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Learning in and Through Art A Guide to Discipline Based Art Education

Dobbs Stephen Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780892364947, Getty Publications, March 2006
150 pp., 28x21.6 cm, illus.

This Handbook provides a practical, straightforward guide to the theory and practice of discipline-based art education. This comprehensive approach to art education has transformed the way students create and understand art, it also offers opportunit...

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History of Art

Lure of the Object

Melville Stephen W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300103373, Yale University Press, March 2006
240 pp., 24x17.8 cm, 40 black&white illus.

This latest volume in the critically acclaimed Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series examines the force of art history's attrraction to particular objects and the corresponding rhythms of attachment and detachment that animate the discipline. In a...

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Education

Looking at Greek and Roman Sculpture in Stone A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques

Grossman Janet Burnett

ISBN: PB: 9780892367085, Getty Publications, March 2006
120 pp., 23.2x15.8 cm, 75 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

Tool marks and joins, Cycladic and Daedalic styles, and kouroi and kanephoroi are among the many terms pertaining to the study of classical stone sculpture that are succinctly described in this latest addition to the "Looking At" series. Presented in...

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History of Art

Lasting Impressions The Grolier Club Library

Holzenberg Eric

ISBN: HB: 9780910672528, University of Chicago Press, November 2004
224 pp., 26.5x21.6 cm, 180 colour plates, 50 halftones

Three years after the founding of the Grolier Club in 1884, the club's Library Committee was established with a mission "to gather together for the use of the members all the standard bibliographical works, as well as books relating to the art of pri...

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Leonardo on Painting Anthology of Writings by Leonardo Da Vinci with a Selection of Documents Relating to His Career as an Artist

Kemp Martin, Walker Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780300090956, Yale University Press, October 2001
320 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, chiefly illus.

Leonardo's writings on painting – among the most remarkable from any era – were never edited by Leonardo himself into a single coherent book. In this anthology the authors have edited material not only from his so-called Treatise on Painting but also...

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Contemporary Art

Louise Bourgeois' Spider The Architecture of Art-Writing

Bal Mieke

ISBN: HB: 9780226035758, University of Chicago Press, June 2001
88 pp., 22x16.8 cm, 25 colour illus.

The sculptor Louise Bourgeois is best known for her monumental abstract sculptures, one of the most striking of which is the installation "Spider" (1997). Too vast in scale to be viewed all at once, this elusive structure resists simple narration. It...

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Leonardo, The Last Supper

Barcilon Pinin Brambilla, Marani Pietro C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226504278, University of Chicago Press, April 2001
458 pp., 12x10 cm, 382 colour plates, 64 halftones

Leonardo's Last Supper, one of the most important works of the Renaissance if not all of Western art, was painted between 1494 and 1498 in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. From the moment that the prior at the monastery complained...

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Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Reynolds Joshua, Ingamells John, Edgcumbe John

ISBN: HB: 9780300087338, Yale University Press, December 2000
318 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 illus.

A collection of letters by Sir Joshua Reynolds. It is the first edition to be published since 1929, and since that date the number of known letters has almost doubled. This volume contains 308 letters by the artist to friends, family and patrons, all...

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Legends in Limestone Lazarus, Gislebertus, and the Cathedral of Autun

Seidel Linda

ISBN: HB: 9780226745152, University of Chicago Press, October 1999
200 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 78 halftones, 9 line drawings, 2 maps, 2 tables

Whereas twelfth-century pilgrims flocked to the church of St-Lazare in Autun to visit the relics of its patron saint, present-day pilgrims journey there to admire its superb sculpture, said to have been created by the artist Gislebertus whose name is...

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Largesse

Starobinski Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226771366, ISBN: HB: 9780226771359, University of Chicago Press, June 1997
220 pp., 30x21.1 cm, 30 colour plates, 50 halftones

In 1990 the Department of Graphic Arts at the Louvre made their holdings available to guest curators for a program called Parti Pris, or "Taking Sides". In this program, major cultural figures outside of the discipline of art history organized exhibi...

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