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Societe Anonyme Modernism for America
ISBN: HB: 9780300109214, Yale University Press, May 2006
280 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 302 colour images, 62 black&white illus.
This beautifully illustrated book highlights the unique history of the Societe Anonyme, Inc., an organisation founded in 1920 by the artists Katherine S. Dreier (1877-1952), Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), and Man Ray (1890-1976). As America's first 'exp...
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£50,00
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Picasso Architecture and Vertigo
ISBN: HB: 9780300104127, Yale University Press, February 2006
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 60 colour images, 60 black&white illus.
The starting point of this exciting new exploration of Picasso is not his life but his work, which is revealed as a series of interventions in the troubled history of early twentieth-century Europe. Christopher Green shows how these interventions are...
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Five Operas and a Symphony Words and Music in Russian Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780300106503, Yale University Press, October 2005
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 88 musical examples
In this eagerly anticipated book, Boris Gasparov gazes through the lens of music to find an unusual perspective on Russian cultural and literary history. He discusses six major works in Russian music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing...
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£44,00
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Architecture and Society in Normandy, 1120-1270
ISBN: HB: 9780300106862, Yale University Press, May 2005
256 pp., 28x22 cm, 220 black&white illus.
This wide-ranging book explores the architecture, principally ecclesiastical, of Normandy from 1120 to 1270, a period of profound social, cultural, and political change. In 1204, control of the duchy of Normandy passed from the hands of the Anglo-Nor...
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£45,00
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Constructed Abstract Art in England After the Second World War A Neglected Avant Garde
ISBN: HB: 9780300107036, Yale University Press, April 2005
272 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 150 colour images, 150 black&white illus.
Much admired as a realist painter, English artist Victor Pasmore surprised the art world in 1948 by suddenly directing his efforts toward the making of constructed abstract art. Pasmore was followed by Kenneth and Mary Martin, Adrian Heath and the sc...
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G. F. Watts The Last Great Victorian
ISBN: HB: 9780300105773, Yale University Press, October 2004
480 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 40 colour images, 200 black&white illus.
George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) was a titanic figure in nineteenth-century British art. The father of British Symbolism and portrait painter of his age, he forged a controversial career that spanned the reign of Queen Victoria. This book, the first...
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Body Doubles Sculpture in Britain, 1877-1905
ISBN: HB: 9780300105124, Yale University Press, September 2004
256 pp., 26.5x20.4 cm, 150 illus.
Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an explosion of interest in sculpture. Sculptors of the "New Sculpture" movement engaged in a wide range of experimentation, seeking a new direction and a modern idiom for their art. This book analyzes for...
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Small House in Eighteenth-Century London A Social and Architectural History
ISBN: HB: 9780300102383, Yale University Press, May 2004
288 pp., 29.1x23.1 cm, 200 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.
London's modest eighteenth-century houses – those inhabited by artisans and labourers in the unseen parts of Georgian London – can tell us much about the culture of that period. This fascinating book examines largely forgotten small houses that survi...
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Art of the Twentieth Century A Reader
ISBN: PB: 9780300101447, Yale University Press, December 2003
352 pp., 23.4x16.5 cm, 40 black&white illus.
This is a companion volume to a series of four books about 20th century art. Each book can be read independently and is accessible to the general reader. However, as a series they form the main texts of an Open University third-level course, "Art of...
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£16,99
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Art in France, 1900-1940
ISBN: PB: 9780300099089, Yale University Press, March 2003
336 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 239 black&white illus., 103 colour illus.
During the decades from 1900 to 1940, art in France developed in ways that were of paramount importance to 20th-century art. This illustrated account sets these developments within the framework of the unstable social, political, intellectual and art...
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