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Contemporary Art

Bridget Riley Arcadia

Wiggins Collin

ISBN: PB: 9781857094978, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, December 2010
56 pp., 26.8x22.6 cm, 50 colour illus.

For 50 years Bridget Riley has been regarded as Britain's most important abstract painter, renowned for her large abstract paintings, with their complex, repetitive geometric shapes and undulating linear patterns. Given the graphic nature of these wo...

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Contemporary Art

Blinky Palermo Retrospective 1964-77

Buchloh Benjamin H. D., Cooke Lynne, Hudson Suzanne, Kuper Susanne, Lawrence James

ISBN: PB: 9780300153668, Yale University Press, October 2010
192 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 150 colour illus.

The first retrospective in the U. S. to feature German artist Blinky Palermo (1943-1977) includes more than 60 works, most of which have never before been shown in North America. This beautifully illustrated volume spans the breadth of Palermo's brie...

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History of Art

Botanical Drawing in Color

Hollender Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780823007066, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, October 2010
144 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, colour illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! A thorough immersion in the art of botanical drawing, this book will attract both aspiring and more experienced artists seeking scientific accuracy and the illusion of 3-dimension in their botanical artwork. Base...

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History of Art

Believing and Seeing The Art of Gothic Cathedrals

Recht Roland

ISBN: PB: 9780226706078, ISBN: HB: 9780226706061, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 85 halftones

In "Believing and Seeing", Roland Recht argues that preoccupation with vision as a key to religious knowledge profoundly affected a broad range of late medieval works. In addition to the great cathedrals of France, Recht explores key religious buildi...

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History of Art

Blessed and Beautiful Picturing the Saints

Kiely Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300162776, Yale University Press, August 2010
288 pp., 24x17 cm, 130 colour illus.

This book offers a powerful and searching meditation on the lives of the saints and the images of them painted by Renaissance artists in Italy. Robert Kiely, a distinguished scholar of modernist literature and a historian and critic of exceptional se...

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Photography

Black in White America

Freed Leonard

ISBN: HB: 9781606060117, Getty Publications, August 2010
216 pp., 25.7x22.1 cm, 208 black&white illus.

This is a powerful and evocative photographic essay on African American life during the Civil Rights movement. "Black in White America" by Leonard Freed (1929-2006) is a facsimile edition of a powerful photo essay, first published 1968, that looks at...

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History of Art

Becoming Venetian Immigrants and the Arts in Early Modern Venice

Maria Blake

ISBN: HB: 9780300148817, Yale University Press, May 2010
256 pp., 28x22 cm, 140 black&white illus., 60 colour illus.

Few, if any, early modern European cities boasted a population as racially, ethnically and religiously diverse as Renaissance Venice, from German merchants living in the Fondaco dei Tedeschi to the Jewish inhabitants of the Ghetto. This innovative an...

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History of Art

Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion

Hunt Lynn, Jacob Margaret, Mijnhardt Wijnan

ISBN: PB: 9780892369683, Getty Publications, March 2010
388 pp., 25.5x17.7 cm, 8 colour illus., 128 black&white illus.

This is a superbly illustrated exploration of one of the most important works of comparative religion ever published. In an era of intense religious conflict in Europe and ongoing exploration of the lands beyond Europe, the "Ceremonies et costumes re...

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Decorative Arts

Brilliant Effects A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewellery

Pointon Marcia R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300142785, Yale University Press, January 2010
368 pp., 29x24.5 cm, 150 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Diamonds are not for ever – nor necessarily are they a girl's best friend. Ranging from precious stones as raw wealth to the symbolic properties of gems whether in Antiquity and the Bible or in Victorian art and literature, this book examines how sma...

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History of Art

British Paintings in Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875

Baetjer Katharine

ISBN: HB: 9780300155099, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2010
512 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 215 black&white illus., 140 colour illus.

This is the first comprehensive publication on English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish paintings and pastels by artists born before 1841 in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ranging in date from the late 16th through the third quarter of...

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