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Masters of Art Turner

Crepaldi Gabriele

ISBN: PB: 9783791346212, Prestel Publishing, September 2011
160 pp., 21x17 cm, 80 colour illus.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Turner makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. Perhaps the best-loved English romantic painter, Turner became known as "the painter of light". The use of...

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Masters of Art Botticelli

Poletti Frederico

ISBN: PB: 9783791346182, Prestel Publishing, September 2011
160 pp., 21x17 cm, 80 colour illus.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Botticelli makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. The Florentine painter Botticelli personifies the Golden Age of the early Renaissance. Best known for T...

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Masters of Art Rembrandt

Zuffi Stefano

ISBN: PB: 9783791346205, Prestel Publishing, September 2011
160 pp., 21x17 cm, 80 colour illus.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Rembrandt makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. Celebrated for his penetrating portraits, richly detailed landscapes, and evocative narrative paintings,...

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Modern Japanese Art and the Meiji State The Politics of Beauty

Doshin Sato

ISBN: HB: 9781606060599, Getty Publications, July 2011
416 pp., 27.4x19.7 cm, 17 colour illus., 31 black&white illus.

This is an insightful and intelligent re-thinking of Japanese art history and its Western influences. This broad-ranging and profoundly influential analysis describes how Western art institutions and vocabulary were transplanted to Japan in the late...

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Matisse Radical Invention, 1913-1917

Elderfield John

ISBN: PB: 9780300177244, Yale University Press, July 2011
368 pp., 32.4x24.8 cm, 515 colour images, 138 black&white illus.

The works that Henri Matisse (1869-1954) executed between late 1913 and 1917 are among his most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic. Often sharply composed, heavily reworked, and dominated by the colours black and grey, these compositions are rigo...

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Maine Moderns Art in Seguinland, 1900-1940

Bischof Libby, Danly Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300169485, Yale University Press, June 2011
160 pp., 26.5x22.3 cm, 41 black&white illus., 48 colour illus.

Between 1900 and 1940, a group of modernist artists gathered regularly on the coast of Maine in a region then known as Seguinland. For photographer Paul Strand, painter Marsden Hartley, sculptor Gaston Lachaise, and others, it was a way to escape mar...

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Masterpieces Restored

Ella Giulio Manieri

ISBN: HB: 9788831798112, DAP, Marsilio Editori, November 2010
300 pp., 29.8x24.8 cm, 188 colour illus., 43 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Extraordinary works of art by major Venetian masters seen for the first time in all their restored splendor. This book presents a number of wonderful art masterpieces housed at the Accademia Galleries in Venice and recently...

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Medicine in Art

Bordin Giorgio, D'Ambrosio Laura Polo

ISBN: PB: 9781606060445, Getty Publications, September 2010
384 pp., 19.9x13.7 cm, 400 colour illus.

This is the latest volume in the acclaimed series that depicts medicine as depicted in art throughout history. This sumptuously illustrated volume offers a visual history of the depiction of illness and healing in Western culture, ranging from Egypti...

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Monet and His Muse Camille Monet in the Artist's Life

Gedo Mary Mathews

ISBN: HB: 9780226284804, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
272 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 50 colour plates, 1 line drawing, 73 halftones

For Claude Monet (1840-1926), the founder of French Impressionist painting, these words are a fitting testament to his lifelong relationship with the female muse, most notably – and most hauntingly – with his first wife, the model Camille Doncieux....

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Meet Rembrandt Life and Work of the Master Painter

Schwartz Gary

ISBN: PB: 9789086890576, Yale University Press, August 2010
112 pp., 21.2x14.8 cm, 85 illus.

Rembrandt was a painter and draftsman of undisputed genius, but what was he like as a person? The mystery of the moody and inspired Rembrandt continues to fascinate. Gary Schwartz tells the story of Rembrandt the man, artist, and legend in lively and...

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