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Divine Spark of Syracuse

Rowland Ingrid D.

ISBN: PB: 9781512603057, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2018
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Focusing on the figures of Plato, Archimedes, and Caravaggio, The Divine Spark of Syracuse discloses the role that Syracuse, a Greek cultural outpost in Sicily, played in fueling creative energies. Among the topics this book explores are Plato and th...

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On Art

Kabakov Ilya

ISBN: PB: 9780226384733, ISBN: HB: 9780226384566, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

During the 1960s and 1970s, the Russian conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov was a galvanizing figure in Moscow's underground art community, ultimately gaining international prominence as the "leader" of a band of artists known as the Moscow Conceptual Cir...

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Michelangelo's Sculpture

Steinberg Leo

ISBN: HB: 9780226482576, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
320 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 121 colour plates, 127 halftones

Leo Steinberg was one of the most original and daring art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretative risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures that ranged from old maste...

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Arthur Osver

Miller Angela

ISBN: HB: 9780936316444, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, November 2018
224 pp., 29.7x24.6 cm, 120 colour plates

The first monograph on the work of the American painter Arthur Osver (1912-2006), this publication explores Osver's entire oeuvre, from early urban realism to decades of engagement with abstraction. His long and productive career took him from Chicag...

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Seen from Behind Perspectives on the Male Body and Renaissance Art

Rubin Patricia Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300236552, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

Renaissance bodies, dressed and undressed, have not lacked attention in art historical literature, but scholarship on the male body has generally concentrated on phallic-oriented masculinity and been connected to issues of patriarchy and power. This...

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Contemporary Art

Condition of Being Here Drawings by Jasper Johns

Breslin David

ISBN: HB: 9780300229301, Yale University Press, October 2018
120 pp., 24.1x18.4 cm, 45 colour illus.

Jasper Johns (b. 1930) has been a leading advocate of drawing as an artistic genre in its own right, rather than as a preparatory medium for other works. This catalogue gathers nearly 40 of Johns's drawings, spanning 60 years of his illustrious caree...

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Bruegel's Winter Scenes Historians and Art Historians in Dialogue

van Sprang Sabine, Meganck Tine L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300236927, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2018
352 pp., 30x24.1 cm, 310 colour illus.

This focused volume presents a deep exploration and new interpretations of the winter paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525-1569). By applying new methodological approaches and interdisciplinary research to these masterpieces of Flemish Ren...

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Art of Native America The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection

Torrence Gaylord, Blackhawk Ned, Yount Sylvia

ISBN: HB: 9781588396624, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2018
272 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

This landmark publication presents Native American art within the broader context of American art history, through an examination of notable works from a major private collection. The insightful texts provide a new evaluation of the art, culture, and...

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History of Art

Year in Impressionism

ISBN: HB: 9783791384597, Prestel Publishing, October 2018
736 pp., 20x20 cm, 365 colour illus.

A perfect gift for art lovers or anyone interested in Impressionism, this collection of 365 pictures gathers the best of the genre's masterpieces from around the world. Covering a wide range of artists and countries associated with the movement, the...

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Mantegna and Bellini

Campbell Caroline, Korbacher Dagmar, Rowley Neville, Vowles Sarah, De Marchi Andrea, Dunkerton Jill, Hartweig Bebette, Weick-Jock Katharina

ISBN: HB: 9781857096347, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, October 2018
304 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 180 colour and black&white illus.

Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431-1506) and Giovanni Bellini (active c. 1459; died 1516) each produced groundbreaking paintings, marked by pictorial and technical innovations, that are among the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance. Exploring the fruitful...

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