gallati Barbara, Lynford Sophie, Mitchell Mark, Simon Janice, Waggoner Diane

ISBN: HB: 9780300242522, Yale University Press, April 2019
312 pp., 26x23.5 cm, 210 colour illus.

Bringing together insights from a distinguished group of scholars, this beautiful book analyzes the history and historiography of the American Pre-Raphaelites, and how the movement made its way from England to America. Led by Thomas Charles Farrer –...

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Contemporary Art

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Afterall Spring/Summer 2019, Issue 47

Bilbao Ana, Meta Bauer Ute, Esche Charles, Stankievech Charles, Kreuger Anders, Morris David, Rujoiu Anca

ISBN: PB: 9781846382024, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
175 pp., 29.8x19 cm

Launched in 1999, "Afterall" is a journal of contemporary art that offers in-depth analysis of artists' work, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Its academic format differentiates it from popular review magazines. I...

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Ancient World

Art of the Hellenistic Kingdoms From Pergamon to Rome

Hemingway Sean, Karoglou Kiki

ISBN: PB: 9781588396587, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2019
256 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

Authored by internationally renowned scholars, the 20 essays written for this volume explore topics ranging from the influence of Hellenistic art in the ancient Roman world to the ongoing excavations at Pergamon. All aspects of Hellenistic art are di...

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Art, Faith and Medicine in Tintoretto's

Klestinec Cynthia, Matino Gabriele

ISBN: PB: 9788831729475, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2019
136 pp., 24.1x15.8 cm, 71 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Bodies in ecstasy, bodies in tortuous pain, bodies devoid of life and bodies rising to the afterlife: the subject of the human is central to the work Tintoretto (1519-1994) accomplished at the Scuola Grande di San Marco, ho...

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Art of China Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Kinoshita Hiromi, Huang Xiaofeng, Li Diandian, Vollmer John E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300237108, Yale University Press, November 2018
256 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 250 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

This sumptuous presentation of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's wide-ranging collection of Chinese art features one hundred works in various media spanning antiquity to the present day – including Ming gold vessels, a 15th-century Buddhist temple cei...

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Arthur Osver

Miller Angela

ISBN: HB: 9780936316444, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, November 2018
224 pp., 29.7x24.6 cm, 120 colour plates

The first monograph on the work of the American painter Arthur Osver (1912-2006), this publication explores Osver's entire oeuvre, from early urban realism to decades of engagement with abstraction. His long and productive career took him from Chicag...

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Art of Native America The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection

Torrence Gaylord, Blackhawk Ned, Yount Sylvia

ISBN: HB: 9781588396624, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2018
272 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

This landmark publication presents Native American art within the broader context of American art history, through an examination of notable works from a major private collection. The insightful texts provide a new evaluation of the art, culture, and...

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Alexander von Humboldt The Complete Drawings from the American Travel Diaries

Ette Ottmar, Maier Julia

ISBN: HB: 9783791383545, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
736 pp., 34x24 cm, 600 colour illus.

This stunning volume delves into the extraordinary illustrated notebooks of Alexander von Humboldt's journeys through the Americas, which reveal the graphic musings of an intrepid explorer, a writer and philosopher, and the father of the environmenta...

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History of Art

Afterall Autumn/Winter 2018, Issue 46

Bilbao Ana, Meta Bauer Ute, Esche Charles, Stankievech Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781846381973, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm

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Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence

Nethersole Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780300233513, Yale University Press, June 2018
320 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 233 colour and black&white illus.

This study is the first to examine the relationship between art and violence in 15th-century Florence, exposing the underbelly of a period more often celebrated for enlightened and progressive ideas. Renaissance Florentines were constantly subjected...

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