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History of Art

Encountering Genius Jean-Antoine Houdon's Sculpted Portraits of Benjamin Franklin

Hinton Jack, Meighan Melissa S., Lins Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300141641, Yale University Press, February 2011
100 pp., 27.8x22.4 cm, 18 black&white illus., 85 colour illus.

Benjamin Franklin caused a sensation when he arrived in Paris in December 1776 seeking support for America's struggle for independence: nobles vied to entertain him, and artists scrambled to portray him. Although several artists produced sculpted bus...

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History of Art

American Experiment George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters

Corbett David Peters

ISBN: PB: 9781857095272, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2011
56 pp., 23.4x19.3 cm, 32 colour illus.

In the first decades of the 20th century, painters of the Ashcan School, a loosely connected group of gritty, urban realists, created images of New York City from street level. Following older artist Robert Henri's insistence that artists should make...

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Contemporary Art

Gerhard Richter Early Work, 1951-1972

Mehring Christine, Nugent Jeanne, Seydl Jon

ISBN: HB: 9781606060407, Getty Publications, February 2011
176 pp., 26.1x19.7 cm, 14 colour illus., 67 black&white illus.

This title takes an illuminating look at the unique work and artistic vision of Gerhard Richter. Born in Dresden in 1932, Gerhard Richter was first educated under the prevailing doctrine of Socialist Realism, but retrained after emigrating to West Ge...

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History of Art

Romare Bearden, American Modernist

Fine Ruth, Francis Jacqueline

ISBN: HB: 9780300121612, Yale University Press, February 2011
304 pp., 28.7x23.4 cm, 95 black&white illus., 105 colour illus.

Romare Bearden (1911-1988) was a modernist artist renowned for his experimental and socially conscious works. Bearden is best known for his paintings and collages but also made significant contributions to the fields of printmaking, theatrical design...

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History of Art

Hogarth's Marriage A-la-Mode

Egerton Judy

ISBN: HB + DVD: 9781857095104, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2011
80 pp., 19.6x18.4 cm, 11 black&white illus., 34 colour illus.

Directing his pointed wit at the upper echelons of 18th-century British society, William Hogarth, a painter, printmaker, and social critic, mocked the politics and customs of his day. His series of satirical paintings and engravings, which still abso...

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Contemporary Art

Christian Marclay Festival

Whitney Museum of American Art

ISBN: HB: 9780300169003, Yale University Press, February 2011
200 pp., 28.2x21.1 cm, 250 illus.

Christian Marclay (born 1955) explores the fusion of fine art and audio cultures, transforming sounds and music into a visible, physical form through performance, collage, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Published in a 3-volume magaz...

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Photography

Permanent Error

Hugo Pieter

ISBN: HB: 9783791345208, Prestel Publishing, February 2011
112 pp., 29x24 cm, 60 colour illus.

The most recent publication from the award-winning photographer Pieter Hugo reveals the devastating consequences of toxic waste on one community in Africa. In his previous well-received volumes of photographs, Hugo offers unflinching yet striking po...

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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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George Inness in Italy

Mitchell Mark D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300171167, Yale University Press, February 2011
60 pp., 27.8x20.4 cm, 10 black&white illus., 35 colour illus.

A canonical figure in American painting, George Inness (1825-1894) is widely admired as the pioneer of the landscape aesthetic known as Tonalism, which is distinguished by soft focus and diaphanous layers of paint. This is the first book about the ar...

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Contemporary Art

Under Destruction

Jetzer Gianni, Basel Chris

ISBN: HB: 9783942405171, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, January 2011
136 pp., 28x24 cm, 100 colour illus., language: English / German

In 1960, the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely was asked to build a sculpture to be installed in the Sculpture Garden of New York's Museum of Modern Art. In collaboration with other artists and engineers, he constructed the self-destructive machine Homage t...

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