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Collecting with the Cobbes of Newbridge An Anglo-Irish Countryhouse Museum, 1750-1850

MacGregor Arthur

ISBN: HB: 9780300204353, Yale University Press, March 2015
400 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 100 black&white illus., 200 colour images

This beautiful book reveals the fascinating history of the cabinet of curiosities belonging to the Cobbe family, who created it around 1750 at Newbridge House (Co. Dublin) and developed it over the following century. Now housed at Hatchlands Park, Su...

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Machine Age Modernism Prints from the Daniel Cowin Collection

Clarke Jay A., Black Jonathan, Kosinski Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780300211665, Yale University Press, March 2015
80 pp., 23.5x22.9 cm, 50 colour illus.

This group of 40 prints from the exceptional Daniel Cowin Collection captures the tumultuous aesthetic and political climate of the years surrounding World Wars I and II. An essay by Jonathan Black addresses the impact of World War I on two notable B...

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Buddhist Art of Myanmar

Fraser-Lu Sylvia, Stadtner Donald M., Chain U Tun Aung, Leider Jacques, Pranke Patrick, Brown Robert, Tan Heidi, Proser Adriana

ISBN: HB: 9780300209457, Yale University Press, March 2015
272 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus.

The practice of Buddhism in Myanmar (Burma) has resulted in the production of dazzling objects since the 5th century. This landmark publication presents the first overview of these magnificent works of art from major museums in Myanmar and collection...

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Art Nouveau New Edition

Wolf Norbert

ISBN: HB: 9783791381558, Prestel Publishing, March 2015
304 pp., 32x22 cm, 241 colour illus.

Now available in a new edition, this sumptuous volume explores key aspects of Art Nouveau – decorative arts, architecture, fashion, dance, advertising, and more – with an in-depth approach and stunning illustrations. The Art Nouveau movement became...

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Ancient World

Ennion Master of Roman Glass

Lightfoot Christopher, Wight Karol B., Pilosi Lisa, Wypyski Mark T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300208771, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2015
160 pp., 26.7x23.5 cm, 100 colour illus.

Among glass craftsmen active in the first century A.D., the most famous and gifted was Ennion, who came from the coastal city of Sidon in modern Lebanon. Ennion's glass stood out for its quality and popularity, and his products are distinguished by t...

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Van Gogh The Birth of an Artist

Van Heugten Sjraar, Vellekoop Marije, Jansen Leo, Moens Bart, Tilly Pierre, Laloux Pierre-Olivier, Vouters Bruno, Daloze Marcel

ISBN: HB: 9780300212129, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2015
304 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 230 colour illus.

In 1878, at age 25, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) arrived in the area of Belgium known as the Borinage to work as a Protestant evangelist in rural coal mining communities. He failed in that vocation, and after months of soul-searching, in August 1880,...

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Contemporary Art

Futures of Surrealism Myth, Science Fiction, and Fantastic Art in France, 1936-1969

Parkinson Gavin

ISBN: HB: 9780300209716, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 60 colour illus., 45 black&white illus.

Although Surrealism is usually associated with the 1920s and 1930s, it remained a vital force in Paris throughout the postwar period. This important book offers the first detailed account in English of the trajectory of the French Surrealists in the...

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Afterall Spring 2015, Issue 38

Vilalta Helena, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Kreuger Anders, Cahill Zachary

ISBN: PB: 9781846381560, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
160 pp., 29.8x19 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Since its launch in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context, and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a year,...

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The Swiss List

Pilgrim's Bowl Giorgio Morandi

Jaccottet Philippe

ISBN: HB: 9780857422286, Seagull Books, March 2015
64 pp., 19.5x13.9 cm, 10 colour plates

In "The Pilgrim's Bowl", Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet meditates on the work of Italian artist Giorgio Morandi and its power to evoke a complexity of emotions and astonishment. Jaccottet examines Morandi's ascetic still lifes, contrasting his artisti...

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Alfred Maurer At the Vanguard of Modernism

Epstein Stacey

ISBN: HB: 9780300207804, Yale University Press, February 2015
256 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 176 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

American painter Alfred Maurer (1868-1932) worked within an international circle of avant-garde artists, and his friendships with key figures, including the collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein as well as Dr. Albert Barnes, positioned him at the nexus o...

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