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History of Art

Gifts from the Ancestors Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait

Fitzhugh William W., Crowell Aron L., Hollowell Julie

ISBN: HB: 9780300122060, Yale University Press, November 2009
320 pp., 24.1x17.8 cm, 452 colour images, 51 black&white illus.

The appearance during the first millennium A.D. of small, exquisitely carved artefacts of walrus ivory in the Bering Strait region marks the beginning of an extraordinary florescence in the art and culture of North America. The discovery in the 1930s...

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Thomas Chambers American Landscape and Marine Painter, 1808-1869

Foster Kathleen A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300141054, Yale University Press, September 2008
160 pp., 22.9x27.9 cm, 110 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

Labeled as a travelling American folk artist when he was rediscovered in the mid-twentieth century, the mysterious Thomas Chambers here receives a fresh and creative reassessment. Although his distinctive land- and seascapes appear in many American c...

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History of Art

Painter's Voice The Restoration of Two Master Paintings

Friedkin William

ISBN: PB: 9780892369133, Getty Publications, June 2008
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Academy Award-winning filmmaker William Friedkin examines the intersection of science and art as he follows the painstaking efforts of conservators at the J. Paul Getty Museum to restore French master Jean-Baptiste Oudry's original vision of two of h...

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Dutch Seventeenth-century Genre Painting Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution

Franits Wayne E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300143362, Yale University Press, May 2008
320 pp., 28.5x24.7 cm, 230 black&white illus., 100 colour illus.

The appealing genre paintings of great seventeenth-century Dutch artists – Vermeer, Steen, de Hooch, Dou, and others – have long enjoyed tremendous popularity. This comprehensive book explores the evolution of genre painting throughout the Dutch Gold...

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War Paint Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939-1945

Foss Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780300108903, Yale University Press, July 2007
264 pp., 27x21.7 cm, 35 colour, 175 black&white illus.

In this groundbreaking examination of British war art during the Second World War, Brian Foss delves deeply into what art meant to Britain and its people at a time when the nation's very survival was under threat. Foss probes the impact of war art on...

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Alaska Native Art Tradition, Innovation, Continuity

Fair Susan W.

ISBN: PB: 9781889963822, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2007
312 pp., 26.8x21.5 cm, 220 colour plates, 85 halftones, 2 colour maps

Ranging from the islands of the Bering Sea to Alaska's interior forests,"Alaska Native Art" celebrates the rich art of Alaska's Native peoples, both setting their work in the context of historical traditions and demonstrating the vibrant role it cont...

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History of Art

Pieter de Hooch A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy

Francis Wayne

ISBN: PB: 9780892368440, Getty Publications, April 2007
96 pp., 23.5x19.1 cm, 34 colour illus.

This volume examines the painting in relation to the artist's life and works, explores his stylistic development, and considers as well, his often complex relationship with other artists. "Pieter de Hooch" also looks at the subject matter of the piec...

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Artists' Techniques and Materials

Fuga Antonella

ISBN: PB: 9780892368600, Getty Publications, January 2007
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.

An artist's materials – from the broad brushstrokes of a Van Gogh oil painting, the sparkling gold leaf of a Byzantine mosaic, to the fragile translucence of a porcelain vase – are not just the results of their work. They are the physical embodiment...

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Contemporary Art

Picasso and American Art

Fitzgerald Michael, Boddewyn Julia May

ISBN: HB: 9780300114522, Yale University Press, September 2006
368 pp., 31x24.7 cm, 150 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

Many American artists throughout the 20th century designated Pablo Picasso as the central figure of the modern movement and defined their own artistic achievements through their absorption, critique, or rejection of his example. "Picasso and American...

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History of Art

Painting Summer in New England

Fairbrother Trevor J., Monroe Daniel L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300116922, Yale University Press, March 2006
136 pp., 27.9x25 cm, 81 colour images, 10 black&white illus.

With its stunning coastlines, mountains, lakes, forests, and scenic villages, New England has been an inspiration for American artists since the 19th century. This lively book considers the ways in which painters have responded to the region's summer...

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