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Edward Hopper Portraits of America

Schmied Wieland

ISBN: PB: 9783791346137, Prestel Publishing, September 2011
128 pp., 27x18.5 cm, 27 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.

Now available again, this book is a penetrating exploration of the American realist painter Edward Hopper, who was able to capture the many moods of the nation he called home. From his images of deserted small towns and solitary figures in empty off...

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Empire to Nation Art, History and the Visualization of Maritime Britain, 1768-1829

Geoff Quilley

ISBN: HB: 9780300175684, Yale University Press, August 2011
304 pp., 26.4x19.3 cm, 40 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

"Empire to Nation" offers a new consideration of the image of the sea in British visual culture during a critical period for both the rise of the visual arts in Britain and the expansion of the nation's imperial power. It argues that maritime imagery...

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Architecture

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Eighteenth Century Church in Britain

Friedman Terry

ISBN: HB: 9780300159080, Yale University Press, April 2011
496 pp., 28.6x23 cm, 520 black&white illus., 185 colour illus.

This ambitious and generously illustrated study is an in-depth account of the architectural character of a vast range of ecclesiastical buildings, including the Anglican parish churches, medieval cathedrals repaired and modified during the period, Di...

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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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Egon Schiele Self-Portraits and Portraits

Weidinger Alfred

ISBN: HB: 9783791351094, Prestel Publishing, February 2011
264 pp., 32x24 cm, 247 colour illus., 34 black&white illus.

This fascinating new book explores how Egon Schiele reinvented the art of portraiture, brilliantly capturing the inner lives of his numerous subjects – including himself. This book traces Schiele's development as a portraitist through four principal...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Echoes of the Past The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtansgshan

Tsiang Katherine R.

ISBN: PB: 9780935573503, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2010
257 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 3 charts, 3 tables, 1 map, 160 colour illus.

Carved into the mountains of northern China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan were the crowning cultural achievement of the sixth-century Northern Qi dynasty. Once home to a magnificent array of limestone sculptures, the caves were heavily...

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Edwardian Sense Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901-1910

O'Neill Morna, Hatt Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300163353, Yale University Press, July 2010
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 90 black&white illus.

Although numerous studies have explored the Edwardian period (1901-1910) as one of political and social change, this innovative book is the first to explore how art, design, and performance not only registered those changes but helped to precipitate...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Empire Without End Antiquities Collections in Renaissance Rome c.1350-1527

Christian Kathleen Wren

ISBN: HB: 9780300154214, Yale University Press, June 2010
288 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 220 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

In the early fifteenth century, when Romans discovered ancient marble sculptures and inscriptions in the ruins, they often melted them into mortar. A hundred years later, however, antique marbles had assumed their familiar role as works of art displa...

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History of Art

El Greco to Goya Spanish Painting

Carr Dawson W.

ISBN: PB: 9781857094602, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2009
72 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 80 colour illus.

This book presents highlights of the National Gallery's outstanding collection of Spanish painting from the 15th to the 19th century – considered one of the finest outside of Spain. Haunting works by El Greco introduce the Golden Age of the 17th cen...

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Endless Forms Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts

Donald Diana, Munro Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780300148268, Yale University Press, February 2009
288 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 150 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Charles Darwin has had a profound influence on the fields of biology and natural history. But his ideas also imbued the work of many nineteenth-century artists. The slow process of evolution by "natural selection", the dynamic interplay of life forms...

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