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History of Art

Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings Volume I

Penny Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9781857099089, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2004
448 pp., 28.6x21.6 cm, 225 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

This highly anticipated catalogue of sixteenth-century paintings from the distinguished collection of the National Gallery in London encompasses artists who were active in Bergamo, Brescia, and Cremona, cities characterized as much by the artistic in...

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History of Art

Futurist Moment Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, with a New Preface

Perloff Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9780226657387, University of Chicago Press, December 2003
336 pp., 23.5x15.8 cm

Marjorie Perloff's stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of the early twentieth century. Offering penetrating consider...

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History of Art

Andre Breton Surrealism and Painting

Polizzotti Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780878466283, DAP, MFA Publications, September 2002
448 pp., 26.6x20.9 cm, 34 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Originally published in 1928 and augmented throughout the author's life, "Surrealism and Painting" is the single most important statement ever written on Surrealist art. While many pages have been devoted to visual Surreali...

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History of Art

Primitive Art in Civilized Places Second Edition

Price Sally

ISBN: PB: 9780226680675, University of Chicago Press, January 2002
176 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm

What is so "primitive" about primitive art? And how do we dare to use our standards to judge it? Drawing on an intriguing mixture of sources-including fashion ads and films, her own anthropological research, and even comic strips like Doonesbury – Pr...

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History of Art

Small Bronzes in the Renaissance

Pincus Debra

ISBN: HB: 9780300090420, Yale University Press, August 2001
282 pp., 28x22.8 cm, 305 illus.

This far-ranging book presents the most recent research on small-scale bronze production of the Renaissance. The contributors to the volume – an international group of curators, art historians, and conservators – analyse the production and collecting...

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History of Art

Flesh and the Ideal Winkelmann and the Origins of Art History

Potts Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780300087369, Yale University Press, October 2000
302 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 43 illus.

A biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 18th-century German philosopher and aesthetician. Analyzing Winckelmann's magnum opus, "History of the Art of Antiquity", it explains the fundamental importance to art history of this account of the aestheti...

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£21,00

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History of Art

Meaning in the Visual Arts

Panofsky Erwin

ISBN: PB: 9780226645513, University of Chicago Press, March 1983
384 pp., 22.9x14.7 cm, 64 pages of illus.

Since its original publication, Erwin Panofsky's "Meaning in the Visual Arts" has been standard reading for students of art history. It is both an introduction to the study of art and, for those with more specialized interests, a profound discussion...

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