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History of Art

Kongo Power and Majesty

LaGamma Alisa

ISBN: HB: 9781588395757, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
308 pp., 28x23.4 cm, 261 colour illus.

Artists from the kingdom of Kongo – a vast swath of Central Africa that today encompasses the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola-were responsible for outstanding creative achievements. With the influx of Portuguese, Dutch...

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History of Art

From Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic Landscape Painting in the Americas

Brownlee Peter John, Piccoli Valeria, Uhlyarik Georgiana

ISBN: HB: 9780300211504, Yale University Press, September 2015
320 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 260 colour illus.

As nations in the Americas gained independence in the early 19th century, a pictorial landscape tradition emerged. By 1840, landscape painting had become the primary medium for articulating conceptions of land and nation in the development of North a...

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Wrath of the Gods Masterpieces by Rubens, Michelangelo, and Titian

Atkins Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300215243, Yale University Press, September 2015
112 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 75 colour illus.

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) proudly described his monumental painting Prometheus Bound as first among "the flower of my stock". This singular work demonstrates how Rubens engaged with and responded to his predecessors Michelangelo and Titian, with...

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Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700 Opulence and Fantasy

Haidar Navina Najat, Sardar Marika

ISBN: HB: 9780300211108, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
384 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 350 colour illus.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Deccan plateau of south-central India was home to a series of important, highly cultured Muslim kingdoms and was a nexus of international trade. Invigorated by cultural connections to Iran, Turkey, East Africa, and...

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Decorative Arts

How to Read Chinese Ceramics

Leidy Denise Patry

ISBN: PB: 9781588395719, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
144 pp., 26.7x20.7 cm, 180 colour illus.

Chinese ceramics are among the most significant and widely collected decorative arts produced anywhere in the world, with a history that spans millennia. Despite the saturation of Chinese ceramics in global culture – in English, the word "china" has...

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History of Art

Art Conservation

Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History Volume 2: Art in Context

Barbour Daphne S., Gifford E. Melanie

ISBN: PB: 9780300217087, Yale University Press, September 2015
184 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 193 colour illus., black&white illus.

"Facture" presents the latest conservation research on masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, spanning the early Renaissance through the present and encompassing a range of media. Volume 2 examines great art of two very different...

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History of Art

Condition The Ageing of Art

Taylor Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781907372797, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, September 2015
264 pp., 24.2x16.8 cm, 140 colour illus.

Anyone writing about a work of art needs to establish at the outset how much it has changed since it was first made. This simple, informative and pracrical book, full of fascinating and revelatory photography, will take the reader through both the te...

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Contemporary Art

Sybil Andrews and the Grosvenor School Linocuts

Leaper Hana

ISBN: HB: 9780993078644, Casemate, Osborne Samuel Gallery, September 2015
90 pp., 24.5x19.5 cm, colour illus.

Sybil Andrews was a printmaker first and foremost and, like her Grosvenor School colleagues, was encouraged by their mentor and teacher Claude Flight (1881-1955). They adopted a Cubist-Futurist-Vorticist pictorial language that discarded the outrageo...

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Architecture

History of Art

On Loos, Ornament and Crime Columns of Smoke: Volume II

Lahuerta Juan Jose, Thomson Graham

ISBN: PB: 9788493923150, University of Chicago Press, Editorial Tenov, September 2015
112 pp., 21x15.8 cm, 56 halftones

In his Columns of Smoke series, Juan Jose Lahuerta takes on the enormously ambitious task of re-reading modernity, offering us fresh ways of looking at it while drawing new links between the ideas of architecture and ornamentation, with a special foc...

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Philosophy

History of Art

After the Beautiful Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226325583, ISBN: HB: 9780226079493, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 colour plates, 36 halftones

In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility – the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel's approach to art has been influen...

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