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Objects in Air Artworks and Their Outside around 1900
ISBN: HB: 9780226764771, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 69 halftones
Margareta Ingrid Christian unpacks the ways in which, around 1900, art scholars, critics, and choreographers wrote about the artwork as an actual object in real time and space, surrounded and fluently connected to the viewer through the very air we b...
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£36,00
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French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums
ISBN: HB: 9780300250916, Yale University Press, November 2020
400 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 350 colour and black&white illus.
The Harvard Art Museums house one of the most significant collections of works on paper in North America. Among its many strengths are sheets by draftsmen of the French School, including notable masters such as Simon Vouet, Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Po...
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£50,00
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Joseph Wright of Derby Painter of Darkness
ISBN: HB: 9781913107123, Yale University Press, November 2020
368 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 195 illus.
Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797), though conventionally known as a 'painter of light', returned repeatedly to nocturnal images. His essential preoccupations were dark and melancholy, and he had an enduring concern with death, ruin, old age, loss of...
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£45,00
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Asian Modern, Volume I
ISBN: PB: 9789811406072, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, July 2020
450 pp., 23.5x17.5 cm, colour and black&white illus.
John Clark's magisterial "The Asian Modern" reconstructs the notion of art and its historiography. Writing the history of the Asian modern through the social life of artists, he generates a new paradigm for the narration of art. Both volumes meticulo...
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£28,00
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Herculaneum and the House of the Bicentenary History and Heritage
ISBN: PB: 9781606066287, Getty Publications, February 2020
160 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
This volume vividly recounts, for general readers, the Roman town of Herculaneum, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE and uniquely preserved for nearly two thousand years. Initial chapters offer an engaging historical overview of the...
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£25,00
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Uruk The First City of the Ancient World
ISBN: HB: 9781606064443, Getty Publications, January 2020
400 pp., 25x15 cm, 450 colour illus., 34 black&white illus.
This remarkable book unveils the origins of urban life in our ancient past. Over one hundred years ago, discoveries from a German archaeological dig at Uruk, roughly two hundred miles south of present-day Baghdad, sent shock waves through the scholar...
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£60,00
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Young Bomberg and the Old Masters
ISBN: PB: 9781857096477, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2019
64 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 65 colour and black&white illus.
The British painter David Bomberg (1890-1957) was among the most precociously talented artists of his generation, and the influence of his legacy continues to be felt. This catalogue is the first to explore Bomberg's early work in relation to the col...
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£16,95
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Nicolaes Maes Dutch Master of the Golden Age
ISBN: PB: 9781857096545, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2019
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 120 colour and black&white illus.
This book offers a close look at the art of Dutch Golden Age painter Nicolaes Maes (1634–1693). One of Rembrandt's most talented students, Maes began by painting biblical scenes in the style of his famous teacher. He later produced extraordinary genr...
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£15,00
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Endless Periphery Toward a Geopolitics of Art in Lorenzo Lotto's Italy
ISBN: HB: 9780226481456, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
352 pp., 25.4x21.5 cm, 127 colour plates, 45 halftones
While the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance are usually associated with Italy's historical seats of power, some of the era's most characteristic works are to be found in places other than Florence, Rome, and Venice. They are the product of the...
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£49,00
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Illuminated Paris Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Epoque
ISBN: HB: 9780226593869, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
320 pp., 25.4x21.5 cm, 75 colour plates, 32 halftones
The City of Light. For many, these four words instantly conjure late nineteenth-century Paris and the garish colors of Toulouse-Lautrec's iconic posters. More recently, the Eiffel Tower's nightly show of sparkling electric lights has come to exemplif...
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£40,00
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