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Contemporary Art

Sharon Hayes

Iles Chrissie

ISBN: PB: 9780300180374, Yale University Press, July 2012
150 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 75 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

In her performances, videos, and installations, Sharon Hayes (b. 1970) explores the nexus between politics, history, speech, and desire. Her works modify or appropriate the language and tools of political dissent, creating unexpected affinities betwe...

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Jean Fouquet and the Invention of France Art and Nation after the Hundred Years War

Inglis Erik

ISBN: HB: 9780300134438, Yale University Press, May 2011
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 180 black&white illus., 60 colour illus.

Jean Fouquet was France's most important fifteenth-century artist, painting for the courts of Charles VII and Louis XI. His art synthesized the realistic style of Flemish artists like van Eyck with the monumentality of Florentines like Masaccio. Fouq...

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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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Contemporary Art

Decade in Conversation A Ten-Year Celebration of The Bucksbaum Award, 2000-2010

Iles Chrissie, Paul Christiane, Foster Carter, Kukielski Tina

ISBN: PB: 9780300167559, Yale University Press, July 2010
88 pp., 24.1x19.7 cm, 46 colour illus.

Established in 2000 by the Martin Bucksbaum Family Foundation and the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Bucksbaum Award is presented biennially to an artist living and working in the U. S. "whose work demonstrates a singular combination of talent a...

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History of Art

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese Rivals in Renaissance Venice

Ilchman Frederick

ISBN: HB: 9780878467396, DAP, MFA Publications, May 2009
304 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 160 colour illus., 10 duotone

Not for sale in Estonia! For nearly four decades in the sixteenth century, the careers of Venice's three greatest painters – Titan, Tintoretto and Veronese – overlapped, producing mutual influences and bitter rivalries that changed art history. Ven...

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Contemporary Art

Paul McCarthy Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement: Three Installations, Two Films

Iles Chrissie

ISBN: HB: 9780300141382, Yale University Press, August 2008
80 pp., 24.1x22.2 cm, 5 black&white illus., 25 colour illus.

This is the first publication to explore the role of mirrors, spinning, and "neurotic" architecture – a feeling of psychological breakdown – in the work of one of America's most important contemporary artists, Paul McCarthy (b. 1945). The book is pub...

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History of Art

Gardens in Art

Impelluso Lucia

ISBN: PB: 9780892368853, Getty Publications, August 2007
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.

An intriguing and richly illustrated analysis of the symbolic imagery found in gardens throughout history, this work features dedicated mailing to targeted art and gardening related media and organisations. This superbly illustrated volume presents r...

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Gods and Heroes in Art

Impelluso Lucia

ISBN: PB: 9780892367023, Getty Publications, March 2006
384 pp., 19.5x13.5 cm, 400 colour illus.

As archetypes of human virtue and vice, the gods and heroes of Ancient Greece and Rome have figured prominently in Western culture. In art, they have been portrayed time and time again, especially during the Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical peri...

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Nature and its Symbols

Impelluso Lucia

ISBN: PB: 9780892367726, Getty Publications, March 2006
384 pp., 19.8x13.8 cm, 400 colour illus.

"Nature and Its Symbols" is the fifth volume in the series "A Guide to Imagery", reference guides whose goal is to explain the symbols used in art. This volume includes chapters on plants, flowers, fruits, and animals of the earth, air, and water, as...

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Design

Designing Modern America Broadway to Main Street

Innes C. D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300108040, Yale University Press, November 2005
230 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 136 black&white illus.

From the 1920s through the 1950s, two individuals, Joseph Urban and Norman Bel Geddes, did more, by far, to create the image of 'America' and make it synonymous with modernity than any of their contemporaries. Urban and Bel Geddes were leading Broadw...

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