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Stained Glass Radiant Art

Raguin Virginia Chieffo

ISBN: PB: 9781606061534, Getty Publications, September 2013
112 pp., 23x15.4 cm, 80 colour illus.

This is a beautifully illustrated discussion on the making of stained glass and its enduring iconography. Stained glass is a monumental art, a corporate enterprise dependent on collaboration between patron and artist. Combining the fields now known a...

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History of Art

Miraculous Image in Renaissance Florence

Holmes Megan

ISBN: HB: 9780300176605, Yale University Press, September 2013
400 pp., 28x22 cm, 80 colour images, 170 black&white illus.

In Renaissance Florence, certain paintings and sculptures of the Virgin Mary and Christ were believed to have extraordinary efficacy in activating potent sacred intercession. Cults sprung up around these "miraculous images" in the city and surroundin...

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Photography

Window in Photographs

Hellman Karen

ISBN: HB: 9781606061442, Getty Publications, September 2013
112 pp., 22.5x18.8 cm, 84 colour illus., 4 black&white photos

This title shows how the window has provided photography with one of its richest and most enduring themes. Photographers have been irresistibly drawn to the window as a powerful source of inspiration throughout the history of the medium. As one of th...

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Photography

JFK A Photographic Memoir

Friedlander Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300191080, Yale University Press, September 2013
60 pp., 21.6x23.5 cm, 49 tritone illus.

The public outpouring of support for newly elected President John F. Kennedy in 1960 was exceeded in scope and magnitude by the manifestations of grief and mourning after his assassination in 1963. These responses had an unusually strong visual compo...

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History of Art

Art Conservation

Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks

Gifford E. Melanie, Barbour Daphne S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197426, Yale University Press, September 2013
192 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 115 colour illus.

The National Gallery of Art introduces a new journal presenting the latest conservation research on works in its collection. Named for "the manner in which things are made", "Facture" addresses aspects of conservation from treatment and technical art...

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History of Art

Paintings from Mughal India

Topsfield Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781851240876, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2013
184 pp., 21x15.4 cm, 80 colour illus.

A unique style of court painting, combining Persian, Indian and European elements, developed in India under the Mughal emperors in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Originally an art of book illustration, it soon gave rise to highly naturalist...

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History of Art

Malevich Paints The Seeing Eye

Railing Patricia

ISBN: HB: 9780946311217, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, September 2013
352 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 138 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.

This is the first study to investigate the sources of the creative processes in the painting of Kazimir Malevich, from Neo-Primitivism to Suprematism, 1911-1920. These sources are found in 19th century scientific investigations into optics, especiall...

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Contemporary Art

Reference

Museums Matter In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum

Cuno James

ISBN: PB: 9780226100913, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
164 pp., 20.5x14 cm, 10 halftones, 4 colour illus.

The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the Enlightenment, a manifestation of society's growing belief that the spread of knowledge and the promotion of intellectual inquiry were crucial to human development and the future of a rational soc...

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History of Art

Liberation of Painting Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris

Leighten Patricia

ISBN: HB: 9780226471389, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 99 halftones, 32 colour illus.

The years before World War I were a time of social and political ferment in Europe, which profoundly affected the art world. A major center of this creative tumult was Paris, where many avant-garde artists sought to transform modern art through their...

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Contemporary Art

Museums in a Global Context National Identity, International Understanding

Dickey Jennifer, Azhar Samir El, Lewis Catherine M.

ISBN: PB: 9781933253855, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, September 2013
200 pp., 22.6x16.5 cm, 15 colour plates, 10 halftones

Most museum visitors can see how national character is reflected in the museum's layout and collection. But museums do more than provide a mirror for national identity; they shape it".Museums in a Global Context" looks at the way globalization has sh...

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