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Steins Collect Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde

Bishop Janet, Debray Cecile, Rabinow Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780300169416, Yale University Press, May 2011
464 pp., 29.6x25.9 cm, 220 black&white illus., 400 colour illus.

As American expatriates living in Paris, the writer Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael's wife Sarah were absolutely pivotal in shaping the city's vibrant cultural life in the early 20th century. They hosted Saturday evening sal...

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Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam

Berlekamp Persis

ISBN: HB: 9780300170603, Yale University Press, April 2011
224 pp., 28.4x22.6 cm, 55 black&white illus., 40 colour illus.

This original book untangles fundamental confusions about historical relationships among Islam, representational images, and philosophy. Closely examining some of the most meaningful and best preserved premodern illustrated manuscripts of Islamic cos...

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Education

Teaching in the Art Museum Interpretation as Experience

Burnham Rika, Kai-Kee Elliott

ISBN: PB: 9781606060582, Getty Publications, April 2011
136 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 7 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.

This title offers an insightful exploration of the mission, history, theory, practice and future of museum education. At the heart of all good art museum teaching is an effort to bring people and artworks together in meaningful ways. But what constit...

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Above the Battlefield British Modernism and the Peace Movement, 1900-1918

Brockington Grace

ISBN: HB: 9780300151954, Yale University Press, October 2010
244 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 100 black&white illus., 40 colour illus.

The early twentieth century is usually remembered as an era of rising nationalism and military hostility, culminating in the disaster of the First World War. Yet it was marked also by a vigorous campaign against war which called into question the aut...

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Medicine in Art

Bordin Giorgio, D'Ambrosio Laura Polo

ISBN: PB: 9781606060445, Getty Publications, September 2010
384 pp., 19.9x13.7 cm, 400 colour illus.

This is the latest volume in the acclaimed series that depicts medicine as depicted in art throughout history. This sumptuously illustrated volume offers a visual history of the depiction of illness and healing in Western culture, ranging from Egypti...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Ford Madox Brown A Catalogue Raisonne (vol. 1 and 2)

Bennett Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780300165913, Yale University Press, June 2010
686 pp., 28x24.8 cm, 522 black&white illus., 458 colour illus.

Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893) is known predominantly for his close association, from 1848, with the "Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood" and for his masterpiece, "The Last of England" (1852-1855), with its poignant imagery of a young emigrant couple aboard sh...

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Hidden in the Shadow of the Master The Model-Wives of Cezanne, Monet, and Rodin

Butler Ruth

ISBN: PB: 9780300164503, Yale University Press, May 2010
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 59 black&white illus.

Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, and Auguste Rodin – The names of these brilliant nineteenth-century artists are known throughout the world. But what is remembered of their wives? What were these unknown women like? What roles did they play in the lives a...

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Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils Telling the Difference

Bevers Holm, Hendrix Lee, Robinson William W., Schatborn Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780892369799, ISBN: HB: 9780892369782, Getty Publications, March 2010
304 pp., 29.5x28 cm, 202 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.

This is a groundbreaking study of more than 40 drawings by Rembrandt and related works by his pupils. Rembrandt was the most famous painter of the Dutch Golden Age, and the opportunity to work in his studio attracted young artists for nearly four dec...

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British Paintings in Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875

Baetjer Katharine

ISBN: HB: 9780300155099, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2010
512 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 215 black&white illus., 140 colour illus.

This is the first comprehensive publication on English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish paintings and pastels by artists born before 1841 in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ranging in date from the late 16th through the third quarter of...

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From the Private Collections of Texas European Art, Ancient to Modern

Brettell Richard R., Dickerson III C. D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300144949, Yale University Press, December 2009
344 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 200 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

The Lone Star State is home to a dazzling array of world-class artworks, many in private collections and rarely exhibited. Reflecting the Kimbell Art Museum's own collecting strengths, this book focuses on the art of Europe and the ancient Mediterran...

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