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Photography

Images of the West Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860-1880

Griffith Bronwyn, Brunet Francois

ISBN: HB: 9780932171542, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, August 2007
136 pp., 28.6x23.3 cm, 100 colour plates

As American settlement expanded westward in the 1860s, the U. S. government undertook large-scale investigations of its new territories".Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections", 1860-1880 presents memorable glass-plate photograp...

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History of Art

Painted Face Portraits of Women in France, 1814-1914

Garb Tamar

ISBN: HB: 9780300111187, Yale University Press, June 2007
304 pp., 28x23 cm, 50 colour images, 150black&white illus.

While a painted portrait usually seems to need little explanation, a closer look may reveal that its meaning and even its subject are far more complex than expected. This book charts for the first time the history of French female portraiture from it...

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Children's Books

P is for Peanut A Photographic ABC

Gelber Lisa, Roberts Jody

ISBN: HB: 9780892368785, Getty Publications, April 2007
64 pp., 20.3x20.3 cm, 26 duotone illus.

This delightful volume uses twenty-six great photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection to show children the alphabet in action – and teach them some interesting ways to look at, and wonder about, works of art. Included are photographs by...

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History of Art

Unknown Monet Pastels and Drawings

Ganz James A., Kendall Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300118629, Yale University Press, March 2007
320 pp., 30.5x23 cm, 225 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Claude Monet (1840-1926) is one of the best-known and most beloved painters in the history of art, with myriad publications and exhibitions devoted to his oeuvre. And yet, there remains a previously undiscovered aspect of his career: his surprisingly...

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History of Art

Rhetoric of Perspective Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting

Grootenboer Hanneke

ISBN: PB: 9780226309705, ISBN: HB: 9780226309682, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
246 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 24 colour plates, 2 line drawings

Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears to be real by the way these objects are rendered. Likewise, the trick of perspective can prevent us...

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History of Art

Piero Di Cosimo Visions Beautiful and Strange

Geronimus Dennis

ISBN: HB: 9780300109115, Yale University Press, November 2006
320 pp., 29x24.8 cm, 60 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

Inverting rules with obvious relish, Florentine artist Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522) is known today, as he was in his own time, for his highly personal visual language, one capable of generating images of the most mesmerizing oddity. Endlessly inventiv...

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History of Art

Societe Anonyme Modernism for America

Gross Jennifer R., Bohan Ruth L., Greenberg Susan, Joselit David, Kenney Elise K., Tashjian Dickran, Wilson Kristina

ISBN: HB: 9780300109214, Yale University Press, May 2006
280 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 302 colour images, 62 black&white illus.

This beautifully illustrated book highlights the unique history of the Societe Anonyme, Inc., an organisation founded in 1920 by the artists Katherine S. Dreier (1877-1952), Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), and Man Ray (1890-1976). As America's first 'exp...

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History of Art

American Icons Transatlantic Perspectives on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century American Art

Gaehtgens Thomas W., Ickstadt Heinz

ISBN: PB: 9780892362479, ISBN: HB: 9780892362462, Getty Publications, March 2006
372 pp., 26x19.2 cm, 142 halftones

American painters and graphic artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries sought inspiration for their work in the uniquely American experience of history and nature. The result was a transformation of the conventional Old World visual languag...

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History of Art

Education

Art Education and Human Development

Gardner Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780892361793, Getty Publications, March 2006
80 pp., 26x22.9 cm, 1 black&white illus.

The production and appreciation of art involves thought processes that have excluded from traditional measures of human intelligence. This book, written by a leading cognitive scientist, makes a compelling case for broadening these definitions and di...

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Art Conservation

Architecture

Conservation and Seismic Strengthening of Byzantine Churches in Macedonia

Gavrilovic Pedrag, Ginnell William S., Sendova Veronika, Sumanov Lazar

ISBN: PB: 9780892367771, Getty Publications, March 2006
256 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 173 black&white charts

Between the ninth and fourteenth century, hundreds of architecturally exquisite Byzantine churches, many of them adorned with beautiful frescoes, were built in the area now known as the Republic of Macedonia. The condition of these buildings has been...

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