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Decorative Arts

Fruits of Desire A Seventeenth-Century Carved Ivory Cup

Schmidt Eike D.

ISBN: HB: 9780892369409, Getty Publications, July 2009
56 pp., 22.2x12.7 cm, 25 colour illus.

This is a delightfully illustrated exploration of one of the most revered pieces of seventeenth-century ivory carving in the world. An extraordinary achievement in terms of its artistic rendering of the human body, its masterful carving of details, a...

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Contemporary Art

Outside In Chinese x American x Contemporary Art

Silbergeld Jerome, Ching Dora C. Y., Lim Michelle, Liu Cary Y., Seiffert Gregory, Wishart Kimberly

ISBN: HB: 9780300122084, Yale University Press, April 2009
272 pp., 27.3x22.9 cm, 215 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

The art world is currently enthralled with contemporary Chinese art. This thoughtful book argues, however, that American audiences have been exposed only to a narrow range of what is available – with the majority of exposure having been given to avan...

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Contemporary Art

Disappearance of Objects New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City

Shannon Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9780300137064, Yale University Press, February 2009
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 48 colour images, 141 black&white illus.

In the years around 1960, a rapid process of deindustrialization profoundly changed New York City. At the same time, massive highway construction, urban housing renewal, and the growth of the financial sector altered the city's landscape. As the new...

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History of Art

John Talman An Early Eighteenth-Century Connoisseur

Sicca Cinzia Maria, Baker Christopher, Borgioli Cristina, Connor Bulman Louisa M., Capitanio Antonella, Collareta Marco, Davidson Peter, Freddolini Francisco, Giometti Cristiano, Harris John

ISBN: HB: 9780300123357, Yale University Press, February 2009
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 108 colour illus.

This handsome book is the only full-length study of John Talman (1677-1726), the first director of the Society of Antiquaries and one of the most influential collectors of drawings in early 18th-century Britain. Prominent scholars discuss the history...

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History of Art

Picturing the Bible The Earliest Christian Art

Spier Jeffrey, Kessler Herbert L., Fine Steven, Jensen Robin Margaret, Deckers Johannes G., Charles-Murray Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780300149340, Yale University Press, January 2009
328 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 251 colour images, 52 black&white illus.

"Picturing the Bible" explores the vast tradition of Christian art at its very beginnings in the third century A.D., just as Christianity was emerging from its outlawed, clandestine status to become the state religion of the Roman Empire. What images...

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Women Studies

History of Art

Moved by Love Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France

Sheriff Mary D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226752884, University of Chicago Press, December 2008
320 pp., 24.9x17.5 cm, 63 halftones

In eighteenth-century France, the ability to lose oneself in a character or scene marked both great artists and ideal spectators. Yet it was thought this same passionate enthusiasm, if taken to unreasonable extremes, could also lead to sexual devianc...

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Contemporary Art

Literary Criticism

Correspondence Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein

Stein Gertrude, Picasso Pablo

ISBN: PB: 9780857425850, ISBN: HB: 9781905422913, Seagull Books, November 2008
390 pp., 21.3x19.6 cm

Pablo Picasso was one of the most prodigious and revolutionary artists in the history of Western painting. Gertrude Stein was an avant-garde American writer, art collector, eccentric and self-styled genius. Her Paris home was the leading salon for ar...

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History of Art

Prayer Book of Charles Bold A Study of a Flemish Masterpiece from the Burgundian Court

Schryver Antoine de, Kren Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780892369430, Getty Publications, October 2008
312 pp., 24.8x17 cm, 46 colour illus., 124 black&white illus.

In January 1469, the accounts of Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy (reigned 1467-77) record a payment to the noted scribe Nicolas Spierinc "for having written... some prayers for my lord". Seven months later, the same accounts record a payment to the...

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Design

Designing Universal Knowledge The World as Flatland: Report 1

Schuller Gerlinde

ISBN: HB: 9783037781494, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2008
304 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 650 illus.

The development of modern communication and information technologies like the Internet and globalization have not only changed access and spread of the available knowledge but also the speed of collecting. The author examines collections of knowledge...

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Contemporary Art

Paris Portraits Artists, Friends, and Lovers

Silver Kenneth E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300145434, Yale University Press, September 2008
224 pp., 30.5x24 cm, 45 full page colour, 125 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

The art of portraiture reached a pinnacle of expressive achievement in early twentieth-century Paris. Liberated by the advent of photography, artists were able to reimagine the nature of human portrayal, producing kinds of portraits – Fauve, Cubist,...

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