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History of Art

Impressionist and Modern Art The A. Jerrold Perenchio Collection

Lehmbeck Leah

ISBN: HB: 9783791355610, Prestel Publishing, November 2016
256 pp., 30x24.8 cm, 187 colour illus.

The collection of former Univision CEO A. Jerrold Perenchio is a treasure trove of masterpieces, including important works by Bonnard, Degas, Leger, Magritte, Manet, Monet, Picasso, and others. By donating this incredible collection to LACMA, Perench...

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Influences Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance

Quinlan-McGrath Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226421667, ISBN: HB: 9780226922843, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones, 14 line drawings

Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light rad...

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Iskandar Jalil Kembara Tanah Liat (Clay Travels)

ISBN: PB: 9789811101908, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, August 2016
364 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, colour illus.

Iskandar Jalil is celebrated as one of Southeast Asia's most prominent ceramicists. Known for his high level of discipline, tenacity and dedication, the Colombo Plan scholar is a recipient of multiple accolades including the prestigious Order of the...

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Indian Court Painting The Kronos Collection

McInerney Terence, Kossak Steven M.

ISBN: HB: 9781588395900, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2016
272 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

This splendidly illustrated publication features over 90 important paintings from the predominantly Hindu Rajput tradition of Indian painting, and are highlights from the Kronos Collection, one of the finest holdings of Indian art. These remarkable w...

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Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago

Townsend Richard F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300214833, Yale University Press, A+D Series, March 2016
368 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 500 colour illus.

This landmark publication catalogues the Art Institute of Chicago's outstanding collection of Indian art of the Americas, one of the foremost of its kind in the United States. Showcasing a host of previously unpublished objects dating from the Precol...

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In the Courts of Religious Ladies Art, Vision, and Pleasure in Italian Renaissance Convents

Periti Giancarla

ISBN: HB: 9780300214239, Yale University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 85 colour illus., 110 black&white illus.

This fascinating study considers the poetic and mythological artworks made for elite female monastic communities in Renaissance Italy. Nuns from the patrician class, who often disregarded obligations of austerity and poverty, commissioned sensually a...

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In the Shadow of Rama Murals of the Ramayana in Mainland Southeast Asia

Roveda Vittorio

ISBN: HB: 9786167339306, Prestel Publishing, River Books, November 2015
256 pp., 31.3x24.4 cm

"In the Shadow of Rama" examines the most beautiful paintings of the famous Ramayana murals, from Southeast Asi. This magnificent book is the culmination of 20 years of research and provides a visual feast for all those fascinated by the art of South...

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Impressionists' Palettes of Light

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311002, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, October 2015
68 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 12 colour illus.

The French Impressionist painters discovered new means for painting light – they used a "solar palette", the pigments matched to the colours the eyes see. They are the colours of a ray of light. This little book reproduces palettes by 8 of the plein-...

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Impressionism Reimagining Art

Wolf Norbert

ISBN: HB: 9783791349787, Prestel Publishing, September 2015
272 pp., 34x28 cm, 200 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Reflecting the most recent research on this groundbreaking artistic movement, this lavishly illustrated and comprehensive book examines Impressionism on a global scale, from its iconic French masterpieces to less familiar works by Scandinavian, Germa...

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Institutions and Imaginaries

Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780982879863, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, August 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

Socially engaged art, though its transformative practice, shapes the institutions that surround it. And in a city famous for both its physical and political structures, few creative communities are as deeply intertwined with a city's framework than t...

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