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Photography

Maynard L. Parker Modern Photography and the American Dream

Watts Jennifer A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300171150, Yale University Press, January 2013
288 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 97 colour images, 154 black&white illus.

As a prolific photographer for "House Beautiful", "Better Homes and Gardens", "Architectural Digest", and "Sunset" magazine, Maynard L. Parker was a pioneer in documenting domestic spaces and landscapes for postwar America. His extensively published,...

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Postcards

Menswear Vintage People on Photo Postcards

Phillips Tom, Musgrave Eric

ISBN: HB: 9781851243785, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2012
112 pp., 19x17.5 cm, 200 black&white illus.

This series celebrates the Bodleian Library's acquisition of Tom Phillips's archive of over 50,000 photographic postcards dating from the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which, thanks to the ever cheaper medium of photography, "ordin...

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History of Art

Messerschmidt and Modernity

Bostrom Antonia

ISBN: PB: 9780892369744, Getty Publications, August 2012
80 pp., 23.6x18.8 cm, 51 colour illus.

This is an engrossing exploration of an 18th-century sculptor's influence on artists to the present day. An astonishing group of 69 "Character Heads" by German sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783) has fascinated viewers, artists, and collec...

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Contemporary Art

Modern Sculpture Reader

Wood Jon, Hulks David, Potts Alex

ISBN: PB: 9781606061060, Getty Publications, August 2012
544 pp., 24x16.9 cm

This title presents a critical collection of writings on the creation, display, and interpretation of sculpture. In many anthologies of art, sculpture is given short shrift in relation to other media, if it is treated at all. "Modern Sculpture Reader...

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History of Art

Masters of Art

Masters of Art Bruegel

Dello Russo William

ISBN: PB: 9783791347400, Prestel Publishing, July 2012
160 pp., 21x17 cm, 80 colour illus.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Pieter Bruegel makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. A Renaissance painter and printmaker best known for his landscapes and peasant scenes, Bruegel's pai...

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Masters of Art

Masters of Art Velazquez

Giorgi Rosa

ISBN: PB: 9783791347424, Prestel Publishing, July 2012
160 pp., 21x17 cm, 80 colour illus.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Diego Velazquez makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. A 17th-century Spanish painter who continues to influence artists today, Velazquez is primarily kno...

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Masters of Art

Masters of Art Goya

Rapelli Paola

ISBN: PB: 9783791347417, Prestel Publishing, July 2012
160 pp., 21x17 cm, 80 colour illus.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Francisco de Goya makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. Widely regarded as the first modern artist, Goya was both a court painter to the Spanish Crown an...

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History of Art

Masters of Art

Masters of Art Vermeer

Tazartes Maurizia

ISBN: PB: 9783791347431, Prestel Publishing, July 2012
160 pp., 21x17 cm, 80 colour illus.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Vermeer makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. A 17th-century Dutch painter who lived his entire life in Delft, Vermeer is renowned for his masterly use o...

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History of Art

Matisse In Search of True Painting

Rabinow Rebecca A., Aagesen Dorthe

ISBN: HB: 9780300188578, Yale University Press, July 2012
256 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

More than most artists, Henri Matisse conducted an ongoing dialogue with his earlier works, continually questioning himself and his methods in order to, as he put it, "push further and deeper into true painting". In a fresh approach to this giant of...

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History of Art

Metamorphosis Poems Inspired by Titian

Penny Nicholas, Agbabi Patience, Armitage Simon, Cope Wendy, Duffy Carol Ann, Greenlaw Lavinia, Harrison Tony, Heaney Seamus, Leviston Frances, Morrissey Sinead

ISBN: PB: 9781857095470, Yale University Press, July 2012
56 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 21 colour illus.

As part of a unique collaboration between the National Gallery and the Royal Opera House, fourteen leading poets were invited to respond to three great masterpieces by the Renaissance painter, Titian: "Diana and Callisto", "Diana and Actaeon" and "Th...

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