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John Smibert Colonial America's First Portrait Painter
ISBN: HB: 9780300042580, Yale University Press, November 1995
294 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 284 black&white illus., 26 colour plates
John Smibert was the first portrait painter of distinction to attempt to carve out an existence in colonial America. This text is both a catalogue raisonne of Smibert's work and a discussion of his life and career.
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£85,00
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Pictorial Art of the West, 800-1200
ISBN: PB: 9780300064933, Yale University Press, October 1995
470 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 325 black&white illus., 75 colour illus.
Aims to provide a comprehensive guide to all forms of pictorial art – from wall and panel paintings to stained glass windows, mosaics and embroidery – and sets them against the historical and theological influences of the age. This study covers the p...
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£35,00
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Picture Theory Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
ISBN: PB: 9780226532325, University of Chicago Press, September 1995
462 pp., 23x15 cm, 79 halftones
What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the "pictorial turn" supplants the "linguistic turn" in...
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£25,50
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Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 3 Affirmations and Refusals, 1950-1956
ISBN: PB: 9780226306230, University of Chicago Press, June 1995
340 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 halftones
Clement Greenberg is widely recognized as the most influential and articulate champion of modernism during its American ascendency after World War II, the period largely covered by these highly acclaimed volumes of "The Collected Essays and Criticism...
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£25,50
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Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4 Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969
ISBN: PB: 9780226306247, University of Chicago Press, June 1995
358 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 halftones
Clement Greenberg is widely recognized as the most influential and articulate champion of modernism during its American ascendency after World War II, the period largely covered by these highly acclaimed volumes of "The Collected Essays and Criticism...
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£28,50
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Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism
ISBN: HB: 9780226159423, University of Chicago Press, June 1995
462 pp., 22.8x15.3 cm, 137 halftones
In this acclaimed revisionist study, Erika Doss chronicles an historic cultural change in American art from the dominance of regionalism in the 1930s to abstract expressionism in the 1940s. She centers her study on Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Poll...
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£76,00
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Discovering Design Explorations in Design Studies
ISBN: PB: 9780226078151, University of Chicago Press, April 1995
283 pp., 21.6x14.1 cm
"Discovering Design" reflects the growing recognition that the design of the everyday world deserves attention not only as a professional practice but as a subject of social, cultural, and philosophic investigation. Victor Margolin, cofounder and an...
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£23,50
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Bernini Flights of Love, the Art of Devotion
ISBN: PB: 9780226092737, University of Chicago Press, March 1995
168 pp., 22.9x15.4 cm, 41 halftones
Nowhere is evidence of Bernini's unique abillity to unite architecture with sculpture and painting into a beautiful whole more compelling than in the Baroque chapel of Bernini's design: a dark world sealed below by a balustrade, covered by a luminous...
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£25,50
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Ars Sacra: 800-1200
ISBN: HB: 9780300060485, Yale University Press, February 1995
340 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 275 black&white illus., 75 colour illus.
The magnificent bronze doors of Hildesheim Cathedral, the ivory, gold, enamelled and bejewelled book covers made to contain superbly illuminated manuscripts, the startling reliquary caskets made in the shape of the part of the body supposed to be con...
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£95,00
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Monumental Propaganda
ISBN: PB: 9780916365424, DAP, Independent Curators International, February 1995
96 pp., 29x21.6 cm, 75 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Edited by Dore Ashton, and instigated by Komar & Melamid projects to salvage Russia's remaining monuments to totalitarianism, "Monumental Propaganda" mixes levity and seriousness, presenting 26 proposals by among others Arm...
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£17,50
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