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Poster Collection 01 Revue 1926

ISBN: PB: 9783907078525, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2001
65 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 91 illus.

A cross-section of a year chosen at random, the poster collection casts its net in its own archive and presents posters from Paris, London, Moscow, New York, Zurich or Milan. They all have only one thing in common: the year in which they were produce...

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History of Art

Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe

Rowland Ingrid D.

ISBN: PB: 9780935573282, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2000
110 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 9 colour plates, 81 halftones

A scholar's desk, a warlord's castle, a pope's altar, the mouth of a volcano: in the minds of early modern Europeans, all evoked memories of ancient times, from Egyptian pharaohs to Roman emperors. The essays in this catalog explore the influence of...

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History of Art

Picture in Question Mark Tansey and the Ends of Representation

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226791296, University of Chicago Press, April 1999
151 pp., 21.6x14 cm

A rich exploration of the possibilities of representation after Modernism, Mark Taylor's new study charts the logic and continuity of Mark Tansey's painting by considering the philosophical ideas behind Tansey's art. Taylor examines how Tansey uses s...

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Photography

Picturing Ourselves Photography and Autobiography

Rugg Linda Haverty

ISBN: PB: 9780226731476, ISBN: HB: 9780226731469, University of Chicago Press, December 1997
293 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 40 halftones, 5 line drawings

Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple and fragmented selves. As Linda Haverty Rugg convin...

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History of Art

Pelican History of Art

Pictorial Art of the West, 800-1200

Dodwell C. R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300064933, Yale University Press, October 1995
470 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 325 black&white illus., 75 colour illus.

Aims to provide a comprehensive guide to all forms of pictorial art – from wall and panel paintings to stained glass windows, mosaics and embroidery – and sets them against the historical and theological influences of the age. This study covers the p...

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History of Art

Picture Theory Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation

Mitchell W. J. T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226532325, University of Chicago Press, September 1995
462 pp., 23x15 cm, 79 halftones

What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the "pictorial turn" supplants the "linguistic turn" in...

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Photography

Picturing Time The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)

Braun Marta

ISBN: PB: 9780226071756, University of Chicago Press, January 1995
472 pp., 24.1x20.8 cm, 270 halftones, 65 line drawings

Etienne-Jules Marey was an inventor whose methods of recording movement revolutionized our way of visualizing time and motion. Best remembered for his chronophotography, Marey constructed a single-camera system that led the way to cinematography".Pic...

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History of Art

Pelican History of Art

Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880-1940

Heard Hamilton George

ISBN: PB: 9780300056495, Yale University Press, October 1993
610 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 75 colour plates, 232 black&white illus.

Traces the origins and growth of modern art, assessing the intrinsic qualities of individual works and describing the social forces in play. The book covers various areas including works of Impressionism, Cubism, Constructivism and Surrealism.

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History of Art

Pelican History of Art

Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700-89

Levey Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300053449, Yale University Press, February 1993
332 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 225 black&white illus., 75 colour illus.

During the last years of France's ancien regime, an outpouring of creative activity and patronage resulted in the production of many works of painting and sculpture. In this book, Michael Levey discusses the major painters and sculptors of this perio...

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History of Art

Archaeology & Paleontology

Prehistoric Art in Europe

Sandars N. K.

ISBN: PB: 9780300052862, Yale University Press, May 1992
508 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 442 colour and black&white illus.

Until around 10,000 BC art in Europe appears to have been in advance of the rest of the world and throws light on the total history of early man. The great masterpieces of cave-painting at Lascaux are well known, and one tradition of early sculpture...

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