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History of Art

Decorative Arts

Leidy Denise Patry

ISBN: PB: 9781588395719, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
144 pp., 26.7x20.7 cm, 180 colour illus.

Chinese ceramics are among the most significant and widely collected decorative arts produced anywhere in the world, with a history that spans millennia. Despite the saturation of Chinese ceramics in global culture – in English, the word "china" has...

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Contemporary Art

Sybil Andrews and the Grosvenor School Linocuts

Leaper Hana

ISBN: HB: 9780993078644, Casemate, Osborne Samuel Gallery, September 2015
90 pp., 24.5x19.5 cm, colour illus.

Sybil Andrews was a printmaker first and foremost and, like her Grosvenor School colleagues, was encouraged by their mentor and teacher Claude Flight (1881-1955). They adopted a Cubist-Futurist-Vorticist pictorial language that discarded the outrageo...

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Architecture

History of Art

On Loos, Ornament and Crime Columns of Smoke: Volume II

Lahuerta Juan Jose, Thomson Graham

ISBN: PB: 9788493923150, University of Chicago Press, Editorial Tenov, September 2015
112 pp., 21x15.8 cm, 56 halftones

In his Columns of Smoke series, Juan Jose Lahuerta takes on the enormously ambitious task of re-reading modernity, offering us fresh ways of looking at it while drawing new links between the ideas of architecture and ornamentation, with a special foc...

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History of Art

Ancient World

Ennion Master of Roman Glass

Lightfoot Christopher, Wight Karol B., Pilosi Lisa, Wypyski Mark T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300208771, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2015
160 pp., 26.7x23.5 cm, 100 colour illus.

Among glass craftsmen active in the first century A.D., the most famous and gifted was Ennion, who came from the coastal city of Sidon in modern Lebanon. Ennion's glass stood out for its quality and popularity, and his products are distinguished by t...

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History of Art

Decorative Arts

Berthouville Silver Treasure and Roman Luxury

Lapatin Kenneth

ISBN: HB: 9781606064207, Getty Publications, November 2014
224 pp., 28.7x23.6 cm, 98 colour illus., 21 black&white illus.

This sumpluously illustrated and elegantly produced volume unveils an ancient treasure to modern-day readers. In 1830 a farmer ploughing a field near the village of Berthouville in Normandy, discovered a trave of ancient Roman silver objects weighing...

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History of Art

James Northcote, History Painting, and the Fables

Ledbury Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300208139, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 120 colour and black&white illus.

The artistic accomplishments of James Northcote (1746-1831) have tended to be overshadowed by his role as a biographer of Joshua Reynolds, first President of the Royal Academy of Arts, with whom Northcote apprenticed. Here, Mark Ledbury constructs a...

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History of Art

Navigating the West George Caleb Bingham and the River

Luarca-Shoaf Nenette, Barry Claire, Heugh Nancy, Kornhauser Elizabeth Mankin, Mahon Dorothy, Walker Andrew J, Turk Janeen, Conrads Margaret C., Benjamin Brent R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300206708, Yale University Press, October 2014
200 pp., 26.7x27.9 cm, 174 colour images and 10 black&white illus.

George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) moved to Missouri as a child and began painting the scenes of Missouri life, for which he is now famous, in the 1840s. "Navigating the West" explores how Bingham's iconic river paintings reveal the cultural and econom...

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History of Art

Ink, Paper, Politics WPA-Era Prints from the Needles Collection

Lincoln Louise

ISBN: PB: 9780978907488, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, October 2014
90 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 20 colour plates, 45 halftones

The Works Progress Administration gave federal financial support to a wide range of artistic projects during the Depression, from fiction to fine art. Of all these forms, however, the printmaking supported by the WPA is perhaps the one of most enduri...

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History of Art

John Sloan Drawing on Illustration

Lobel Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300195552, Yale University Press, May 2014
288 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 25 colour images, 125 black&white illus.

The American realist artist John Sloan (1871-1951) is best known for his portrayals of daily life in early 20th-century New York and as a member of The Eight and the Ashcan School, alongside peers like Robert Henri, Everett Shinn and George Luks. Slo...

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Kurt Schwitters Space, Image, Exile

Luke Megan R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226085180, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
352 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 22 colour plates, 98 halftones

German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is best known for his pioneering work in fusing collage and abstraction, the two most transformative innovations of twentieth-century art. Considered the father of installation art, Schwitters was also a theo...

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