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History of Art

Sacred Possessions Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900

Feigenbaum Gail, Ebert-Schifferer Sybille

ISBN: PB: 9781606060421, Getty Publications, December 2010
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 86 black&white illus.

This is a brief history of and investigation into the collecting of sacred art. When works of art created for religious purposes outlive their original function, they often take on new meanings as they move from sacred spaces to secular collections....

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History of Art

Writing Art History Disciplinary Departures

Iversen Margaret, Melville Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780226388267, ISBN: HB: 9780226388250, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 line drawings, 30 halftones

Faced with an increasingly media-saturated, globalized culture, art historians have begun to ask themselves challenging and provocative questions about the nature of their discipline. Why did the history of art come into being? Is it now in danger of...

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History of Art

Afterall Autumn/Winter 2010, Issue 25

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Lafuente Pablo, Roelstraete Dieter

ISBN: PB: 9781846380693, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 100 colour plates

"Afterall" is a journal of art, context, and inquiry that offers in-depth consideration of the work of contemporary artists from around the world, along with essays that set the work in a broader context. Articles on art history and critical theory a...

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History of Art

Tragic Muse Art and Emotion, 1700-1900

Leonard Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780935573497, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, December 2010
128 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 75 colour illus.

Art is often appreciated for its ability to delight our eyes and refresh our minds. But it can also serve as a powerful vehicle for exploring darker emotions, such as fear, sadness, and grief. And while these themes have an artistic history dating ba...

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Limits of Art Two Essays

Todorov Tzvetan

ISBN: HB: 9781906497620, Seagull Books, December 2010
96 pp., 25x15 cm

Tzvetan Todorov, one of Europe's leading intellectuals, explores the complex relations between art, politics, and ethics in the essays that make up "The Limits of Art". In one essay, "Artists and Dictators", Todorov traces the intimate relationship b...

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History of Art

Collector without Walls Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best

Campbell Sara

ISBN: HB: 9780300166729, Yale University Press, November 2010
480 pp., 30x25.2 cm, 2500 colour illus.

The American art collector Norton Simon assembled his astonishing collection of more than 8,000 artworks in just thirty-five years. In 1966, with no permanent home for the growing collection, Simon created his 'museum without walls' programme – lendi...

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History of Art

Raw Painting "The Butcher's Shop" by Annibale Carracci

Dickerson C. D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300166408, Yale University Press, November 2010
88 pp., 24.8x19.1 cm, 7 black&white illus., 51 colour illus.

Born in Bologna, Annibale Carracci (1564-1609) was one of the most revolutionary artists of the late Renaissance. Even before turning twenty, he rebelled against convention by investing his art with a sense of naturalism uncommon to paintings of the...

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History of Art

Origins of Baroque Art in Rome

Riegl Alois, Hopkins Andrew, Witte Arnold

ISBN: HB: 9781606060414, Getty Publications, November 2010
292 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 47 black&white illus.

Delivered three times between 1898 and 1902 and subsequently revised with an eye towards publication, Alois Riegl's lectures on the origins of Baroque art in Rome broke new ground in its field. This first English translation brings Riegl's compelling...

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History of Art

Reconsidering Gerome

Allan Scott, Morton Mary

ISBN: PB: 9781606060384, Getty Publications, November 2010
168 pp., 24.3x15.4 cm, 8 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.

Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904) was an undisputed success during his life. Crowds flocked to see his vibrant compositions and thanks to mass marketing of his work through mechanical reproduction, he reached audiences on an unprecedented scale. Despite G...

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History of Art

Gauguin's Paradise Remembered The Noa Noa Prints

Wright Alastair, Brown Calvin

ISBN: PB: 9780300149296, Yale University Press, November 2010
136 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 6 black&white illus., 87 colour illus.

In 1891, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) traveled to Tahiti in an effort to live simply and to draw inspiration from what he saw as the island's exotic native culture. Although the artist was disappointed by the rapidly westernizing community he encountered...

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