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Inventing Acadia Painting and Place in Louisiana

Pfohl Katie A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300247312, Yale University Press, February 2020
250 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 160 colour illus.

With its dense forests and swamps, Louisiana captured the imagination of writers and painters who viewed its landscape as a fascinating, untamed wilderness. Starting in the 1820s when French emigres brought the Barbizon school to New Orleans, the sta...

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Near Life The Gipsformerei: 200 Years of Casting Plaster

Tocha Veronika

ISBN: PB: 9783791359403, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
265 pp., 29.7x23 cm, 260 colour illus.

For the last two centuries the Gipsformerei-or Reproduction Workshop-in Berlin has produced outstanding plaster cast replicas of some of the most famous works in the history of sculpture. Still in operation today, it is one of the oldest and most exp...

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Passion for Drawing The Guerlain Collection from the Centre Pompidou

Lahner Elsy, Schroder Klaus Albrecht

ISBN: HB: 9783791359427, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
176 pp., 24x20 cm, 150 colour illus.

Two decades ago, art collectors Florence and Daniel Guerlain decided to focus their energies on shaping a collection of contemporary works on paper. In 2013 they donated a large part of their holdings – 1,200 works in total – to the Centre Pompidou i...

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Herculaneum and the House of the Bicentenary History and Heritage

Court Sarah, Rainer Leslie

ISBN: PB: 9781606066287, Getty Publications, February 2020
160 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

This volume vividly recounts, for general readers, the Roman town of Herculaneum, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE and uniquely preserved for nearly two thousand years. Initial chapters offer an engaging historical overview of the...

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Where the Truth Lies The Art of Qiu Ying

Little Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9783791359137, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
240 pp., 29x22 cm, 200 colour illus.

Celebrated for his masterful brushstrokes, depictions of nature, and use of translucent blue-green pigments, Qiu Ying is the least known of the four Ming Dynasty masters of the Wu School. This elegantly produced and groundbreaking monograph, the firs...

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Mirror of Reality 19th-Century Painting in the Netherlands

Reynaerts Jenny

ISBN: HB: 9780300250442, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, February 2020
384 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 500 colour illus.

This comprehensive overview is the first book in more than 60 years on the underexplored history of painting in the Netherlands in the 19th century. Jenny Reynaerts, an acclaimed specialist in 19th-century Dutch art, takes a close look at works from...

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Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 54, 2019

Allon Niv, D'Alessandro Stephanie, Graff Sarah, Najat Haidar Navina, Holcomb Melanie, Leona Marco, Mahon Dorothy, McDonald Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226676968, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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Signac and the Independants

Genty Gilles, Desmarais Mary-Dailey

ISBN: HB: 9780300251982, Yale University Press, January 2020
382 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 550 black&white, colour illus.

In Paris at the turn of the 20th century, an artistic revolution was underway. The Salon des Independants was organized in 1884 by a group of artists and thinkers that included Albert Dubois-Pillet, Odilon Redon, Georges Seurat, and Paul Signac, who...

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Bestowing Beauty Masterpieces from Persian Lands - Selections from the Hossein Afshar Collection

Froom Aimee

ISBN: HB: 9780300247022, Yale University Press, January 2020
304 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 175 colour illus.

"Bestowing Beauty" showcases an assortment of stunning works from one of the world's most distinguished private collections of Persian art. Featuring more than 100 exquisite objects spanning many centuries, from the eve of the Islamic period in the 6...

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Eternal Feast Banqueting in Chinese Art from the 10th to the 14th Century

Kwok Zoe S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300246902, Yale University Press, January 2020
196 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 137 colour illus.

Feasting was an important social and ritual activity in China beginning in the Bronze Age, and cuisine retains a strong cultural significance to this day. This book focuses on feasting in the 10th through 14th centuries, examining Chinese paintings o...

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