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Art Conservation

Leonard Mark, Bomford David

ISBN: PB: 9780892367818, ISBN: HB: 9780892367801, Getty Publications, March 2006
520 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 35 black&white illus., 65 colour illus.

This volume on paintings conservation includes more than seventy texts ranging from the fifteenth century to the present day. Some are classic and highly influential writings, others, although little known when first published, in retrospect reflect...

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Art Flexi-Series

Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors Masterpieces from the Late Years

Berggruen Olivier

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791334738, Prestel Publishing, February 2006
176 pp., 24x19.3 cm, 105 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.

Henri Matisse's paintings and drawings are some of the most revered in the art world and his cutouts are widely believed to represent the zenith of his artistic career. When Jazz, Matisse's revolutionary handmade book of paper cutouts, was published...

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History of Art

Goya's Last Works

Brown Jonathan, Galassi Susan Grace

ISBN: HB: 9780300117677, Yale University Press, February 2006
224 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 120 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (1746- 1828) had a prolific career and spent the last four years of his life living in Bordeaux with other political emigres from Spain and South America. In those years and just before his departure from Spain he c...

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Perfect Likeness Portrait Miniatures from the Cincinnati Museum of Art

Aronson Julie, Wieseman Marjorie E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300115802, Yale University Press, February 2006
344 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm

Diminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small frames. They can tell tales of cultural history and biography, of people and their passions, of evolving tastes in jewellery,...

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Candidates for Fame The Society of Artists for Great Britain, 1760-1791

Hargraves Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300110043, Yale University Press, February 2006
280 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 80 black&white illus.

In 1760, an innovation transformed the character of artistic life in Great Britain: the first public exhibition of art. The successful London exhibition was repeated in 1761, but a dispute in the wake of the first show split exhibitors into rival gro...

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Contemporary Art

Picasso Architecture and Vertigo

Green Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300104127, Yale University Press, February 2006
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 60 colour images, 60 black&white illus.

The starting point of this exciting new exploration of Picasso is not his life but his work, which is revealed as a series of interventions in the troubled history of early twentieth-century Europe. Christopher Green shows how these interventions are...

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Photography

Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools

Ross Judith Joy, Reynolds Jock

ISBN: HB: 9780300115840, Yale University Press, February 2006
88 pp., 30.1x27.3 cm, 67 tritone illus.

Acclaimed for the emotional acuity of her portraits, Judith Joy Ross is an accomplished photographer whose work is found in the collections of America's major museums. This exquisitely produced book focuses on one of Ross's most personal series to da...

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Chinese Sculpture

Howard Angel, Song Li, Hung Wu, Hong Yang

ISBN: HB: 9780300100655, Yale University Press, February 2006
536 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 468 colour images, 51 black&white illus.

This up-to-date and detailed exploration of China's magnificent sculptural heritage is presented in this book that is both accessible to the general reader and revelatory for the scholar. Sculpture is becoming known as one of China's great arts. Neol...

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Museum, Inc. Inside the Global Art World

Werner Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780976147510, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2006
88 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

Has corporate business overtaken the art world? It's no secret that art and business have always mixed, but their relationship today sparks more questions than ever".Museum, Inc". describes the new art conglomerates from an insider's perspective, pro...

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Contemporary Art

Willem de Kooning: Garden in Delft Landscapes 1928-1988

Anfam David

ISBN: HB: 9780974960715, DAP, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, February 2006
62 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 26 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This carefully culled portfolio of 14 paintings, meticulously reproduced and documented, spans 60 years – from the time of the master's arrival in America to the late 80s. Readers will find rare examples of de Kooning's ear...

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