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History of Art

Search for Immortality Tomb Treasures of Han China

Lin James C. S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300184341, Yale University Press, March 2012
384 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 350 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

During the last two centuries BC, the Western Han dynasty of China forged the first stable empire covering all of China and presided over a golden age that shaped much of subsequent Chinese art and culture. From family values to the structure of the...

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Contemporary Art

Photography

John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 1: 1956-1974

Pardo Patrick, Dean Robert, Bois Yve-Alain, Baldessari John, Knight Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300174489, Yale University Press, March 2012
550 pp., 29.2x25.1 cm, 500 colour illus.

The pioneering conceptual artist John Baldessari (b. 1931) began his career as a painter in the 1950s, but in the subsequent decades he expanded his practice in a new and groundbreaking direction by juxtaposing texts with found photography or appropr...

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Contemporary Art

Cosima von Bonin Character Appropriation

Malone Meredith

ISBN: PB: 9780936316338, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, March 2012
48 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 27 colour illus.

Spanning a decade of its subject's multifaceted career, "Cosima von Bonin: Character Appropriation" features the Kenya-born, Germany-based artist's signature textile paintings, architectural sculptures, and absurdly outsized stuffed animals. In addit...

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Photography

This Day Photographs from Twenty-five Years, the Northwest Coast

Adams Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300180053, Yale University Press, February 2012
106 pp., 24.1x21 cm, 68 tritone illus.

In "This Day", Robert Adams observes two kinds of landscapes – that inside his home, including arrangements of nasturtium leaves and apples on the kitchen table, as well as the views outside his window and beyond. The windswept headlands, beach grass...

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History of Art

Murillo Virtuoso Draftsman

Brown Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300175707, Yale University Press, February 2012
320 pp., 27x22 cm, 100 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Known primarily as a great painter, Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682) was also one of the best draftsmen of the 17th century. Although his devotional paintings seem to have been created effortlessly, they are the result of careful thought and stu...

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History of Art

Shapeshifting Transformations in Native American Art

Kramer Russell Karen, Berlo Janet Catherine, Bernstein Bruce, Horse Capture Joseph D., Horton Jessica L., Chaat Smith, Ash-Millby Kathleen E., English Karah, Jonaitis Aldona

ISBN: HB: 9780300177329, Yale University Press, February 2012
248 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 144 colour images, 16 black&white illus.

Public perception of Native American art and culture has often been derived from misunderstandings and misinterpretations, and from images promulgated by popular culture. Typically, Native Americans are grouped as a whole and their art and culture co...

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Photography

Patti Smith Camera Solo

Lubowsky Talbott Susan, Monroe Erin

ISBN: PB: 9780300182293, Yale University Press, February 2012
96 pp., 21.6x17.8 cm, 70 tritone illus.

This captivating selection of 70 intimate black and white photographs conveys Patti Smith's singular experience as a photographer as it relates to many facets of her fascinating life and career. Exquisitely designed and produced, "Patti Smith: Camera...

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Photography

Catalogue Raisonne

Timothy H. O'Sullivan The King Survey Photographs

Davis Keith F., Aspinwall Jane Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300179842, Yale University Press, February 2012
260 pp., 27.9x27.9 cm, 345 colour and black&white illus.

Clarence King's Survey, undertaken between 1867 and 1872, covered a vast swathe of terrain, from the border of California eastward to the edge of the Great Plains. It was the first survey to include a full-time photographer – Timothy O'Sullivan – who...

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Contemporary Art

Clay's Tectonic Shift John Mason, Ken Price, and Peter Voulkos, 1956-1968

MacNoughton Mary Davis

ISBN: HB: 9781606061053, Getty Publications, February 2012
240 pp., 28.6x22.3 cm, 131 colour illus., 37 black&white illus.

This is an absorbing look at the work of three artists who paved the way for ceramics to be considered fine art. "Clay's Tectonic Shift" focuses on artists John Mason (b. 1927), Kenneth Price (b. 1935), and Peter Voulkos (1924-2002) and their radical...

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History of Art

Renoir, Impressionism, and the Full-length Painting

Bailey Colin B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300181081, Yale University Press, February 2012
304 pp., 31.1x24.8 cm, 255 colour illus.

Throughout his long working life, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) produced large-format portraits and subject pictures. From the mid-1870s to the mid-1880s – the decade of Impressionism – his vertical, grand-scale canvases were among the artist's m...

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