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History of Art

Again Selected Interviews and Essays

Blair Dike

ISBN: PB: 9780945323143, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2007
144 pp., 21.4x17.4 cm, 24 colour plates

Dike Blair is part of a tradition of artists who also write. From an early point in his career Blair has worked on parallel paths, with his writing both reflecting and influencing his artistic production. His paintings and sculptures celebrate moment...

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Inspiring Impressionism The Impressionists and the Art of the Past

Bray Xavier, Clarke Michael, Collins John, Dumas Ann, House John, Suzman Jowell Frances, Rand Richard, Stevenson Lesley

ISBN: HB: 9780300131321, Yale University Press, October 2007
304 pp., 30.5x25.1 cm, 175 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Inspiring Impressionism explores links between Impressionists and the major European art-historical movements that came before them, demonstrating how often beneath the Impressionists' commitment to capturing contemporary life there lay a deep explor...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Stuart Davis Volume 1, 2 & 3: Essays and References (Catalogue Entries 1-1323)

Boyajian Ani, Rutkoski Mark, Agee William C., Wilkin Karen

ISBN: HB: 9780300109818, Yale University Press, August 2007
0 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, Volume 1: 160 illus., Volume 2: 1350 illus., Volume 3: 600 illus.

Stuart Davis (1892-1964) made a mark on the art world early in his career, first with his Ashcan works and then with his highly personal version of Cubism, which firmly established American modernism as a force that could rival its European counterpa...

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Contemporary Art

Modern Patronage De Menil Gifts to American and European Museums

Brennan Marcia, Pacquement Alfred, Temkin Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780300123791, Yale University Press, May 2007
175 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 70 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

In the early 1940s, John and Dominique de Menil began to acquire art. Collecting in an intuitive and personal manner, the de Menils gathered "things in which we believe", as John phrased it, and proceeded to develop an inspired collection that would...

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European Art of the Fourteenth Century

Baragli Sandra

ISBN: PB: 9780892368594, Getty Publications, April 2007
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.

In the fourteenth century, Europe was a place ravaged by the effects of war and famine and then devastated by the Black Death. These multiple crises lead to a widespread mystical religiosity, which emphasised both ecstatic joy and extreme suffering....

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Impressionist Giverny A Colony of Artists, 1885-1915

Bourguignon Katherine M.

ISBN: PB: 9780932171528, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, April 2007
224 pp., 29.9x22.9 cm, 170 colour plates

Lured by the ineffable beauty represented in Claude Monet's artwork and the promise of painting en plein air, artists from America and across Europe flocked to the French village of Giverny in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transf...

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Lee Miller A Life

Burke Carolyn

ISBN: PB: 9780226080673, University of Chicago Press, April 2007
446 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 82 halftones

Lee Miller's life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and domestic goddess, she was also America's first female war correspondent. Carolyn Burke, a...

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William Powell Frith Painting the Victorian Age

Bills Mark, Knight Vivien

ISBN: HB: 9780300121902, Yale University Press, December 2006
180 pp., 28.2x24.9 cm, colour illus.

William Powell Frith (1819-1909) was the greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth. His panoramas of the wide spectrum of nineteenth-century life broke new ground in their depiction of the diverse London crowd and are icons of their...

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Women Studies

Artemisia Files Artemisia Gentileschi for Feminists and Other Thinking People

Bal Mieke

ISBN: PB: 9780226035826, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
245 pp., 19.4x13.1 cm, 44 halftones

One of the first female artists to achieve recognition in her own time, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) became instantly popular in the 1970s when feminist art historians "discovered" her and argued vehemently for a place for her in the canon of It...

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Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery

Boorsch Suzanne, Marciari John, Bensoussan Nicole, Clark Alvin L., Greenberg Susan, Hadley Margaret E., Hodermarsky Lisa, Hoisington Rena, Leja Jan, Munhall Edgar

ISBN: HB: 9780300114331, Yale University Press, October 2006
320 pp., 31.1x23.7 cm, 114 colour images, 116 black&white illus.

This beautiful and important book highlights the collection of European drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery, one of America's premier university museums. From intimate studies to exquisite finished compositions, this selection of works docume...

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