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Facing the Modern The Portrait in Vienna, 1900

Blackshaw Gemma, De Waal Edmund, Gronberg Tag, Johnson Julie, Lehmann Doris, Shapira Elana, Wieber Sabine, Costello Mary

ISBN: HB: 9781857095616, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2013
216 pp., 28.9x22 cm, 140 colour illus.

During the great flourishing of modern art in fin-de-siecle Vienna, artists of that city focused on images of individuals. Their portraits depict artists, patrons, families, friends, intellectual allies, and society celebrities from the upwardly mobi...

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God is Beautiful and Loves Beauty The Object in Islamic Art and Culture

Blair Sheila S., Bloom Jonathan M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300196665, Yale University Press, November 2013
496 pp., 29x23 cm, 400 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

The Islamic world, spanning centuries and far-flung regions, is renowned for its diverse cultural and artistic traditions. This sumptuous book delves into that vast creative output, examining a dozen exquisite objects in the Museum of Islamic Art, in...

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Art Conservation

Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks

Gifford E. Melanie, Barbour Daphne S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197426, Yale University Press, September 2013
192 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 115 colour illus.

The National Gallery of Art introduces a new journal presenting the latest conservation research on works in its collection. Named for "the manner in which things are made", "Facture" addresses aspects of conservation from treatment and technical art...

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American Adversaries West and Copley in a Transatlantic World

Ballew Neff Emily, Weber Kaylin H., Berlo Janet Catherine, Clifton James, Costello Leo, Lloyd Christopher, Pierce Donna, Postle Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780300196467, Yale University Press, August 2013
320 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 220 colour illus.

American artists and innovators Benjamin West (1738-1820) and John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) changed the way history was recorded in the 18th century and became America's first global art superstars. Initially friends but eventually bitter rivals,...

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Distinguished Images Prints and the Visual Economy in Nineteenth Century France

Bann Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300177275, Yale University Press, May 2013
224 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 10 colour images, 95 black&white illus.

This multifaceted book reviews the vast range of types of printmaking that flourished in France during the 19th century. Studies of this period's printmaking tend to be confined to histories of individual processes, such as lithography or steel engra...

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Arts of India, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia at the Dallas Museum of Art

Bromberg Anne R., Asher Catherine B., Asher Frederick M., Clark Robert W., Tingley Nancy

ISBN: HB: 9780300149883, Yale University Press, March 2013
264 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 120 colour illus.

In recent years, the Dallas Museum of Art has expanded its collection of South Asian art from a small number of Indian Temple sculptures to nearly 500 works, including Indian Hindu and Buddhist sculptures, Himalayan Buddhist bronze sculptures and rit...

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Masters of Art

Masters of Art Cezanne

Bernabei Roberat

ISBN: PB: 9783791348254, Prestel Publishing, February 2013
160 pp., 21x17 cm, 80 illus.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Paul Cezanne makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. Widely regarded as the bridging link between late 19th-century Impressionism and Cubism, Cezanne's wor...

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Spanish Drawings in the Princeton University Art Museum

Banner Lisa A., Brown Jonathan, Lubar Robert, Rosenberg Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9780300149319, Yale University Press, January 2013
286 pp., 29.2x24.8 cm, 195 colour illus.

The Princeton University Art Museum's collection of Spanish drawings includes masterworks by artists such as Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652), Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), Francisco Goya (1746-1828), Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), and Salvador Dali...

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Architecture

Cloisters Medieval Art and Architecture

Barnet Peter, Wu Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780300187205, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2013
204 pp., 24.8x17.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Home to an extraordinary collection of treasured masterworks, including the famed Unicorn Tapestries, The Cloisters is devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. This splendid new guide, published to celebrate The Cloisters' seventy-fift...

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Dancing Around the Bride Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp

Basualdo Carlos, Battle Erica F., Tomkins Calvin, Laddaga Reinaldo, Franklin Paul B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300189254, Yale University Press, January 2013
270 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

This fascinating book explores the interwoven lives, radical art, and shared experimental spirit of Marcel Duchamp and four of America's most important postwar artists: composer John Cage, choreographer Merce Cunningham, and visual artists Jasper Joh...

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