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History of Art

Malevich Writes A Theory of Creativity Cubism to Suprematism

Railing Patricia

ISBN: HB: 9780946311088, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, October 2014
704 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 115 black&white illus.

Collection of 30 texts, 1915-1928 and 3 facsimiles, some in first English translation, plus Nina Kogan on Cubism and Ilya Chashnik on Suprematism. Chronological sections trace Malevich's analyses of Cubism and Futurism, the Supremus Society of Artist...

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Matisse's Sculpture The Pinup and the Primitive

McBreen Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780300171037, Yale University Press, September 2014
288 pp., 28x23 cm, 50 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Long perceived as a side pursuit to his celebrated painting career, Henri Matisse's sculpture receives an overdue critical examination in this book. Beginning in 1906, soon after the artist acquired his first African sculpture, Matisse found inspirat...

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Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology, Volume 2

Centeno Silvia A., Kennedy Nora, Manuels Marijn, Schorsch Deborah, Stone Richard E., Sun Zhixin Jason, Wypyski Mark T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300204391, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2014
256 pp., 27.3x22.9 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

This second volume of "Studies in Art, Science, and Technology" unites studies by scientists, curators and conservators, all of which are published here for the first time. Essays and technical notes address a variety of themes, such as connections b...

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Mythology of Plants Botanical Lore from Ancient Greece and Rome

Giesecke Annette

ISBN: HB: 9781606063217, Getty Publications, April 2014
144 pp., 22.3x17.1 cm, 47 colour illus.

This is a fascinating exploration of the role of the botanical in ancient Greek and Roman myth and classical literature. This engaging book focuses on the perennially fascinating topic of plants in Greek and Roman myth. The author, an authority on th...

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Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 48, 2013

Baetjer Katharine, Jones Julie, Mankin Kornhauser Elizabeth, Syson Luke

ISBN: PB: 9780226156804, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
412 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Metropolitan Museum Journal", issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, published original research on works in the Museum's collections and the areas of investigation they represent. Volume 48 includes essays on "From Tarporley to Dolo...

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Made in the U.S.A. American Masterworks from The Phillips Collection

Behrends Frank Susan, Rathbone Eliza E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300196153, Yale University Press, December 2013
256 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 143 colour, 92 black&white illus.

American art has been essential to The Phillips Collection since its founding by Duncan Phillips in 1921. Phillips' collecting interests were decidedly against the grain: he acquired the work of living American artists when it was unpopular to do so...

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Miraculous Image in Renaissance Florence

Holmes Megan

ISBN: HB: 9780300176605, Yale University Press, September 2013
400 pp., 28x22 cm, 80 colour images, 170 black&white illus.

In Renaissance Florence, certain paintings and sculptures of the Virgin Mary and Christ were believed to have extraordinary efficacy in activating potent sacred intercession. Cults sprung up around these "miraculous images" in the city and surroundin...

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Malevich Paints The Seeing Eye

Railing Patricia

ISBN: HB: 9780946311217, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, September 2013
352 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 138 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.

This is the first study to investigate the sources of the creative processes in the painting of Kazimir Malevich, from Neo-Primitivism to Suprematism, 1911-1920. These sources are found in 19th century scientific investigations into optics, especiall...

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Making of Assisi The Pope, the Franciscans and the Painting of the Basilica

Cooper Donal, Robson Janet

ISBN: HB: 9780300195712, Yale University Press, August 2013
288 pp., 28x23 cm, 60 colour images, 134 black&white illus.

For a brief moment at the close of the 13th century, the town of Assisi was the focus for the two greatest powers in the Latin Church: the Roman papacy and the Franciscan Order. The election in 1288 of Nicholas IV, the first Franciscan pope, was the...

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Biography & Memoires

My Dear Mr. Hopper

Thompson Colleary Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300181487, Yale University Press, July 2013
96 pp., 23.2x19.7 cm, 20 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

Edward Hopper (1882-1967), long recognized as the premier 20th-century American realist painter, was famously introverted and reclusive. He rarely spoke about his personal life, and his close friends were few and love interests fewer. Until now, ther...

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