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History of Art

Rembrandt Painter as Printmaker

Rutgers Jaco, Standring Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9780300234299, Yale University Press, October 2018
176 pp., 27.9x26 cm, 150 colour illus.

As a pioneering printmaker, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) stood apart from his contemporaries thanks to his innovative approach to composition and his skillful rendering of space and light. He worked with the medium as a vehicle for artistic express...

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Mark Rothko From the Inside Out

Rothko Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780300238419, ISBN: HB: 9780300204728, Yale University Press, October 2018
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 74 colour illus., 7 black&white illus.

Mark Rothko (1903-1970), world-renowned icon of Abstract Expressionism, is rediscovered in this wholly original examination of his art and life written by his son. Synthesizing rigorous critique with personal anecdotes, Christopher, the younger of th...

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Mathias Goeritz Modernist Art and Architecture in Cold War Mexico

Josten Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9780300228601, Yale University Press, October 2018
352 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 84 colour illus., 93 black&white illus.

The first major work in English on Mathias Goeritz (1915-1990), this book illuminates the artist's pivotal role within the landscape of twentieth-century modernism. Goeritz became recognized as an abstract sculptor after arriving in Mexico from Germa...

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Matisse and Decoration

Klein John

ISBN: HB: 9780300135640, Yale University Press, October 2018
272 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 200 colour illus.

Between 1935 and his death at midcentury, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) undertook many decorative projects and commissions. These include mural paintings, stained glass, ceramic tiles, lead crystal pieces, carpets, tapestries, fashion fabrics, and access...

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Leonardo: Discoveries from Verrocchio's Studio Early Paintings and New Attributions

Kanter Laurence, Piccione Albertson Rita, Mottin Bruno

ISBN: HB: 9780300233018, Yale University Press, October 2018
150 pp., 28.6x20.3 cm, 102 colour illus., 17 black&white illus., including 3 gatefolds

This groundbreaking reexamination of the beginnings of Leonardo da Vinci's (1452-1519) life as an artist suggests new candidates for his earliest surviving work and revises our understanding of his role in the studio of his teacher, Andrea del Verroc...

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Veiled Presence Body and Drapery from Giotto to Titian

Hills Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300236750, Yale University Press, October 2018
224 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 147 colour and black&white illus.

This wide-ranging book elucidates the symbolism of veils and highlights the power of drapery in Italian art from Giotto to Titian. In the cities of the Renaissance, display of luxury dress was a marker of status. Florentines decked out their palaces...

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Christina Rossetti Poetry in Art

Tromans Nicholas, Owens Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300234862, Yale University Press, October 2018
192 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) is among the greatest of English Victorian poets. The intensity of her vision, her colloquial style, and the lyrical quality of her verse still speak powerfully to us today, while her striking imagery has always inspire...

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Understanding Illuminated Manscripts A Guide to Technical Terms (Second Edition)

Brown Michelle P., Teviotdale Elizabeth C., Turner Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781606065785, Getty Publications, October 2018
128 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 110 colour illus.

What is a historiated initial? What are canon tables? What is a drollery? This revised edition of Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms offers definitions of the key elements of illuminated manuscripts, demystifying the te...

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How to Read Islamic Calligraphy

Ekhtiar Maryam D.

ISBN: PB: 9781588396303, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2018
156 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 141 colour illus.

"How to Read Islamic Calligraphy" explores the preeminence of the written word as a means of creative expression throughout the Islamic world. Aimed at a general audience, the book introduces all five major Islamic calligraphic script types, demonstr...

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Martin Lister and his Remarkable Daughters The Art of Science in the Seventeenth Century

Roos Anna Marie

ISBN: HB: 9781851244898, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2018
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 46 colour illus., 33 black&white illus.

Martin Lister, royal physician and fellow of the Royal Society, was an extraordinarily prolific natural historian with an expertise in shells and molluscs. Disappointed with the work of established artists, Lister decided to teach his daughters, Sus...

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