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History of Art

Van Gogh Up Close

Homburg Cornelia

ISBN: HB: 9780300181296, Yale University Press, February 2012
368 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

This sumptuously illustrated book offers a completely new way of looking at the art of Vincent van Gogh, by exploring the artist's approach to nature through his innovative use of the close-up view. Focusing on the last years of the artist's career –...

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Contemporary Art

Vija Celmins Television and Disaster, 1964-1966

Sirmans Franklin, White Michelle

ISBN: HB: 9780300166125, Yale University Press, January 2011
64 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 36 colour illus.

American artist Vija Celmins (b. 1938) is widely admired and respected for her sublime images of night skies and ocean waves. "Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966" looks closely at Celmins' early work, which is deeply engaged with the Po...

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Contemporary Art

Visual World of French Theory Figuration

Wilson Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300162813, Yale University Press, July 2010
240 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 80 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.

This book focuses on the remarkable series of encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s – Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Althusser, Pierre Bourdieu, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Felix Guattari, Jean-Francois Lyotar...

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Varieties of Romantic Experience British, Danish, Dutch, French, and German Drawings from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp

Hargraves Matthew, Ryskamp Charles

ISBN: HB: 9780300152920, Yale University Press, February 2010
368 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 200 black&white illus.

This lavishly illustrated book considers Romanticism as a truly international phenomenon by bringing together for the first time nearly two hundred British, French, German, Danish, and Dutch drawings from the outstanding collection of Charles Ryskamp...

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History of Art

Art Flexi-Series

Vincent Van Gogh

Kuhl Isabel

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791343969, Prestel Publishing, July 2009
144 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 130 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

Anyone studying a Van Gogh painting with its heavily articulated brushstrokes, dazzling color, and hypnotic perspective will wonder about the artist who created such masterpieces. Although some details of the Dutch artist's brief and tragic life have...

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History of Art

Viewing Renaissance Art

Woods Kim W., Richardson Carol M., Lymberopoulou Angeliki

ISBN: PB: 9780300123432, Yale University Press, May 2007
352 pp., 28.6x21.6 cm, 200 colour illus.

This book forms the third of a series of three volumes produced by The Open University and together entitled 'Renaissance Art Reconsidered'. The other two volumes are "Making Renaissance Art" and "Locating Renaissance Art". While the first two volume...

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Contemporary Art

Versions and Inversions Perspectives (vs. Essays) on Avant-garde Art in Latin America

Olea Hector, Ramirez Mari Carmen, Marzio Peter C., Peluffo Linari Gabriel, Giunta Andrea, Camnitzer Luis, Lippard Lucy R., Salzstein Sonia, Smith Terry, Storr Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300116526, Yale University Press, January 2007
272 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 50 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

In the twentieth century, avant-garde artists from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean created extraordinary and highly innovative paintings, sculptures, assemblages, mixed-media works, and installations. This innovative book present...

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History of Art

Van Gogh's "Sheaves of Wheat"

Kosinksi Dorothy M., Fratello Bradley, Bruck Laura

ISBN: HB: 9780300117721, Yale University Press, October 2006
112 pp., 27.1x23.6 cm, 50 colour illus.

Vincent Van Gogh viewed wheat as a central metaphor of the cycle of life and the creative process. As such, it was a theme that he consistently explored throughout his career. This book examines the artist's personal and visual fascination with wheat...

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History of Art

Villa del Papiri at Herculaneum Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Collection

Mattusch Carol C., Lie Henry

ISBN: HB: 9780892367221, Getty Publications, March 2006
390 pp., 29.8x22.2 cm, 239 illus., 261 colour illus.

The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum buried during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, then rediscovered in 1750 contained a large collection of bronze and marble statuary and busts. Before they were published or exhibited, the sculptures were re...

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Decorative Arts

Vincennes and Sevres Porcelain Catalogue of the Collections

Sassoon Adrian

ISBN: HB: 9780892361731, Getty Publications, March 2006
206 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 53 colour illus., 136 black&white illus.

This book is the first completely detailed and descriptive companion to the museum's holdings of Vincennes and Sevres porcelain. The porcelain is catalogued in chronological order by factory. Each entry provides a complete bibliography and provenance...

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