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Cezanne's Gravity

Armstrong Carol

ISBN: HB: 9780300232714, Yale University Press, November 2018
296 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 108 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.

A transformative study, freeing the artist from outdated art historical narratives and revealing his work as newly strange again C zanne's Gravity is an ambitious reassessment of the paintings of Paul C zanne (1839-1906). Whereas previous studies hav...

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Cult of the Machine Precisionism and American Art

Acker Emma, Brock Charles, Cox Julian, Palmor Lauren

ISBN: HB: 9780300234022, Yale University Press, April 2018
256 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 150 colour illus.

Characterized by highly structured, geometric compositions with smooth surfaces, linear qualities, and lucid forms, Precisionism fully emerged after World War I and flourished in the 1920s and 1930s. This insightful publication, featuring more than 1...

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Coming Away Winslow Homer and England

Athens Elizabeth, Ruud Brandon K., Tedeschi Martha

ISBN: HB: 9780300229905, Yale University Press, February 2018
160 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 100 colour illus.

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is widely regarded as the greatest American painter of the 19th century, but it is not well known that he spent a pivotal period of time on the other side of the Atlantic. The eighteen months Homer spent in England in 1881 a...

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Kinaesthetic Knowing Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design

Alexander Zeynep Celik

ISBN: HB: 9780226485201, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 10 colour plates, 99 halftones

Is all knowledge the product of thought? Or can the physical interactions of the body with the world produce reliable knowledge? In late-nineteenth-century Europe, scientists, artists, and other intellectuals theorized the latter as a new way of know...

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Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art

Anderson Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9780300219166, Yale University Press, March 2017
216 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 67 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states – the Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Empires. As these empires diverged from their Greco-R...

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Biography & Memoires

Albrecht Durer A Documentary Biography

Ashcroft Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9780300210842, Yale University Press, January 2017
1216 pp., 24x17 cm, 70 black&white illus.

Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was hailed in his lifetime as a founder of the Northern Renaissance, and his work revolutionized the art of printmaking. Durer was also the first artist outside Italy to leave behind a large body of writing. Contemporaries...

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Important European Sculpture Tomasso Brothers Fine Art

Avery Charles

ISBN: HB: 9781911300151, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, January 2017
176 pp., 28x24 cm

This richly illustrated and scholarly catalogue accompanies an exhibition at Carlton Hobbs in New York, January 2017. Among the 25 beautiful works, dating from the early Renaissance to the Neoclassical period, are important statuettes by masters such...

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Nordic Painting The Rise of Modernity

Alsen Katharina, Landmann Annika

ISBN: HB: 9783791381312, Prestel Publishing, November 2016
304 pp., 34x28 cm, 225 colour illus.

Delightful landscapes, idyllic genre scenes, light-flooded interiors, and atmospheric portraits: this richly illustrated book introduces the most important stylistic directions, artists, and works of Nordic painting. Concentrating on the period of th...

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Assyria to Iberia A Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia

Aruz Joan, Seymour Michael, Killebrew Ann E., Tubb Jonathan N., Finkelstein Israel, Novak Mirko, Aubet Maria Eugenia, Hill Marsha, Gubel Eric, Graff Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781588396068, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2016
404 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 300 colour illus.

In 2014, the Metropolitan Museum presented Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age, an unprecedented exhibition that offered a comprehensive overview of art, diplomacy, and cultural exchange in the ancient Near East and across the Mediterr...

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Origins, Invention, Revision Studying the History of Art and Architecture

Ackerman James S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300218718, Yale University Press, October 2016
232 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 63 colour illus., 63 black&white illus.

An illuminating collection of essays from the preeminent scholar of architectural history and theory One of the most distinguished scholars in the fields of architectural history and theory today, James Sloss Ackerman is best known for his work on It...

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