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History of Art

Enduring Bronze Ancient Art, Modern Views

Mattusch Carol C.

ISBN: PB: 9781606063262, Getty Publications, July 2014
272 pp., 21.7x16.6 cm, 99 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.

This is a revealing consideration of ancient bronzes from their halcyon days in antiquity to their allure today. Ancient bronze statuary provides a sense of immediacy, a window directly back to the classical world. The wistful expression of a young R...

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Contemporary Art

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El Lissitzky The Experience of Totality

ISBN: HB: 9788415691532, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, July 2014
226 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, illus.

This is a fascinating and sumptuously illustrated overview of the work of El Lissitzky, one of the 20th-century's most influential and experimental artists. Eliezer (Lazar) Markovich Lissitzky, El Lissitzky (1890-1941) was one of the most experimenta...

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Exhibiting Englishness John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and the Formation of a National Aesthetic

Dias Rosie

ISBN: HB: 9780300196689, Yale University Press, August 2013
288 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 50 colour images, 95 black&white illus.

In the late 18th century, as a wave of English nationalism swept the country, the printseller John Boydell set out to create an ambitious exhibition space, one devoted to promoting and fostering a distinctly English style of history painting. With it...

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Etruscan Art In the Metropolitan Museum of Art

De Puma Richard Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780300179538, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2013
368 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 450 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

This informative and engaging book on the Museum's outstanding collection of Etruscan art also provides an introduction to the fascinating and diverse culture of ancient Etruria, which thrived in central Italy from about 900 to 100 B.C. Masterpieces...

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Edwardian Opulence British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Trumble Angus, Wolk Rager Andrea, Albinson A. Cassandra, Barringer Tim, Fletcher Pamela M., Hart Imogen, Mansfield Elizabeth C., Nemerov Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300190250, Yale University Press, March 2013
420 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 350 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

Views of the Edwardian era have swung between seeing the period as a golden summer afternoon of imperial and elite complacency and the starkly conflicting depiction of the decade as one of intense political, economic, and artistic instability leading...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

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Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture

Neer Richard T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226570648, ISBN: HB: 9780226570631, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 10 colour illus., 130 halftones, 12 line illus.

In the fifth century B. C. E, an artistic revolution occurred in Greece, as sculptors developed new ways of representing bodies, movement, and space. The resulting "Classical" style would prove influential for centuries and millennia to come. Modern...

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Eye on a Century Modern and Contemporary Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery

Chaffee Cathleen, Alcauskas Katherine D., Canonico Amy, Jaffee Frank Robin, Gross Jennifer R., Josten Jennifer, Luke Megan R., Orgeman Keely, Orr Emily M., Rich Sarah K.

ISBN: PB: 9780300184945, Yale University Press, January 2013
256 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 140 colour illus.

"Eye on a Century" celebrates a cornerstone of the Yale University Art Gallery's holdings: the Charles B. Benenson Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art. This major bequest includes works by a veritable pantheon of modern and contemporary artists...

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History of Art

Eakins Masterpiece Restored Seeing "The Gross Clinic" Anew

Foster Kathleen A., Tucker Mark, Conn Steven, Schreiner Mark S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300179798, Yale University Press, July 2012
144 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 100 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) is acknowledged as one of the preeminent American painters of the 19th century. As a young artist in 1875 he prepared a monumental painting for the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia of Dr. Samuel D. Gross of Jefferson Me...

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Europe

English Prize The Capture of the Westmorland, an Episode of the Grand Tour

Sanchez-Jauregu Alpanes Maria Dolores, Wilcox Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780300176056, Yale University Press, May 2012
400 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 350 colour illus.

Laden with works of art acquired by young British travellers on the Grand Tour in Italy, the British merchant ship Westmorland sailed from the Italian port of Livorno before being captured by French naval vessels and escorted to Malaga in southern Sp...

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Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence, Volume 2 Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana

Katcher Jane, Schorsch David A., Wolfe Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780300175806, Yale University Press, November 2011
432 pp., 27.9x26.7 cm, 470 colour illus.

This handsome book, the second volume of selections from "The Jane Katcher Collection", presents a superlative group of American folk and decorative arts created primarily in New England, New York, and Pennsylvania in the 18th and 19th centuries. It...

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