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History of Art

William Powell Frith Painting the Victorian Age

Bills Mark, Knight Vivien

ISBN: HB: 9780300121902, Yale University Press, December 2006
180 pp., 28.2x24.9 cm, colour illus.

William Powell Frith (1819-1909) was the greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth. His panoramas of the wide spectrum of nineteenth-century life broke new ground in their depiction of the diverse London crowd and are icons of their...

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History of Art

Women Studies

Artemisia Files Artemisia Gentileschi for Feminists and Other Thinking People

Bal Mieke

ISBN: PB: 9780226035826, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
245 pp., 19.4x13.1 cm, 44 halftones

One of the first female artists to achieve recognition in her own time, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) became instantly popular in the 1970s when feminist art historians "discovered" her and argued vehemently for a place for her in the canon of It...

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Contemporary Art

Gego Defying Structures

Bois Yves-Alain

ISBN: PB: 9788489771291, Bookport, MACBA, November 2006
181 pp., 26.5x22 cm

The work of Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt, 1912-1994) relatively unknown outside of Latin America is an extraordinary example of the decisive changes that influenced modern culture after WWII. Born in Hamburg, she studied Architecture and engineering and...

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Contemporary Art

Socrates Sculpture Park

Baker Alyson, Mestrovic Ivana, Di Suvero Mark, Hanrahan Thomas, Kastner Jeffrey, Sandler Irving

ISBN: HB: 9780300120981, Yale University Press, November 2006
256 pp., 28.6x22.9 cm, 175 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

Socrates Sculpture Park is one of the most acclaimed public art spaces in the country. The Park opened in 1986 and has been an outdoor studio to over 500 artists, a venue presenting more than 40 exhibitions of large-scale sculpture, and a vital park...

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Contemporary Art

Politics of Urban Beauty New York and Its Art Commission

Bogart Michele H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226063058, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
352 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 85 halftones

Since its founding in 1898, the Art Commission of the City of New York (ACNY) has served as the city's aesthetic gatekeeper, evaluating all works of art intended for display on city property. And over the years, the commission's domain has expanded d...

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History of Art

Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery

Boorsch Suzanne, Marciari John, Bensoussan Nicole, Clark Alvin L., Greenberg Susan, Hadley Margaret E., Hodermarsky Lisa, Hoisington Rena, Leja Jan, Munhall Edgar

ISBN: HB: 9780300114331, Yale University Press, October 2006
320 pp., 31.1x23.7 cm, 114 colour images, 116 black&white illus.

This beautiful and important book highlights the collection of European drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery, one of America's premier university museums. From intimate studies to exquisite finished compositions, this selection of works docume...

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Lions, Dragons, and Other Beasts Aquamanilia of the Middle Ages - Vessels for Church and Table

Barnet Peter, Dandridge Pete

ISBN: HB: 9780300116847, Yale University Press, August 2006
256 pp., 28.9x24.9 cm, 100 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

This fascinating book explores the history, techniques and cultural significance of medieval aquamanilia, cast metal objects used to pour water for hand washing in religious and secular contexts. Usually created in appealing animal or human forms, aq...

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Photography

Eugen Wiskovsky

Birgus Vladimir

ISBN: PB: 9788072152667, DAP, Torst, August 2006
144 pp., 17.8x15.9 cm, 75 duotones

Not for sale in Estonia! The oeuvre of the leading Czech avant-garde photographer Eugen Wiskovsky (1888-1964) is not large in size or subject range, but it is noteworthy in its originality, depth of ideas, and mastery. Wiskovsky's early New Objecti...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

William Holman Hunt

Bronkhurst Judith

ISBN: HB: 9780300102352, Yale University Press, July 2006
800 pp., 30.7x26 cm, 150 colour illus., 500 black&white illus.

William Holman Hunt was one of the major artistic talents of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, founded in 1848. Hunt's work was always characterised by great seriousness of purpose – he was the only member of that group to remain committed to its princ...

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History of Art

Joy Lasts On the Spiritual in Art

Beckett Sister Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780892368433, Getty Publications, May 2006
60 pp., 22.9x4.6 cm, 40 colour illus.

Sister Wendy Beckett is one of the best-known art historians in the world today. In "Joy Lasts", she explores her reactions to a painting that she finds uniquely compelling: the haunting Christ on the Cross by El Greco. As she candidly admits, "I hav...

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