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Contemporary Art

Breaking Down the Barriers Art in the 1990s

Cork Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300095104, Yale University Press, May 2003
400 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 150 illus.

The third part of a four-volume set of art criticism by Richard Cork, written over a 30-year period. It offers a chronicle of a turbulent period as well as an overview and survey of British art and its reception at this time. This particular work add...

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History of Art

Brush With Nature The Gere Collection of Landscape Oil Sketches (Revised Edition)

Riopelle Christopher, Bray Xavier

ISBN: HB: 9781857099980, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2003
176 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 20 black&white illus., 101 colour illus.

More than forty years ago, John and Charlotte Gere, both distinguished art historians, pioneered the collecting of small-scale landscape oil sketches created by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists working out of doors in nature. Such paintings...

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History of Art

Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum

Barnett Vivian Endicott

ISBN: HB: 9780300096354, Yale University Press, November 2002
512 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, some illus.

A famous art collector, dealer, and indomitable champion of modern art, Emmy (Galka) Scheyer (1889-1945) is best known as the founder of the Blue Four artists' group, whose members were Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Alexei Jawlensky and Vasily Kandins...

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Photography

Design

Blower Snowboarding Inside Out

Curtes Jeff, Kotch Eric

ISBN: PB + DVD: 9781861542199, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, January 2002
256 pp., 27.5x24 cm, 250 colour illus.

"Blower" is the comprehensive insider's view of the world's fastest-growing winter sport and the energetic subculture it has spawned. Compiled by Burton Snowboard's Jeff Curtes and Eric Kotch, it offers an holistic picture with action shots, behind-t...

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Contemporary Art

Battle for Realism Figurative Art in Britain During the Cold War, 1945-1960

Hyman James

ISBN: HB: 9780300090895, Yale University Press, October 2001
264 pp., 27x21.7 cm, 150 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

Art historian James Hyman takes a fresh look at the crucial years after the Second World War when attempts were made to revive European culture and debates about the future of art were fierce. The author proposes that realism in Europe during the ear...

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Decorative Arts

Brilliance of Swedish Glass, 1918-39 An Alliance of Art, Design and Industry

Ostergard Derek E., Stritzler-Levine Nina

ISBN: HB: 9780300070057, Yale University Press, December 1996
320 pp., 31x24 cm, 150 black&white illus., 130 colour plates

Since the mid-1920s Swedish glass has been synonymous with excellence in design and craftsmanship, the most highly acclaimed product of the Swedish applied arts industries in the international marketplace. Its development and stunning ascendancy came...

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Contemporary Art

Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism

Doss Erika

ISBN: HB: 9780226159423, University of Chicago Press, June 1995
462 pp., 22.8x15.3 cm, 137 halftones

In this acclaimed revisionist study, Erika Doss chronicles an historic cultural change in American art from the dominance of regionalism in the 1930s to abstract expressionism in the 1940s. She centers her study on Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Poll...

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History of Art

Bernini Flights of Love, the Art of Devotion

Careri Giovanni

ISBN: PB: 9780226092737, University of Chicago Press, March 1995
168 pp., 22.9x15.4 cm, 41 halftones

Nowhere is evidence of Bernini's unique abillity to unite architecture with sculpture and painting into a beautiful whole more compelling than in the Baroque chapel of Bernini's design: a dark world sealed below by a balustrade, covered by a luminous...

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