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History of Art

Stavitsky Gail, Rothkopf Katherine, Kyle Jill Anderson, Warman Jane S., Handy Ellen, Smith Jerry N., Tompkins Lewis Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780300147155, Yale University Press, August 2009
376 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 190 colour illus.

Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) is one of the great geniuses in the history of art, and his work has influenced a multitude of artists throughout Europe. Across the Atlantic, Cezanne's paintings had a similarly catalytic effect on artists emerging in the Un...

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History of Art

Decoded Messages The Symbolic Language of Chinese Animal Painting

Sung Hou-Mei

ISBN: HB: 9780300141528, Yale University Press, August 2009
256 pp., 29x24.4 cm, 200 colour illus.

During the Ming Dynasty numerous new animal themes were created to convey political and ethical messages current at court. As the result a sophisticated language of Chinese animal painting was developed, employing both the animals' symbolic associati...

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History of Art

John Talman An Early Eighteenth-Century Connoisseur

Sicca Cinzia Maria, Baker Christopher, Borgioli Cristina, Connor Bulman Louisa M., Capitanio Antonella, Collareta Marco, Davidson Peter, Freddolini Francisco, Giometti Cristiano, Harris John

ISBN: HB: 9780300123357, Yale University Press, February 2009
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 108 colour illus.

This handsome book is the only full-length study of John Talman (1677-1726), the first director of the Society of Antiquaries and one of the most influential collectors of drawings in early 18th-century Britain. Prominent scholars discuss the history...

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Picturing the Bible The Earliest Christian Art

Spier Jeffrey, Kessler Herbert L., Fine Steven, Jensen Robin Margaret, Deckers Johannes G., Charles-Murray Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780300149340, Yale University Press, January 2009
328 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 251 colour images, 52 black&white illus.

"Picturing the Bible" explores the vast tradition of Christian art at its very beginnings in the third century A.D., just as Christianity was emerging from its outlawed, clandestine status to become the state religion of the Roman Empire. What images...

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History of Art

Moved by Love Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France

Sheriff Mary D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226752884, University of Chicago Press, December 2008
320 pp., 24.9x17.5 cm, 63 halftones

In eighteenth-century France, the ability to lose oneself in a character or scene marked both great artists and ideal spectators. Yet it was thought this same passionate enthusiasm, if taken to unreasonable extremes, could also lead to sexual devianc...

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Prayer Book of Charles Bold A Study of a Flemish Masterpiece from the Burgundian Court

Schryver Antoine de, Kren Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780892369430, Getty Publications, October 2008
312 pp., 24.8x17 cm, 46 colour illus., 124 black&white illus.

In January 1469, the accounts of Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy (reigned 1467-77) record a payment to the noted scribe Nicolas Spierinc "for having written... some prayers for my lord". Seven months later, the same accounts record a payment to the...

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Mystic Masque Semblance and Reality in Georges Rouault, 1871-1958

Schloesser Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781892850140, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, September 2008
600 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, 200 colour and halftone plates

In the fifty years since Georges Rouault's death, his paintings have fallen from the heights of popularity in the 1940s and 50s to the depths of neglect in recent years. The publication of "Mystic Masque", which accompanies an exhibition of the same...

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Painting Out of the Ordinary Modernity and the Art of Everyday Life in Early Nineteenth-century Britain

Solkin David H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140613, Yale University Press, July 2008
384 pp., 29.5x24.8 cm, 100 black&white illus., 150 colour illus.

At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, London's art world was taken by storm by a new generation of painters, whose novel approach to the depiction of everyday life critics loudly trumpeted as a sign of the nation's cultural pre-eminence. Led by the p...

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History of Art

Reclaimed Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker

Sutton Peter C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300137293, Yale University Press, May 2008
224 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 200 illus.

Jacques Goudstikker (1897-1940), a Jewish Dutch art dealer, took over his father's gallery in 1919 and quickly made his presence felt. Introducing a more international thrust to the gallery and demonstrating a keen business acumen, Goudstikker became...

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Contemporary Art

Fragile Demon Juan Soriano in Mexico, 1935-50

Sullivan Edward J., Fuentes Carlos, Paz Octavio

ISBN: PB: 9780300136883, Yale University Press, March 2008
60 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 33 colour illus.

One of Mexico's most important modern artists, Juan Soriano (1920-2006) served as a link between the nationalist imagery of the Mexican muralists and the experimental vanguard of the 1950s and 1960s known as "La Ruptura". This fascinating book, which...

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