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Myth of Nouveau Realisme Art and the Performative in Postwar France

Cabanas Kaira Marie

ISBN: HB: 9780300181203, Yale University Press, April 2013
208 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 40 colour images, 78 black&white illus.

On October 27, 1960, art critic Pierre Restany named a group of Paris-based artists the "Nouveaux Realistes" (New Realists) in a founding declaration that stated, "The New Realists recognize their collective singularity. New Realism = new perceptual...

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Impressionist Line from Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec Drawings and Prints from the Clark

Clarke Jay A., Weaver Chapin Mary, Higonnet Anne, Kendall Richard, Wright Alastair

ISBN: PB: 9780300191936, Yale University Press, March 2013
160 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 80 colour illus.

This book offers a new look at works by notable French artists represented in the collection of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Colour reproductions of fifty-eight works – ranging from chalk drawings by Charles Francois Daubigny and Ed...

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Eye on a Century Modern and Contemporary Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery

Chaffee Cathleen, Alcauskas Katherine D., Canonico Amy, Jaffee Frank Robin, Gross Jennifer R., Josten Jennifer, Luke Megan R., Orgeman Keely, Orr Emily M., Rich Sarah K.

ISBN: PB: 9780300184945, Yale University Press, January 2013
256 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 140 colour illus.

"Eye on a Century" celebrates a cornerstone of the Yale University Art Gallery's holdings: the Charles B. Benenson Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art. This major bequest includes works by a veritable pantheon of modern and contemporary artists...

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Last Days of Pompeii Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection

Coates Victoria Gardner

ISBN: HB: 9781606061152, Getty Publications, September 2012
256 pp., 28.6x24.8 cm, 150 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

It is a fascinating survey of the modern obsession with the destruction of Pompeii as seen through the eyes or artists. Destroyed yet paradoxically preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79, Pompeii and other nearby sites are usually con...

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Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia The Manton Collection of British Art

Clarke Jay A., Barringer Tim, Bermingham Ann, Broadway Mary, Blayney Brown David, Griffiths Antony, Lyles Anne, Noon Patrick, Paisley Leslie, Rauser Amelia F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300179668, Yale University Press, July 2012
272 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 447 colour images, 9 black&white illus.

Business leader and arts patron Sir Edwin A. G. Manton (1909-2005) and his wife Florence, Lady Manton assembled an outstanding collection of 18th- and 19th-century British artwork. A gift to the Clark Art Institute from the Manton Foundation in 2007,...

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Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)

Chung Anita, Andrews Julia F., Maeda Tamaki, Shen Kuiyi, Yuen Wong Aida

ISBN: PB: 9780300169744, Yale University Press, October 2011
256 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 115 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

One of the preeminent figures in twentieth-century Chinese art, Fu Baoshi (1904-1965) revolutionized the tradition of Chinese ink painting, opening the door to innovations by subsequent generations. As both an art historian and a painter, he directed...

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Masters of Art

Masters of Art Turner

Crepaldi Gabriele

ISBN: PB: 9783791346212, Prestel Publishing, September 2011
160 pp., 21x17 cm, 80 colour illus.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Turner makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. Perhaps the best-loved English romantic painter, Turner became known as "the painter of light". The use of...

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Decorative Arts

Capturing the Essence Techniques for Bird Artists

Cooper William T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300176261, Yale University Press, June 2011
128 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 139 colour illus.

In this stunningly beautiful book, bird artist William T. Cooper explores and demonstrates all aspects of drawing and painting birds. Renowned for his gorgeous and accurate wildlife renderings, Cooper here explains in detail how to create a true impr...

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Imperial Landscapes Britain's Global Visual Culture, 1745-1820

Crowley John E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300170504, Yale University Press, May 2011
320 pp., 29x25 cm, 100 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

In response to conquests in mid-18th-century wars, Britons developed a keen interest in how their colonies actually looked. Artistic representations of these faraway places, claiming topographic accuracy from being "drawn on the spot", became increas...

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American Experiment George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters

Corbett David Peters

ISBN: PB: 9781857095272, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2011
56 pp., 23.4x19.3 cm, 32 colour illus.

In the first decades of the 20th century, painters of the Ashcan School, a loosely connected group of gritty, urban realists, created images of New York City from street level. Following older artist Robert Henri's insistence that artists should make...

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