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Adventures of Gillion de Trazegnies Chivalry and Romance in the Medieval East

Stahuljak Zrinka, Morrison Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9781606064634, Getty Publications, January 2016
176 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

One of the finest works from the golden era of Flemish manuscript illumination, the Getty'scopy of the "Romance of Gillion de Trazegnies" tells of the adventures of a medieval nobleman. Part travelogue, part romance, and part epic, the text traces th...

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Princeton's Great Persian Book of Kings The Peck Shahnama

Simpson Marianna Shreve, Marlow Louise

ISBN: HB: 9780300215748, Yale University Press, December 2015
192 pp., 32.4x22.9 cm, 105 colour illus.

"Princeton's Great Persian Book of Kings" presents the first comprehensive examination of a beautifully decorated yet relatively unknown manuscript of the "Shahnama" ("Book of Kings"), created in 1589-90 in the flourishing cultural center of Shiraz....

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Institutions and Imaginaries

Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780982879863, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, August 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

Socially engaged art, though its transformative practice, shapes the institutions that surround it. And in a city famous for both its physical and political structures, few creative communities are as deeply intertwined with a city's framework than t...

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Missionaries and Idols in Polynesia

Shaw King David

ISBN: PB: 9781907372834, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, July 2015
176 pp., 28x20 cm, 100 colour illus.

The first Europeans to follow the explorers of the eighteenth century into the South Pacific were missionaries. They were sent by an Evangelical Christian organization called The London Missionary Society, whose aim was to bring the word of the Bible...

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Contemporary Art

Paintings That Revolutionized Art

Stauble Claudia, Kiefer Julie

ISBN: PB: 9783791381534, Prestel Publishing, April 2015
288 pp., 27x21 cm, 150 colour illus.

This beautifully illustrated, delightfully informative collection of 100 of the world's most significant paintings covers nearly every period, culture, and style. What makes the Book of Kells such an extraordinary example of the illuminated manuscri...

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Faces of Impressionism Portraits from the Musee d'Orsay

Shackelford George T. M., Cogeval Guy, Pludermacher Isolde, Rey Xavier

ISBN: PB: 9780300207736, Yale University Press, December 2014
250 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 150 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

"Faces of Impressionism" explores the development of the portrait in French painting and sculpture between 1860 and 1910 as showcased in one of the world's greatest collections of Impressionist art – the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. Splendidly illustrated...

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Manet Paints Monet A Summer in Argenteuil

Sauerlander Willibald, Dollenmayer David

ISBN: HB: 9781606064283, Getty Publications, November 2014
80 pp., 22.8x15.8 cm, 30 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.

This is a fascinating look at one of the defining images of the Impressionist movement".Manet Paints Monet" focuses on an auspicious moment in the history of art. In the summer of 1874, Edouard Manet (1832-1883) and Claude Monet (1840-1926), two outs...

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American Paintings at Harvard Volume 1: Paintings, Watercolors and Pastels by Artists Born Before 1826

Stebbins Theodore E., Renn Melissa, Anderson Virginia, Blunt Hannah, Grindlay Sandra, Lowrey Carol, Moore Charlotte Emans, Moore Kevin, Orcutt Kimberly, Polemis Alexandra

ISBN: HB: 9780300153521, Yale University Press, November 2014
656 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 554 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

This volume features nearly 500 paintings, watercolours, pastels and miniatures from Harvard University's storied, yet little-known, collection of American art. These works, many unpublished, are drawn from the Harvard Art Museums, the University Por...

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Culture Studies

Support Networks

Satinsky Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780982879856, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

When artists break boundaries of traditional forms and work outside of institutionalized systems, they often must create new infrastructures to sustain their practices".Support Networks" looks to Chicago's deeply layered history of artists, scholars,...

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Remaking Tradition Modern Art of Japan from the Tokyo National Museum

Shimatani Hiroyuki, Matsushima Masato, Bidwell Frederick E., Zeniya Masami

ISBN: HB: 9780300206081, Yale University Press, May 2014
176 pp., 27.3x30.2 cm, 82 colour images, 4 black&white illus.

This catalogue presents over fifty works in different media – most notably sculpture, painting and ceramics – assembled together for the first time to convey the impressive variety of Japanese art from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These wo...

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