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Adolph Menzel The Quest for Reality

Busch Werner

ISBN: HB: 9781606065174, Getty Publications, April 2017
284 pp., 27.9x22.7 cm, 30 black&white illus., 137 colour illus.

Adolph Menzel (1815-1905) is widely regarded as the epitome of realist art. From the very beginning of his career, he captured the beauty and horror of reality with unflinching precision, and he was a consummate master of atmosphere. A man of very sh...

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Circulation

Brunet Francois

ISBN: PB: 9780932171610, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, April 2017
208 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 58 colour plates

As a category in art history, circulation is rooted in the contemporary context of Internet culture and the digital image. Yet circulation, as a broader concept for the movement of art across time and space in vastly different cultural and media cont...

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Emma and Edvard Looking Sideways Loneliness and the Cinematic

Bal Mieke

ISBN: PB: 9780300229110, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2017
304 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 115 colour illus.

In this compelling publication, two masters come face-to-face when the works of Edvard Munch are juxtaposed against Gustave Flaubert's groundbreaking novel "Madame Bovary". Munch's art is presented in stills taken from an elaborate video installation...

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Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 51, 2016

Baetjer Katharine, Mankin Kornhauser Elizabeth, Leona Marco

ISBN: PB: 9780226438047, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 250 colour plates

"The Metropolitan Museum Journal" is issued annually and publishes original research on works in the museum's collection. Highlights of Volume 51 include a reassessment of a Degas pastel, an examination of painted Maya vessels from the third to tenth...

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J. Lockwood Kipling Bombay, the Punjab, South Kensington

Bryant Julius, Weber Susan, Swallow Deborah, Bryant Barbara, Marsden Christopher, Arburthnott Catherine, Khan Nadhra Shahbaz, Kemp Sandra, Hoffenberg Peter H., James Brother

ISBN: HB: 9780300221596, Yale University Press, January 2017
602 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 700 colour illus., 37 black&white illus.

John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911) started his career as an architectural sculptor at the South Kensington Museum (today the Victoria and Albert Museum). Much of his life, however, was spent in British India, where his son Rudyard was born. He taught...

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Neapolitan Creche at the Art Institute of Chicago

Bellenger Sylvain, Romano Carmine, Rosenberg Jesse, Muti Riccardo

ISBN: HB: 9780300222357, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2016
176 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 250 colour illus.

The 18th-century Neapolitan creche at the Art Institute of Chicago, which contains over 200 figures arranged in a panorama of street life, represents the pinnacle of a rich artistic heritage. This luxurious catalogue is the first to study the creche...

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Sovereign Artist Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV

Burchard Wolf, Le Brun Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9781911300052, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, November 2016
272 pp., 28x24 cm, 200 colour illus.

In his joint capacities of Premier peintre du roi, director of the Gobelins manufactory and rector of the Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture, Le Brun exercised a previously unprecedented influence on the production of the visual arts – so mu...

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Medieval

Feast for the Senses Art and Experience in Medieval Europe

Bagnoli Martina, Normore Christina, Newman Barbara, Casagrande Carla, Dillon Emma, Brilliant Virginia

ISBN: HB: 9780300222951, Yale University Press, October 2016
280 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 241 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.

The late medieval world was marked by a culture of refinement and sophistication. The period's media of choice – paintings, manuscripts, prints, tapestries, embroideries, ivory sculpture, metalwork, and enamels – speak volumes about the pleasures of...

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Matisse/Diebenkorn

Bishop Janet, Rothkopf Katherine

ISBN: HB: 9783791355344, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
184 pp., 27.9x24.4 cm, 120 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.

Featuring stunning pairings of more than 80 paintings and drawings, this book charts the evolution of Matisse's impact on Diebenkorn over the course of Diebenkorn's career. Though they never met, Matisse was an enduring source of inspiration for the...

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Jerusalem, 1000-1400 Every People Under Heaven

Boehm Barbara Drake, Holcomb Melanie

ISBN: HB: 9781588395986, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2016
352 pp., 30.8x24.3 cm, 354 colour illus.

A comprehensive and timely exploration of the key role Jerusalem played in shaping the art and culture of the Middle Ages Medieval Jerusalem was a vibrant international center and home to multiple cultures, faiths, and languages. Harmonious and disso...

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