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John Singer Sargent Volume 4: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882 (The Complete Paintings)

Ormond Richard, Kilmurray Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780300117165, Yale University Press, September 2006
420 pp., 31x24.8 cm, 250 colour illus., 45 black&white illus.

From 1874 to 1882, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) produced more than 200 paintings and water-colours aside from portraiture, including figures in landscape settings, architectural studies, seascapes, subject paintings, and studies after old masters....

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Shropshire Buildings of England

Newman John, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300120837, Yale University Press, September 2006
787 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

The unspoiled county of Shropshire is among the most appealing in England for lovers of architecture. The county's many historic towns, of which Shrewsbury and Ludlow are the largest, are especially plentiful in Georgian and timber-framed buildings....

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Decorative Arts

Bruno Mathsson

Widman Dag, Winter Karin, Stritzler-Levine Nina

ISBN: HB: 9780300121919, Yale University Press, September 2006
224 pp., 30.8x25.1 cm, 120 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

The sensuously undulant lines of Bruno Mathsson's furniture designs made him one of the leading figures of Swedish modernism in the 1930s. Chairs that adapted to their occupant, contoured to follow the human form with graceful natural curves and made...

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Art of the Goldsmith in Late Fifteenth-century Germany The Kimbell Virgin and Her Bishop

Smith Jeffrey Chipps

ISBN: PB: 9780300117363, Yale University Press, September 2006
100 pp., 23.3x19.2 cm, 33 colour images, 26 black&white illus.

These beautifully illustrated books by leading experts focus on major paintings, sculptures, and objects from the Kimbell's outstanding permanent collection. Each volume presents the latest advances in scholarship and new insights of interest both to...

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History of Art

Renaissance Hospital Healing the Body and Healing the Souls

Henderson John

ISBN: HB: 9780300109955, Yale University Press, September 2006
496 pp., 15.6x23.4 cm, 1 black&white illus.

In this fascinating and richly illustrated book, John Henderson takes us into the Renaissance hospitals of Florence, recreating the enormous barn-like wards and exploring the lives of those who received and those who administered treatment there. Dra...

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Contemporary Art

Picasso and American Art

Fitzgerald Michael, Boddewyn Julia May

ISBN: HB: 9780300114522, Yale University Press, September 2006
368 pp., 31x24.7 cm, 150 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

Many American artists throughout the 20th century designated Pablo Picasso as the central figure of the modern movement and defined their own artistic achievements through their absorption, critique, or rejection of his example. "Picasso and American...

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Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820

Rishell Joseph J., Stratton-Pruitt Suzanne, Bailey Gauvin Alexander, Bargellini Clara, Blum Dilys E., Hill Boone Elizabeth, Burke Marcus B., Codding Mitchell A., Crespo Alfonso Ortiz, Cummins Thomas B. F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300120035, Yale University Press, September 2006
600 pp., 31.1x25.8 cm, 400 colour images, 250 black&white illus.

By the end of the sixteenth century, Europe, Africa, and Asia were connected to North and South America via a vast network of complex trade routes. This led, in turn, to dynamic cultural exchanges between these continents and a proliferation of diver...

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Contemporary Art

Jennifer Bartlett Early Plate Work

Richardson Brenda, Kemmerer Allison

ISBN: HB: 9780300117714, Yale University Press, September 2006
128 pp., 31.2x23.8 cm, 74 colour illus.

In 1968, artist Jennifer Bartlett (b. 1941) began painting in what would become her celebrated and trademark style – coloured dots on gridded steel plates and canvas. Focusing on the single and multi-plate pieces that began in 1968 and culminated in...

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Photography

Collectible Moment Photographs in the Norton Simon Museum

Sander Gloria Williams, Mulligan Therese, Baltz Lewis, Barrow Thomas, Bunnell Peter C., Rice Leland, Sobieszek Robert A., Traub Charles, Wilson William

ISBN: HB: 9780300121001, Yale University Press, September 2006
384 pp., 30x25.8 cm, 600 colour illus.

Before the late 1960s, few museums or collectors acquired photographs or considered the medium as an art form. The moment arrived, however, when photography's profile ascended and the medium began to gain widespread acceptance in the art world as an...

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Coming of Age American Art, 1850s to 1950s

Agee William C., Faxon Susan C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300115239, Yale University Press, August 2006
136 pp., 29.9x24.9 cm, 78 colour images, 7 black&white illus.

From the 1850s to the 1950s, American art and culture progressed from provincial status to international prominence, and American art developed from figurative depictions of the particular to abstract interpretations of universal ideals. This beautif...

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