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Plains of Mars European War Prints, 1500-1825, from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Clifton James, Scattone Leslie, Fetvaci Emine, Gruber Ira D., Silver Larry

ISBN: HB: 9780300137224, Yale University Press, March 2009
280 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 5 colour images, 164 black&white illus.

From 1500 to 1825, Europe remained in an almost perpetual state of war. Religion, politics, economics, and dynastic ambition all played a role in the turmoil that spread across the continent. War-related printed images also proliferated during this t...

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Dada's Women

Hemus Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780300141481, Yale University Press, March 2009
256 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 20 colour images, 60 black&white illus.

The European Dada movement of the early twentieth century has long been regarded as a male preserve, one in which women have been relegated to footnotes or mentioned only as the wives, girlfriends, or sisters of Dada men. This fascinating book challe...

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Buddhist Painting in Cambodia

Roveda Vittorio, Sothorn Yem

ISBN: HB: 9789749863527, Prestel Publishing, River Books, March 2009
328 pp., 29.2x22.2 cm

This book documents the remnants of the rich Buddhist cultural heritage of Cambodia after centuries of wars and destruction culminating with the genocide and cultural annihilation of the Khmer Rouge. The most important mural paintings of Cambodia are...

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Photography

Look at me Photographs from Mexico City by Jed Fielding

Fielding Jed

ISBN: HB: 9780226248523, University of Chicago Press, March 2009
144 pp., 33.6x27.3 cm, 68 duotones

Sight is central to the medium of photography. But what happens when the subjects of photographic portraits cannot look back at the photographer or even see their own image? An in-depth pictorial study of blind schoolchildren in Mexico, "Look at me"...

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Performing Arts

Crucible Bodies Postwar Japanese Performance from Brecht to the New Millennium

Uchino Tadashi

ISBN: PB: 9781905422746, ISBN: HB: 9781905422722, Seagull Books, March 2009
224 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 25 colour illus.

"Crucible Bodies: Postwar Japanese Performance from Brecht to the New Millennium" is a collection of essays covering a wide range of historical and theoretical topics, from Brecht in Japan to "children's" bodies in postmodern Japanese performances, f...

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If the Paintings Could Talk

Wilson Michael, Marr Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781857094251, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2009
176 pp., 21x14 cm, 168 colour illus.

"If the Paintings Could Talk" reveals the hidden histories of paintings in the National Gallery, London. With a treasury of fascinating facts, discoveries, and tales, this book describes the flight a work took down a mountainside and the portrait tha...

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Children's Books

13 Artists Children Should Know

Wenzel Angela

ISBN: HB: 9783791341736, Prestel Publishing, February 2009
48 pp., 28x24 cm, 60 colour illus.

This heavily illustrated book featuring the world's greatest painters is an excellent introduction for young readers to artists and their works. Whether it's Leonardo da Vinci's mysterious Mona Lisa, Vermeer's vibrant depictions of light, Van Gogh'...

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Children's Books

13 Buildings Children Should Know

Roeder Annette

ISBN: HB: 9783791341712, Prestel Publishing, February 2009
48 pp., 28x24 cm, 60 colour illus.

The world's most iconic buildings are made accessible and exciting for young readers in this colorful introduction to architecture that changed the world. Children's fascination with buildings is a natural outgrowth of their curiosity about anythin...

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John Talman An Early Eighteenth-Century Connoisseur

Sicca Cinzia Maria, Baker Christopher, Borgioli Cristina, Connor Bulman Louisa M., Capitanio Antonella, Collareta Marco, Davidson Peter, Freddolini Francisco, Giometti Cristiano, Harris John

ISBN: HB: 9780300123357, Yale University Press, February 2009
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 108 colour illus.

This handsome book is the only full-length study of John Talman (1677-1726), the first director of the Society of Antiquaries and one of the most influential collectors of drawings in early 18th-century Britain. Prominent scholars discuss the history...

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Catalogue Raisonne

William Merritt Chase Volume 3: Landscapes in Oil

Pisano Ronald G., Lane Carolyn K., Baker D. Frederick

ISBN: HB: 9780300110203, Yale University Press, February 2009
248 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 209 colour illus., 49 black&white illus.

Admired for finding beauty in everyday surroundings, William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) brought an autobiographical element to his work, earning him a unique place in late-19th-century American art history. This book, the third of four volumes to docu...

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