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History of Art

Notorious Muse The Actress in British Art and Culture, 1776-1812

Asleson Robyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300100051, Yale University Press, May 2003
240 pp., 25.4x18.6 cm, 62 black&white illus., 14 colour illus.

In this interdisciplinary volume of essays, historians of art, literature, dress and theatre examine the impact of the actress on British art and culture of the Georgian era. From the celebrated doyennes of the stage to the demireps on the periphery...

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Contemporary Art

Everything Seemed Possible Art in the 1970s

Cork Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300095081, Yale University Press, May 2003
320 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 125 illus.

The first part of a four-volume set of art criticism by Richard Cork, written over a 30-year period. It offers a chronicle of a turbulent period as well as an overview and survey of British art and its reception at this time. This particular work add...

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Contemporary Art

Annus Mirabilis? Art in the Year 2000

Cork Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300095111, Yale University Press, May 2003
200 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 72 black&white illus.

The fourth and final part of a four-volume set of art criticism by Richard Cork, written over a 30-year period. It offers a chronicle of a turbulent period as well as an overview and survey of British art and its reception at this time. This particul...

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History of Art

Words for Pictures Seven Papers on Renaissance Art and Criticism

Baxandall Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300176780, Yale University Press, April 2003
206 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

The Italian Renaissance was a creative period for art criticism as well as for art itself. The early efforts to give verbal accounts of visual representations and their quality throw light not only on art during the Renaissance but also on art critic...

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History of Art

Pelican History of Art

Art in France, 1900-1940

Green Christopher

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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Photography

Manufactured Landscapes The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky

Pauli Lori, Burtynsky Edward, Haworth-Booth Mark, Baker Kenneth, Torosian Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300099430, Yale University Press, March 2003
160 pp., 32x27 cm, 110 illus.

Over a period of 25 years, the internationally renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has been an explorer of unfamiliar places where human activity has reshaped the surface of the land. His astonishing large-scale colour photographs of the...

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History of Art

A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Fifty Years

Cropper Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780300099614, Yale University Press, February 2003
255 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 63 illus.

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were begun in 1952 at the National Gallery of Art in order to bring the best in contemporary scholarship to the public. To mark the 50th anniversary of the acclaimed series, the Center for Advanced Study in...

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History of Art

Mall in Washington, 1791-1991

Longstreth Richard, O'Malley Therese

ISBN: HB: 9780300095371, Yale University Press, February 2003
328 pp., 28.7x23.9 cm, 37 colour plates, 103 black&white illus.

As the most important public space in the United States, the Mall in Washington, DC, has been a vital emblem of national spirit and ideals ever since Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant first envisioned it over 200 years ago. Although the Mall has undergon...

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History of Art

Brush With Nature The Gere Collection of Landscape Oil Sketches (Revised Edition)

Riopelle Christopher, Bray Xavier

ISBN: HB: 9781857099980, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2003
176 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 20 black&white illus., 101 colour illus.

More than forty years ago, John and Charlotte Gere, both distinguished art historians, pioneered the collecting of small-scale landscape oil sketches created by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists working out of doors in nature. Such paintings...

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History of Art

Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum

Barnett Vivian Endicott

ISBN: HB: 9780300096354, Yale University Press, November 2002
512 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, some illus.

A famous art collector, dealer, and indomitable champion of modern art, Emmy (Galka) Scheyer (1889-1945) is best known as the founder of the Blue Four artists' group, whose members were Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Alexei Jawlensky and Vasily Kandins...

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