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Decorative Arts

American Decorative Arts MFA Highlights

Ward Gerald W. R., Gadsden Nonie, L'Ecuyer Kelly H.

ISBN: PB: 9780878466986, DAP, MFA Publications, August 2006
224 pp., 22.2x17.8 cm, 130 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "American Decorative Arts" features over 100 carefully selected masterpieces of furniture, silver, glass, ceramics, base metals, coins and medals, basketry and sculpture from one of the world's preeminent collections. The M...

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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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Decorative Arts

Britannia and Muscovy English Silver at the Court of the Tsars

Allen Brian T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300116786, Yale University Press, June 2006
288 pp., 28x24.8 cm, 200 colour images, 45 black&white illus.

This superbly illustrated book accompanies an exhibition of thirty objects from the exceptional collection of English silver in the Moscow Kremlin Museums, where one of the world's greatest surviving group of English sixteenth- and seventeenth-centur...

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History of Art

British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Wright Christopher, Gordon Catherine, Smith Mary Peskett

ISBN: HB: 9780300117301, Yale University Press, June 2006
850 pp., 29.5x24.8 cm

This book, the first of its kind, sets a new standard as a work of reference covering British and Irish art in public collections from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth. The remit has been as broad as possible. Apart...

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History of Art

Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Netzer Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781892850102, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, June 2006
300 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 135 colour plates, 27 halftones

A major contribution to the study of medieval and Renaissance art, "Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century" studies nearly 100 works from the vast collections of the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in an effort to determine the m...

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History of Art

Winslow Homer Poet of the Sea

Levy Sophie

ISBN: PB: 9780932171504, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, June 2006
152 pp., 27.9x22.3 cm, 100 colour plates

Waves battering the weathered rocks on a shore, young boys sailing carefree on open waters: "Winslow Homer's" raw, evocative seascapes are among the most distinctive and powerful in American art".Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea" offers here a fresh ex...

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Contemporary Art

Biography & Memoires

Art Czar The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg

Marquis Alice Goldfarb

ISBN: HB: 9780878467013, DAP, MFA Publications, June 2006
336 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 35 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! In the years of his greatest dominance, Clement Greenberg almost single-handedly established Jackson Pollock and the New York School at the center of the American art world. His work set the tone for art criticism for half...

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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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History of Art

Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

McCullagh Suzanne Folds, Druick Douglas, Ruud Brandon

ISBN: HB: 9780300114126, Yale University Press, May 2006
224 pp., 29.5x24.5 cm, 180 colour illus.

Dorothy Braude Edinburg has amassed one of the most important private collections of drawings in the United States. This book celebrates a gift of 240 drawings that she is making to the Art Institute of Chicago. Many of the 166 works selected for thi...

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Architecture

Art, Design, and Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1920

Clegg Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300111200, Yale University Press, May 2006
356 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 60 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

In this unprecedentedly wide-ranging account of art, design, and architecture in the complex Central Europe of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during its momentous last decades, Elizabeth Clegg achieves a forceful integration of political and cultural de...

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