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Index of Paintings Sold in British Isles During Nineteenth Century Part 1: A-N

Fredericksen Burton B., Armstrong Julia I.

ISBN: HB: 9780892363957, Getty Publications, March 2006
583 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

This work, covering the years 1816-1820, makes the contents of some of the tens of thousands of sales catalogues published during the 19th century accessible to scholars. Information provided includes sales dates and lot numbers, prices and names of...

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Paintings and Drawings in the Wrightsman Collection

Fahy Everett, Rosenberg Pierre, Barker Elizabeth E., Goldner George, Ives Colta, Rewald Sabine, Stein Perrin, Tinterow Gary

ISBN: HB: 9780300107197, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2005
320 pp., 28x22.8 cm, 180 colour illus.

This lavish catalogue presents 150 European paintings, pastels, and drawings from the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century that have been given to the Metropolitan Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman or are still held in Mrs. Wrightsman...

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Readings in Latin American Modern Art

Frank Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300102550, Yale University Press, May 2004
288 pp., 24x15.6 cm

This important and welcome volume is the first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century. The book includes some fifty seminal essays and documents – including statements, interviews, and manifestoes...

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Treasures of the National Gallery of Canada

Franklin David

ISBN: HB: 9780300099447, Yale University Press, September 2003
288 pp., 28.5x24.8 cm, 135 illus.

Pride of place is given to the Gallery's unparalleled holdings in Canadian art, but European art – paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings – is equally well represented. Masterworks from the Inuit art collection are also included, as well as examp...

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Cowboys, Indians, and the Big Picture

Fryer Heather

ISBN: PB: 9781892850041, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, October 2002
113 pp., 25.7x25.7 cm

The American West has had an enormous influence on the nation's imagination, including its fine art. From the Western Realists – as epitomized by the Cowboy Artists of America's mission to produce "authentic representations of life in the West" – to...

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Classical Collection of the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago

Ferrari Gloria, Nielsen Christina M., Olson Kelly

ISBN: PB: 9780935573251, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, May 1999
256 pp., 26.5x20.9 cm, 22 colour illus., 329 black&white illus.

The Smart Museum's Classical collection began developing in the 1890s and now consists of approximately eight hundred pieces, including large-scale statuary and floor mosaics, vases, figurines, coins, lamps, and other utensils. The first extensive st...

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Manet's Modernism or, The Face of Painting in the 1860s

Fried Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226262178, University of Chicago Press, November 1998
676 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 16 colour plates, 201 halftones

"Manet's Modernism" is the culminating work in a trilogy of books by Michael Fried exploring the roots and genesis of pictorial modernism. Fried provides an entirely new understanding not only of the art of Manet and his generation but also of the wa...

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Art and Objecthood Essays and Reviews

Fried Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226263199, University of Chicago Press, April 1998
352 pp., 22.5x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 72 halftones

Much acclaimed and highly controversial, Michael Fried's art criticism defines the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. This volume contains twenty-seven pieces, including the influential introduction to the catalog for "Three American Pain...

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Roger Fry Reader

Fry Roger

ISBN: PB: 9780226266428, ISBN: HB: 9780226266435, University of Chicago Press, July 1996
447 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 30 halftones

In the first decades of the twentieth century, the art critic Roger Fry introduced English-speaking audiences to modern French art and formalist aesthetic theory".A Roger Fry Reader", edited by Christopher Reed, brings together for the first time a c...

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Power of Images Studies in the History and Theory of Response

Freedberg David

ISBN: PB: 9780226261461, University of Chicago Press, May 1991
560 pp., 24.6x16.8 cm, 190 halftones

Contents: List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. The Power of Images: Response and Repression 2. The God in the Image 3. The Value of the Commonplace 4. The Myth of Aniconism 5. Consecration: Making Images Work 6. Image and Pilgrimage 7. The...

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