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History of Art

Washington Crossing the Delaware Restoring an American Masterpiece

Rebora Barratt Carrie, Mayer Lance, Myers Gay, Smeaton Suzanne, Wilner Eli

ISBN: PB: 9780300176421, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2012
48 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 55 colour images, 10 black&white illus.

Emanuel Leutze's life-size "Washington Crossing the Delaware" commemorates the critical moment in the American Revolution when George Washington led a surprise attack against troops supporting the British forces in Trenton, New Jersey. When Leutze cr...

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William Nicholson Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings

Reed Patricia, Baron Wendy, James Merlin

ISBN: HB: 9780300170542, Yale University Press, October 2011
672 pp., 28.4x26.4 cm, 640 colour reproductions, 90 black&white illus.

William Nicholson (1872-1949) is among the most admired and elusive painters in the history of British art. Neither academic nor overtly modernist, his ravishing paintings are a singular achievement of the early twentieth century. Nicholson made his...

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What Ever Happened to Modernism?

Josipovici Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9780300178005, Yale University Press, August 2011
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 6 black&white illus.

The quality of today's literary writing arouses the strongest opinions. For novelist and critic Gabriel Josipovici, the contemporary novel in English is profoundly disappointing – a poor relation of its groundbreaking Modernist forebears. This agile...

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Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam

Berlekamp Persis

ISBN: HB: 9780300170603, Yale University Press, April 2011
224 pp., 28.4x22.6 cm, 55 black&white illus., 40 colour illus.

This original book untangles fundamental confusions about historical relationships among Islam, representational images, and philosophy. Closely examining some of the most meaningful and best preserved premodern illustrated manuscripts of Islamic cos...

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History of Art

Writing Art History Disciplinary Departures

Iversen Margaret, Melville Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780226388267, ISBN: HB: 9780226388250, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 line drawings, 30 halftones

Faced with an increasingly media-saturated, globalized culture, art historians have begun to ask themselves challenging and provocative questions about the nature of their discipline. Why did the history of art come into being? Is it now in danger of...

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Willem de Kooning The Artist's Materials

Lake Susan F.

ISBN: PB: 9781606060216, Getty Publications, November 2010
112 pp., 25.6x18.9 cm, 34 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

This is the first systematic and truly methodical study of de Kooning's idiosyncratic working methods and use of materials. This in-depth study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Dutch-born American abstract expressionist painter, fro...

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Worldly Art The Dutch Republic, 1585-1718

Westermann Mariet

ISBN: PB: 9780300107234, Yale University Press, August 2010
192 pp., 23.1x16.3 cm, 16 black&white illus., 114 colour illus.

Newly independent in 1585, the increasingly prosperous and politically powerful Dutch Republic experienced a tremendous rise in the production of artwork that was unparalleled in quantity, variety, and beauty. Now back in print, this classic book (or...

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William Merritt Chase Volume 4: Still Lifes, Interiors, Figures, Copies of Old Masters, and Drawings

Pisano Ronald G., Lane Carolyn K., Baker D. Frederick

ISBN: HB: 9780300110197, Yale University Press, June 2010
255 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 211 black&white illus., 127 colour illus.

This is the fourth and final volume in the complete catalogue of the work of William Merritt Chase (1849-1916). Included in this handsome book are interiors, primarily paintings of his renowned Tenth Street Studio, and still life paintings, in partic...

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Woodcut in Fifteenth-century Europe

Parshall Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300121636, Yale University Press, October 2009
352 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 124 duotones, 124 colour illus.

More than a generation before the invention of Gutenberg's celebrated press, the new technology of image printing emerged. In this book, a distinguished group of scholars treats the earliest manifestations of printing in all aspects: technical experi...

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William Merritt Chase Volume 3: Landscapes in Oil

Pisano Ronald G., Lane Carolyn K., Baker D. Frederick

ISBN: HB: 9780300110203, Yale University Press, February 2009
248 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 209 colour illus., 49 black&white illus.

Admired for finding beauty in everyday surroundings, William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) brought an autobiographical element to his work, earning him a unique place in late-19th-century American art history. This book, the third of four volumes to docu...

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