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Nexus New York Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis

Cullen Deborah, Saborit Antonio, Manthorne Katherine Emma, Fuentes Elvis, Wechsler James, Rogers Katy, Greet Michele

ISBN: PB: 9780300158960, Yale University Press, October 2009
272 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 60 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

Between 1900 and 1942, New York City was the site of extraordinary creative exchange where artists could share ideas in a global context. The swiftly-changing urban landscape before and between the World Wars inspired the erosion of artistic boundari...

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National Gallery Pocket Collection

Kharibian Leah

ISBN: HB: 9781857094473, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2009
240 pp., 12.1x10.8 cm, 200 colour illus.

The National Gallery, London, home to celebrated works by Leonardo, Titian, Rembrandt, Turner, Van Eyck, Van Gogh, and many others, contains paintings that rank among the finest in the history of Western European art. This attractive little pocket co...

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Nancy Spero Dissidances

Spero Nancy, Nixon Mignon, Buchloh Benjamin H. D.

ISBN: PB: 9788489771604, Bookport, MACBA, July 2008
191 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm

Nancy Spero (born in Cleveland, Ohio, 1926) is a pioneer of feminist art and a key figure in the New York protest scene of the 1960s and 70s, as highly regarded as famed artists Martha Rosler and Adrian Piper. With a career spanning over 50 years, Sp...

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Neohoodoo Art for a Forgotten Faith

Budney Jen, Coleman Danto Arthur, Herzberg Julia, Sirmans Franklin, Tate Greg, Farris Thompson Robert, Troupe Quincy

ISBN: HB: 9780300134186, Yale University Press, June 2008
144 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 60 black&white illus., 40 colour illus.

NeoHooDoo', a phrase coined by the poet Ishmael Reed in 1970, celebrates the practice of rituals, folklore, and spirituality in the Americas beyond the scope of Christianity and organized religion. The endurance of these centuries-old traditions of m...

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Northern European and Spanish Paintings Before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago A Catalogue of the Collection

Wolff Martha, Jones Susan Frances, Mann Richard G., Berg Sobre Judith, Hecht Ilse, Klein Peter, Kuniej Berry Cynthia, Silver Larry

ISBN: HB: 9780300119442, Yale University Press, A+D Series, June 2008
480 pp., 28x21 cm, 233 duotone illus., 100 colour illus.

This important volume documents the Art Institute of Chicago's significant, yet relatively unknown, collection of English, French, German, Netherlandish, and Spanish paintings created before 1600. Over 100 altarpieces, private devotional works, portr...

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New Key Modern Belgian Art from the Simon Collection

Howe Jeffery W.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850126, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, February 2007
233 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 53 colour plates, 81 halftones

The Simon Collection, housed in London and France, is the finest assemblage of modern Belgian art outside Belgium. Accompanying an exhibition held at Boston College's McMullen Museum, "A New Key" presents fifty-three works never before displayed in N...

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Contemporary Art

Norman Rockwell The Underside of Innocence

Halpern Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226314402, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
218 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 12 colour plates, 40 halftones

Norman Rockwell's scenes of everyday small-town life are among the most indelible images in all of twentieth-century art. While opinions of Rockwell vary from uncritical admiration to sneering contempt, those who love him and those who dismiss him do...

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Nature and its Symbols

Impelluso Lucia

ISBN: PB: 9780892367726, Getty Publications, March 2006
384 pp., 19.8x13.8 cm, 400 colour illus.

"Nature and Its Symbols" is the fifth volume in the series "A Guide to Imagery", reference guides whose goal is to explain the symbols used in art. This volume includes chapters on plants, flowers, fruits, and animals of the earth, air, and water, as...

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Nicolas Lancret Dance Before a Fountain

Holmes Mary Tavener, Leonard Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780892368327, Getty Publications, March 2006
100 pp., 23.5x19.1 cm, 32 black&white illus., 46 colour illus.

In a garden glade before a grand fountain, surrounded by a musical party, an elegant woman in a lustrous white gown dances as part of a foursome, raising her eyes to the viewer as if extending an invitation to the dance. This is the enticing scene in...

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Nine Letters on Landscape Painting Written in the Years 1815-1824, with a Letter From Goethe by Way of Introduction

Carus Carl Gustav, Batschmann Oskar, Britt David

ISBN: PB: 9780892366743, Getty Publications, March 2006
200 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 26 black&white illus.

Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) – court physician to the King of Saxony – was a naturalist, amateur painter and theoretician of landscape painting whose "Nine Letters on Landscape Painting" is an important document of early German Romanticism and an ap...

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