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Imagining Childhood Themes in the Imagery of Childhood

Langmuir Erika

ISBN: HB: 9780300101317, Yale University Press, October 2006
256 pp., 27x20.4 cm, 45 colour images, 55 black&white illus.

The images of children that abound in Western art do not simply mirror reality; they are imaginative constructs, representing childhood as a special stage of human life, or emblematic of the human condition itself. In a compelling book ranging widely...

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History of Art

Late Thoughts Reflections on Artists and Composers at Work

Painter Karen, Crow Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780892368136, Getty Publications, October 2006
264 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 17 black&white illus., 40 colour illus.

"Today the West" chronically associates artistic maturity either with transcendence, degeneration, or irrelevance. This volume looks to the non-representational arts of music, abstract painting and sculpture, and architecture for fresh insight into t...

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Architecture

Conservation of Decorated Surfaces on Earthen Architecture

Rainer Leslie, Rivera Angelyn Bass

ISBN: PB: 9780892368501, Getty Publications, October 2006
220 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 27 black&white illus., 70 colour illus.

For millennia, people of all cultures have decorated the surfaces of their domestic, religious, and public buildings. Earthen architecture, in particular, has been, and continues to be, a common ground for surface decoration, such as paintings, sculp...

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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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History of Art

European Art of the Sixteenth Century

Zuffi Stefano

ISBN: PB: 9780892368464, Getty Publications, October 2006
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.

In the sixteenth century, the humanist values and admiration for classical antiquity that marked the early Renaissance spread from Italy throughout the rest of the continent, resulting in the development of a number of local artistic styles in other...

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History of Art

Rethinking Boucher

Hyde Melissa, Ledebury Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780892368259, Getty Publications, October 2006
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 67 black&white illus., 18 colour illus.

Francois Boucher (1703-1770) has suffered a curious fate: to have been so identified with the French Rococo as to have lost his visibility as an artist in his own right. "Rethinking Boucher" reclaims the artist's individuality, revealing not only the...

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History of Art

Rubens and Brueghel A Working Friendship

Woollett Anne T.

ISBN: PB: 9780892368488, Getty Publications, October 2006
270 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 115 black&white illus., 75 colour illus.

Truly collaborative paintings, that is, not simply mechanical but also conceptual co-productions, are rare in the history of art. This gorgeously illustrated catalogue explores just such an extraordinary partnership between Antwerp's most eminent pai...

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History of Art

Old Masters at the Art Institute of Chicago

Feinberg Larry J., Boucher Bruce, Brosens Koenraad, McCullagh Susanne Folds, Mayer Thurman Christa C., Turner Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780300119510, Yale University Press, October 2006
96 pp., 26x21.5 cm, 45 colour images, 40 black&white illus.

This issue of "Museum Studies" focuses on the Art Institute of Chicago's impressive collection of Old Master paintings, works on paper, textiles, tapestries, and sculptures. With an introduction by Larry Feinberg on the growth and evolution of the mu...

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History of Art

Van Gogh's "Sheaves of Wheat"

Kosinksi Dorothy M., Fratello Bradley, Bruck Laura

ISBN: HB: 9780300117721, Yale University Press, October 2006
112 pp., 27.1x23.6 cm, 50 colour illus.

Vincent Van Gogh viewed wheat as a central metaphor of the cycle of life and the creative process. As such, it was a theme that he consistently explored throughout his career. This book examines the artist's personal and visual fascination with wheat...

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Contemporary Art

One Way or Another Asian American Art Now

Chiu Melissa, Higa Karin M., Min Susette S., Machida Margo, Zia Helen

ISBN: PB: 9780300120592, Yale University Press, October 2006
124 pp., 23.1x22.6 cm, 50 colour images, 15 black&white illus.

Contemporary Asian American artists, with a strong sense of being American and an acute critical consciousness of world matters, grapple with issues of identity in a way that sets them apart from their predecessors. Whereas many Asian American artist...

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