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Contemporary Art

Art and Utopia

Chevrier Jean-Francois, Borja-Villel Manuel

ISBN: PB: 9788495951816, Bookport, MACBA, September 2005
350 pp., 21.6x18 cm

In 1970, Marcel Broodthaers claimed that Mallarma is the source of all contemporary art. Those words serve as a departure point for the exhibition and catalogue, Art and Utopia. Based on Marcel Broodthaers's interpretation of and Mallarma's influence...

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Photography

Perfect Medium Photography and the Occult

Cheroux Clement, Fischer Andreas, Apraxine Pierre, Canguilhem Denis, Schmit Sophie

ISBN: HB: 9780300111361, Yale University Press, September 2005
288 pp., 28x22.8 cm, 280 colour illus.

In the early days of photography, many believed and hoped that the camera would prove more efficient than the human eye in capturing the unseen. Spiritualists and animists of the nineteenth century seized on the new technology as a method of substant...

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Decorative Arts

Design

Unicorn Tapestries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cavallo Adolfo Salvatore

ISBN: PB: 9780300106305, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2005
128 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 77 colour images, 14 black&white illus.

The unicorn tapestries are one of the most popular attractions at The Cloisters, the medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Traditionally known as The Hunt of the Unicorn, this set of seven exquisite and enigmatic tapestries was likely co...

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History of Art

Paris in Despair Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-1871)

Clayson Hollis

ISBN: PB: 9780226109572, ISBN: HB: 9780226109510, University of Chicago Press, March 2005
472 pp., 23.4x21.6 cm, 36 colour plates, 181 halftones

The siege of Paris by Prussians in the fall and winter of 1870 and 1871 turned the city upside down, radically altering its appearance, social structure, and mood. As Hollis Clayson demonstrates in "Paris in Despair", the siege took an especially hea...

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Decorative Arts

Silver in London The Parker and Wakelin Partnership 1760-1776

Clifford Helen

ISBN: HB: 9780300103892, Yale University Press, October 2004
320 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 60 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

The firm of Parker and Wakelin was the foremost silversmith in London for much of the eighteenth century, supplying royalty, aristocracy, and gentry with both domestic and ceremonial plate. This fascinating book draws on the firm's records for this p...

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History of Art

Evolution of English Collecting The Reception of Italian Art in the Tudor and Stuart Periods

Chaney Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780300102246, Yale University Press, November 2003
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 150 illus.

After a thorough survey of the background history of European collecting, focussing in particular on Italy's formative role in this phenomenon, Edward Chaney contextualises English collecting in the 16th and 17th centuries and draws together a collec...

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Contemporary Art

Annus Mirabilis? Art in the Year 2000

Cork Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300095111, Yale University Press, May 2003
200 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 72 black&white illus.

The fourth and final part of a four-volume set of art criticism by Richard Cork, written over a 30-year period. It offers a chronicle of a turbulent period as well as an overview and survey of British art and its reception at this time. This particul...

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Contemporary Art

Breaking Down the Barriers Art in the 1990s

Cork Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300095104, Yale University Press, May 2003
400 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 150 illus.

The third part of a four-volume set of art criticism by Richard Cork, written over a 30-year period. It offers a chronicle of a turbulent period as well as an overview and survey of British art and its reception at this time. This particular work add...

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Contemporary Art

Everything Seemed Possible Art in the 1970s

Cork Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300095081, Yale University Press, May 2003
320 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 125 illus.

The first part of a four-volume set of art criticism by Richard Cork, written over a 30-year period. It offers a chronicle of a turbulent period as well as an overview and survey of British art and its reception at this time. This particular work add...

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Contemporary Art

New Spirit, New Sculpture, New Money Art in the 1980s

Cork Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300095098, Yale University Press, May 2003
320 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 130 black&white illus.

The second part of a four-volume set of art criticism by Richard Cork, written over a 30-year period. It offers a chronicle of a turbulent period as well as an overview and survey of British art and its reception at this time. This particular work ad...

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