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560 Broadway A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006

Eshoo Amy, Cartwright Derrick R., Cuno James, Finch Elizabeth, Helfenstein Josef, Lowry Glenn D., Mickenberg David, Philbin Ann, Powell Earl A., Reynolds Jock

ISBN: HB: 9780300135398, Yale University Press, February 2008
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 180 colour illus.

"560 Broadway" is the first book to explore one of this country's most remarkable private collections of modern and contemporary American drawings. Featuring such artists as Sol Lewitt, Mel Bochner, Jasper Johns, and Agnes Martin, the collection of W...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

George Stubbs, Painter

Egerton Judy

ISBN: HB: 9780300125092, Yale University Press, October 2007
700 pp., 33x24.6 cm, 485 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

George Stubbs (1724-1806) is now rightly recognised as one of the greatest and most original artists of the eighteenth century. His profound understanding of anatomy and his uncanny ability to translate the study of nature into remarkably balanced co...

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Window – Interface

Eckmann Sabine, Koepnick Lutz

ISBN: PB: 9780936316222, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, August 2007
96 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 40 colour plates

Windows both connect and divide interior and exterior, public and private spaces. Interfaces update the function of the window in today's world of omnipresent screens and digital information".Window's Interface", based on a forthcoming exhibition at...

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Contemporary Art

[Grid< >Matrix]

Eckmann Sabine, Koepnick Lutz

ISBN: PB: 9780936316208, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, January 2007
80 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 27 colour plates

"[Grid < > Matrix] "is the first publication in the Screen Arts and New Media Aesthetics series, a series of exhibitions and publications that explore the interpenetration of different screens of representation in contemporary culture – from the canv...

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History of Art

What Happened to Art Criticism?

Elkins James

ISBN: PB: 9780972819633, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, November 2003
87 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

Art criticism was once passionate, polemical, and judgmental; now critics are more often interested in ambiguity, neutrality, and nuanced description. And while art criticism is ubiquitous in newspapers, magazines, and exhibition brochures, it is als...

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History of Art

Pelican History of Art

Islamic Art and Architecture, 650-1250

Ettinghausen Richard, Grabar Oleg, Jenkins-Madina Marilyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300088694, Yale University Press, July 2003
352 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 350 black&white illus., 150 colour illus.

This illustrated book provides an overview of Islamic art and architecture during a time that witnessed the formation of a new artistic culture and its first, medieval, flowering in the vast area from the Atlantic to India. Inspired by Ettinghausen a...

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Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages

Eco Umberto, Bredin Hugh

ISBN: PB: 9780300093049, Yale University Press, March 2002
144 pp., 19.5x11.8 cm

In this volume, the Italian novelist and playwright Umberto Eco aims to present a learned summary of mediaeval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic t...

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Tekstura Russian Essays on Visual Culture

Efimova Alla, Manovich Lev

ISBN: PB: 9780226951249, ISBN: HB: 9780226951232, University of Chicago Press, October 1993
264 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 15 halftones, 3 line drawings, 2 figures

Fascinated by the myth of the Russian avant-garde and scornful of official art, the West has been selective in its engagement with Russian visual culture. Yet how do contemporary Russian scholars and critics themselves approach the history of visual...

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Temptation of Saint Redon Biography, Ideology, and Style in the Noirs of Odilon Redon

Eisenman Stephen F.

ISBN: HB: 9780226195483, University of Chicago Press, December 1992
310 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 156 halftones

Bristling with demons, grotesques, and bizarre apparitions, the graphic work of Odilon Redon has often seemed to be the product of a mind unhinged. In "The Temptation of Saint Redon", Stephen F. Eisenman argues instead that these works are Redon's co...

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