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History of Art

Jan Lievens A Dutch Master Rediscovered

Wheelock Arthur K., DeWitt Lloyd, Dickey Stephanie S., Gifford Melanie, Rubinstein Greg

ISBN: HB: 9780300142136, Yale University Press, September 2008
352 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 230 colour images, 76 black&white illus.

Jan Lievens (1607-1674) was one of the most fascinating and enigmatic Dutch artists of the seventeenth century. Daring and innovative as a painter, printmaker, and draftsman, he created powerful character studies, genre scenes, landscapes, formal por...

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Decorative Arts

European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago

Brosens Koenraad, Bertrand Pascal-Francois, Bremer-David Charissa, Cleland Elizabeth, Delmarcel Guy, Forti Grazzini Nello, Mayer Thurman Christa C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300119602, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2008
450 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 200 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

This lavishly illustrated book presents a rich variety of European tapestries from the Art Institute of Chicago. These exquisite tapestries include medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque examples, manufactured at almost all the major centres of productio...

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Cartoon Art

Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories Volume 2

Brunetti Ivan

ISBN: HB: 9780300126716, Yale University Press, September 2008
400 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, chiefly illus.

Comic art is a vital, highly personal art form in which change – rapid and unpredictable – is the norm. In this exciting new anthology, comic artist Ivan Brunetti focuses on very recent works by contemporary artists engaged in this world of change. T...

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Contemporary Art

With Love From Haha Essays and Notes on a Collective Practice

Jacob Wendy, Palmer Laurie, Ploof John

ISBN: PB: 9780945323136, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, September 2008
172 pp., 22.6x19 cm, 120 colour plates, 27 halftones

Since its inception in 1988, the art collective Haha has created twenty-one projects – including sculptural installations, community-based projects, and video works – in the United States and Europe. Members Richard House, Wendy Jacob, Laurie Palmer,...

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History of Art

Mystic Masque Semblance and Reality in Georges Rouault, 1871-1958

Schloesser Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781892850140, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, September 2008
600 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, 200 colour and halftone plates

In the fifty years since Georges Rouault's death, his paintings have fallen from the heights of popularity in the 1940s and 50s to the depths of neglect in recent years. The publication of "Mystic Masque", which accompanies an exhibition of the same...

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Art Conservation

Lessons Learned Reflecting on the Theory and Practice of Mosaic Conservation

Abed Aicha Ben, Demas Martha, Roby Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780892369201, Getty Publications, August 2008
432 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

In 2005, the Institut National du Patrimoine of Tunisia played host to the ninth Triennial meeting of the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics (ICCM). The meeting focused on assessing past practices of mosaic conservation, both in...

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Contemporary Art

Paul McCarthy Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement: Three Installations, Two Films

Iles Chrissie

ISBN: HB: 9780300141382, Yale University Press, August 2008
80 pp., 24.1x22.2 cm, 5 black&white illus., 25 colour illus.

This is the first publication to explore the role of mirrors, spinning, and "neurotic" architecture – a feeling of psychological breakdown – in the work of one of America's most important contemporary artists, Paul McCarthy (b. 1945). The book is pub...

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History of Art

Dilettanti The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England

Redford Bruce

ISBN: HB: 9780892369249, Getty Publications, August 2008
234 pp., 26x21 cm, 105 colour illus., 45 black&white illus.

With elegance and wit, this volume recreates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettanti – a group founded in 1732 devoted to the study, an...

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History of Art

European Art of the Eighteenth Century

Tarabra Daniela

ISBN: PB: 9780892369218, Getty Publications, August 2008
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.

This latest volume in the acclaimed "Art through the Centuries Series" explores the most important and influential artists and artistic concepts of the eighteenth century. While the Baroque style had dominated the previous century, a new sensibility...

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History of Art

Fran and Ray Stark Collection of 20th Century Sculpture at J. Paul Getty Museum

Bostrom Antonia

ISBN: HB: 9780892369041, Getty Publications, August 2008
208 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus., 64 black&white illus.

This book celebrates the recently installed collection of 20th-century sculpture donated to the Getty Museum in 2005 by philanthropist agent-turned producer Ray Stark. This sumptuous book takes readers on a visual tour of the J. Paul Getty Museum's n...

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