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History of Art

Fragile Modernism Whistler and His Impressionist Followers

Gruetzner-Robins Anna

ISBN: HB: 9780300135459, Yale University Press, December 2007
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 40 colour images, 90 black&white illus.

Whistler embarked on a new project in the 1880s, working on a small scale in oil, pastel and watercolour, representing new London subjects and painting portraits of new urban types. This book is the first critical study of Whistler and his Impression...

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Painted Face Portraits of Women in France, 1814-1914

Garb Tamar

ISBN: HB: 9780300111187, Yale University Press, June 2007
304 pp., 28x23 cm, 50 colour images, 150black&white illus.

While a painted portrait usually seems to need little explanation, a closer look may reveal that its meaning and even its subject are far more complex than expected. This book charts for the first time the history of French female portraiture from it...

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Unknown Monet Pastels and Drawings

Ganz James A., Kendall Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300118629, Yale University Press, March 2007
320 pp., 30.5x23 cm, 225 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Claude Monet (1840-1926) is one of the best-known and most beloved painters in the history of art, with myriad publications and exhibitions devoted to his oeuvre. And yet, there remains a previously undiscovered aspect of his career: his surprisingly...

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Rhetoric of Perspective Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting

Grootenboer Hanneke

ISBN: PB: 9780226309705, ISBN: HB: 9780226309682, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
246 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 24 colour plates, 2 line drawings

Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears to be real by the way these objects are rendered. Likewise, the trick of perspective can prevent us...

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Piero Di Cosimo Visions Beautiful and Strange

Geronimus Dennis

ISBN: HB: 9780300109115, Yale University Press, November 2006
320 pp., 29x24.8 cm, 60 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

Inverting rules with obvious relish, Florentine artist Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522) is known today, as he was in his own time, for his highly personal visual language, one capable of generating images of the most mesmerizing oddity. Endlessly inventiv...

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Societe Anonyme Modernism for America

Gross Jennifer R., Bohan Ruth L., Greenberg Susan, Joselit David, Kenney Elise K., Tashjian Dickran, Wilson Kristina

ISBN: HB: 9780300109214, Yale University Press, May 2006
280 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 302 colour images, 62 black&white illus.

This beautifully illustrated book highlights the unique history of the Societe Anonyme, Inc., an organisation founded in 1920 by the artists Katherine S. Dreier (1877-1952), Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), and Man Ray (1890-1976). As America's first 'exp...

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American Icons Transatlantic Perspectives on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century American Art

Gaehtgens Thomas W., Ickstadt Heinz

ISBN: PB: 9780892362479, ISBN: HB: 9780892362462, Getty Publications, March 2006
372 pp., 26x19.2 cm, 142 halftones

American painters and graphic artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries sought inspiration for their work in the uniquely American experience of history and nature. The result was a transformation of the conventional Old World visual languag...

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Education

Art Education and Human Development

Gardner Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780892361793, Getty Publications, March 2006
80 pp., 26x22.9 cm, 1 black&white illus.

The production and appreciation of art involves thought processes that have excluded from traditional measures of human intelligence. This book, written by a leading cognitive scientist, makes a compelling case for broadening these definitions and di...

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Saints in Art

Giorgi Rosa

ISBN: PB: 9780892367177, Getty Publications, March 2006
384 pp., 19.5x13.5 cm, 400 colour illus.

Christian saints have been the objects of reverence and fascination throughout the past two millennia. Their likenesses, heroic acts, prayerful lives, and stories of martyrdom have been portrayed frequently in art of diverse media. Without familiarit...

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Houses and Collections of Marquis De Marigny

Gordon Alden R., Aycaguer-Ron Carolyne

ISBN: HB: 9780892366941, Getty Publications, March 2006
978 pp., 24x17 cm, 102 black&white illus.

Between 1750 and his death in 1781, the marquis de Marigny – brother of Madame de Pompadour, courtier to Louis XV, and one of 18th-century France's important patrons of art and architecture – amassed a collection that was broad in scope, progressive...

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