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French Illuminated Manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Kren Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780892368587, Getty Publications, April 2007
96 pp., 23.8x16.8 cm, 80 colour illus.

This sumptuous volume presents more than 80 full-colour reproductions of some of the most highly prized French manuscript illuminations in the world. This outstanding volume is the perfect introduction to an exquisite art form that flourished for cen...

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Fernand Khnopff Portrait of Jeanne Kefer

Draguet Michel

ISBN: PB: 9780892367306, Getty Publications, March 2006
120 pp., 23.5x18.5 cm, 28 black&white illus., 52 colour illus.

The Belgian artist, illustrator, sculptor, and photographer "Fernand Khnopff" (1858-1921) became a popular society portraitist in the 1880s, using elements that had served him well as an avant-garde symbolist painter: visual realism and a mood of sil...

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French Art in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Morris Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780300106893, Yale University Press, July 2005
384 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 160 illus.

Early in the nineteenth century French art was largely rejected by British artists, critics and patrons. This rejection reflected both constant political opposition to France over the preceding 130 years and the growth of cultural nationalism in Brit...

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Pelican History of Art

Flemish Art and Architecture 1585-1700

Vlieghe Hans

ISBN: PB: 9780300104691, Yale University Press, December 2004
288 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 100 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

This beautifully illustrated book provides a complete overview of the art of the Southern Netherlands from 1585 to 1700. The author examines the development of Flemish and specifically Antwerp painting, the work of Rubens and other leading masters, a...

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From Mind, Heart and Hand Persian, Turkish and Indian Drawings from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection

Welch Stuart Cary, Masteller Kimberly

ISBN: HB: 9780300104738, Yale University Press, October 2004
272 pp., 28.9x23.3 cm, 19 illustration, 116 colour illus.

Stuart Cary Welch's collection of Persian, Turkish, and Indian art is renowned throughout the world for its quality and depth. In 1999, Welch made a generous gift of drawings to the Harvard University Art Museums, which form the basis of the present...

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Futurist Moment Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, with a New Preface

Perloff Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9780226657387, University of Chicago Press, December 2003
336 pp., 23.5x15.8 cm

Marjorie Perloff's stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of the early twentieth century. Offering penetrating consider...

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From Court to Caravan Chinese Tomb Sculptures from the Collection of Anthony M. Solomon

Bower Virginia L., Mowry Robert D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300096965, Yale University Press, November 2002
160 pp., 19.6x28 cm, 10 black&white illus., 90 colour illus.

During the Han (206 BC-AD 220) and Tang (AD 618-907) dynasties, terra cotta sculptures were placed in elaborate tombs to protect and to serve the spirit of the deceased. These fascinating sculptures took the form of soldiers, courtiers, musicians, me...

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Farewell to an Idea Episodes from a History of Modernism

Clark T. J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300089103, Yale University Press, March 2001
464 pp., 27.5x19.5 cm, 210 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.

In this intense and far-reaching book, acclaimed art historian T. J. Clark offers a new vision of the art of the past two centuries, focusing on moments when art responded directly in extreme terms to the ongoing disaster called "modernity". Modernis...

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Flesh and the Ideal Winkelmann and the Origins of Art History

Potts Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780300087369, Yale University Press, October 2000
302 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 43 illus.

A biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 18th-century German philosopher and aesthetician. Analyzing Winckelmann's magnum opus, "History of the Art of Antiquity", it explains the fundamental importance to art history of this account of the aestheti...

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Fragmented Devotion Medieval Objects from the Schnutgen Museum in Cologne

Netzer Nancy, Reinburg Virginia

ISBN: PB: 9781892850010, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, March 2000
150 pp., 27.6x20.1 cm, 15 colour plates, 80 black&white photographs

Medieval art survives today as fragments of larger works, usually displayed by historical period, geographic location, artistic medium, or iconographic theme".Fragmented Devotion" is the first exhibition to explore the meanings these fragments have i...

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