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American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago

McGoey Elizabeth, Barquist David L., Barter Judith A., Harvey Medill Higgins, Kane Patricia E., Wagner Ann, Ward Gerald W. R., Waters Deborah Dependahl, Wees Beth Carver, Bach Deborah Schmidt

ISBN: HB: 9780300222364, Yale University Press, A+D Series, February 2017
224 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 151 black&white illus., 196 colour illus.

The history of American silver offers invaluable insights into the economic and cultural history of the nation itself. Published here for the first time, the Art Institute of Chicago's superb collection embodies innovation and beauty from the colonia...

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Ireland Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690-1840

Monkhouse Christopher, Laffan William, Fitzpatrick Leslie

ISBN: HB: 9780300210606, Yale University Press, A+D Series, February 2015
224 pp., 28x24.8 cm, 375 colour illus.

This groundbreaking book captures a period in Ireland's history when countless foreign architects, artisans, and artists worked side by side with their native counterparts, forging a uniquely Irish style. Nearly all of the works within this remarkabl...

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History of Art

Strokes of Genius Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection

McCullagh Suzanne Folds, Goldman Jeanette, Schwed Nicolas

ISBN: HB: 9780300207774, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2014
176 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This catalogue presents more than fifty masterful Italian drawings from the 16th and 17th centuries: working drawings, preparatory sketches, and finished compositions that have been added in recent years to the private collection of Jean and Steven G...

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History of Art

What May Come The Taller De Grafica Popular and the Mexican Political Print

Miliotes Diane

ISBN: PB: 9780300207781, Yale University Press, A+D Series, August 2014
40 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 25 colour illus.

Established in Mexico City in 1937, the Taller de Grafica Popular (People's Graphic Arts Workshop) sought to create prints, posters and illustrated publications that were appealing and affordable, legible and politically topical, and above all formal...

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History of Art

Recasting the Past Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago

Manchester Karen, Alexander Karen B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300191912, Yale University Press, A+D Series, March 2013
116 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 85 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

Founded in 1879 as the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago began a tradition of collecting plaster casts of Classical sculpture for display in its galleries and use in its studio art classes. Other original works of art were al...

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Gray Collection Seven Centuries of Master Drawings

McCullagh Suzanne Folds

ISBN: HB: 9780300166262, Yale University Press, A+D Series, August 2010
208 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 180 colour illus.

One of America's foremost art dealers, Richard Gray, and his wife, art historian Mary L. Gray, have amassed an unparalleled collection of paintings, drawings, and sculpture representing seven hundred years and featuring more than 115 dynamic and impo...

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