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History of Art

Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture The Birth of the French School, 1648-1793

Michel Christian

ISBN: PB: 9781606065358, Getty Publications, February 2018
424 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

The Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (French Academy of Painting and Sculpture) – perhaps the single most influential art institution in history – governed the arts in France for more than 150 years, from its founding in 1648 until its abo...

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Contemporary Art

Howardena Pindell What Remains to Be Seen

Beckwith Naomi, Cassel Oliver Valerie

ISBN: HB: 9783791357379, Prestel Publishing, February 2018
288 pp., 30.5x23 cm, 250 colour illus.

This retrospective volume celebrates five decades of Howardena Pindell's art, including works on paper, collage, photography, film, and video. Born in middle-class Philadelphia in the 1940s, Howardena Pindell came of age during the Civil Rights mov...

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History of Art

Thomas Cole's Journey Atlantic Crossings

Barringer Tim, Kornhauser Elizabeth Mankin, Mahon Dorothy, Riopelle Christopher, Vittoria Shannon

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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Contemporary Art

Figuring History Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas

Manchanda Catharina, Francis Jacqueline, Stokes Sims Lowery

ISBN: HB: 9780300233896, Yale University Press, February 2018
96 pp., 22.9x30.5 cm, 59 colour illus.

Contemporary artists Robert Colescott (1925-2009), Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955), and Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971) are distinguished by their attention to a history of representation, which they re-visit and revise to reflect on individual and collect...

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History of Art

Paston Treasure Microcosm of the Known World

Moore Andrew, Flis Nathan, Vanke Francesca

ISBN: HB: 9780300232905, Yale University Press, February 2018
590 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 474 colour and black&white illus.

"The Paston Treasure", a spectacular painting from the 1660s now held at Norwich Castle Museum, depicts a wealth of objects from the collection of a local landed family. This deeply researched volume uses the painting as a portal to the history of th...

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Contemporary Art

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today

Respini Eva

ISBN: HB: 9780300228250, Yale University Press, February 2018
316 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 236 colour illus.

Featuring essays by leading curators, scholars, and critics, this book provides an in-depth look at how the internet has impacted visual art over the past three decades. From the fall of the Berlin Wall to Black Lives Matter, the internet's promise t...

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Decorative Arts

Napoleon The Imperial Household

Cordier Sylvain

ISBN: HB: 9780300233469, Yale University Press, February 2018
352 pp., 31.1x24.1 cm, 380 colour and black&white illus.

The dazzling splendors of the court of Napoleon I (1769-1821) reflected the grandeur and ambitions of the greatest empire of the day. This luxurious volume re-creates the ambiance and captures the spirit that prevailed in the French court during the...

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Ancient World

Art of Libation in Classical Athens

Gaifman Milette

ISBN: HB: 9780300192278, Yale University Press, February 2018
196 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 127 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

This handsome volume presents an innovative look at the imagery of libations, the most commonly depicted ritual in ancient Greece, and how it engaged viewers in religious performance. In a libation, liquid – water, wine, milk, oil, or honey – was pou...

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Decorative Arts

Silver Caesars A Renaissance Mystery

Alcorn Ellenor, Bimbenet-Privat Michele, Beard Mary, Koeppe Wolfram, Salomon Xavier F., Schroder Timothy B., Walker Stefanie, Siemon Julia

ISBN: PB: 9781588396396, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2018
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 250 colour illus.

The twelve silver-gilt cups known as the Aldobrandini Tazze – magnificent examples of 16th-century European goldsmithing in size, design, and quality of execution – feature figures and scenes from Roman historian Suetonius's classic work "The Twelve...

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History of Art

Art of Peales in Philadelphia Museum of Art Adaptations and Innovations

Soltis Carol Eaton

ISBN: HB: 9780300229363, Yale University Press, February 2018
400 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 225 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

Active from the late 18th through the early 20th century, the Peale family was America's first artistic dynasty. This overview of the art of the Peales documents and interprets more than 160 works in a variety of media from the renowned collection of...

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