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Paris in Despair Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-1871)

Clayson Hollis

ISBN: PB: 9780226109572, ISBN: HB: 9780226109510, University of Chicago Press, March 2005
472 pp., 23.4x21.6 cm, 36 colour plates, 181 halftones

The siege of Paris by Prussians in the fall and winter of 1870 and 1871 turned the city upside down, radically altering its appearance, social structure, and mood. As Hollis Clayson demonstrates in "Paris in Despair", the siege took an especially hea...

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Sebastian's Arrows Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca

Dali Salvador, Lorca Federico Garcia

ISBN: HB: 9780967880884, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, February 2005
248 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 24 colour plates

"Let us agree", Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, "that one of man's most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian". "In my 'Saint Sebastian' I remember you", Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had j...

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Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits

Wheelock Jr. Arthur K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226894430, University of Chicago Press, February 2005
150 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 40 colour plates, 30 halftones

One of the most fascinating aspects of Rembrandt's extraordinary artistic career is his suite of brooding half-length portraits of religious figures from the late 1650s and early 1660s. Painted during a difficult time in the artist's life – when he n...

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Retratos 2000 Years of Latin American Portraits

Oettinger Marion Jr., Bretos Miguel A., Kinder Carr Carolyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300106275, Yale University Press, January 2005
300 pp., 30.4x24.8 cm, 250 illus.

The tradition of portraiture in Latin America is astonishingly long and rich. For over 2,000 years, portraits have been used to preserve the memory of the deceased, bolster the social standing of the aristocracy, mark the deeds of the mighty, advance...

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Men at Work Art and Labour in Mid-Victorian Britain

Barringer Tim

ISBN: HB: 9780300103809, Yale University Press, January 2005
392 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 33 colour images, 113 black&white illus.

For artists of the increasingly mechanized Victorian age, questions about the meaning and value of labour presented a series of urgent problems: Is work a moral obligation or a religious duty? Must labour be the preserve of men alone? Does the amount...

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Pelican History of Art

Flemish Art and Architecture 1585-1700

Vlieghe Hans

ISBN: PB: 9780300104691, Yale University Press, December 2004
288 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 100 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

This beautifully illustrated book provides a complete overview of the art of the Southern Netherlands from 1585 to 1700. The author examines the development of Flemish and specifically Antwerp painting, the work of Rubens and other leading masters, a...

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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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Lasting Impressions The Grolier Club Library

Holzenberg Eric

ISBN: HB: 9780910672528, University of Chicago Press, November 2004
224 pp., 26.5x21.6 cm, 180 colour plates, 50 halftones

Three years after the founding of the Grolier Club in 1884, the club's Library Committee was established with a mission "to gather together for the use of the members all the standard bibliographical works, as well as books relating to the art of pri...

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From Mind, Heart and Hand Persian, Turkish and Indian Drawings from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection

Welch Stuart Cary, Masteller Kimberly

ISBN: HB: 9780300104738, Yale University Press, October 2004
272 pp., 28.9x23.3 cm, 19 illustration, 116 colour illus.

Stuart Cary Welch's collection of Persian, Turkish, and Indian art is renowned throughout the world for its quality and depth. In 1999, Welch made a generous gift of drawings to the Harvard University Art Museums, which form the basis of the present...

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G. F. Watts The Last Great Victorian

Gould Veronica

ISBN: HB: 9780300105773, Yale University Press, October 2004
480 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 40 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) was a titanic figure in nineteenth-century British art. The father of British Symbolism and portrait painter of his age, he forged a controversial career that spanned the reign of Queen Victoria. This book, the first...

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