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Visualizing Empire Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation
ISBN: PB: 9781606066683, Getty Publications, January 2021
200 pp., 0x0 cm
An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized France's colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects to racialized ideas of life in the empire. By the end of World War I, having fortified its colonial holdings in the Caribbe...
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£45,00
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Italian Paintings in the Norton Simon Museum The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
ISBN: HB: 9780300250497, Yale University Press, January 2021
416 pp., 27.9x24.7 cm, 203 colour illus.
The preeminent collector Norton Simon amassed more than 100 Italian paintings during his 35-year career, and today they stand among the treasures of the Norton Simon Museum. In this catalogue – the first of two volumes devoted to the museum's Italian...
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£60,00
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Goering's Man in Paris The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World
ISBN: HB: 9780300251920, Yale University Press, January 2021
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 black&white illus.
Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Goring to Hitler's special art looting agency, he went on to supervise the systematic theft and distribution of over 22,000 artworks, largely from F...
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£25,00
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Renaissance Treasures from the Edmond Foulc Collection
ISBN: PB: 9780876332948, Yale University Press, January 2021
64 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 45 colour illus.
In 1930, the Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired the collection of medieval and Renaissance sculpture and decorative arts assembled by Edmond Foulc (1828-1916). Foulc's beautiful Paris residence was an important gathering place for like-minded art en...
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£9,00
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West 86th, Volume 23, Issue 2
ISBN: PB: 9780226441276, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Bard Graduate Center in New York City,  "West 86th"  reaffirms the Center's commitment to expanding the conversation regarding the content, meaning, and significance of objects".West 86th"...
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£16,00
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Pensive Image Art as a Form of Thinking
ISBN: HB: 9780226717951, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 26 halftones
While the philosophical dimension of painting has long been discussed, a clear case for painting as a form of visual thinking has yet to be made. Traditionally, vanitas still life paintings are considered to raise ontological issues while landscapes...
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£28,00
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Impressionism in Russia Dawn of the Avant-Garde
ISBN: HB: 9783791359830, Prestel Publishing, November 2020
264 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 colour illus.
In the late 19th century, numerous Russian artists found inspiration in the style of French Impressionist painters. Often, a journey to Paris acted as a catalyst for their burgeoning interest in the movement. They developed a preference for working e...
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£39,99
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Rembrandt in Amsterdam Creativity and Competition
ISBN: HB: 9780300249934, Yale University Press, November 2020
300 pp., 29.8x23.5 cm, 250 illus.
Around the age of 25, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) moved from his hometown of Leiden to Amsterdam, which was the commercial capital of northern Europe at that time. Considered a bold step for a fledgling artist, this change demonstrates that Rembra...
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£40,00
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Kuniyoshi
ISBN: HB: 9783791385099, Prestel Publishing, November 2020
288 pp., 36.4x30 cm, 247 colour illus., 34 black&white illus.
Best known for his depictions of fierce samurai warriors in battle, Utagawa Kuniyoshi also produced landscapes, portraits of Kabuki actors, and images of mythical animals. His dynamic action scenes and fantastic creatures are recognized today as prec...
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Speaking of Objects African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780300254327, Yale University Press, November 2020
216 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 135 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Featuring a selection of more than 75 works of traditional African art in the Art Institute of Chicago's collection, this stunning volume includes objects in a wide variety of media from regions across the continent. Essays and catalogue entries by l...
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