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Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church

Tradigo Alfredo

ISBN: PB: 9780892368457, Getty Publications, October 2006
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.

An icon (from the Greek word eikon, "image") is a wooden panel painting of a holy person or scene from Orthodox Christianity, the religion of the Byzantine Empire that is practiced today mainly in Greece and Russia. It was believed that these works a...

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History of Art

Modern West American Landscapes, 1890-1950

Neff Emily Ballew, Lopez Barry

ISBN: HB: 9780300114485, Yale University Press, October 2006
352 pp., 31.2x25.7 cm, 200 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

Drawing extensively from various disciplines including ethnology, geography, geology, and environmental studies, this groundbreaking book addresses shifting concepts of time, history, and landscape in relation to the work of pioneering American artis...

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Contemporary Art

Norman Rockwell The Underside of Innocence

Halpern Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226314402, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
218 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 12 colour plates, 40 halftones

Norman Rockwell's scenes of everyday small-town life are among the most indelible images in all of twentieth-century art. While opinions of Rockwell vary from uncritical admiration to sneering contempt, those who love him and those who dismiss him do...

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Contemporary Art

Making Memory Matter Strategies of Remembrance in Contemporary Art

Saltzman Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226734088, ISBN: HB: 9780226734071, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
128 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 23 halftones

In an ancient account of painting's origins, a woman traces the shadow of her departing lover on the wall in an act that anticipates future grief and commemoration. Lisa Saltzman shows here that nearly two thousand years after this story was first to...

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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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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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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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