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Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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£22,00
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Time Line of Culture in the Nile Valley and Its Relationship to Other World Cultures
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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£6,50
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Inigo Jones
ISBN: PB: 9780300082449, Yale University Press, June 2000
146 pp., 21x14.8 cm
Inigo Jones, the first English classical architect, was famous in his own time and was the posthumous sponsor of the Palladian movement of the eighteenth century. This authoritative and elegantly written book, first published in 1966, reassessed Jone...
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£15,00
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Ancient Egypt in the Metropolitan Museum Journal Volume 1-11: 1968-1976
ISBN: HB: 9780300085686, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2000
209 pp., 27.8x15.4 cm, 224 illus.
Anyone interested in ancient Egypt will give a warm welcome to this handy book with which the fine Metropolitan Museum of Arts of New York reunites a series of papers written by famous names such as C. Aldred and H.G. Fischer, originally issued in it...
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£18,95
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Modern Life and Modern Subject British Art in the Early Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300083507, Yale University Press, June 2000
344 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 120 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.
In May 1914 the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London opened its exhibition of "Twentieth-Century Art". The catalogue identified four main strands in modern painting but included a fifth group of Jewish artists, hung in the "Small Gallery". In this illum...
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£40,00
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Walter Sickert Prints
ISBN: HB: 9780300081619, Yale University Press, May 2000
312 pp., 30.2x24.5 cm, 500 illus.
Walter Sickert (1860-1942) was possibly the most important and influential early modern British artist. He belonged to the generation that absorbed the modernity of late nineteenth-century French art into British painting and printmaking. His outstan...
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£75,00
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Nature's Workshop Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts
ISBN: HB: 9780300081367, Yale University Press, April 2000
290 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus., 18 colour illus.
This book shows Auguste Renoir in an entirely new light, revealing an artist far more complex and thoughtful than previously believed. Seven unknown and unpublished texts written by Renoir, along with four other writings once published but now largel...
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£25,00
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Arts of China to AD 900
ISBN: PB: 9780300082845, Yale University Press, April 2000
280 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 300 black&white illus., 96 colour illus.
This is a survey of China's wealth of art, architecture and artefacts from prehistoric times to the 20th century. It investigates the beginnings of the traditions on which much of the art rests, moving from Neolithic and Bronze Age China to the era o...
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£35,00
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Landscape in Sight Looking at America
ISBN: PB: 9780300080742, Yale University Press, April 2000
428 pp., 23.5x15.5 cm, 51 illus.
Focusing not on nature but on landscape – land shaped by human presence – Jackson invites us to see the everyday places of the American countryside and city. This appealing anthology, illustrated with Jackson's sketches and photographs, brings togeth...
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£25,00
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Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family Volume 5: Autobiography of Charles Willson Peale
ISBN: HB: 9780300075472, Yale University Press, March 2000
552 pp., 24.5x16.5 cm, 83 black&white illus., 13 colour illus.
This autobiography, written by Peale when he was in his eighties, spans American history from the 1740s to the 1820s, an era in which Peale was a primary actor in many of the young nation's significant cultural and political events. Peale begins by d...
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£88,00
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