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History of Art

One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic

Banta Martha

ISBN: HB: 9780300122978, Yale University Press, January 2008
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Martha Banta reaches across several disciplines to investigate America's early quest to shape an aesthetic equal to the nation's belief in its cultural worth. Marked by an unusually wide-ranging sweep, the book focuses on three major "testing grounds...

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History of Art

Arts of the City Victorious Islamic Art and Architecture in Fatimid North Africa and Egypt

Bloom Jonathan M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300135428, Yale University Press, January 2008
256 pp., 28x22 cm, 100 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

"Arts of the City Victorious" is the first book-length study of the art and architecture of the Fatimids, the Ismaili Shi'i dynasty that ruled in North Africa and Egypt from 909 to 1171. The Fatimids are most famous for founding the city of al-Qahira...

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History of Art

Again Selected Interviews and Essays

Blair Dike

ISBN: PB: 9780945323143, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2007
144 pp., 21.4x17.4 cm, 24 colour plates

Dike Blair is part of a tradition of artists who also write. From an early point in his career Blair has worked on parallel paths, with his writing both reflecting and influencing his artistic production. His paintings and sculptures celebrate moment...

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History of Art

Inspiring Impressionism The Impressionists and the Art of the Past

Bray Xavier, Clarke Michael, Collins John, Dumas Ann, House John, Suzman Jowell Frances, Rand Richard, Stevenson Lesley

ISBN: HB: 9780300131321, Yale University Press, October 2007
304 pp., 30.5x25.1 cm, 175 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Inspiring Impressionism explores links between Impressionists and the major European art-historical movements that came before them, demonstrating how often beneath the Impressionists' commitment to capturing contemporary life there lay a deep explor...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Stuart Davis Volume 1, 2 & 3: Essays and References (Catalogue Entries 1-1323)

Boyajian Ani, Rutkoski Mark, Agee William C., Wilkin Karen

ISBN: HB: 9780300109818, Yale University Press, August 2007
0 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, Volume 1: 160 illus., Volume 2: 1350 illus., Volume 3: 600 illus.

Stuart Davis (1892-1964) made a mark on the art world early in his career, first with his Ashcan works and then with his highly personal version of Cubism, which firmly established American modernism as a force that could rival its European counterpa...

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Contemporary Art

Modern Patronage De Menil Gifts to American and European Museums

Brennan Marcia, Pacquement Alfred, Temkin Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780300123791, Yale University Press, May 2007
175 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 70 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

In the early 1940s, John and Dominique de Menil began to acquire art. Collecting in an intuitive and personal manner, the de Menils gathered "things in which we believe", as John phrased it, and proceeded to develop an inspired collection that would...

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History of Art

European Art of the Fourteenth Century

Baragli Sandra

ISBN: PB: 9780892368594, Getty Publications, April 2007
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.

In the fourteenth century, Europe was a place ravaged by the effects of war and famine and then devastated by the Black Death. These multiple crises lead to a widespread mystical religiosity, which emphasised both ecstatic joy and extreme suffering....

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History of Art

Impressionist Giverny A Colony of Artists, 1885-1915

Bourguignon Katherine M.

ISBN: PB: 9780932171528, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, April 2007
224 pp., 29.9x22.9 cm, 170 colour plates

Lured by the ineffable beauty represented in Claude Monet's artwork and the promise of painting en plein air, artists from America and across Europe flocked to the French village of Giverny in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transf...

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History of Art

Lee Miller A Life

Burke Carolyn

ISBN: PB: 9780226080673, University of Chicago Press, April 2007
446 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 82 halftones

Lee Miller's life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and domestic goddess, she was also America's first female war correspondent. Carolyn Burke, a...

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Photography

Marshes The Disappearing Edens

Burt William

ISBN: HB: 9780300122299, Yale University Press, March 2007
160 pp., 23.5x19.1 cm, 92 colour illus.

Drawn since boyhood to the beauty and allure of marshes, naturalist William Burt has prowled them by day and night, in every season, from one edge of North America to the other. For thirty years, he has hauled his large-format camera with him, seekin...

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