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History of Art

Biographic: Van Gogh Great Lives in Graphic Form

Collins Sophie

ISBN: HB: 9781781452752, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, December 2016
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey eac...

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Book on the Floor Andrew Malraux and the Imaginaru Museum

Grasskamp Walter

ISBN: HB: 9781606065013, Getty Publications, November 2016
240 pp., 25x15 cm

In 1954, the French writer, politician, and publisher Andre Malraux (1901-1976) posed at home for a photographer from the magazine "Paris Match", surrounded by pages from his forthcoming book "Le musee imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale". The enchan...

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Beyond Boundaries Connecting Visual Cultures in the Provinces of Ancient Rome

Alcock Susan

ISBN: HB: 9781606064719, Getty Publications, August 2016
404 pp., 25x15 cm, colour and black&white illus.

The Roman Empire had a rich and multifaceted visual culture, which was often variegated due to the sprawling geography of its provinces. In this remarkable work of scholarship, a group of international scholars has come together to find alternative w...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

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Baule Monkeys

Bruno Claessens, Jean-Louis Danis, Vogel Susan M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222449, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, August 2016
192 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 113 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.

The Baule people of the Ivory Coast are renowned for their refined sculptural work of masks and figures. This book is the first to focus exclusively on an antithetic aspect of Baule culture-rough zoomorphic sculptures representing monkeys. These awe-...

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Brothers Le Nain Painters of Seventeenth-Century France

Dickerson III C. D., Bell Esther, Bailey Colin B., Barry Claire, Bowyer Emerson, Clifford Elise Effmann, Lanoe Frederique, Milavanovic Nicolas, Tallon Alain

ISBN: HB: 9780300218886, Yale University Press, June 2016
400 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 320 colour illus.

In France in the 17th century, the brothers Antoine (c. 1588-1648), Louis (c. 1593-1648), and Mathieu (1607-1677) Le Nain painted images of everyday life for which they became posthumously famous. They are celebrated for their depictions of middle-cl...

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Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting The World in the Workbench

Marshall Christopher R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300174502, Yale University Press, June 2016
380 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 50 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

The second largest city in 17th-century Europe, Naples constituted a vital Mediterranean center in which the Spanish Habsburgs, the clergy, and Neapolitan aristocracy, together with the resident merchants, and other members of the growing professiona...

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Botticelli and Treasures from the Hamilton Collection

Buck Stephanie, Steenbock Frauke, Alai Beatrice, Dietz Georg Josef

ISBN: PB: 9781907372926, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, February 2016
168 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus.

In 1882 the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett (Prints and Drawings Museum) acquired, from the collection of the Duke of Hamilton, Sandro Botticelli's spectacular series of drawings on parchment illustrating scenes from Dante's "Divine Comedy". It also acqui...

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Between Declarations and Dreams rt of Southeast Asia since the 19th Century

Tan Eugene, Horikawa Lisa, Tan Adele, Sze Wee Low

ISBN: HB: 9789810973490, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, November 2015
294 pp., 29x25 cm

"Between Declarations and Dreams" is National Gallery Singapore's inaugural exhibition of the art of Southeast Asia from the 19th century to the present. This richly illustrated catalogue tracks the broad time periods and thematic sections of the exh...

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Brushstroke and Emergence Courbet, Impressionism, Picasso

Herbert James D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226272016, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
176 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 38 colour plates, 4 halftones, 6 line drawings

No pictorial device in nineteenth-century French painting more clearly represented the free-ranging self than the loose brushstroke. From the romantics through the impressionists and post-impressionists, the brushstroke bespoke autonomous artistic in...

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Botticelli

Zollner Franz

ISBN: HB: 9783791381930, Prestel Publishing, August 2015
320 pp., 32x22.2 cm, 200 colour illus.

Now available in a new edition, this celebration of the life and art of the Renaissance genius presents Sandro Botticelli's complete paintings and offers a comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date study of his work. Botticelli is one of the most admi...

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