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Italian Paintings in the Norton Simon Museum The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
ISBN: HB: 9780300250497, Yale University Press, January 2021
416 pp., 27.9x24.7 cm, 203 colour illus.
The preeminent collector Norton Simon amassed more than 100 Italian paintings during his 35-year career, and today they stand among the treasures of the Norton Simon Museum. In this catalogue – the first of two volumes devoted to the museum's Italian...
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£60,00
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Impressionism in Russia Dawn of the Avant-Garde
ISBN: HB: 9783791359830, Prestel Publishing, November 2020
264 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 colour illus.
In the late 19th century, numerous Russian artists found inspiration in the style of French Impressionist painters. Often, a journey to Paris acted as a catalyst for their burgeoning interest in the movement. They developed a preference for working e...
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£39,99
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Illuminated World Chronicle Tales from the Late Medieval City
ISBN: HB: 9780300247046, Yale University Press, November 2020
220 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 148 colour illus.
In this innovative study, Nina Rowe examines a curious genre of illustrated book that gained popularity among the newly emergent middle class of late medieval cities. These illuminated World Chronicles, produced in the Bavarian and Austrian regions f...
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£50,00
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Introduction to Art
ISBN: PB: 9780300247138, Yale University Press, March 2020
344 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 250 colour illus.
Charles Harrison's landmark book offers an original, clear, and wide-ranging introduction to the arts of painting and sculpture, to the principal artistic print media, and to the visual arts of modernism and post-modernism. Covering the entire histor...
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£20,00
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Inventing Acadia Painting and Place in Louisiana
ISBN: HB: 9780300247312, Yale University Press, February 2020
250 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 160 colour illus.
With its dense forests and swamps, Louisiana captured the imagination of writers and painters who viewed its landscape as a fascinating, untamed wilderness. Starting in the 1820s when French emigres brought the Barbizon school to New Orleans, the sta...
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£40,00
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In Pursuit of History A Lifetime Collecting Colonial American Art and Artifacts
ISBN: HB: 9780876332931, Yale University Press, January 2020
304 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 215 colour illus.
This book showcases highlights from the Dietrich American Foundation, established in 1963 by H. Richard Dietrich Jr. and focused on 18th-century American fine and decorative arts. Essays explore the formation of the collection and its many areas of s...
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£40,00
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Into the Night Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art
ISBN: HB: 9783791358888, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
344 pp., 30.8x23.4 cm, 400 colour illus.
These creative spaces were incubators of radical thinking, in which artists could exchange provocative ideas. They were welcoming environments for artists, dancers, designers, writers, and musicians pushing the boundaries of cultural and social norms...
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£45,00
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Islamic Art Architecture, Painting, Calligraphy, Ceramics, Glass, Carpets
ISBN: HB: 9783791385662, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
320 pp., 28.7x27 cm, 414 colour and black&white illus.
From its birth in the 7th century through modern times, the Islamic religion has inspired glorious works of art. This stunning book includes more than four hundred reproductions of treasures of Islamic art that span the world: from southern Europe, a...
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£29,99
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Islamic Art Past, Present, Future
ISBN: HB: 9780300243475, Yale University Press, June 2019
360 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 80 colour illus., 170 black&white illus.
"Islamic art" can be a challenging term in an ever-changing art world. Through the exploration of a wide array of media – from painting, sculpture, and photography to video and multimedia – an internationally renowned group of scholars, collectors, a...
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£50,00
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Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
ISBN: HB: 9780876332894, Yale University Press, May 2019
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
Featuring 90 highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's stellar collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, this handsome volume includes iconic works such as Paul Cezanne's "Large Bathers", Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers", Edgar De...
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£25,00
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