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History of Art

Rule of Art Literature and Painting in the Renaissance

Hulse Clark

ISBN: HB: 9780226360522, University of Chicago Press, July 1990
230 pp., 24.8x17.6 cm, 41 halftones

What do Renaissance poetry and painting have in common? What are the social, ideological, and aesthetic bases for the links between them? And what role do those links play in creating the humanistic culture that still has power over us today? These...

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History of Art

Piero Della Francesca The Flagellation

Lavin Marilyn Aronberg

ISBN: PB: 9780226469584, University of Chicago Press, June 1990
110 pp., 22x17.7 cm

Contents: Preface Historical Table 1. Introduction 2. Physical History of the Painting 3. The Sources of the Composition 4. The Setting 5. The Portraits 6. The Subject 7. Art Historical Context Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations In...

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History of Art

End of Expressionism Art and the November Revolution in Germany, 1918-1919

Weinstein Joan

ISBN: HB: 9780226890593, University of Chicago Press, June 1990
346 pp., 23.7x16.2 cm, 72 halftones

Contents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Berlin 3. Dresden 4. Munich 5. The End of Expressionism Notes Select Bibliography Index

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History of Art

Social History of Modern Art, Volume 1 Art in an Age of Revolution, 1750-1800

Boime Albert

ISBN: PB: 9780226063348, University of Chicago Press, January 1990
550 pp., 22.6x19 cm, 283 halftones

In "A Social History of Modern Art", a sweeping multivolume social history of Western art from the French Revolution to World War I, Albert Boime moves beyond the concern with style and form that has traditionally characterized the study of art histo...

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History of Art

Animals in Four Worlds Sculptures from India

Snead Stella

ISBN: HB: 9780226767260, University of Chicago Press, September 1989
210 pp., 29x22.3 cm, 179 halftones

Animals play a special role in Indian culture. In opposition to deities, they help to frame the human community. Indian philosophy assumes the basic unity of animals and humans and in everyday life animals symbolize various ideas and sentiments. In t...

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Design

Design Discourse History, Theory, Criticism

Margolin Victor

ISBN: PB: 9780226505145, University of Chicago Press, September 1989
302 pp., 25.2x17.7 cm, 71 halftones, 30 line drawings

Although design infuses every object in the material world and gives form to immaterial processes as well, it is only recently that design itself has become the focus of intellectual debate. In "Design Discourse", Victor Margolin gathers together a b...

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Contemporary Art

Transformation of the Avant-Garde The New York Art World, 1940-1985

Crane Diana

ISBN: PB: 9780226117904, University of Chicago Press, July 1989
204 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 32 halftones

With the rise of Abstract Expressionism, New York City became the acknowledged center of the avant-garde. Diana Crane documents the transformation of the New York art world between 1940 and 1985, both in the artistic styles that emerged during this p...

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History of Art

Making of Paul Klee's Career, 1914-1920

Werckmeister Otto Karl

ISBN: HB: 9780226893587, University of Chicago Press, July 1989
343 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 125 halftones

Paul Klee – one of the preeminent artists of the twentieth century – was associated with all of the major movements of the first half of the century: expressionism, cubism, surrealism, and abstraction. In this economic and political history, O. K. We...

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Contemporary Art

William D Berry 1954-1956 Field Sketches

Berry Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780912006369, ISBN: HB: 9780912006345, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 1989
304 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm

This book offers a unique glimpse of Alaska and its creatures, rendered on paper by a man who loved and respected them. William D. Berry was nationally known as a wildlife artist, but to many Alaskans, he was also a kind of state treasure and certain...

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History of Art

Visitable Past Views of Venice by American Artists, 1860-1915

Lovell Margaretta M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226494128, University of Chicago Press, April 1989
139 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 16 colour plates, 92 halftones, 17 maps

In this ambitious and imaginative study, Margaretta M. Lovell analyzes the large body of accomplished, sometimes startling, often brilliant work of American artists drawn to Venice's ragged splendor in the last century. Including major works by such...

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