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Gluck Art and Identity

Haye Amy de la, Pel Martin, Horsley Jeffrey, Patrick Andrew Macintosh, Martin Simon, Clarke Gill, Souhami Diana, Wilson Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300230482, Yale University Press, November 2017
208 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 236 colour illus.

Hannah Gluckstein (who called herself Gluck; 1895-1976) was a distinctive, original voice in the early evolution of modern art in Britain. This handsome book presents a major reassessment of Gluck's life and work, examining, among other things, the a...

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Murillo The Self-Portraits

Salomon Xavier F., Treves Letizia, Alvarez-Garcillan Maria, Centeno Silvia, Garcia-Maiquez Jaime, Keith Larry, Mahon Dorothy, Ryder Nicole

ISBN: HB: 9780300225686, Yale University Press, November 2017
144 pp., 30.2x24.1 cm, 65 colour illus.

This beautiful publication accompanies an exhibition that brings together the only two known self-portraits by Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), one of the finest painters of the Spanish Golden Age. Painted almost twenty years apart, these two r...

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Artistry in Bronze The Greeks and Their Legacy XIXth Internationl Congress on Ancient Bronzes

Lapatin Kenneth, Daehner Jens M., Spinelli Ambra

ISBN: PB: 9781606065419, Getty Publications, November 2017
492 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

The papers in this volume derive from the proceedings of the nineteenth International Bronze Congress, held at the Getty Center and Villa in October 2015 in connection with the exhibition Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World. T...

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Artists in Exile Expressions of Loss and Hope

Josenhans Frauke V., Bozovic Marijeta, Koerner Joseph Leo, Luke Megan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300225709, Yale University Press, November 2017
272 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 174 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

This timely book offers a wide-ranging and beautifully illustrated study of exiled artists from the 19th century through the present day, with notable attention to individuals who have often been relegated to the margins of publications on exile in a...

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Behind the Mask Artists in the GDR

Westheider Ortrud, Philipp Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783791356952, Prestel Publishing, November 2017
248 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 colour illus.

"Behind the Mask: Artists in the GDR" focuses on the wide variety of artistic self-staging in the GDR, between public and private, prescribed collectivism and creative individuality. The intention of the GDR's official state art was to exert politica...

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Lake Keitele Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Robbins Anne

ISBN: HB: 9781857096248, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2017
72 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 35 colour and black&white illus.

Relatively unknown outside of his homeland, Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931) was a leading figure in modern Finnish painting and the decorative arts. This publication focuses on four versions of his shimmering depictions of Lake Keitele (1904-1905),...

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Frederic Church A Painter's Pilgrimage

Myers Kenneth John, Avery Kevin J., Carr Gerald L., Volait Mercedes

ISBN: PB: 9780300218435, Yale University Press, November 2017
224 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 125 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

Frederic Church (1826-1900), one of the leading painters of 19th-century America and the Hudson River School, also journeyed around the globe to find fresh inspiration for his highly detailed compositions. Among Church's lesser-known masterpieces are...

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Michelangelo Divine Draftsman and Designer

Bambach Carmen C., Barry Claire, Caglioti Francesco, Cuperi Walter, Elam Caroline, McDonald Mark, Marongiu Marcella, Mussolin Mauro, Rinaldi Furio, Zanchettin Vitale

ISBN: HB: 9781588396372, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2017
400 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 300 colour illus.

The Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was especially celebrated for his disegno, a term that embraces both drawing and conceptual design. Featuring more than 200 drawings as well as paintings, sculpture, and architectural...

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Between Worlds Raden Saleh and Juan Luna

Storer Russell

ISBN: PB: 9789811146848, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, November 2017
208 pp., 29.5x22.9 cm

National heroes and enigmatic figures, 19th-century painters Raden Saleh and Juan Luna traversed the colonial territories of Southeast Asia and the imperial cities of Europe. Their agile navigation of these competing positions resulted in dramatic pa...

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Visual Voyages Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin

Bleichmar Daniela

ISBN: HB: 9780300224023, Yale University Press, November 2017
240 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 153 colour illus.

From the voyages of Christopher Columbus to those of Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, the depiction of the natural world played a central role in shaping how people on both sides of the Atlantic understood and imaged the region we now know...

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