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British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Wright Christopher, Gordon Catherine, Smith Mary Peskett

ISBN: HB: 9780300117301, Yale University Press, June 2006
850 pp., 29.5x24.8 cm

This book, the first of its kind, sets a new standard as a work of reference covering British and Irish art in public collections from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth. The remit has been as broad as possible. Apart...

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Body-building Reforming Masculinities in British Art, 1750-1810

Myrone Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780300110050, Yale University Press, January 2006
352 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 175 black&white illus.

This ambitious and original book explores the radical transformation of the heroic male body in late eighteenth-century British art. It ranges across a period in which a modern art world was established, taking into account the lives and careers of a...

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Body Doubles Sculpture in Britain, 1877-1905

Getsy David J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300105124, Yale University Press, September 2004
256 pp., 26.5x20.4 cm, 150 illus.

Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an explosion of interest in sculpture. Sculptors of the "New Sculpture" movement engaged in a wide range of experimentation, seeking a new direction and a modern idiom for their art. This book analyzes for...

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Blake Records

Bentley Gerald Eades

ISBN: HB: 9780300096859, Yale University Press, February 2004
1008 pp., 24x16.8 cm, 32 colour images, 32 black&white illus.

Poet, painter, engraver and mystic, William Blake (1757-1827) is unequalled for the imaginary force and visionary power of his works. This work collects all the known documentary records relating to Blake's long and productive life. G.E. Bentley, the...

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Brush With Nature The Gere Collection of Landscape Oil Sketches (Revised Edition)

Riopelle Christopher, Bray Xavier

ISBN: HB: 9781857099980, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2003
176 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 20 black&white illus., 101 colour illus.

More than forty years ago, John and Charlotte Gere, both distinguished art historians, pioneered the collecting of small-scale landscape oil sketches created by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists working out of doors in nature. Such paintings...

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Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum

Barnett Vivian Endicott

ISBN: HB: 9780300096354, Yale University Press, November 2002
512 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, some illus.

A famous art collector, dealer, and indomitable champion of modern art, Emmy (Galka) Scheyer (1889-1945) is best known as the founder of the Blue Four artists' group, whose members were Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Alexei Jawlensky and Vasily Kandins...

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Bernini Flights of Love, the Art of Devotion

Careri Giovanni

ISBN: PB: 9780226092737, University of Chicago Press, March 1995
168 pp., 22.9x15.4 cm, 41 halftones

Nowhere is evidence of Bernini's unique abillity to unite architecture with sculpture and painting into a beautiful whole more compelling than in the Baroque chapel of Bernini's design: a dark world sealed below by a balustrade, covered by a luminous...

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