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Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life Early Twentieth-Century European Modernism

Witkovsky Matthew S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300166095, Yale University Press, A+D Series, July 2011
160 pp., 25x15 cm, 160 colour illus.

Beginning around 1910, vanguard artists demanded that true art go beyond the intellectual and transform daily life. This volume highlights the work of six influential European artists who took this idea into the wider world, where it merged enthusias...

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History of Art

Altered and Adorned Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life

Schmidt Suzanne Karr

ISBN: HB: 9780300169119, Yale University Press, A+D Series, May 2011
104 pp., 31x23.4 cm, 10 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.

Today Renaissance-era prints are typically preserved behind glass or in solander boxes in museums, but these decorative objects were once a central part of everyday life. "Altered and Adorned" is a delightful, surprising look at how prints were used...

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Contemporary Art

Public Notice 3 Jitish Kallat at the Art Institute of Chicago

Ghose Madhuvanti

ISBN: HB: 9780300171587, Yale University Press, A+D Series, May 2011
96 pp., 26.7x23.1 cm

The Swami Vivekananda's speech to the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 is the centrepiece of Indian artist Jitish Kallat's new work, "Public Notice 3". The installation went on view at the Art Institute of Chicago on September 11, 2...

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History of Art

Kings, Queens, and Courtiers Art in Early Renaissance France

Wolff Martha

ISBN: HB: 9780300170252, Yale University Press, A+D Series, March 2011
208 pp., 31x23.9 cm, 190 colour illus.

This sumptuous catalogue provides an overview of French art circa 1500, a dynamic, transitional period when the country, resurgent after the dislocations of the Hundred Years' War, invaded Italy and all media flourished. What followed was the emergen...

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Contemporary Art

Richard Hawkins Third Man

Dorin Lisa, Subotnick Ali, Baker George

ISBN: HB: 9780300166255, Yale University Press, A+D Series, January 2011
160 pp., 31x23.6 cm, 130 colour illus.

This stunning book offers an important mid-career retrospective of the work of American artist Richard Hawkins (born 1961), whose paintings, collages, and mixed-media pieces are making a crucial contribution to the contemporary art scene. Colour plat...

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History of Art

Gray Collection Seven Centuries of Master Drawings

McCullagh Suzanne Folds

ISBN: HB: 9780300166262, Yale University Press, A+D Series, August 2010
208 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 180 colour illus.

One of America's foremost art dealers, Richard Gray, and his wife, art historian Mary L. Gray, have amassed an unparalleled collection of paintings, drawings, and sculpture representing seven hundred years and featuring more than 115 dynamic and impo...

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History of Art

Age of French Impressionism Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago

Groom Gloria, Druick Douglas

ISBN: HB: 9780300167801, Yale University Press, A+D Series, July 2010
200 pp., 30.8x24.9 cm, 130 colour illus.

The Art Institute of Chicago houses one of the world's greatest collections of late- 19th-century French art. This stunning book highlights more than 100 of the museum's masterpieces, from the bold works of Edouard Manet, an important figure in the t...

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Contemporary Art

American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago World War I to 1955

Barter Judith A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300117387, Yale University Press, A+D Series, February 2010
376 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 140 black&white illus., 250 colour illus.

The first publication to focus on the Art Institute's outstanding collection of American modernism, this volume includes over 175 important paintings, sculptures, decorative art objects, and works on paper made in North America between World War II a...

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Design

Konstantin GRCIC Decisive Design

Ryan Zoe

ISBN: PB: 9780300151046, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2009
96 pp., 21.6x13.3 cm, 90 colour illus.

The hip, functional, and versatile furniture and products of Konstantin Grcic – widely recognized as one of the most important designers working today – are transforming the landscape of contemporary design. This book accompanies the first exhibition...

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Architecture

Contemporary Art

Modern Wing Renzo Piano and the Art Institute of Chicago

Cuno James, Goldberger Paul, Rosa Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300141122, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2009
160 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 120 colour images, 20 duotone illus.

This handsome book examines the remarkable new addition to the Art Institute of Chicago, designed by Renzo Piano and scheduled to open in May 2009. This expansion to The Art Institute of Chicago, already one of the largest museums in the country, wil...

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