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Art and Music in Venice From the Renaissance to Baroque

Goldfarb Hilliard T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197921, Yale University Press, October 2013
240 pp., 35.6x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Artistic and musical creativity thrived in the Venetian Republic between the early 16th century and the close of the 18th century. The city-state was known for its superb operas and splendid balls, and the acoustics of the architecture led to complex...

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Decorative Arts

Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland A History

Carruthers Annette

ISBN: HB: 9780300195767, Yale University Press, October 2013
468 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 100 colour images, 250 black&white illus.

This authoritative book is the most detailed account to date of the Arts and Crafts movement in Scotland. Arts and Crafts ideas appeared there from the 1860s, but not until after 1890 did they emerge from artistic circles and rise to popularity among...

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Ancestors of Christ Windows at Canterbury Cathedral

Weaver Jeffrey, Caviness Madeline Harrison

ISBN: PB: 9781606061466, Getty Publications, September 2013
104 pp., 27.7x19.8 cm, 63 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

This is an illuminating look at some of the oldest stained glass – and most famous medieval paintings – in all of England. Eighty-six near life-size figures of the male ancestors of Christ once looked down on the choir and eastern extension of the me...

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American Adversaries West and Copley in a Transatlantic World

Ballew Neff Emily, Weber Kaylin H., Berlo Janet Catherine, Clifton James, Costello Leo, Lloyd Christopher, Pierce Donna, Postle Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780300196467, Yale University Press, August 2013
320 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 220 colour illus.

American artists and innovators Benjamin West (1738-1820) and John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) changed the way history was recorded in the 18th century and became America's first global art superstars. Initially friends but eventually bitter rivals,...

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Contemporary Art

Afterlife of Piet Mondrian

Troy Nancy J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226008691, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
316 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 22 colour plates, 65 halftones

Dutch painter Piet Mondrian died in New York City in 1944, but his work and legacy have been far from static since then. From market pressures to personal relationships and scholarly agendas, posthumous factors have repeatedly transformed our underst...

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American Painters on Technique 1860-1945

Mayer Lance, Myers Gay

ISBN: HB: 9781606061350, Getty Publications, July 2013
276 pp., 23.7x16 cm, 20 colour illus.

This is an insightful survey on the materials and techniques of American artistis, from 1860 to 1945. This second volume in the "American Painter's on Technique" series is the first overview of an important but largely unknown aspect of American art...

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Afterall Summer 2013, Issue 33

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Kreuger Anders, Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9781846381201, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm

Since its launching 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 yea...

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Alice Aycock Drawings

Fineberg Jonathan, Sultan Terrie

ISBN: PB: 9780300191103, Yale University Press, May 2013
160 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 102 colour images, 15 black&white illus.

Alice Aycock (b. 1946) emerged onto the New York art scene in the 1970s and is best known for her large-scale public sculptures that often combine an industrial appearance with references to weightlessness as well as to science and cosmology. Aycock...

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Afterall Spring 2013, Issue 32

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Kreuger Anders, Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9781846381027, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm

"Afterall", a journal of art, context, and enquiryoffers 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, "Afterall" also features essays...

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Arts of India, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia at the Dallas Museum of Art

Bromberg Anne R., Asher Catherine B., Asher Frederick M., Clark Robert W., Tingley Nancy

ISBN: HB: 9780300149883, Yale University Press, March 2013
264 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 120 colour illus.

In recent years, the Dallas Museum of Art has expanded its collection of South Asian art from a small number of Indian Temple sculptures to nearly 500 works, including Indian Hindu and Buddhist sculptures, Himalayan Buddhist bronze sculptures and rit...

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