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Farewell to an Idea Episodes from a History of Modernism

Clark T. J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300089103, Yale University Press, March 2001
464 pp., 27.5x19.5 cm, 210 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.

In this intense and far-reaching book, acclaimed art historian T. J. Clark offers a new vision of the art of the past two centuries, focusing on moments when art responded directly in extreme terms to the ongoing disaster called "modernity". Modernis...

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American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 2: Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Between 1865 and 1885

Hassler Donna J., Marter Joan M., Tolles Thayer, Thompson Jerry L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300088472, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2001
350 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 182 black&white illus., 18 colour illus.

This is the second volume of a two-volume set that records the distinguished collection of late-nineteenth- and early-twentiety-century American sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book presents nearly two hundred works by seventy sculpt...

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American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 1: Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1865

Hassler Donna J., Marter Joan M., Tolles Thayer, Thompson Jerry L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300085174, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2001
480 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 198 black&white illus., 29 colour illus.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a distinguished and comprehensive collection of late nineteenth-century American sculpture, particularly strong in neoclassical and Beaux Arts works and acclaimed for its preeminent group of lifesize statues in marb...

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Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Reynolds Joshua, Ingamells John, Edgcumbe John

ISBN: HB: 9780300087338, Yale University Press, December 2000
318 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 illus.

A collection of letters by Sir Joshua Reynolds. It is the first edition to be published since 1929, and since that date the number of known letters has almost doubled. This volume contains 308 letters by the artist to friends, family and patrons, all...

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Eye on the Modern Century Selected Letters of Henry McBride

Watson Steven, Morris Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780300083262, Yale University Press, December 2000
374 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 illus.

Henry McBride (1867-1962) became a towering figure in art criticism during a long career that began in 1913 – the year of the famous Armory Show in New York that opened American eyes to avant-garde developments in European art – and continued until t...

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Flesh and the Ideal Winkelmann and the Origins of Art History

Potts Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780300087369, Yale University Press, October 2000
302 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 43 illus.

A biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 18th-century German philosopher and aesthetician. Analyzing Winckelmann's magnum opus, "History of the Art of Antiquity", it explains the fundamental importance to art history of this account of the aestheti...

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Ephemeral Museum Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Exhbition

Haskell Francis

ISBN: HB: 9780300085341, Yale University Press, October 2000
248 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

When and why did large-scale exhibitions of Old Master paintings begin, and how have they evolved through the centuries? In this book an eminent art historian examines the intriguing history and significance of these international art exhibitions. Fr...

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Albert Memorial The Prince Consort National Memorial: Its History, Contexts and Conservation

Brooks Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780300073119, Yale University Press, September 2000
456 pp., 33x16.5 cm, 112 black&white illus., 200 colour illus.

A study of the Albert Memorial. It tells the history, discusses the symbolism, and gives an account of the recent restoration of this 19th-century monument. In commemorating Prince Albert, the Memorial exemplified the age, its material achievements,...

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Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Messinger Lisa Mintz

ISBN: HB: 9780300085655, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2000
176 pp., 27.8x15.4 cm, 60 colour illus.

The author explores little-known works on paper by nineteen leading artists.

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Time Line of Culture in the Nile Valley and Its Relationship to Other World Cultures

Liebling Roslyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300085600, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2000
70 pp., 33.5x10.5 cm

A pictorial survey of Egyptian art and history from Paleolithic times to the present, with cross-cultural references.

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