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History of Art

Making Renaissance Art

Woods Kim W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300121896, Yale University Press, December 2006
352 pp., 28.5x21.5 cm, 200 colour illus.

This book explores key themes in the making of Renaissance painting, sculpture, architecture and prints: the use of specific techniques and materials, theory and practice, change and continuity in artistic procedures, conventions and values. It also...

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History of Art

William Powell Frith Painting the Victorian Age

Bills Mark, Knight Vivien

ISBN: HB: 9780300121902, Yale University Press, December 2006
180 pp., 28.2x24.9 cm, colour illus.

William Powell Frith (1819-1909) was the greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth. His panoramas of the wide spectrum of nineteenth-century life broke new ground in their depiction of the diverse London crowd and are icons of their...

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Women Studies

Artemisia Files Artemisia Gentileschi for Feminists and Other Thinking People

Bal Mieke

ISBN: PB: 9780226035826, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
245 pp., 19.4x13.1 cm, 44 halftones

One of the first female artists to achieve recognition in her own time, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) became instantly popular in the 1970s when feminist art historians "discovered" her and argued vehemently for a place for her in the canon of It...

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Rhetoric of Perspective Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting

Grootenboer Hanneke

ISBN: PB: 9780226309705, ISBN: HB: 9780226309682, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
246 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 24 colour plates, 2 line drawings

Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears to be real by the way these objects are rendered. Likewise, the trick of perspective can prevent us...

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Contemporary Art

Gego Defying Structures

Bois Yves-Alain

ISBN: PB: 9788489771291, Bookport, MACBA, November 2006
181 pp., 26.5x22 cm

The work of Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt, 1912-1994) relatively unknown outside of Latin America is an extraordinary example of the decisive changes that influenced modern culture after WWII. Born in Hamburg, she studied Architecture and engineering and...

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Contemporary Art

Socrates Sculpture Park

Baker Alyson, Mestrovic Ivana, Di Suvero Mark, Hanrahan Thomas, Kastner Jeffrey, Sandler Irving

ISBN: HB: 9780300120981, Yale University Press, November 2006
256 pp., 28.6x22.9 cm, 175 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

Socrates Sculpture Park is one of the most acclaimed public art spaces in the country. The Park opened in 1986 and has been an outdoor studio to over 500 artists, a venue presenting more than 40 exhibitions of large-scale sculpture, and a vital park...

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History of Art

Piero Di Cosimo Visions Beautiful and Strange

Geronimus Dennis

ISBN: HB: 9780300109115, Yale University Press, November 2006
320 pp., 29x24.8 cm, 60 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

Inverting rules with obvious relish, Florentine artist Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522) is known today, as he was in his own time, for his highly personal visual language, one capable of generating images of the most mesmerizing oddity. Endlessly inventiv...

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Contemporary Art

Lee Lozano Drawings

Rosen Barry, van Liere Jaap

ISBN: HB: 9780300119626, Yale University Press, November 2006
192 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 60 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

Lee Lozano (1930-1999) brought a potent voice to the 1960s New York art scene. Equipped with an extraordinary intellectual reach and demonstrating an unusually expressive and mature sexuality, Lozano's art, which includes paintings, drawings, and con...

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Culture Studies

What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images

Mitchell W. J. T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226532486, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 colour plates, 84 halftones, 10 line drawings

Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or e...

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Contemporary Art

Politics of Urban Beauty New York and Its Art Commission

Bogart Michele H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226063058, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
352 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 85 halftones

Since its founding in 1898, the Art Commission of the City of New York (ACNY) has served as the city's aesthetic gatekeeper, evaluating all works of art intended for display on city property. And over the years, the commission's domain has expanded d...

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