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Jewish Studies

Loving Yusuf Conceptual Travels from Present to Past

Bal Mieke

ISBN: PB: 9780226035871, ISBN: HB: 9780226035864, University of Chicago Press, July 2008
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 halftones

When Mieke Bal reread the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife as an adult, she was struck by differences between her childhood memories of a moral tale and what she read today. In "Loving Yusuf", Bal seeks to resolve this clash between memory and tex...

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Children's Books

Hundertwasser for Kids Harvesting Dreams

ISBN: HB: 9783791340982, Prestel Publishing, June 2008
96 pp., 24x19.3 cm, 105 colour illus.

"Painting is to dream", said Hundertwasser. "When the dream is over, I don't remember anything I dreamed about. The painting, however, remains. It is the harvest of my dream". This statement is at the heart of this engaging introduction to the work o...

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Contemporary Art

Performing Arts

California Video Artists and Histories

Phillips Glenn

ISBN: HB: 9780892369225, Getty Publications, June 2008
312 pp., 29.9x24 cm, colour and black&white illus.

Published to accompany a landmark exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from March 15 through June 18, 2008, "California Video" presents the first comprehensive survey of the history of video art in California. Since the late 1960s, Californ...

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History of Art

Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement Picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840

Kriz Kay Dian

ISBN: HB: 9780300140620, Yale University Press, June 2008
288 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 40 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

This highly original book asks new questions about paintings and prints associated with the British West Indies between 1700 and 1840, when the trade in sugar and slaves was the most active and profitable. In a wide-ranging study of scientific illust...

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Art Conservation

History of Art

Painter's Voice The Restoration of Two Master Paintings

Friedkin William

ISBN: PB: 9780892369133, Getty Publications, June 2008
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Academy Award-winning filmmaker William Friedkin examines the intersection of science and art as he follows the painstaking efforts of conservators at the J. Paul Getty Museum to restore French master Jean-Baptiste Oudry's original vision of two of h...

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Contemporary Art

Neohoodoo Art for a Forgotten Faith

Budney Jen, Coleman Danto Arthur, Herzberg Julia, Sirmans Franklin, Tate Greg, Farris Thompson Robert, Troupe Quincy

ISBN: HB: 9780300134186, Yale University Press, June 2008
144 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 60 black&white illus., 40 colour illus.

NeoHooDoo', a phrase coined by the poet Ishmael Reed in 1970, celebrates the practice of rituals, folklore, and spirituality in the Americas beyond the scope of Christianity and organized religion. The endurance of these centuries-old traditions of m...

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Contemporary Art

Solitaire Lee Lozano, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Joan Semmel

Molesworth Helen, Burton Johanna, Meyer Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300125290, Yale University Press, June 2008
164 pp., 23.5x17.1 cm, 84 colour illus.

This compelling book looks at the work of three influential women artists and at the import of feminism in their practices. Painters Lee Lozano (1930-1999), Sylvia Plimack Mangold (b. 1938), and Joan Semmel (b. 1932) are each intensely private and, t...

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History of Art

Northern European and Spanish Paintings Before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago A Catalogue of the Collection

Wolff Martha, Jones Susan Frances, Mann Richard G., Berg Sobre Judith, Hecht Ilse, Klein Peter, Kuniej Berry Cynthia, Silver Larry

ISBN: HB: 9780300119442, Yale University Press, A+D Series, June 2008
480 pp., 28x21 cm, 233 duotone illus., 100 colour illus.

This important volume documents the Art Institute of Chicago's significant, yet relatively unknown, collection of English, French, German, Netherlandish, and Spanish paintings created before 1600. Over 100 altarpieces, private devotional works, portr...

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Contemporary Art

On Kawara 10 Tableaux and 20, 834 Pages

Wylie Charles, Laszlo Ervin, Matsui Takafumi

ISBN: HB: 9780300137347, Yale University Press, June 2008
192 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 160 colour illus.

Since the mid-1960s, On Kawara (b. 1933) has objectively recorded his existence through everyday numbers, words, and found images. This handsomely designed and illustrated book presents works selected by the artist from throughout his illustrious car...

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History of Art

How to Read Chinese Paintings

Hearn Maxwell K.

ISBN: PB: 9780300141870, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2008
184 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 175 colour illus.

The Chinese often use the expression du hua, "to read a painting", in connection with their study and appreciation of such works. This volume closely 'reads' thirty-six masterpieces of Chinese painting from the encyclopaedic collection of The Metropo...

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