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On the Viewing Platform The Panorama between Canvas and Screen
ISBN: HB: 9780300184792, Yale University Press, November 2020
324 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 160 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
This ambitious volume presents a multifaceted account of the legacy of the circular painted panorama and its far-reaching influence on art, photography, film, and architecture. From its 18th-century origins, the panorama quickly became a global mass-...
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£65,00
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Unto This Last Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin
ISBN: HB: 9780300246414, Yale University Press, September 2019
332 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 280 colour illus.
This book presents an innovative portrait of John Ruskin (1819-1900) as artist, art critic, social theorist, educator, and ecological campaigner. Ruskin's juvenilia reveal an early embrace of his lifelong interests in geology and botany, art, poetry,...
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£40,00
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American Pre-Raphaelites Radical Realists
ISBN: HB: 9780300242522, Yale University Press, April 2019
312 pp., 26x23.5 cm, 210 colour illus.
Bringing together insights from a distinguished group of scholars, this beautiful book analyzes the history and historiography of the American Pre-Raphaelites, and how the movement made its way from England to America. Led by Thomas Charles Farrer –...
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£45,00
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Picturesque and Sublime Thomas Cole's Trans-Atlantic Inheritance
ISBN: PB: 9780300233537, Yale University Press, March 2018
192 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 120 colour illus.
Landscape art in the early 19th century was guided by two rival concepts: the picturesque, which emphasized touristic pleasures and visual delight, and the sublime, an aesthetic category rooted in notions of fear and danger. British artists including...
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£20,00
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Thomas Cole's Journey Atlantic Crossings
ISBN: HB: 9781588396402, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2018
288 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 254 colour and black&white illus.
Thomas Cole (1801-1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an international figure, born in England, and in dialogue with the major landscape painters of the age, including J.M.W....
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£50,00
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Edwardian Opulence British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300190250, Yale University Press, March 2013
420 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 350 colour images, 30 black&white illus.
Views of the Edwardian era have swung between seeing the period as a golden summer afternoon of imperial and elite complacency and the starkly conflicting depiction of the decade as one of intense political, economic, and artistic instability leading...
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£50,00
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Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia The Manton Collection of British Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300179668, Yale University Press, July 2012
272 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 447 colour images, 9 black&white illus.
Business leader and arts patron Sir Edwin A. G. Manton (1909-2005) and his wife Florence, Lady Manton assembled an outstanding collection of 18th- and 19th-century British artwork. A gift to the Clark Art Institute from the Manton Foundation in 2007,...
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£45,00
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Reading the Pre-Raphaelites
ISBN: PB: 9780300177336, Yale University Press, March 2012
192 pp., 23.4x16.5 cm, 98 colour images, 21 black&white illus.
Noted for its vivid colours, elaborate use of symbols, and dedication to close observation of the natural world, the work of Pre-Raphaelite artists combines a deep engagement with the past and a modern realism that exemplifies the concerns of the age...
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£19,99
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Men at Work Art and Labour in Mid-Victorian Britain
ISBN: HB: 9780300103809, Yale University Press, January 2005
392 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 33 colour images, 113 black&white illus.
For artists of the increasingly mechanized Victorian age, questions about the meaning and value of labour presented a series of urgent problems: Is work a moral obligation or a religious duty? Must labour be the preserve of men alone? Does the amount...
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£40,00
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