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History of Art

Egon Schiele Self-Portraits and Portraits

Weidinger Alfred

ISBN: HB: 9783791351094, Prestel Publishing, February 2011
264 pp., 32x24 cm, 247 colour illus., 34 black&white illus.

This fascinating new book explores how Egon Schiele reinvented the art of portraiture, brilliantly capturing the inner lives of his numerous subjects – including himself. This book traces Schiele's development as a portraitist through four principal...

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Contemporary Art

Eva Hesse Spectres 1960

McKinnon E. Luanne

ISBN: HB: 9780300164152, Yale University Press, October 2010
130 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 30 colour illus.

In 1960 Eva Hesse (1936-1970) created an unusual group of oil paintings that, when considered in contrast to her sculptural assemblages from 1965 to 1970, foretell her desire to embody emotional states in abstract form. Contrary to existing scholarsh...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Echoes of the Past The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtansgshan

Tsiang Katherine R.

ISBN: PB: 9780935573503, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2010
257 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 3 charts, 3 tables, 1 map, 160 colour illus.

Carved into the mountains of northern China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan were the crowning cultural achievement of the sixth-century Northern Qi dynasty. Once home to a magnificent array of limestone sculptures, the caves were heavily...

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History of Art

Edwardian Sense Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901-1910

O'Neill Morna, Hatt Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300163353, Yale University Press, July 2010
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 90 black&white illus.

Although numerous studies have explored the Edwardian period (1901-1910) as one of political and social change, this innovative book is the first to explore how art, design, and performance not only registered those changes but helped to precipitate...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Empire Without End Antiquities Collections in Renaissance Rome c.1350-1527

Christian Kathleen Wren

ISBN: HB: 9780300154214, Yale University Press, June 2010
288 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 220 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

In the early fifteenth century, when Romans discovered ancient marble sculptures and inscriptions in the ruins, they often melted them into mortar. A hundred years later, however, antique marbles had assumed their familiar role as works of art displa...

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History of Art

El Greco to Goya Spanish Painting

Carr Dawson W.

ISBN: PB: 9781857094602, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2009
72 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 80 colour illus.

This book presents highlights of the National Gallery's outstanding collection of Spanish painting from the 15th to the 19th century – considered one of the finest outside of Spain. Haunting works by El Greco introduce the Golden Age of the 17th cen...

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Photography

Edge of Faith

Dalrymple William, Dasgupta Prabuddha

ISBN: HB: 9781906497316, Seagull Books, November 2009
140 pp., 25.1x24.9 cm, 70 halftones

Located on the west coast of India along the Arabian Sea, Goa officially became an Indian state in 1987 after nearly 500 years of Portuguese rule. This conflict of cultures is captured by Indian photographer Prabuddha Dasgupta in "The Edge of Faith"....

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Photography

Eva Fukova

ISBN: PB: 9788072153060, DAP, Torst, April 2009
128 pp., 17.8x15.8 cm, 80 duotone

Not for sale in Estonia! After the Second World War, Czech avant-garde photographer Eva Fukova and her first husband, Vladimir Fuka, were close to the artists of Skupina 42. In 1967, they emigrated to the United States, where Eva Fukova has continu...

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Fashion

Empire's New Clothes A History of the Russian Fashion Industry (1700-1917)

Ruane Christine

ISBN: HB: 9780300141559, Yale University Press, March 2009
256 pp., 27.6x22.6 cm, 50 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.

In 1701, Tsar Peter the Great decreed that all residents of Moscow must abandon their traditional dress and wear European fashion. Those who produced or sold Russian clothing would face "dreadful punishment". Peter's dress decree, part of his drive t...

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History of Art

Endless Forms Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts

Donald Diana, Munro Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780300148268, Yale University Press, February 2009
288 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 150 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Charles Darwin has had a profound influence on the fields of biology and natural history. But his ideas also imbued the work of many nineteenth-century artists. The slow process of evolution by "natural selection", the dynamic interplay of life forms...

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