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Drawn from Courtly India The Conley Harris and Howard Truelove Collection

Cameron Ainsley, Mason Darielle

ISBN: HB: 9780300215250, Yale University Press, November 2015
156 pp., 29.9x24.8 cm, 172 colour illus.

This publication presents the first in-depth survey of the Conley Harris and Howard Truelove Collection of Indian drawings, which was recently acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This exceptional collection, which has never previously been pu...

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Qing Encounters Artistic Exchanges Between China and the West

Chu Petra Ten-Doesschate, Ding Ning

ISBN: PB: 9781606064573, Getty Publications, November 2015
316 pp., 25x15 cm, 62 colour illus., 46 black&white illus.

"Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West" examines how the encounters between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East-West divide. The essays in the volum...

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Afterall Summer 2015, Issue 39

Cahill Zachary, Gronlund Melissa, Kreuger Anders, Lafuente Pablo, Vilalta Helena

ISBN: PB: 9781846381577, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 80 colour plates

"Afterall", a journal of contemporary art, provides a forum for analysis of art's context and seeks to inspire artists to see art as an agency for change. Each issue contains in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with ess...

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Biography & Memoires

My Dear BB... The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925-1959

Cumming Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300207378, Yale University Press, April 2015
570 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 black&white illus.

In 1925, the 22-year-old Kenneth Clark (1903-1983) and the legendary art critic and historian Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) met in Italy. From that moment, they began a correspondence that lasted until Berenson's death at age 94. This book makes avail...

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Machine Age Modernism Prints from the Daniel Cowin Collection

Clarke Jay A., Black Jonathan, Kosinski Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780300211665, Yale University Press, March 2015
80 pp., 23.5x22.9 cm, 50 colour illus.

This group of 40 prints from the exceptional Daniel Cowin Collection captures the tumultuous aesthetic and political climate of the years surrounding World Wars I and II. An essay by Jonathan Black addresses the impact of World War I on two notable B...

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James Ensor The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Canning Susan Marie, Nichols Kimberly, Todts Herwig

ISBN: HB: 9780300203912, Yale University Press, A+D Series, February 2015
144 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 98 colour illus.

This engaging volume describes the creation and restoration of the extraordinary large-scale drawing The Temptation of Saint Anthony – a work by late 19th-century Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949) that is composed of fifty-one sheets of paper co...

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Multiples in Pre-Modern Art

Cupperi Walter

ISBN: HB: 9783037343746, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 92 halftones

In the art world, replicas are typically thought to be of low value. However skillfully created, they remain in the eyes of many mere copies, pointing toward an original of greater significance. In recent years, however, replicas and multiples have c...

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Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Art of the Figure

Cole Michael W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208207, Yale University Press, December 2014
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

In late 1504 and early 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti were both at work on commissions they had received to paint murals in Florence's City Hall. Leonardo was to depict a historic battle between Florence and Milan, Michelangelo o...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 1 (1898-1914)

Pierre Arnauld, Clements Candace, Calte Beverley, Camfield William A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208283, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2014
504 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 425 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

This publication is the first of four volumes in the catalogue raisonne of Francis Picabia, one of the most significant, challenging artists of the 20th century. The works in Volume I range from Picabia's early pieces as an Impressionist in 1898 to h...

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Design

Grand Design Pieter Coecke Van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry

Cleland Elizabeth A. H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208054, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2014
400 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 350 colour illus.

Renowned throughout Renaissance Europe, Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502–1550) produced works for the wealthiest and most important patrons of the time, including Emperor Charles V, Francis I of France, Henry VIII of England, the Habsburgs, and Cosimo d...

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