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Designing Tomorrow America's World's Fairs of the 1930s

Rydell Robert W., Schiavo Laura Burd

ISBN: HB: 9780300149579, Yale University Press, September 2010
224 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 102 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.

In the midst of the Great Depression, America's World's Fairs of the 1930s gave hope to millions, sustaining the assembled with visions of future progress. These grand expositions in Chicago, San Diego, Dallas, Cleveland, New York and San Francisco s...

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History of Art

Dance around the Golden Calf by Lucas van Leyden

Kok Jan Piet Filedt

ISBN: PB: 9789086890408, Yale University Press, August 2010
68 pp., 23.6x16.8 cm, 72 illus.

Lucas van Leyden (1494-1533) was as important for his age as Rembrandt was for the seventeenth century. He introduced the Renaissance to the Netherlands and was influenced by both Durer and Raphael. His paintings are lively, colourful, and full of na...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Cartoon Art

Dragonart Evolution How to Draw Everything Dragon

Peffer Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9781440302527, GMC Group, F&W, August 2010
144 pp., 26x21 cm, colour illus.

Magnificent and powerful creatures, these dragons be, with bone-crushing jaws and razor-sharp teeth, it's difficult to tell whether you're dealing with a hotheaded nature or a wise and benevolent beast. Therein lies the trouble with drawing them from...

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Contemporary Art

Decade in Conversation A Ten-Year Celebration of The Bucksbaum Award, 2000-2010

Iles Chrissie, Paul Christiane, Foster Carter, Kukielski Tina

ISBN: PB: 9780300167559, Yale University Press, July 2010
88 pp., 24.1x19.7 cm, 46 colour illus.

Established in 2000 by the Martin Bucksbaum Family Foundation and the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Bucksbaum Award is presented biennially to an artist living and working in the U. S. "whose work demonstrates a singular combination of talent a...

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Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils Telling the Difference

Bevers Holm, Hendrix Lee, Robinson William W., Schatborn Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780892369799, ISBN: HB: 9780892369782, Getty Publications, March 2010
304 pp., 29.5x28 cm, 202 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.

This is a groundbreaking study of more than 40 drawings by Rembrandt and related works by his pupils. Rembrandt was the most famous painter of the Dutch Golden Age, and the opportunity to work in his studio attracted young artists for nearly four dec...

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History of Art

Duccio to Leonardo Renaissance Painting 1250-1500

Di Nepi Simona

ISBN: PB: 9781857094213, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2009
72 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 80 colour illus.

This generously illustrated book presents highlights from the National Gallery's display of Italian Renaissance painting, one of the richest collections of its kind in the world. "Duccio to Leonardo" focuses on Italian masterpieces made between 1250...

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History of Art

Dutch New York, Between East and West The World of Margrieta Van Varick

Krohn Deborah L., Miller Peter N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300154672, Yale University Press, October 2009
352 pp., 28.7x22.2 cm, 275 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Commemorating the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage and the lasting legacy of Dutch culture in New York, this book explores the life and times of a fascinating woman, her family, and her things. Margrieta was born in the Netherlands but live...

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Decoded Messages The Symbolic Language of Chinese Animal Painting

Sung Hou-Mei

ISBN: HB: 9780300141528, Yale University Press, August 2009
256 pp., 29x24.4 cm, 200 colour illus.

During the Ming Dynasty numerous new animal themes were created to convey political and ethical messages current at court. As the result a sophisticated language of Chinese animal painting was developed, employing both the animals' symbolic associati...

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Degas in the Norton Simon Museum Volume 2: Nineteenth-century Art

Campbell Sara

ISBN: HB: 9780300148848, Yale University Press, July 2009
384 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 250 colour images, 350 black&white illus.

Edgar Degas was one of the first artists collected by the industrialist and art collector Norton Simon (1907-1993), as well as one of the last. In the short span of less than thirty years, Simon assembled one of the world's most impressive private ar...

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Photography

Denver A Photographic Survey of the Metropolitan Area, 1973-1974

Adams Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300141368, Yale University Press, July 2009
136 pp., 19.1x18 cm, 117 tritone illus.

"Denver" and "What We Bought", together with "The New West", form a loose trilogy of Robert Adams' work exploring the rapidly developing landscape of the Denver metropolitan area from 1968 through 1974. In the former two books, Adams created a compre...

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