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William Trost Richards Hieroglyphs of Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9781892850393, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, January 2020
215 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 277 colour plates
This catalog accompanies the first monographic examination of the art of William Trost Richards in Boston. The exhibition, presented at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, features oil paintings, watercolors, and drawings, including many ra...
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£28,00
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Nature's Mirror Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9781892850294, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, September 2017
225 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 105 colour plates, 75 halftones
Since the Renaissance, art in Belgium and the Netherlands has been known for its innovations in realistic representation and its fluency in symbolism. New market forces and artistic concerns fueled the development of landscape as an independent genre...
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£30,00
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John La Farge and the Recovery of the Sacred
ISBN: PB: 9781892850249, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, August 2015
150 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 75 colour plates, 100 halftones
This collection offers a new look at American artist John La Farge (1835-1910) and his lifelong efforts to visualize the sacred. Most clearly reflected in his ecclesiastical paintings and stained glass windows, the latter of which appear in churches...
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£26,50
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Roman in the Provinces Art on the Periphery of Empire
ISBN: PB: 9781892850225, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, August 2014
300 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 75 colour plates, 125 halftones
This beautifully illustrated volume presents new ways of thinking about the concept of "being Roman" – with a particular emphasis on the way people in the provinces and on the periphery of the empire reacted to the state of being a Roman subject. Acc...
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£37,50
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Courbet Mapping Realism
ISBN: PB: 9781892850218, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, October 2013
130 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 35 colour plates, 25 halftones
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French artist whose work heralded the realist movement of the nineteenth century and his paintings have had a profound influence on other artists from around the world, including Claude Monet, James McNeill Whistler,...
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£30,00
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New Key Modern Belgian Art from the Simon Collection
ISBN: PB: 9781892850126, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, February 2007
233 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 53 colour plates, 81 halftones
The Simon Collection, housed in London and France, is the finest assemblage of modern Belgian art outside Belgium. Accompanying an exhibition held at Boston College's McMullen Museum, "A New Key" presents fifty-three works never before displayed in N...
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£37,50
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Edvard Munch Psyche, Symbol and Expression
ISBN: PB: 9781892850027, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, June 2001
168 pp., 24.8x21.8 cm, 125 halftones, 24 colour plates
"My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are?" – Edvard Munch Published in conjunction with a major exhibit at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College,"Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expression" includes nine essays fr...
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£41,50
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