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One Hundred Details from the National Gallery

Clark Kenneth

ISBN: HB: 9781857094268, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, April 2008
160 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Originally published in 1938 when Kenneth Clark was director of the National Gallery, London, this book presents Clark's favorite details from paintings in the museum's collection. Newly updated and handsomely illustrated, this landmark book juxtapos...

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Silent Rhetoric of the Body A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770

Craske Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300135411, Yale University Press, February 2008
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 60 black&white illus.

This illuminating and original book opens up a neglected corner of eighteenth-century art – the funeral monument. In the last forty years, studies of the satires of early and mid-eighteenth-century England have multiplied, whereas its funerary monume...

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Joseph Cornell's Dreams

Cornell Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9781878972415, DAP, Exact Change, June 2007
160 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! Joseph Cornell is well known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Many have tried, often in vain, to put into words the strange power of his boxes – toy-like constructions whose playfulness and humor are anchored i...

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Clark Brothers Collect Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings from the Collections of Sterling and Stephen Clark

Conforti Michael, Ganz James A., Harris Neil, Vincent Gilbert T., Cohen-McFall Daniel, Lees Sarah, Maurer Susannah, Rand Richard, Simpson Marc

ISBN: HB: 9780300116199, Yale University Press, August 2006
368 pp., 25x28.1 cm, 100 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

Brothers Sterling and Stephen Clark, heirs to the Singer sewing machine fortune, were among the twentieth century's most influential art collectors. This volume examines their magnificent collections, their personal lives and public profiles, and the...

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Surrealism and its Others Yale French Studies, Number 109

Conley Katherine, Taminiaux Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9780300110722, Yale University Press, August 2006
224 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm

This issue of "Yale French Studies" on "Surrealism and Its Others"examines the works and theories of writers, artists, and thinkers who positioned themselves and their productions in dialogue with Breton's surrealism. Although surrealism always sough...

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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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Andrea Mantegna The Adoration of the Magi

Carr Dawson M.

ISBN: PB: 9780892362875, Getty Publications, March 2006
96 pp., 23.5x19.2 cm, 20 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

Mantegna's magnificent painting, in the Getty collection, is based on one of Christianity's most beloved stories. The picture is much more than a Christmas-card image though. Dawson Carr explores Mantegna's life and milieu in fifteenth-century Padua...

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Education

Elementary Instructions for Students of Sculpture

Carradori Francesco, Bernardini Paolo, Auvinen Matti Kalevi

ISBN: PB: 9780892366880, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 28.5x21 cm, 17 black&white illus.

This is a translation of the 1802 introduction to studio practices for sculpture students by Francesco Carradori (1747-1824), a sculptor, restorer, and instructor of sculpture at the Accademia in Florence from 1786 to 1821. Carradori's instructions a...

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Nine Letters on Landscape Painting Written in the Years 1815-1824, with a Letter From Goethe by Way of Introduction

Carus Carl Gustav, Batschmann Oskar, Britt David

ISBN: PB: 9780892366743, Getty Publications, March 2006
200 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 26 black&white illus.

Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) – court physician to the King of Saxony – was a naturalist, amateur painter and theoretician of landscape painting whose "Nine Letters on Landscape Painting" is an important document of early German Romanticism and an ap...

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Dosso's Fate Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy

Ciammitti Luisa, Ostrow Steven F., Settis Salvatore

ISBN: PB: 9780892365050, Getty Publications, March 2006
432 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 154 illus.

Dosso Dossi has long been considered one of Renaissance Italy's most intriguing artists. Although a wealth of documents chronicles his life, he remains, in many ways, an enigma, and his art continues to be as elusive as it is compelling. In "Dosso's...

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