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History of Art

Ancient World

Stribling Nicole, Schertz Peter, Hemingway Sean, Mattusch Carol C., Oakley John, Pevnick Seth

ISBN: HB: 9780300230574, Yale University Press, February 2018
160 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 130 colour illus.

Horses were revered in ancient Greece as symbols of wealth, power, and status. On stunning black- and red-figure vases, in sculpture, and in other media, Greek artists depicted the daily care of horses, chariot and horseback races, scenes of combat,...

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History of Art

Murillo The Self-Portraits

Salomon Xavier F., Treves Letizia, Alvarez-Garcillan Maria, Centeno Silvia, Garcia-Maiquez Jaime, Keith Larry, Mahon Dorothy, Ryder Nicole

ISBN: HB: 9780300225686, Yale University Press, November 2017
144 pp., 30.2x24.1 cm, 65 colour illus.

This beautiful publication accompanies an exhibition that brings together the only two known self-portraits by Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), one of the finest painters of the Spanish Golden Age. Painted almost twenty years apart, these two r...

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History of Art

Monet Framing Life

Shaw Jill

ISBN: PB: 9780300229172, Yale University Press, November 2017
64 pp., 19.1x15 cm, 30 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

This beautiful publication highlights a treasured painting in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts – "Rounded Flower Bed" ("Corbeille de fleurs") by Claude Monet (1840-1926). The canvas was painted while Monet lived in the Paris suburb of...

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History of Art

Between Worlds Raden Saleh and Juan Luna

Storer Russell

ISBN: PB: 9789811146848, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, November 2017
208 pp., 29.5x22.9 cm

National heroes and enigmatic figures, 19th-century painters Raden Saleh and Juan Luna traversed the colonial territories of Southeast Asia and the imperial cities of Europe. Their agile navigation of these competing positions resulted in dramatic pa...

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Contemporary Art

Notes Towards a Conditional Art

Simms Matthew, Irwin Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781606065501, Getty Publications, October 2017
352 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Robert Irwin began his career in the 1950s as an abstract painter. As a pioneer of the Light and Space movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s and early '80s, Irwin focused on exploring aesthetic perception as the fundamental feature of art, culminating...

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Literary Criticism

History of Art

Unpacking My Library Artists and Their Books

Steffens Jo, Neumann Matthias, Proust Marcel

ISBN: HB: 9780300216981, Yale University Press, October 2017
184 pp., 14x20.3 cm, 270 colour illus.

Taking its inspiration from Walter Benjamin's seminal 1931 essay, the "Unpacking My Library" series charts a spirited exploration of the reading and book collecting practices of today's leading thinkers. "Artists and Their Books" showcases the person...

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Soutine's Portraits Cooks, Waiters and Bellboys

Serres Karen, Wright Barnaby

ISBN: PB: 9781911300212, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, October 2017
144 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus.

Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) produced some of the most powerful and expressive portraits of modern times. His ability to capture in paint the character, humanity and emotion of his sitters is the hallmark of Soutine's greatest work. The major exhibition...

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Contemporary Art

Pollock's Modernism

Schreyach Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300223262, Yale University Press, September 2017
344 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 45 colour illus.

"Pollock's Modernism" provides a new interpretation of the art of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), one that is based on a phenomenological investigation of the pictorial effects of particular paintings. Focusing on major works that span the artist's care...

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History of Art

Illuminating Women in the Medieval World

Sciacca Christine

ISBN: HB: 9781606065266, Getty Publications, July 2017
120 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 106 colour illus.

When one thinks of women in the Middle Ages, the images that often come to mind are those of damsels in distress, mystics in convents, female laborers in the field, and even women of ill repute. In reality, however, medieval conceptions of womanhood...

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William Henry Hunt Country People

Selborne Joanna, Payne Christina

ISBN: PB: 9781911300236, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, June 2017
60 pp., 21x21 cm, 25 colour illus.

Taking its lead from W. H. Hunt's watercolour The Head Gardener, c. 1825, that is part of The Courtauld Gallery's permanent collection, this focused display will be first to investigate Hunt's depiction of rural figures in his work of the 1820s and 1...

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