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Joys of Collecting

Getty J. Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781606060872, Getty Publications, September 2011
80 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 15 black&white illus.

This title offers an insightful and revealing personal account of one man's consuming passion for collecting. In 1965, shortly after founding his namesake museum in Malibu, California, J. Paul Getty penned reminiscence about "the romance and zest – t...

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John Marin Modernism at Midcentury

Bricker Balken Debra

ISBN: HB: 9780300149937, Yale University Press, June 2011
128 pp., 25x15 cm, 9 black&white illus., 75 colour illus.

Since his early work was first embraced by Alfred Stieglitz, John Marin (1870-1953) has been recognized as one of America's foremost watercolourists. During the last two decades of Marin's career, however, oil painting played a greater role in his st...

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Jean Fouquet and the Invention of France Art and Nation after the Hundred Years War

Inglis Erik

ISBN: HB: 9780300134438, Yale University Press, May 2011
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 180 black&white illus., 60 colour illus.

Jean Fouquet was France's most important fifteenth-century artist, painting for the courts of Charles VII and Louis XI. His art synthesized the realistic style of Flemish artists like van Eyck with the monumentality of Florentines like Masaccio. Fouq...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Johan Zoffany 1733-1810

Webster Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780300162783, Yale University Press, May 2011
416 pp., 29.8x25.8 cm, 175 black&white illus., 180 colour illus.

Universally recognised as a brilliant and gifted eighteenth-century artist, Zoffany was regarded by Horace Walpole as one of the three greatest painters in England, along with his friends Reynolds and Gainsborough. He has remained without a detailed...

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John La Farge's Second Paradise Voyages in the South Seas, 1890-1891

Hodermarsky Elisabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300141351, Yale University Press, October 2010
240 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 170 colour illus.

In 1890, John La Farge (1835-1910) and his close friend, historian Henry Adams, embarked on a journey to the islands of the South Pacific, where the artist experienced a period of great creative output. This book showcases many of the most important...

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J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Antiquities Collection

Lapatin Kenneth, Wight Karol

ISBN: PB: 9780892369980, Getty Publications, July 2010
264 pp., 24.5x14.3 cm, 200 colour illus., 12 black&white illus.

This is a stunningly illustrated examination of nearly two-hundred of the most important pieces in the J. Paul Getty Museum's Antiquities Collection. The antiquities collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles contains more than fifty thous...

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John Brett, Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter

Payne Christiana

ISBN: HB: 9780300165753, Yale University Press, June 2010
256 pp., 28x22 cm, 150 black&white illus., 120 colour illus.

Drawing on a wealth of unpublished sketchbooks, journals and writings, this essential guide to John Brett (1831-1902) investigates the painter who was seen as the leader of the Pre-Raphaelite landscape school. As well as the familiar early works, inc...

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John Singer Sargent Volume 6: Venetian Figures and Landscapes, 1898-1913 (The Complete Paintings)

Ormond Richard, Kilmurray Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780300141405, Yale University Press, March 2009
272 pp., 31x24.8 cm, 256 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.

Throughout his career – and particularly in the period from 1898 to 1913 – John Singer Sargent painted the spectacular architecture and scenes of everyday life in Venice, as he sat alongside the Grand Canal or in a gondola in the sleepy side canals....

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John Talman An Early Eighteenth-Century Connoisseur

Sicca Cinzia Maria, Baker Christopher, Borgioli Cristina, Connor Bulman Louisa M., Capitanio Antonella, Collareta Marco, Davidson Peter, Freddolini Francisco, Giometti Cristiano, Harris John

ISBN: HB: 9780300123357, Yale University Press, February 2009
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 108 colour illus.

This handsome book is the only full-length study of John Talman (1677-1726), the first director of the Society of Antiquaries and one of the most influential collectors of drawings in early 18th-century Britain. Prominent scholars discuss the history...

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Jan Lievens A Dutch Master Rediscovered

Wheelock Arthur K., DeWitt Lloyd, Dickey Stephanie S., Gifford Melanie, Rubinstein Greg

ISBN: HB: 9780300142136, Yale University Press, September 2008
352 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 230 colour images, 76 black&white illus.

Jan Lievens (1607-1674) was one of the most fascinating and enigmatic Dutch artists of the seventeenth century. Daring and innovative as a painter, printmaker, and draftsman, he created powerful character studies, genre scenes, landscapes, formal por...

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