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History of Art

A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Fifty Years

Cropper Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780300099614, Yale University Press, February 2003
255 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 63 illus.

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were begun in 1952 at the National Gallery of Art in order to bring the best in contemporary scholarship to the public. To mark the 50th anniversary of the acclaimed series, the Center for Advanced Study in...

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Mall in Washington, 1791-1991

Longstreth Richard, O'Malley Therese

ISBN: HB: 9780300095371, Yale University Press, February 2003
328 pp., 28.7x23.9 cm, 37 colour plates, 103 black&white illus.

As the most important public space in the United States, the Mall in Washington, DC, has been a vital emblem of national spirit and ideals ever since Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant first envisioned it over 200 years ago. Although the Mall has undergon...

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Brush With Nature The Gere Collection of Landscape Oil Sketches (Revised Edition)

Riopelle Christopher, Bray Xavier

ISBN: HB: 9781857099980, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2003
176 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 20 black&white illus., 101 colour illus.

More than forty years ago, John and Charlotte Gere, both distinguished art historians, pioneered the collecting of small-scale landscape oil sketches created by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists working out of doors in nature. Such paintings...

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Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum

Barnett Vivian Endicott

ISBN: HB: 9780300096354, Yale University Press, November 2002
512 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, some illus.

A famous art collector, dealer, and indomitable champion of modern art, Emmy (Galka) Scheyer (1889-1945) is best known as the founder of the Blue Four artists' group, whose members were Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Alexei Jawlensky and Vasily Kandins...

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From Court to Caravan Chinese Tomb Sculptures from the Collection of Anthony M. Solomon

Bower Virginia L., Mowry Robert D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300096965, Yale University Press, November 2002
160 pp., 19.6x28 cm, 10 black&white illus., 90 colour illus.

During the Han (206 BC-AD 220) and Tang (AD 618-907) dynasties, terra cotta sculptures were placed in elaborate tombs to protect and to serve the spirit of the deceased. These fascinating sculptures took the form of soldiers, courtiers, musicians, me...

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Ireland's Painters

Crookshank Anne O., Knight of Glin

ISBN: HB: 9780300097658, Yale University Press, October 2002
352 pp., 32.9x25.9 cm, 50 black&white illus., 375 colour illus.

This illustrated survey of the history of Irish painting encompasses the entire span from the Middle Ages to the mid-20th century. The volume includes both well-known and virtually unknown artists, Irish artists who worked abroad as well as in Irelan...

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Cowboys, Indians, and the Big Picture

Fryer Heather

ISBN: PB: 9781892850041, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, October 2002
113 pp., 25.7x25.7 cm

The American West has had an enormous influence on the nation's imagination, including its fine art. From the Western Realists – as epitomized by the Cowboy Artists of America's mission to produce "authentic representations of life in the West" – to...

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Confronting Identities in German Art Myths, Reactions, Reflections

Heller Reinhold

ISBN: PB: 9780935573367, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2002
180 pp., 28.1x20.3 cm, 20 colour plates, 80 halftones

What does it mean to be German? Recent answers to this question have ranged from the general ("Germans are always the other") to the analytic ("They are a multiple identity with a constant wish for redefinition"). The catalogue for "Confronting Ident...

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Sculpture Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion's Creative Dream

Herder Johann Gottfried

ISBN: PB: 9780226327556, ISBN: HB: 9780226327532, University of Chicago Press, October 2002
141 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 15 halftones

Long recognized as one of the most important eighteenth-century works on aesthetics and the visual arts, Johann Gottfried Herder's Plastik (Sculpture, 1778) has never before appeared in a complete English translation. In this landmark essay, Herder c...

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Well-Fashioned Image Clothing and Costume in European Art, 1500-1850

Weaver Elissa B., Rodini Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780935573350, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2002
110 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 8 colour plates, 40 halftones

Fashion – the question of what to wear and how to wear it – is a centuries-old obsession. Beyond superficial concerns with personal appearance, the history of dress points to deep preoccupations surrounding the social order, national identity, and mo...

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