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History of Art

Edwardian Sense Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901-1910

O'Neill Morna, Hatt Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300163353, Yale University Press, July 2010
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 90 black&white illus.

Although numerous studies have explored the Edwardian period (1901-1910) as one of political and social change, this innovative book is the first to explore how art, design, and performance not only registered those changes but helped to precipitate...

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Reference

Art of Natural History Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400-1850

O'Malley Therese, Meyers Amy R.W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300160246, Yale University Press, March 2010
280 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 164 black&white illus., 63 colour illus.

"Making knowledge visible" is how one sixteenth-century naturalist described the work of the illustrator of botanical treatises. His words reflected the growing role played by illustrators at a time when the study of nature, as a product of the Renai...

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Catalogue Raisonne

John Singer Sargent Volume 6: Venetian Figures and Landscapes, 1898-1913 (The Complete Paintings)

Ormond Richard, Kilmurray Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780300141405, Yale University Press, March 2009
272 pp., 31x24.8 cm, 256 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.

Throughout his career – and particularly in the period from 1898 to 1913 – John Singer Sargent painted the spectacular architecture and scenes of everyday life in Venice, as he sat alongside the Grand Canal or in a gondola in the sleepy side canals....

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Fashion

Alaska Eskimo Footwear

Oakes Jill

ISBN: PB: 9781602230064, ISBN: HB: 9781889963808, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2007
176 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 153 colour plates, 2 maps, 2 line drawings

"Alaska Eskimo Footwear" celebrates the incredible beauty and spiritual significance of the shoes and boots worn by Alaska Native peoples. Stunning photography brings the harsh and striking environment of the North alive and demonstrates how essentia...

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Keywords in American Landscape Design

O'Malley Therese, Kryder-Reid Elizabeth, Helmreich Anne L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300101744, Yale University Press, April 2007
752 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 106 colour images, 881 black&white illus.

This beautifully illustrated historical dictionary of landscape design vocabulary used in North America from the 17th to the mid-19th centuries defines a selection of one hundred terms and concepts used in garden planning and landscape architecture....

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Contemporary Art

Versions and Inversions Perspectives (vs. Essays) on Avant-garde Art in Latin America

Olea Hector, Ramirez Mari Carmen, Marzio Peter C., Peluffo Linari Gabriel, Giunta Andrea, Camnitzer Luis, Lippard Lucy R., Salzstein Sonia, Smith Terry, Storr Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300116526, Yale University Press, January 2007
272 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 50 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

In the twentieth century, avant-garde artists from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean created extraordinary and highly innovative paintings, sculptures, assemblages, mixed-media works, and installations. This innovative book present...

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John Singer Sargent Volume 4: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882 (The Complete Paintings)

Ormond Richard, Kilmurray Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780300117165, Yale University Press, September 2006
420 pp., 31x24.8 cm, 250 colour illus., 45 black&white illus.

From 1874 to 1882, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) produced more than 200 paintings and water-colours aside from portraiture, including figures in landscape settings, architectural studies, seascapes, subject paintings, and studies after old masters....

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Retratos 2000 Years of Latin American Portraits

Oettinger Marion Jr., Bretos Miguel A., Kinder Carr Carolyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300106275, Yale University Press, January 2005
300 pp., 30.4x24.8 cm, 250 illus.

The tradition of portraiture in Latin America is astonishingly long and rich. For over 2,000 years, portraits have been used to preserve the memory of the deceased, bolster the social standing of the aristocracy, mark the deeds of the mighty, advance...

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Ruthless Hedonism The American Reception of Matisse

O'Brian John

ISBN: HB: 9780226616261, University of Chicago Press, July 1999
298 pp., 25.4x16.5 cm, 30 colour plates, 75 halftones

"Oh, do tell the American people that I am a normal man; that I am a devoted husband and father, that I have three fine children, that I go to the theatre". These words were spoken by Matisse just before the Armory Show in 1913 – a pivotal moment, af...

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Decorative Arts

Brilliance of Swedish Glass, 1918-39 An Alliance of Art, Design and Industry

Ostergard Derek E., Stritzler-Levine Nina

ISBN: HB: 9780300070057, Yale University Press, December 1996
320 pp., 31x24 cm, 150 black&white illus., 130 colour plates

Since the mid-1920s Swedish glass has been synonymous with excellence in design and craftsmanship, the most highly acclaimed product of the Swedish applied arts industries in the international marketplace. Its development and stunning ascendancy came...

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