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French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums

Clark Alvin L., Kopp Edouard

ISBN: HB: 9780300250916, Yale University Press, November 2020
400 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 350 colour and black&white illus.

The Harvard Art Museums house one of the most significant collections of works on paper in North America. Among its many strengths are sheets by draftsmen of the French School, including notable masters such as Simon Vouet, Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Po...

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Francois Morellet

Gross Beatrice, Hoban Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300245691, Yale University Press, November 2019
248 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 90 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

This in-depth exploration of celebrated French artist Francois Morellet (1926-2016) showcases his diverse oeuvre, famous for infusing systematic and rigorous experimentation with humor and playfulness. Morellet's interest in kinetic and optical effec...

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Art Conservation

Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History Volume 4: Series, Multiples, Replicas

Barbour Daphne S., Quillen Lomax Suzanne

ISBN: PB: 9780300247619, Yale University Press, November 2019
288 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 246 colour illus.

Volume 4 of the National Gallery of Art's biennial conservation research journal Facture examines the complex themes of series, multiples, and replicas. With a broad historical purview that spans from the Renaissance to the 20th century, this publica...

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Fernand Khnopff

Draguet Michel

ISBN: HB: 9780300246506, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2019
304 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 210 colour illus.

In this beautifully illustrated book, Michel Draguet, an internationally recognized authority on fin-de-siecle art, offers an enlightening examination of the life and art of Belgian Symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921). Khnopff achieved wide...

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Flower Power

Phillips Catherine, Stretsova Helena

ISBN: HB: 9785912083631, Prestel Publishing, Arca, May 2019
224 pp., 15.2x11.4 cm, colour illus.

This elegant gift edition pays tribute to the symbolic and allegorical language of flowers by placing flower portraits , manuscripts and botanical atlases alongside myths, legends and poetry from around the world. Devoted to flowers, the book is beau...

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For America Paintings from the National Academy of Design

McCarthy Jeremiah William, Thompson Diana, Rather Susan, Spear Elizabeth, Haltman Kenneth, Reason Akela, Greenhill Jennifer, Shahi Kimia, Walz Jonathan F., Nemerov Alexander, Wilson Alona C., Hills Patricia, Earnest Jarrett

ISBN: PB: 9780300244281, Yale University Press, April 2019
304 pp., 27.9x21 cm, 200 colour illus.

This stunning book provides an unprecedented glimpse into the past two centuries of American art, tracing artistic tradition and innovation at the National Academy of Design from its 19th-century founding to the present. The nation's oldest artist ho...

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Frame Work Honour and Ornament in Italian Renaissance Art

Wright Alison

ISBN: HB: 9780300238846, Yale University Press, March 2019
352 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 220 colour illus.

"My husband Jan finished me on 17 June 1439... My age was 33 years". So speaks Margaret van Eyck from the frame of her portrait. This painted inscription honors its maker Jan van Eyck, even as it blurs the distinction between living subject and paint...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 3 (1927-1939)

Camfield William A., Pierre Arnauld, Clements Candace, Calte Beverley

ISBN: HB: 9780300243727, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2019
464 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 525 colour illus.

This third volume in a planned four-volume catalogue raisonne of works by the French avant-garde artist Francis Picabia (1879-1953) includes paintings and selected drawings dating from mid-1927 through 1939. Innovative collage-paintings and flamboyan...

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French Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art From the Early Eighteenth Century through the Revolution

Baetjer Katharine

ISBN: HB: 9781588396617, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2019
384 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 429 colour illus.

This authoritative book surveys the remarkable collection of 18th-century French paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the context of the institutions that governed the visual arts in the 1700s – the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculptu...

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Franz Marc and August Macke, 1909-1914

Endicott Barnett Vivian

ISBN: HB: 9783791358291, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
208 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 159 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.

During the five years Franz Marc and August Macke knew each other, the two men carried on an artistic and personal friendship that had an immense impact on each of their careers. This book traces their relationship and features meticulously reproduce...

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