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History of Art

Pamphilj and the Arts Patronage and Consumption in Baroque Rome

Leone Stephanie C.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850171, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, July 2011
200 pp., 30.5x21.5 cm, 101 halftones, 15 colour illus.

In September 1644 the election of Pope Innocent X Pamphilj catapulted his family to the height of Roman society. From that moment on, the Pamphilj became active patrons of the arts, which were harnessed as the visual expression of the family's new id...

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History of Art

Mystic Masque Semblance and Reality in Georges Rouault, 1871-1958

Schloesser Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781892850140, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, September 2008
600 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, 200 colour and halftone plates

In the fifty years since Georges Rouault's death, his paintings have fallen from the heights of popularity in the 1940s and 50s to the depths of neglect in recent years. The publication of "Mystic Masque", which accompanies an exhibition of the same...

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History of Art

Pollock Matters

Landau Ellen G., Cernuschi Claude

ISBN: PB: 9781892850133, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, November 2007
178 pp., 28x28 cm, 282 colour plates

Legendary abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is most famous for the frenetic, highly textured works created through his trademark "drip" technique in which he poured paint from its can directly onto the canvas".Pollock Matters...

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History of Art

New Key Modern Belgian Art from the Simon Collection

Howe Jeffery W.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850126, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, February 2007
233 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 53 colour plates, 81 halftones

The Simon Collection, housed in London and France, is the finest assemblage of modern Belgian art outside Belgium. Accompanying an exhibition held at Boston College's McMullen Museum, "A New Key" presents fifty-three works never before displayed in N...

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History of Art

Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Netzer Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781892850102, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, June 2006
300 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 135 colour plates, 27 halftones

A major contribution to the study of medieval and Renaissance art, "Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century" studies nearly 100 works from the vast collections of the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in an effort to determine the m...

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Contemporary Art

GONE Site-Specific Works by Dorothy Cross

Lydenberg Robin

ISBN: PB: 9781892850096, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, April 2005
120 pp., 25.6x20.7 cm, 123 colour plates, 3 halftones

Over the past few decades, site-specific art has evolved into an international phenomenon, drawing viewers to installations in familiar public arenas as well as remote and unusual places. Irish artist Dorothy Cross has emerged as one of the form's mo...

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History of Art

Eire/Land

Kreilkamp Vera

ISBN: PB: 9781892850058, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, May 2003
225 pp., 26.7x24.2 cm, 100 colour plates

From its earliest history, Ireland has been contested land, claimed by waves of invaders, each attempting to inscribe and possess the island territory. The eire/Land exhibition, to be held at the McMullen Museum from February to May 2003, is the firs...

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History of Art

Cowboys, Indians, and the Big Picture

Fryer Heather

ISBN: PB: 9781892850041, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, October 2002
113 pp., 25.7x25.7 cm

The American West has had an enormous influence on the nation's imagination, including its fine art. From the Western Realists – as epitomized by the Cowboy Artists of America's mission to produce "authentic representations of life in the West" – to...

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History of Art

Edvard Munch Psyche, Symbol and Expression

Howe Jeffery W.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850027, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, June 2001
168 pp., 24.8x21.8 cm, 125 halftones, 24 colour plates

"My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are?" – Edvard Munch Published in conjunction with a major exhibit at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College,"Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expression" includes nine essays fr...

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Fragmented Devotion Medieval Objects from the Schnutgen Museum in Cologne

Netzer Nancy, Reinburg Virginia

ISBN: PB: 9781892850010, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, March 2000
150 pp., 27.6x20.1 cm, 15 colour plates, 80 black&white photographs

Medieval art survives today as fragments of larger works, usually displayed by historical period, geographic location, artistic medium, or iconographic theme".Fragmented Devotion" is the first exhibition to explore the meanings these fragments have i...

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