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Decorative Arts

Art of Japanese Craft 1875 to the Present

Fischer Felice

ISBN: PB: 9780300142129, Yale University Press, October 2008
60 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 74 colour images, 70 black&white illus.

From Japan's first forays onto the international stage of world's fairs in the late nineteenth century to the dynamic creativity of the 1920 and 1930s, from the heady post-World War II period to the present day, Japanese crafts have exhibited a rich...

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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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History of Art

French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes Baroque and Regence

Wilson Gillian, Bremer-David Charissa, Weaver Jeffrey, Considine Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780892368747, Getty Publications, May 2008
464 pp., 30.4x22.4 cm, 105 colour illus., 432 black&white illus.

The exceptional collection of French decorative arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum contains more than 400 pieces, most of them dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This exquisitely illustrated volume brings together forty-four objects...

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Fragile Diplomacy Meissen Porcelain for European Courts, 1710-1763

Geiger Maureen Cassidy

ISBN: HB: 9780300126815, Yale University Press, January 2008
400 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 400 colour illus.

While imported Chinese porcelain had become a valuable commodity in Europe in the seventeenth century, local attempts to produce porcelain long remained unsuccessful. At last, the secret of hard-paste porcelain was uncovered, and in 1710, the first E...

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American Presidential China The Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Gray Detweiler Susan, Barquist David L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300135930, Yale University Press, January 2008
91 pp., 24.1x24.1 cm, 6 black&white illus., 94 colour illus.

The china used by the First Families, both at the White House and in their private homes, reveals a fascinating story of culture and society as it has evolved in the United States since its early days. In this handsome book, which documents over 200...

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American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 1: Early Colonial Period: The Seventeenth Century and William and Mary Styles

Gruber Safford Frances

ISBN: HB: 9780300116472, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2007
464 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 158 colour illus., 170 black&white illus.

The Metropolitan Museum's preeminent collection of early colonial furniture is expertly documented in this long-awaited publication. It covers the full spectrum of furniture forms made during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, from chair...

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Henry VIII and the Art of Majesty Tapestries at the Tudor Court

Campbell Thomas P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300122343, Yale University Press, October 2007
440 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 206 colour images, 114 black&white illus.

Luxurious, beautiful, and portable, tapestry was the pre-eminent art form of the Tudor court. Henry VIII amassed an unrivaled collection over the course of his reign, and the author weaves the history of this magnificent collection into the life of i...

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Jewish Studies

Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses The Synagogue to the Carousel, Jewish Carving Traditions

Zimiles Murray

ISBN: HB: 9781584656371, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2007
196 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Based on more than 20 years of original research in Europe, Israel, and the United States by artist Murray Zimiles, and accompanied by an essay by distinguished Judaica scholar Vivian B.Mann, this book is the first fully developed study of the secula...

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Irish Furniture Woodwork and Carving in Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Act of Union

Knight of Glin, Peill James

ISBN: HB: 9780300117158, Yale University Press, April 2007
488 pp., 30.5x25 cm, 400 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

This lavishly illustrated and comprehensive volume is the first devoted entirely to the subject of Irish furniture and woodwork. It provides a detailed survey, encompassing everything from medieval choir stalls to magnificent drawing-room suites for...

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Bruno Mathsson

Widman Dag, Winter Karin, Stritzler-Levine Nina

ISBN: HB: 9780300121919, Yale University Press, September 2006
224 pp., 30.8x25.1 cm, 120 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

The sensuously undulant lines of Bruno Mathsson's furniture designs made him one of the leading figures of Swedish modernism in the 1930s. Chairs that adapted to their occupant, contoured to follow the human form with graceful natural curves and made...

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