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History of Art

Antiquities in Motion From Excavation Sites to Renaissance Collections

Furlotti Barbara

ISBN: HB: 9781606065914, Getty Publications, June 2019
292 pp., 25x15 cm, colour illus.

Barbara Furlotti presents a dynamic interpretation of the early modern market for antiquities, relying on the innovative notion of archaeological finds as mobile items. She reconstructs the journey of ancient objects from digging sites to venues wher...

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Eileen Hogan Personal Geographies

Fairman Elisabeth R., Hogan Eileen, Robinson Duncan, Conway Morris Roderick, Longstaffe-Gowan Todd, Turner Sarah Victoria, Lousada Sandra

ISBN: PB: 9780300241471, Yale University Press, May 2019
272 pp., 26x21 cm, 320 colour illus.

This visually stunning survey provides an in-depth look at Eileen Hogan's (b. 1946) working methods. Covering her entire career, it focuses particularly on two dominant themes in the artist's oeuvre – enclosed gardens and portraiture. Her depictions...

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American Pre-Raphaelites Radical Realists

Ferber Linda S., Anderson Nancy K., Barringer Tim, Dayer Gallati Barbara, Lynford Sophie, Mitchell Mark, Simon Janice, Waggoner Diane

ISBN: HB: 9780300242522, Yale University Press, April 2019
312 pp., 26x23.5 cm, 210 colour illus.

Bringing together insights from a distinguished group of scholars, this beautiful book analyzes the history and historiography of the American Pre-Raphaelites, and how the movement made its way from England to America. Led by Thomas Charles Farrer –...

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World Between Empires Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East

Fowlkes-Childs Blair, Seymour Michael

ISBN: HB: 9781588396839, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2019
332 pp., 27.9x25.1 cm, 344 colour illus.

Emerging as an urgent response to the destruction of cultural heritage in Iraq, Syria, and Iran, this publication examines the art and architecture of regions that served as major trade routes between the Roman and Parthian Empires from 100 B.C. to A...

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Color and Light The Neo-Impressionist Henri-Edmond Cross

Frank Frederic, Ferretti Bocquillon Marina, Philipp Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783791357737, Prestel Publishing, August 2018
248 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 colour illus.

This beautifully illustrated book examines the artistic career of the French painter and draftsman Henri-Edmond Cross who was a key figure in the development of European modernism. Inspired by the work of Realist painters such as Gustave Courbet and...

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Polidoro da Caravaggio

Franklin David

ISBN: HB: 9780300223897, Yale University Press, April 2018
176 pp., 27x21.6 cm, 156 colour and black&white illus.

Polidoro da Caravaggio (c. 1500-1543), one of Raphael's most influential and distinctive followers, has not been well treated by time. His significant early frescoes, which graced exterior palace facades in Rome, have perished almost without exceptio...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Biographic: Dior Great Lives in Graphic Form

Flavell Liz

ISBN: HB: 9781781453131, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, November 2017
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all...

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Hiroshige

Forrer Matthi

ISBN: HB: 9783791382654, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
288 pp., 36.4x30 cm, 300 colour illus.

This lavishly produced authoritative monograph presents an in-depth view of the life and work of Utagawa Hiroshige, one of Japan's most revered artists. Presented in a style as stunning as the prints it celebrates, this survey of Hiroshige tells the...

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Contemporary Art

Seeing Slowly

Findlay Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783791383835, Prestel Publishing, August 2017
248 pp., 24x18 cm, 60 colour illus.

When it comes to viewing art, living in the information age is not necessarily a benefit. So argues Michael Findlay in this book that encourages a new way of looking at art. Much of this thinking involves stripping away what we have been taught and i...

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Playing with Fire Paintings by Carlos Almaraz

Fox Howard

ISBN: HB: 9783791356853, Prestel Publishing, July 2017
148 pp., 27x23.2 cm, 103 colour illus.

"Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz" is the first full-length monograph devoted to an artist known for both his politically engaged cultural production as well as his vibrant, highly sought-after studio art, particularly his scenes of car...

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