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Art of Illusion

Heine Florian

ISBN: HB: 9783791386799, Prestel Publishing, October 2020
192 pp., 28x23 cm, 100 colour illus.

This spellbinding look at the history and development of illusionistic art reveals wide-ranging techniques that have piqued the public's fascination with this medium. Beautifully reproduced, the images featured in the book includes centuries-old work...

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Modernism for the Masses Painters, Politics, and Public Murals in 1930s New York

Patterson Jody

ISBN: HB: 9780300241396, Yale University Press, October 2020
248 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 72 colour illus., 43 black&white illus.

A mural renaissance swept the United States in the 1930s, propelled by the New Deal Federal Art Project and the popularity of Mexican muralism. Perhaps nowhere more than in New York City, murals became a crucial site for the development of abstract p...

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Late Works of J. M. W. Turner The Artist and his Critics

Smiles Sam

ISBN: HB: 9781913107161, Yale University Press, October 2020
312 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 160 illus.

The paintings and drawings Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) produced from 1835 to his death are seen by many as his most audacious and compelling work, a highly personal final vision that ranks with the late styles of the greatest artists. I...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Morozov The Story of a Family and a Lost Collection

Semenova Natalya, Tait Arch

ISBN: HB: 9780300249828, Yale University Press, October 2020
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.

A wealthy Moscow textile merchant, Morozov started buying art in a modest way in 1900 until, on a trip to Paris, he developed a taste for the avant-garde. Meticulous and highly discerning, he acquired works by the likes of Monet, Pissarro, and Cezann...

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Exotic Switzerland? Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment

Etienne Noemie, Brizon Claire, Lee Chonja, Wismer Etienne

ISBN: PB: 9783035802276, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 100 colour plates

During the 17th and 18th centuries, foreign material culture was introduced into France and Switzerland and integrated into European interiors and decorative arts. Scholars have emphasized this era's emerging taste for the exotic in order to explain...

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Myself and My Aims Writings on Art and Criticism

Schwitters Kurt

ISBN: HB: 9780226129396, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
656 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 83 halftones

Kurt Schwitters was a major protagonist in the histories of modern art and literature, whose response to the contradictions of modern life rivals that of Marcel Duchamp in its importance for artists working today. His celebrated Merz pictures – colla...

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Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Joefnagel

Hendrix Lee, Vignau-Wilberg Thea

ISBN: HB: 9781606066584, Getty Publications, September 2020
424 pp., 0x0 cm

In 1561-62 the master calligrapher Georg Bocskay (died 1575), imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, created Mira calligraphiae monumenta (Model Book of Calligraphy) as a demonstration of his own preeminence among scribes. Some thi...

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Biography & Memoires

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Collector The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces

Semenova Natalya, Delocque-Fourcaud Andre-Marc

ISBN: PB: 9780300254815, ISBN: HB: 9780300234770, Yale University Press, September 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.

Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was one of the first to appreciate the qualities of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and to a...

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Art Conservation

Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project

Svoboda Marie, Cartwright Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9781606066546, Getty Publications, September 2020
228 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 160 colour illus. illus; 26 diagrams, tables

Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these paintings...

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Monet and Chicago

Groom Gloria, Gopnik Adam

ISBN: HB: 9780300250831, Yale University Press, September 2020
144 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 104 colour and black&white illus.

In 1903, the Art Institute of Chicago became the first American museum to buy a painting by Claude Monet (1840–1926), beginning a tradition of collecting that has inextricably connected this midwestern city to the French Impressionist master. Tracing...

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