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History of Art

Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe

Rowland Ingrid D.

ISBN: PB: 9780935573282, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2000
110 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 9 colour plates, 81 halftones

A scholar's desk, a warlord's castle, a pope's altar, the mouth of a volcano: in the minds of early modern Europeans, all evoked memories of ancient times, from Egyptian pharaohs to Roman emperors. The essays in this catalog explore the influence of...

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History of Art

Chardin

Rosenberg Pierre, Beamish Caroline

ISBN: HB: 9780300083484, Yale University Press, March 2000
360 pp., 31.9x24.3 cm, 35 black&white illus., 127 colour illus.

Widely acknowledged in his time as a premier painter of still-life and genre scenes, Jean-Baptiste-Simion Chardin (1699-1779) created unsentimentalised works that appeal to viewers today for their richness of feeling and simplicity of composition. Th...

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Postcards

Walker Evans A Gallery of Postcards

Rosenheim Jeff L.

ISBN: PB: 9780871300607, DAP, Eakins Press Foundation, March 2000
0 pp., 15.2x10.2 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! The eight scrupulously tritone dry-trap printed postcards that make up "A Gallery of Postcards" were originally produced by Walker Evans in 1936 by contact printing sections of his 8 x 10-inch negatives onto the smaller Kod...

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Sculptures of the Parthenon Aesthetics and Interpretation

Rossholm Lagerlof Margaretha

ISBN: HB: 9780300073911, Yale University Press, January 2000
212 pp., 21x15 cm, 51 black&white illus., 6 colour illus.

This generously illustrated book provides a complete overview of current knowledge about the sculptures of the Parthenon and suggests new interpretations of the ancient temple's sculptural creations. Margaretha Lagerlof steps back from viewing the fr...

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Photography

Picturing Ourselves Photography and Autobiography

Rugg Linda Haverty

ISBN: PB: 9780226731476, ISBN: HB: 9780226731469, University of Chicago Press, December 1997
293 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 40 halftones, 5 line drawings

Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple and fragmented selves. As Linda Haverty Rugg convin...

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History of Art

Art on the Edge Creators and Situations

Rosenberg Harold

ISBN: PB: 9780226726748, University of Chicago Press, June 1983
318 pp., 20.4x13.5 cm, 75 halftones

Contents: List of Illustrations Foreword Creators 1. Duchamp: Private and Public 2. Miro I. Fertile Fields II. Avant-Garde Masterpieces 3. Mondrian: Meaning in Abstract Art I 4. Newman: Meaning in Abstract Art II 5. Olitski, Kelly, Hamilton...

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De-Definition of Art

Rosenberg Harold

ISBN: PB: 9780226726731, University of Chicago Press, June 1983
256 pp., 20.1x13.3 cm, 53 halftones

Contents: On the De-definition of Art Part One: Art and Words 1. Redmen to Earthworks 2. De-aestheticization 3. Educating Artists 4. Surrealism in the Streets 5. Art and Words Part Two: Artists 6. Pro-Art Dada – Jean Arp 7. Primitive a la Mode – J...

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