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Italian Paintings in the Norton Simon Museum The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
ISBN: HB: 9780300250497, Yale University Press, January 2021
416 pp., 27.9x24.7 cm, 203 colour illus.
The preeminent collector Norton Simon amassed more than 100 Italian paintings during his 35-year career, and today they stand among the treasures of the Norton Simon Museum. In this catalogue – the first of two volumes devoted to the museum's Italian...
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£60,00
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Goering's Man in Paris The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World
ISBN: HB: 9780300251920, Yale University Press, January 2021
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 black&white illus.
Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Goring to Hitler's special art looting agency, he went on to supervise the systematic theft and distribution of over 22,000 artworks, largely from F...
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£25,00
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Joan Mitchell
ISBN: HB: 9780300247275, Yale University Press, January 2021
384 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 350 illus.
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) was fearless in her experimentation, creating works of unparalleled beauty, strength, and emotional intensity. This gorgeous book unfolds the story of an artistic master of the highest order, revealing the ways she expanded...
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£50,00
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Renaissance Treasures from the Edmond Foulc Collection
ISBN: PB: 9780876332948, Yale University Press, January 2021
64 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 45 colour illus.
In 1930, the Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired the collection of medieval and Renaissance sculpture and decorative arts assembled by Edmond Foulc (1828-1916). Foulc's beautiful Paris residence was an important gathering place for like-minded art en...
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£9,00
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On the Viewing Platform The Panorama between Canvas and Screen
ISBN: HB: 9780300184792, Yale University Press, November 2020
324 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 160 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
This ambitious volume presents a multifaceted account of the legacy of the circular painted panorama and its far-reaching influence on art, photography, film, and architecture. From its 18th-century origins, the panorama quickly became a global mass-...
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£65,00
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Rembrandt in Amsterdam Creativity and Competition
ISBN: HB: 9780300249934, Yale University Press, November 2020
300 pp., 29.8x23.5 cm, 250 illus.
Around the age of 25, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) moved from his hometown of Leiden to Amsterdam, which was the commercial capital of northern Europe at that time. Considered a bold step for a fledgling artist, this change demonstrates that Rembra...
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£40,00
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Speaking of Objects African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780300254327, Yale University Press, November 2020
216 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 135 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Featuring a selection of more than 75 works of traditional African art in the Art Institute of Chicago's collection, this stunning volume includes objects in a wide variety of media from regions across the continent. Essays and catalogue entries by l...
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£30,00
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Street Life in Renaissance Italy
ISBN: HB: 9780300175431, Yale University Press, November 2020
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 150 illus.
The cities of Renaissance Italy comprised a network of forces shaping both the urban landscape and those who inhabited it. In this illuminating study, those complex relations are laid bare and explored through the lens of contemporary urban theory, p...
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£45,00
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Woman in White Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler
ISBN: HB: 9780300254501, Yale University Press, November 2020
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 170 colour illus.
In 1860 James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and Joanna Hiffernan (1839-1886) met and began a significant professional and personal relationship. Hiffernan posed as a model for many of Whistler's works, including his controversial Symphony in White pai...
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American Furniture, 1650-1840 Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
ISBN: HB: 9780876332962, Yale University Press, November 2020
336 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 300 illus.
"American Furniture, 1650-1840: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art" is the first publication dedicated to one of the finest collections of its type in the country. Best known for furniture by artisans from Philadelphia and southeastern Pe...
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