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History of Art

Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery

Boorsch Suzanne, Marciari John, Bensoussan Nicole, Clark Alvin L., Greenberg Susan, Hadley Margaret E., Hodermarsky Lisa, Hoisington Rena, Leja Jan, Munhall Edgar

ISBN: HB: 9780300114331, Yale University Press, October 2006
320 pp., 31.1x23.7 cm, 114 colour images, 116 black&white illus.

This beautiful and important book highlights the collection of European drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery, one of America's premier university museums. From intimate studies to exquisite finished compositions, this selection of works docume...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Modern West American Landscapes, 1890-1950

Neff Emily Ballew, Lopez Barry

ISBN: HB: 9780300114485, Yale University Press, October 2006
352 pp., 31.2x25.7 cm, 200 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

Drawing extensively from various disciplines including ethnology, geography, geology, and environmental studies, this groundbreaking book addresses shifting concepts of time, history, and landscape in relation to the work of pioneering American artis...

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Literary Criticism

History of Art

Mieke Bal Reader

Bal Mieke

ISBN: PB: 9780226035857, ISBN: HB: 9780226035840, University of Chicago Press, May 2006
496 pp., 23x15 cm, 40 halftones, 2 tables

Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched, from Old Testament scholarship and narratology to critical methods and visual culture. This brilliant and controversial intellectual invariably performs a high-wire act at the poi...

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History of Art

Making a Prince's Museum Drawings for the Late-Eighteenth-Century Redecoration of the Villa Borghese

Paul Carole, Campitelli Alberta

ISBN: PB: 9780892365395, Getty Publications, March 2006
180 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 13 colour illus., 59 black&white illus.

A discussion of the designs by Antonio Asprucci for the redecoration of the Borghese Palace as a semi-public museum. The author shows that the new designs not only created a unified space for the Count's extensive collection of Greek and Roman antiqu...

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History of Art

Making up the Rococo Francois Boucher and his Critics

Hyde Melissa

ISBN: PB: 9780892367436, Getty Publications, March 2006
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 18 black&white illus., 53 colour illus.

In 1761, Denis Diderot ascribed the fabulous success enjoyed by Francois Boucher (1703-1770) to "the libertinage, the brilliancy, the pompons, the bosoms and bottoms" that proliferated in the artist's canvases. For while Boucher's art charmed nouveau...

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History of Art

Masaccio Saint Andrew and the Pisa Altarpiece

Rowlands Eliot W.

ISBN: PB: 9780892362868, Getty Publications, March 2006
128 pp., 23.5x19 cm, 29 colour illus., 47 black&white illus.

Ranked by many scholars as the greatest master of early Italian Renaissance painting, Masaccio (1401-1428) was the first artist to use effects of light to create three-dimensional images on a two-dimensional plane. This achievement, revolutionary in...

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History of Art

Masterpieces of Painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum

ISBN: PB: 9780892367108, Getty Publications, March 2006
128 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 80 colour illus.

The J. Paul Getty Museum's paintings collection continues to grow in breadth and quality, and since the last edition of Masterpieces important acquisitions have been made in works ranging from the 14th to the end of the 19th century. This new edition...

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History of Art

Museum, Inc. Inside the Global Art World

Werner Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780976147510, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2006
88 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

Has corporate business overtaken the art world? It's no secret that art and business have always mixed, but their relationship today sparks more questions than ever".Museum, Inc". describes the new art conglomerates from an insider's perspective, pro...

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History of Art

Men at Work Art and Labour in Mid-Victorian Britain

Barringer Tim

ISBN: HB: 9780300103809, Yale University Press, January 2005
392 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 33 colour images, 113 black&white illus.

For artists of the increasingly mechanized Victorian age, questions about the meaning and value of labour presented a series of urgent problems: Is work a moral obligation or a religious duty? Must labour be the preserve of men alone? Does the amount...

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History of Art

Masterworks of the Jewish Museum

Berger Maurice, Rosenbaum Joan

ISBN: HB: 9780300102925, Yale University Press, May 2004
272 pp., 23x26.3 cm, 25 black&white illus., 175 colour illus.

Yale University Press is pleased to announce a new exclusive publishing agreement with The Jewish Museum. This beautifully illustrated book explores the culture, history, and beliefs of the Jewish people by presenting an extraordinary selection of wo...

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