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History of Art

In and Out of the Marital Bed Seeing Sex in Renaissance Europe

Wolfthal Diane

ISBN: HB: 9780300141542, Yale University Press, June 2010
224 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 70 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.

This book explores images whose sexual content has all too often been either ignored or denied. Each chapter is devoted to a place that artists associated with sexual activity or desire: the bed, the dressing area of the home, the window and doorway,...

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Incredible Voyage of Ulysses

Landmann Bimba

ISBN: HB: 9781606060124, Getty Publications, May 2010
60 pp., 31.2x23.2 cm, 180 colour illus., 37 black&white illus.

This retelling of the Greek poet Homer's epic tale is accompanied by beautiful and bold illustrations reminiscent of ancient Greek art. The graphic-novel-like style of the book, in which text and illustrations are tightly interwoven, creates a compel...

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History of Art

Intelligence of Tradition in Rajput Court Painting

Aitken Molly Emma

ISBN: HB: 9780300142297, Yale University Press, March 2010
352 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 175 black&white illus., 54 colour illus.

The genre of Rajput painting flourished between the 16th and 19th centuries in the kingdoms that ruled what is now the Indian state of Rajasthan (place of rajas). Rajput paintings depicted the nobility and court spectacle as well as scenes from Krish...

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History of Art

Irises Vincent Van Gogh in the Garden

Helvey Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9780892362264, Getty Publications, November 2009
208 pp., 18.7x14 cm, 70 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

Filled with outstanding colour illustrations, here is a landmark study of one of Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings. Vincent van Gogh painted Irises in the last year of his life, in the garden of the asylum at Saint-Remy, where he was recuperat...

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History of Art

Ingres Painting Reimagined

Siegfried Susan L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300148831, Yale University Press, September 2009
320 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 40 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) produced a body of work that strongly appealed to his contemporaries while disconcerting them. The odd qualities of his work continue to fascinate scholars, critics, and artists today. For the most part schol...

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History of Art

Illuminated Manuscripts of Germany and Central Europe in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Kren Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780892369485, Getty Publications, April 2009
96 pp., 23.8x16.8 cm, 71 colour illus.

This book presents a lavishly illustrated survey of the art of illumination from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum. It features 71 full-colour reproductions. This sumptuous volume presents more than 70 full-colour reproductions of some of th...

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History of Art

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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History of Art

Insects and Flowers The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian

Brafman David, Schrader Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780892369294, Getty Publications, August 2008
52 pp., 15.9x11.4 cm, 22 colour illus.

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was an intrepid artist and scientist who defied the conventions of her time to pursue her passion for documenting the natural world in all its glorious, and sometimes ferocious, detail. Between 1699-1701, she travelle...

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Photography

Ipswich Days Arthur Wesley Dow and His Home Town

Fairbrother Trevor

ISBN: HB: 9780300132915, Yale University Press, January 2008
136 pp., 19.1x19.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) is renowned for his paintings and prints that take their subject matter from nature and reflect the orderly design and fine handcrafting championed by the Arts & Crafts movement. This char...

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History of Art

Inspiring Impressionism The Impressionists and the Art of the Past

Bray Xavier, Clarke Michael, Collins John, Dumas Ann, House John, Suzman Jowell Frances, Rand Richard, Stevenson Lesley

ISBN: HB: 9780300131321, Yale University Press, October 2007
304 pp., 30.5x25.1 cm, 175 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Inspiring Impressionism explores links between Impressionists and the major European art-historical movements that came before them, demonstrating how often beneath the Impressionists' commitment to capturing contemporary life there lay a deep explor...

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