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Clark Brothers Collect Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings from the Collections of Sterling and Stephen Clark

Conforti Michael, Ganz James A., Harris Neil, Vincent Gilbert T., Cohen-McFall Daniel, Lees Sarah, Maurer Susannah, Rand Richard, Simpson Marc

ISBN: HB: 9780300116199, Yale University Press, August 2006
368 pp., 25x28.1 cm, 100 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

Brothers Sterling and Stephen Clark, heirs to the Singer sewing machine fortune, were among the twentieth century's most influential art collectors. This volume examines their magnificent collections, their personal lives and public profiles, and the...

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Candidates for Fame The Society of Artists for Great Britain, 1760-1791

Hargraves Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300110043, Yale University Press, February 2006
280 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 80 black&white illus.

In 1760, an innovation transformed the character of artistic life in Great Britain: the first public exhibition of art. The successful London exhibition was repeated in 1761, but a dispute in the wake of the first show split exhibitors into rival gro...

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Chinese Sculpture

Howard Angel, Song Li, Hung Wu, Hong Yang

ISBN: HB: 9780300100655, Yale University Press, February 2006
536 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 468 colour images, 51 black&white illus.

This up-to-date and detailed exploration of China's magnificent sculptural heritage is presented in this book that is both accessible to the general reader and revelatory for the scholar. Sculpture is becoming known as one of China's great arts. Neol...

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Chicago Modern, 1893-1945 Pursuit of the New

Kennedy Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780932171412, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, April 2004
176 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 80 colour plates

Chicago's fine arts have long languished in the shadow of the city's architectural riches, but their time has finally come, most prominently as the focus of the final major exhibition at Chicago's Terra Museum of American Art. The attendant catalog o...

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Cezanne and Provence The Painter in His Culture

Athanassoglou-Kallmyer Nina Maria

ISBN: HB: 9780226423081, University of Chicago Press, May 2003
337 pp., 28.3x22.4 cm, 120 colour plates, 102 halftones

In 1886 Paul Cezanne left Paris permanently to settle in his native Aix-en-Provence. Nina M. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer argues that, far from an escapist venture like Gauguin's stay in Brittany or Monet's visits to Normandy, Cezanne's departure from Pari...

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Reference

Critical Terms for Art History Second Edition

Nelson Robert S., Shiff Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226571683, University of Chicago Press, April 2003
540 pp., 23x15 cm, 28 halftones

"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's "Fountain". But questions about the categories of "art" and "art history" acquired increased urgency during the 1970s, when new developments i...

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Cowboys, Indians, and the Big Picture

Fryer Heather

ISBN: PB: 9781892850041, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, October 2002
113 pp., 25.7x25.7 cm

The American West has had an enormous influence on the nation's imagination, including its fine art. From the Western Realists – as epitomized by the Cowboy Artists of America's mission to produce "authentic representations of life in the West" – to...

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Confronting Identities in German Art Myths, Reactions, Reflections

Heller Reinhold

ISBN: PB: 9780935573367, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2002
180 pp., 28.1x20.3 cm, 20 colour plates, 80 halftones

What does it mean to be German? Recent answers to this question have ranged from the general ("Germans are always the other") to the analytic ("They are a multiple identity with a constant wish for redefinition"). The catalogue for "Confronting Ident...

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Chardin

Rosenberg Pierre, Beamish Caroline

ISBN: HB: 9780300083484, Yale University Press, March 2000
360 pp., 31.9x24.3 cm, 35 black&white illus., 127 colour illus.

Widely acknowledged in his time as a premier painter of still-life and genre scenes, Jean-Baptiste-Simion Chardin (1699-1779) created unsentimentalised works that appeal to viewers today for their richness of feeling and simplicity of composition. Th...

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Classical Collection of the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago

Ferrari Gloria, Nielsen Christina M., Olson Kelly

ISBN: PB: 9780935573251, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, May 1999
256 pp., 26.5x20.9 cm, 22 colour illus., 329 black&white illus.

The Smart Museum's Classical collection began developing in the 1890s and now consists of approximately eight hundred pieces, including large-scale statuary and floor mosaics, vases, figurines, coins, lamps, and other utensils. The first extensive st...

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