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History of Art

Hornstein Katie

ISBN: HB: 9780300228267, Yale University Press, February 2018
208 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus., 46 black&white illus.

From the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevolutionary France. This fascinating book studies representations of contemporary conflict in the first half of the 19th century and explores ho...

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Contemporary Art

Gluck Art and Identity

Haye Amy de la, Pel Martin, Horsley Jeffrey, Patrick Andrew Macintosh, Martin Simon, Clarke Gill, Souhami Diana, Wilson Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300230482, Yale University Press, November 2017
208 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 236 colour illus.

Hannah Gluckstein (who called herself Gluck; 1895-1976) was a distinctive, original voice in the early evolution of modern art in Britain. This handsome book presents a major reassessment of Gluck's life and work, examining, among other things, the a...

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Drawn in Colour Degas at the Burrell Collection

Hamilton Vivien, Domercq Julien, Herring Sarah, Riopelle Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9781857096255, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, October 2017
112 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 50 colour illus.

The Burrell Collection in Glasgow houses more than twenty paintings, pastels, and drawings by Edgar Degas (1834-1917) that include his most recognisable motifs: ballet dancers, bathers, jockeys, and women at work. Together with a selection of the Nat...

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New Guinea Highlands Art from the Jolika Collection

Hellmich Christina

ISBN: HB: 9783791350554, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
672 pp., 30x24 cm, 600 colour illus., 65 black&white illus.

The first major publication on the art of the New Guinea Highlands, this extraordinary volume is destined to become the definitive resource on this little-known region. The Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisc...

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Nature's Mirror Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape

Howe Jeffery

ISBN: PB: 9781892850294, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, September 2017
225 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 105 colour plates, 75 halftones

Since the Renaissance, art in Belgium and the Netherlands has been known for its innovations in realistic representation and its fluency in symbolism. New market forces and artistic concerns fueled the development of landscape as an independent genre...

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Contemporary Art

Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg Art, Happenings, and Cultural Politics

Haywood Robert E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222609, Yale University Press, June 2017
272 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 135 colour and black&white illus.

This new interpretation of the structure and meaning of the Happenings produced by Allan Kaprow (1927-2006) and Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) in the late 1950s and 1960s sheds light on the context, theoretical framework, and working practice unique to th...

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Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors

Homann Joachim

ISBN: HB: 9783791356068, Prestel Publishing, May 2017
176 pp., 28x24 cm, 160 colour illus.

Presenting historic and contemporary selections from one of the nation's oldest collections of drawings, this richly illustrated and highly engaging volume explores the significance and pleasures found in tracing movements of the hand on paper by ask...

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Eyewitness Views Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Hjorn Kerber Peter

ISBN: HB: 9781606065259, Getty Publications, April 2017
256 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 1 map, 224 colour illus.

Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Luca Caravarijs, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco Guardi, Hubert Robert-these renowned view painters are perhaps best known for their expansive canvases depicting the ruins of Rome or the canals of Venice. Many of their...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Julian Onderdonk A Catalogue Raisonne

Halff Harry, Halff Elizabeth, Neff Emily Ballew

ISBN: HB: 9780300148152, Yale University Press, October 2016
384 pp., 29.9x24.8 cm, 1280 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

Sumptuously illustrated, this catalogue is the definitive resource on Julian Onderdonk, an American Impressionist artist who lived and worked primarily in Texas. A native of San Antonio, who trained in New York with William Merritt Chase, Onderdonk (...

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Spreading Canvas Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting

Hughes Eleanor, Quilley Geoff, Johns Richard, Monks Sarah, Roach Catherine, Lynford Sophie, McAleer John, Merwe Pieter van der, Riding Christine

ISBN: HB: 9780300221572, Yale University Press, September 2016
312 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 312 colour illus.

Spreading Canvas takes a close look at the tradition of marine painting that flourished in 18th-century Britain. Drawing primarily on the extensive collections of the Yale Center for British Art and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London,...

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