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History of Art

Temptation of Saint Redon Biography, Ideology, and Style in the Noirs of Odilon Redon

Eisenman Stephen F.

ISBN: HB: 9780226195483, University of Chicago Press, December 1992
310 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 156 halftones

Bristling with demons, grotesques, and bizarre apparitions, the graphic work of Odilon Redon has often seemed to be the product of a mind unhinged. In "The Temptation of Saint Redon", Stephen F. Eisenman argues instead that these works are Redon's co...

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Contemporary Art

Memories That Smell Like Gasoline

Wojnarowicz David

ISBN: HB: 9780963109507, DAP, Artspace Books, September 1992
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Not content to be a tremendous photographer, painter, filmmaker, performance artist and activist David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was also the author of three classic books: "Close to the Knives", "The Waterfront Journals" and...

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History of Art

Mantegna and Painting as Historical Narrative

Greenstein Jack M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226307077, University of Chicago Press, June 1992
316 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 61 halftones

In this extraordinary explication of one of the most enigmatic and influential works of the Renaissance, the "Uffizi Circumcision of Christ", Jack M. Greenstein reassesses the nature and goals of high humanist narrative painting. Contents: List o...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Arts in Prehistoric Greece

Hood Sinclair

ISBN: PB: 9780300052879, Yale University Press, May 1992
311 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 237 colour and black&white illus.

A survey of how the Aegean peoples expressed themselves during a period of some 5000 years after the end of the Bronze Age (circa 1100 BC), and before the rise of Greek art. Work produced in the ambience of the palaces of Crete (including the palace...

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History of Art

Archaeology & Paleontology

Prehistoric Art in Europe

Sandars N. K.

ISBN: PB: 9780300052862, Yale University Press, May 1992
508 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 442 colour and black&white illus.

Until around 10,000 BC art in Europe appears to have been in advance of the rest of the world and throws light on the total history of early man. The great masterpieces of cave-painting at Lascaux are well known, and one tradition of early sculpture...

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History of Art

Pelican History of Art

Sculpture in Britain, 1530-1830

Whinney Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780300053180, ISBN: HB: 9780300053173, Yale University Press, May 1992
522 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 318 colour and black&white illus.

This comprehensive survey of sculpture in Britain from the Reformation to the accession of Queen Victoria aims to shed light on English taste in the period. It examines the family tomb and the portrait bust, the forms of sculpture most favoured in Br...

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History of Art

Ancestral Connections Art and an Aboriginal System of Knowledge

Morphy Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780226538662, University of Chicago Press, March 1992
348 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 56 figures

"Ancestral Connections" unlocks the inner meaning of Australian Aboriginal bark painting. Drawing on more than ten years of fieldwork among the Yolngu – an Aboriginal people of Northeast Arnhem Land – and applying both anthropological and art histori...

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Contemporary Art

Object of Performance The American Avant-Garde since 1970

Sayre Henry M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226735580, University of Chicago Press, February 1992
324 pp., 23x16 cm, 4 colour plates, 91 halftones

Sayre defines for the first time the apparently diffuse avant-garde art of the past two decades in terms of its distinctly postmodern concerns. The range of arts discussed here encompasses contemporary dance, photography, oral poetics, performance ar...

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