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Myself and My Aims Writings on Art and Criticism
ISBN: HB: 9780226129396, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
656 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 83 halftones
Kurt Schwitters was a major protagonist in the histories of modern art and literature, whose response to the contradictions of modern life rivals that of Marcel Duchamp in its importance for artists working today. His celebrated Merz pictures – colla...
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Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Joefnagel
ISBN: HB: 9781606066584, Getty Publications, September 2020
424 pp., 0x0 cm
In 1561-62 the master calligrapher Georg Bocskay (died 1575), imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, created Mira calligraphiae monumenta (Model Book of Calligraphy) as a demonstration of his own preeminence among scribes. Some thi...
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Collector The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces
ISBN: PB: 9780300254815, ISBN: HB: 9780300234770, Yale University Press, September 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.
Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was one of the first to appreciate the qualities of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and to a...
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Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project
ISBN: PB: 9781606066546, Getty Publications, September 2020
228 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 160 colour illus. illus; 26 diagrams, tables
Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these paintings...
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Monet and Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780300250831, Yale University Press, September 2020
144 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 104 colour and black&white illus.
In 1903, the Art Institute of Chicago became the first American museum to buy a painting by Claude Monet (1840–1926), beginning a tradition of collecting that has inextricably connected this midwestern city to the French Impressionist master. Tracing...
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James Ensor Chronicle of His Life, 1860-1949
ISBN: PB: 9780300253979, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, September 2020
224 pp., 24.8x20 cm, 200 illus.
The Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949) was a major figure in the Belgian avant-garde of the late 19th century and an important precursor to the development of Expressionism in the early 20th century. Daring and socially engaged, Ensor included po...
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Making the Modern Artist Culture, Class and Art-Educational Opportunity in Romantic Britain
ISBN: HB: 9781913107154, Yale University Press, September 2020
288 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 200 illus.
The artist has been a privileged figure in the modern age, embodying ideals of personal and political freedom and self-fulfillment. Does it matter who gets to be an artist? And do our deeply held beliefs stand up to scrutiny? "Making the Modern Artis...
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Lectures on Art Selected "Conferences" from the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, 1667-1772
ISBN: PB: 9781606066461, Getty Publications, August 2020
480 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 73 colour illus.
Between 1667 and 1792, the artists and amateurs of the Acade mie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris lectured on the Academie's "conferences", foundational documents in the theory and practice of art. These texts and the principles they embod...
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William Blake Visionary
ISBN: HB: 9781606066423, Getty Publications, August 2020
160 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 135 colour illus., 1 black&white illus.
William Blake (1757-1827) is a universal artist – an inspiration to musicians, poets, performers, and visual artists worldwide. By combining his poetry and images on the page through radical printing techniques, Blake created some of the most strikin...
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Maine's Lithographic Landscapes Town and City Views, 1830-1870
ISBN: HB: 9781684580255, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2020
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates
During the nineteenth century, Americans celebrated their towns and cities through printed landscapes. In Maine, lithographs were commissioned from such leading artists as Fitz Henry Lane and talented, lesser known local artists, such as Esteria Butl...
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