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Roman in the Provinces Art on the Periphery of Empire
ISBN: PB: 9781892850225, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, August 2014
300 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 75 colour plates, 125 halftones
This beautifully illustrated volume presents new ways of thinking about the concept of "being Roman" – with a particular emphasis on the way people in the provinces and on the periphery of the empire reacted to the state of being a Roman subject. Acc...
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£37,50
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Courbet Mapping Realism
ISBN: PB: 9781892850218, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, October 2013
130 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 35 colour plates, 25 halftones
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French artist whose work heralded the realist movement of the nineteenth century and his paintings have had a profound influence on other artists from around the world, including Claude Monet, James McNeill Whistler,...
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£30,00
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Pamphilj and the Arts Patronage and Consumption in Baroque Rome
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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£34,00
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Mystic Masque Semblance and Reality in Georges Rouault, 1871-1958
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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£60,00
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Pollock Matters
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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£41,50
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New Key Modern Belgian Art from the Simon Collection
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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£37,50
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Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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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£37,50
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GONE Site-Specific Works by Dorothy Cross
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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£26,50
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Eire/Land
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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£36,00
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Cowboys, Indians, and the Big Picture
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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