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Fuseli Drama and Theatre

Reifert Eva

ISBN: HB: 9783791357584, Prestel Publishing, November 2018
240 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, 160 colour illus.

The renowned 18th-century painter Henry Fuseli, who revered Shakespeare and loved all things theatrical, is the subject of this lavishly illustrated book which focuses on the influence literary sources and contemporary theatre had on his work. Shado...

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Frederic Church A Painter's Pilgrimage

Myers Kenneth John, Avery Kevin J., Carr Gerald L., Volait Mercedes

ISBN: PB: 9780300218435, Yale University Press, November 2017
224 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 125 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

Frederic Church (1826-1900), one of the leading painters of 19th-century America and the Hudson River School, also journeyed around the globe to find fresh inspiration for his highly detailed compositions. Among Church's lesser-known masterpieces are...

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Art Conservation

Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History Volume 3: Degas

Barbour Daphne S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300230116, Yale University Press, October 2017
196 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 162 colour illus.

This volume of "Facture", a biennial journal that presents the latest conservation research on works of art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, focuses exclusively on conservation treatment, technical art history, and scientific research rela...

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Contemporary Art

Frida Kahlo The Story of Her Life

Vinci Vanna

ISBN: HB: 9783791383880, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
160 pp., 27x21 cm

The perfect subject for a graphic novel, Frida Kahlo's brief life was dramatic and romantic, tragic and painful. In this illustrated "biography", Vanna Vinci captures the spirit of Kahlo's world in boldly colored, minutely detailed illustrations. Ble...

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Women Studies

Fray Art and Textile Politics

Bryan-Wilson Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780226077819, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
296 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 90 colour plates, 62 halftones

In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the group wryly envisioned female collective textile mak...

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From Hopper to Rothko America's Road to Modern Art

Westheider Ortrud, Philipp Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783791356938, Prestel Publishing, July 2017
248 pp., 30x24 cm, 219 colour illus.

Rarely seen outside the United States, The Phillips Collection's American masterworks trace the development and diversity of modern art in America from the end of the nineteenth century through the post-war decades after World War II. Organized into...

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Florine Stettheimer Painting Poetry

Brown Stephen, Uhlyarik Georgiana

ISBN: HB: 9780300221985, Yale University Press, May 2017
168 pp., 24.1x21 cm, 150 colour illus.

A new look at the art of one of the most charming and idiosyncratic personalities of early 20th-century New York. Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) was a New York original: a society lady who hosted an avant-garde salon in her Manhattan home, a bohemi...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 2 (1915-1927)

Camfield William A., Pierre Arnauld, Clements Candace, Calte Beverley, Verdier Aurelie, Calte Pierre

ISBN: HB: 9780300222463, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2017
550 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 600 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

The second of an important multi-volume catalogue project, this publication features work by Francis Picabia (1879-1953) that dates from 1915 into mid-1927. Beginning with Picabia's elaboration of a personal machinist aesthetic, the book continues by...

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French Art of the Eighteenth Century The Michael L. Rosenberg Lecture Series at the Dallas Museum of Art

MacDonald Heather, Conisbee Philip, Causey Faya, Gage Deborah, Holmes Mary Tavener, Kahng Eik, Nicholson Kathleen, Ribeiro Aileen, Siegfried Susan, Poulet Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780300220179, Yale University Press, November 2016
192 pp., 25.4x19.7 cm, 134 colour illus.

This beautiful book brings together ten years of research on a superb collection of 18th-century French masterworks, which was formed by the late Michael L. Rosenberg and is now on deposit at the Dallas Museum of Art. This research, originally presen...

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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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