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Futures of Surrealism Myth, Science Fiction, and Fantastic Art in France, 1936-1969

Parkinson Gavin

ISBN: HB: 9780300209716, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 60 colour illus., 45 black&white illus.

Although Surrealism is usually associated with the 1920s and 1930s, it remained a vital force in Paris throughout the postwar period. This important book offers the first detailed account in English of the trajectory of the French Surrealists in the...

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Faces of Impressionism Portraits from the Musee d'Orsay

Shackelford George T. M., Cogeval Guy, Pludermacher Isolde, Rey Xavier

ISBN: PB: 9780300207736, Yale University Press, December 2014
250 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 150 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

"Faces of Impressionism" explores the development of the portrait in French painting and sculpture between 1860 and 1910 as showcased in one of the world's greatest collections of Impressionist art – the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. Splendidly illustrated...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 1 (1898-1914)

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

ISBN: HB: 9780300208283, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2014
504 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 425 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

This publication is the first of four volumes in the catalogue raisonne of Francis Picabia, one of the most significant, challenging artists of the 20th century. The works in Volume I range from Picabia's early pieces as an Impressionist in 1898 to h...

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Flora Illustrata Great Works from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden

Fraser Susan M., Sellers Vanessa Bezemer

ISBN: HB: 9780300196627, Yale University Press, October 2014
288 pp., 21.6x26 cm, 279 colour and black&white illus.

The renowned LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden counts among its holdings many of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical and horticultural works ever created. More than eight centuries of knowledge, from the twelfth centu...

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Education

Foreign Exchange (Or the Stories You Wouldn't Tell a Stranger)

Deliss Clementine, Mutumba Yvette

ISBN: PB: 9783037346686, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2014
320 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 87 colour plates, 78 halftones

Founded in 1904, Frankfurt's Weltkulturen Museum houses a remarkable collection of ethnographic artifacts from Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, with the aims of advancing public education and fostering innovative anthropological research acro...

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Frida Kahlo

Bauer Claudia

ISBN: PB: 9783791349701, Prestel Publishing, April 2014
128 pp., 24x19.3 cm, 130 colour illus.

A beautifully illustrated and attractively priced volume onthe life and work of Frida Kahlo. Frida Kahlo is one of the art world's most enigmatic figures. Beautiful, talented, tragic and strong, she broke barriers as a woman and as an artist and her...

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Contemporary Art

Fernand Leger and the Modern City

Vallye Anna, Derouet Christian, Gough Maria, Liebman Stuart, Papapetros Spyros, Wild Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780300197662, Yale University Press, December 2013
256 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 238 colour images, 11 black&white illus.

With his landmark 1919 painting "The City, Fernand Leger" (1881-1955) inaugurated a vitally experimental decade during which he and others redefined the practice of painting in confrontation with the forms of cultural production that were central to...

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Decorative Arts

First Treatise on Museums Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, 1565

Meadow Mark A., Robertson Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9781606061497, Getty Publications, November 2013
188 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

This is a new translation of Quiccheberg's seminal 16th century text on the collection and display of objects. "Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones", first published in Latin in 1565, is an ambitious effort to demonstrate the pragmatic value of curios...

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Facing the Modern The Portrait in Vienna, 1900

Blackshaw Gemma, De Waal Edmund, Gronberg Tag, Johnson Julie, Lehmann Doris, Shapira Elana, Wieber Sabine, Costello Mary

ISBN: HB: 9781857095616, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2013
216 pp., 28.9x22 cm, 140 colour illus.

During the great flourishing of modern art in fin-de-siecle Vienna, artists of that city focused on images of individuals. Their portraits depict artists, patrons, families, friends, intellectual allies, and society celebrities from the upwardly mobi...

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Fictions of Art History

Hatt Michael, Ledbury Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300191929, Yale University Press, October 2013
256 pp., 24.1x17.8 cm, 90 black&white illus.

"Fictions of Art History", the most recent addition to the Clark Studies in the "Visual Arts" series, addresses art history's complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art his...

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