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Masterworks from the Neue Galerie New York

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ISBN: HB: 9783791355818, Prestel Publishing, September 2016
248 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 257 colour illus.

The Neue Galerie New York opened in November 2001, when it showcased its collection of Austrian and German art from 1890 to 1940. The museum's Austrian holdings encompass major paintings by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, and Richard Ger...

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Court and Cosmos The Great Age of the Seljuqs

Peacock A. C. S., Canby Sheila R., Beyazit Deniz, Rugiadi Martina

ISBN: HB: 9781588395894, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2016
400 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 450 colour illus.

Rising from humble origins as Turkic tribesman, the powerful and culturally prolific Seljuqs – a dynastic tribe whose reach extended from Central Asia to the eastern Mediterranean – dominated the Islamic world from the 11th to the 14th century. This...

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In the Courts of Religious Ladies Art, Vision, and Pleasure in Italian Renaissance Convents

Periti Giancarla

ISBN: HB: 9780300214239, Yale University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 85 colour illus., 110 black&white illus.

This fascinating study considers the poetic and mythological artworks made for elite female monastic communities in Renaissance Italy. Nuns from the patrician class, who often disregarded obligations of austerity and poverty, commissioned sensually a...

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After the Beautiful Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226325583, ISBN: HB: 9780226079493, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 colour plates, 36 halftones

In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility – the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel's approach to art has been influen...

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Genesis of Creativity and the Origin of the Human Mind

Putova Barbora, Soukup Vaclav

ISBN: HB: 9788024626772, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2015
350 pp., 23.3x17 cm, 160 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! What is it about human beings that makes us creative, able to imagine and enact new possibilities for life and new solutions to problems in a way that no other animal can? The authors incl...

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Keys to a Passion

Page Suzanne, Parent Beatrice

ISBN: HB: 9780300215427, Yale University Press, May 2015
284 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 125 colour illus.

This beautiful and authoritative book brings together a number of exceptional works of art whose audacity disrupted the course of art history at the beginning of the 20th century. Major artists including Monet, Mondrian, Malevich, Rothko, Bonnard, Pi...

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Contemporary Art

Futures of Surrealism Myth, Science Fiction, and Fantastic Art in France, 1936-1969

Parkinson Gavin

ISBN: HB: 9780300209716, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 60 colour illus., 45 black&white illus.

Although Surrealism is usually associated with the 1920s and 1930s, it remained a vital force in Paris throughout the postwar period. This important book offers the first detailed account in English of the trajectory of the French Surrealists in the...

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Byzantine Things in the World

Peers Glenn, Barber Charles, Caffey Stephen, Franses Henri, Haskell Caitlin, Rodriguez James, Shiff Richard, Steiner Shannon, Sutton Susan, Williams Robin

ISBN: HB: 9780300191783, Yale University Press, June 2013
192 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus.

How did Byzantine culture understand its own objects we now call "art"? This enlightening publication proposes that they saw and experienced clay pilgrim tokens, relief stamps, and icons of saints as dynamic and fully capable of affecting the world....

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New Eyes on America The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville

Peterson Heyrman Joy, Delamaire Marie-Stephanie, Gordon Eric, Rockman Seth, Wierich Jochen

ISBN: PB: 9780300194500, Yale University Press, March 2013
144 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 129 colour images, 7 black&white illus.

During a tragically short career, Richard Caton Woodville (1825-1855) produced iconic works depicting mid-century America. Born in Baltimore and trained in Dusseldorf, Woodville painted 19th-century America in a new way. His paintings depict contempo...

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Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images

Paleotti Gabriele, McCuaig William

ISBN: HB: 9781606061169, Getty Publications, October 2012
368 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 11 black&white illus.

This is the first English translation of Gabriele Paleotti's 16th century treatise on the role of art in society. In the wake of the Counter-Reformation, Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti, the archbishop of Bologna, wrote a remarkable treatise on art during...

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