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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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£40,00
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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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Reconstruction of Nations Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999
ISBN: PB: 9780300105865, Yale University Press, September 2004
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 34 illus.
Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood o...
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£19,99
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Resilience and Courage Women, Men, and the Holocaust
ISBN: PB: 9780300105193, Yale University Press, September 2004
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this volume, Nechama Tec offers insights into the differences between the experiences of Jewish women and men during the Holocaust.
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£36,00
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Cesnola Collection Terracottas
ISBN: CD: 9780300102840, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2004
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The Cesnola Collection of antiquities was assembled on Cyprus in the 1860s and 1870s by Luigi Palma de Cesnola, who sold it to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1872. Cesnola subsequently served as the institution's first director. Numbering around 6...
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£25,00
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American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum Volume 1: Drawings and Watercolours
ISBN: HB: 9780300106060, Yale University Press, September 2004
432 pp., 30.2x25.9 cm, 565 colour images, 120 black&white illus.
The Princeton University Art Museum's collection of American drawings and watercolours is impressive in both scope and quality, providing a comprehensive overview of the nation's artistic traditions. This lavishly illustrated book highlights seventy-...
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£37,50
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Livable Modernism Interior Decorating and Design During the Great Depression
ISBN: HB: 9780300104752, Yale University Press, September 2004
176 pp., 26.5x21.4 cm, 58 colour images, 55 black&white illus.
During the years of the Great Depression in America, modernist designers developed products and lifestyle concepts intended for middle-class, not elite, consumers. In this remarkable book, Kristina Wilson coins the term "livable modernism" to describ...
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£27,00
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Bristol City Guides
ISBN: PB: 9780300104424, Yale University Press, August 2004
320 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 50 black&white illus., 120 colour illus.
This fourth paperback "City Guide in the Buildings of England" series covers Bristol, for many centuries England's second port, and in architectural terms still amongst its richest cities. Outstanding buildings remain of every century from Norman tim...
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£16,99
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Vasemania-form and Ornament in Neoclassical Europe Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300099348, Yale University Press, August 2004
220 pp., 22.6x16.7 cm, 30 illus.
When the ancient sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii were excavated in the eighteenth century, the objects found there renewed artistic interest in classicism. Neoclassical style and imagery permeated paintings, sculpture, furniture, and decorative arts...
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Minimalism Art and Polemics in the Sixties
ISBN: PB: 9780300105902, Yale University Press, August 2004
340 pp., 25.8x19.8 cm, 30 colour images, 130 black&white illus.
The simple question "What is minimalism?" has defied simple answers. Artists known as minimalists have distinctively different methods and points of view. This highly readable history of minimalist art shows how artists as diverse as Carl Andre, Dona...
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