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Art Conservation

Conservation of Artifacts Made From Plant Materials

Florian Mary-Lou E., Kronkright Dale Paul, Norton Ruth E.

ISBN: PB: 9780892361601, Getty Publications, March 2006
350 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 68 black&white illus., 160 line drawings

This teaching guide covers the identification, deterioration, and conservation of artifacts made from plants. It will be a valuable resource for conservators and students alike.

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History of Art

Index of Paintings Sold in British Isles During Nineteenth Century Part 1: A-N

Fredericksen Burton B., Armstrong Julia I.

ISBN: HB: 9780892363957, Getty Publications, March 2006
583 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

This work, covering the years 1816-1820, makes the contents of some of the tens of thousands of sales catalogues published during the 19th century accessible to scholars. Information provided includes sales dates and lot numbers, prices and names of...

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History of Art

Paintings and Drawings in the Wrightsman Collection

Fahy Everett, Rosenberg Pierre, Barker Elizabeth E., Goldner George, Ives Colta, Rewald Sabine, Stein Perrin, Tinterow Gary

ISBN: HB: 9780300107197, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2005
320 pp., 28x22.8 cm, 180 colour illus.

This lavish catalogue presents 150 European paintings, pastels, and drawings from the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century that have been given to the Metropolitan Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman or are still held in Mrs. Wrightsman...

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Photography

Eva Davidova

Farova Anna

ISBN: PB: 9788072152346, DAP, Torst, August 2005
112 pp., 18.4x16.5 cm, 108 duotones

Not for sale in Estonia! Ethnographer, sociologist, art historian and photographer, Eva Davidova is one of the founders of Gypsy (Roma) studies in the Czech Republic and has been illuminating and investigating this secretive society for half a cent...

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Contemporary Art

Christo and Jeanne-Claude On the Way to the Gates, Central Park, New York City

Fineberg Jonathan David, Volz Wolfgang

ISBN: PB: 9780300104059, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2005
224 pp., 26.9x29.2 cm

This exquisitely produced book celebrates the culmination of the artists' vision for The Gates, a project that began in 1979. Richly illustrated with photographs by Wolfgang Volz, the book features an introduction by Jonathan Fineberg that surveys th...

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Photography

Drive by Shooting

Forsythe Max

ISBN: HB: 9781861542786, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, June 2005
56 pp., 34x34 cm, 25 colour illus.

The first in a planned series of books on photography by Max Forsythe, "Drive by Shooting" presents a unique and unrepeatable view of life, society and the myriad moments that surround us through photographs shot from inside moving cars, trains and r...

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History of Art

Readings in Latin American Modern Art

Frank Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300102550, Yale University Press, May 2004
288 pp., 24x15.6 cm

This important and welcome volume is the first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century. The book includes some fifty seminal essays and documents – including statements, interviews, and manifestoes...

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History of Art

Treasures of the National Gallery of Canada

Franklin David

ISBN: HB: 9780300099447, Yale University Press, September 2003
288 pp., 28.5x24.8 cm, 135 illus.

Pride of place is given to the Gallery's unparalleled holdings in Canadian art, but European art – paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings – is equally well represented. Masterworks from the Inuit art collection are also included, as well as examp...

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Design

Future Present

Farrelly Liz, Skeens Nick

ISBN: HB: 9781861541468, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2002
204 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, full-colour illus.

This volume documents a selection of items from the "Millennium Products" chosen by the UK's Design Council as a showcase of ground-breaking work by Britain's leading designers, inventors, manufacturers and retailers. These products exemplify fantast...

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History of Art

Cowboys, Indians, and the Big Picture

Fryer Heather

ISBN: PB: 9781892850041, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, October 2002
113 pp., 25.7x25.7 cm

The American West has had an enormous influence on the nation's imagination, including its fine art. From the Western Realists – as epitomized by the Cowboy Artists of America's mission to produce "authentic representations of life in the West" – to...

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