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Impressionist France Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet

Kelly Simon, Watson April M., McWilliam Neil, Coughlin Maura

ISBN: PB: 9780300196955, Yale University Press, October 2013
320 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 359 colour illus.

Between 1850 and 1880, Impressionist landscape painting and early forms of photography flourished within the arts in France. In the context of massive social and political change that also marked this era, painters and photographers composed competin...

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Design

History of Design Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400-2000

Kirkham Pat, Weber Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300196146, Yale University Press, October 2013
704 pp., 30x24.8 cm, 760 colour and black&white illus.

Spanning six centuries of global design, this far-reaching survey is the first to offer an account of the vast history of decorative arts and design produced in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, and the Islamic world, from...

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Thomas Sully Painted Performance

Keyse Rudolph William, Eaton Soltis Carol

ISBN: HB: 9780300197419, Yale University Press, September 2013
192 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 160 colour illus.

Thomas Sully (1783-1872) painted some of the most dynamic personalities of the 19th century, including Queen Victoria, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Lafayette. Although he created more than two thousand portraits and subject paintings, his ful...

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Landscape Architecture

Gardens of the Renaissance

Kenne Bryan C.

ISBN: HB: 9781606061435, Getty Publications, May 2013
100 pp., 22.4x17.2 cm, 64 colour illus.

This is a fascinating volume that uses illustrated manuscripts to gain a unique insight into the gardens of the Renaissance. Whether part of a grand villa or an extension of a common kitchen, gardens in the Renaissance were planted and treasured in a...

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Chinese Silks

Kuhn Dieter, Watt James C. Y., Juanjuan Chen, Huang Nengfu, Wenying Li, Hao Peng, Feng Zhao

ISBN: HB: 9780300111033, Yale University Press, August 2012
624 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 600 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Over the past fifty years, archaeological explorations in China have unearthed a wealth of textile materials, some dating as far back as five thousand years. In this magnificently researched and illustrated book, preeminent Chinese and Western schola...

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Nature Drawings of Peter Karklins

Kirkland Sean D.

ISBN: PB: 9780978907457, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, August 2012
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 1 colour plate, 34 halftones

The German-born, Chicago-based Latvian artist Peter Karklins creates small, pencil-and-paper drawings that capture the processes and energies just below the surface of all human life. The complexity of his organic forms is matched by the artist's met...

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Gift Tradition in Islamic Art

Komaroff Linda

ISBN: PB: 9780300184358, Yale University Press, April 2012
160 pp., 27x24 cm, 70 colour illus.

The offering of gifts – state, religious and personal – is a practice nearly as ancient and widespread as human culture itself. At courts throughout the Islamic world, the exchange of lavish gifts intimately linked art with diplomacy, religion and pe...

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Shapeshifting Transformations in Native American Art

Kramer Russell Karen, Berlo Janet Catherine, Bernstein Bruce, Horse Capture Joseph D., Horton Jessica L., Chaat Smith, Ash-Millby Kathleen E., English Karah, Jonaitis Aldona

ISBN: HB: 9780300177329, Yale University Press, February 2012
248 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 144 colour images, 16 black&white illus.

Public perception of Native American art and culture has often been derived from misunderstandings and misinterpretations, and from images promulgated by popular culture. Typically, Native Americans are grouped as a whole and their art and culture co...

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Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence, Volume 2 Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana

Katcher Jane, Schorsch David A., Wolfe Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780300175806, Yale University Press, November 2011
432 pp., 27.9x26.7 cm, 470 colour illus.

This handsome book, the second volume of selections from "The Jane Katcher Collection", presents a superlative group of American folk and decorative arts created primarily in New England, New York, and Pennsylvania in the 18th and 19th centuries. It...

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Closer Look Techniques of Painting

Kirby Jo

ISBN: PB: 9781857095340, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2011
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 80 illus.

Materials and working practices influence a painter just as much as contemporary intellectual and cultural developments. "Techniques of Painting" aims to help readers develop a painterly eye by learning to recognize different materials and methods of...

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