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Eaglemania Collecting Japanese Art in Gilded Age America

Weston Victoria

ISBN: PB: 9781892850348, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, March 2019
165 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 85 colour plates, 40 halftones

"Eaglemania" celebrates Boston College's mascot, a monumental Japanese bronze eagle, following its recent conservation and return to view. Donated in the 1950s by the estate of diplomat and collector Larz Anderson (1866-1937) and his wife, Isabel (18...

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Boilly Scenes of Parisian Life

Whitlum-Cooper Francesca

ISBN: HB: 9781857096439, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2019
96 pp., 26x24.8 cm, 40 colour illus.

In a long career that spanned the French Revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon, and the Bourbon Restoration, Louis-Leopold Boilly (1761-1845) created innovative and daring paintings in the midst of the most turbulent times. Bringing together two...

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National Gallery Catalogues The Eighteenth-Century French Paintings

Wine Humphrey

ISBN: HB: 9781857093384, Yale University Press, November 2018
632 pp., 28.6x21.6 cm, 440 colour illus.

The impressive collection of 18th-century French paintings at the National Gallery, London, includes important works by Boucher, Chardin, David, Fragonard, Watteau, and many others. This volume presents over seventy detailed and extensively illustrat...

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Mirroring China's Past Emperors, Scholars, and Their Bronzes

Wang Tao

ISBN: HB: 9780300228632, Yale University Press, March 2018
264 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 305 colour illus., 85 black&white illus.

In ancient China (2000-221 b.c.) elaborate bronze vessels were used for rituals involving cooking, drinking, and serving food. This fascinating book not only examines the cultural practices surrounding these objects in their original context, but it...

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Contemporary Art

Power of Material / Politics of Materiality

Witzgall Susanne, Stakemeier Kerstin

ISBN: PB: 9783037349878, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2018
256 pp., 21.6x16 cm, 155 colour plates, 2 line drawings, 4 halftones

Materiality has emerged as a new focus for art, design, and architecture. Where there was once the belief that the form of a work offered more capacity to bestow meaning, "New Materialism" asserts the agency of material within the artistic process, e...

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Contemporary Art

Present of the Future

Witzgall Susanne, Stakemeier Kerstin

ISBN: PB: 9783037349861, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2018
230 pp., 21.6x16 cm, 81 colour plates, 16 halftones

As the world teeters on the brink of crisis and potentially catastrophic change, outlooks for the future have come to be characterized by anxiety. The skepticism that meets utopian visions of the future has given rise to collective nostalgia for seem...

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Behind the Mask Artists in the GDR

Westheider Ortrud, Philipp Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783791356952, Prestel Publishing, November 2017
248 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 colour illus.

"Behind the Mask: Artists in the GDR" focuses on the wide variety of artistic self-staging in the GDR, between public and private, prescribed collectivism and creative individuality. The intention of the GDR's official state art was to exert politica...

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Gustav Klimt Erotic Sketchbook

Wolf Norbert

ISBN: HB: 9783791383897, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
64 pp., 23x18.5 cm, 38 colour illus.

Throughout his career, Gustav Klimt completed hundreds of paintings and thousands of drawings of delicate beauty, many of them featuring the female form. Designed to imitate an artist's sketchbook, this gorgeous volume reproduces Klimt's most beautif...

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Henri Matisse Erotic Sketchbook

Wolf Norbert

ISBN: HB: 9783791383927, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
64 pp., 23x18.5 cm, 38 colour illus.

For Henri Matisse, drawing was an exercise as personal as it was essential to his art. These black and white and gently colored sketches allow the viewer to appreciate the quality of Matisse's lines, their confidence and ease, as well as the intense...

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50 Series

50 Women Artists You Should Know New Edition

Weidemann Christiane

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791383613, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
160 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 80 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

This beautifully produced, richly detailed, and comprehensive survey of fifty influential women artists from the Renaissance to the Post-Modern era details their vast contributions to the art world. From the Early Baroque painter Artemisia Gentilesch...

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