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Vigeland + Munch Behind the Myths

Nielsen Trine Otte Bak

ISBN: HB: 9780300220032, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, July 2016
304 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 275 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

"Vigeland + Munch" is the first publication to thoroughly outline the parallels between two monumental figures of Norwegian art, painter and printmaker Edvard Munch (1863-1944) and sculptor Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943). With only a six year difference...

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Late Medieval Panel Paintings: Materials, Methods, Meanings Volume II

Nash Susie

ISBN: PB: 9781907372919, Casemate, Sam Fogg, January 2016
352 pp., 30x24.5 cm, 400 colour illus.

This beautiful and extensively illustrated catalogue presents in-depth case studies of twenty-four rare and remarkable Late Medieval panel paintings, many from the German-speaking regions of Europe, but also from Spain, France and the Southern Nether...

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Cy Twombly's Things

Nesin Kate

ISBN: HB: 9780300190113, Yale University Press, April 2014
224 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 50 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Cy Twombly (1928-2011) is widely acknowledged as one of the postwar period's most influential American artists, yet his sculptures are little known. From 1946 onward, he made hundreds of rarely exhibited found-object assemblages, often painted or pla...

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Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture

Neer Richard T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226570648, ISBN: HB: 9780226570631, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 10 colour illus., 130 halftones, 12 line illus.

In the fifth century B. C. E, an artistic revolution occurred in Greece, as sculptors developed new ways of representing bodies, movement, and space. The resulting "Classical" style would prove influential for centuries and millennia to come. Modern...

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Richard Parkes Bonington The Complete Drawings

Noon Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780300170450, Yale University Press, October 2011
220 pp., 33x24.6 cm, 400 black&white illus.

By the time of Richard Parkes Bonington's tragic death from tuberculosis in 1828, the 25-year-old artist, who was born in England and moved to France as a teenager, was already a seminal figure in the development of modernism in 19th-century French p...

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Late Medieval Panel Paintings: Materials, Methods, Meanings Volume I

Nash Susie

ISBN: PB: 9780955339349, Casemate, Sam Fogg, October 2011
298 pp., 30x24.5 cm, 440 colour illus.

These exquisite late Medieval works, often fragments of larger altarpieces designed for liturgy or devotion, can be monumental and dramatic or small and intimate, but all on close examination prove to be rich in meaning.

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Controversy of Renaissance Art

Nagel Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226567723, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
376 pp., 25.7x22.4 cm, 100 halftones, 60 colour illus.

Many studies have shown that images – their presence in the daily lives of the faithful, the means used to control them, and their adaptation to secular uses – were at the heart of the Reformation crisis in northern Europe. But the question as it aff...

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Devotion by Design Italian Altarpieces Before 1500

Nethersole Scott

ISBN: HB: 9781857095258, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2011
128 pp., 25x15 cm, 50 colour illus.

Museum visitors today usually see pre-16th-century Italian painted altarpieces exhibited alone, as single paintings. Yet this beautiful catalogue shows that these works were once part of decorative, integrated schemes, and the original experience for...

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To Make a World George Ault and 1940s America

Nemerov Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300172393, Yale University Press, May 2011
156 pp., 28.4x26.7 cm, 35 black&white illus., 55 colour illus.

An American painter usually associated with the Precisionist movement, George Copeland Ault (1891-1948) created works that provide a unique window on to the uncertainty and despair of the Second World War. Despite early commercial success in the 1920...

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Sculpture and Enlightenment

Naginski Erika

ISBN: HB: 9780892369591, Getty Publications, July 2009
336 pp., 26.7x19 cm, 33 colour illus., 78 black&white illus.

This is a unique volume that explores the ways in which the aesthetics of public art were affected by the social, political, and cultural changes of the Enlightenment. This pioneering book chronicles the transformation of public art in eighteenth-cen...

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