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History of Art

Temptation of Saint Redon Biography, Ideology, and Style in the Noirs of Odilon Redon

Eisenman Stephen F.

ISBN: HB: 9780226195483, University of Chicago Press, December 1992
310 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 156 halftones

Bristling with demons, grotesques, and bizarre apparitions, the graphic work of Odilon Redon has often seemed to be the product of a mind unhinged. In "The Temptation of Saint Redon", Stephen F. Eisenman argues instead that these works are Redon's co...

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Mantegna and Painting as Historical Narrative

Greenstein Jack M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226307077, University of Chicago Press, June 1992
316 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 61 halftones

In this extraordinary explication of one of the most enigmatic and influential works of the Renaissance, the "Uffizi Circumcision of Christ", Jack M. Greenstein reassesses the nature and goals of high humanist narrative painting. Contents: List o...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Arts in Prehistoric Greece

Hood Sinclair

ISBN: PB: 9780300052879, Yale University Press, May 1992
311 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 237 colour and black&white illus.

A survey of how the Aegean peoples expressed themselves during a period of some 5000 years after the end of the Bronze Age (circa 1100 BC), and before the rise of Greek art. Work produced in the ambience of the palaces of Crete (including the palace...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Prehistoric Art in Europe

Sandars N. K.

ISBN: PB: 9780300052862, Yale University Press, May 1992
508 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 442 colour and black&white illus.

Until around 10,000 BC art in Europe appears to have been in advance of the rest of the world and throws light on the total history of early man. The great masterpieces of cave-painting at Lascaux are well known, and one tradition of early sculpture...

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Pelican History of Art

Sculpture in Britain, 1530-1830

Whinney Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780300053180, ISBN: HB: 9780300053173, Yale University Press, May 1992
522 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 318 colour and black&white illus.

This comprehensive survey of sculpture in Britain from the Reformation to the accession of Queen Victoria aims to shed light on English taste in the period. It examines the family tomb and the portrait bust, the forms of sculpture most favoured in Br...

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Ancestral Connections Art and an Aboriginal System of Knowledge

Morphy Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780226538662, University of Chicago Press, March 1992
348 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 56 figures

"Ancestral Connections" unlocks the inner meaning of Australian Aboriginal bark painting. Drawing on more than ten years of fieldwork among the Yolngu – an Aboriginal people of Northeast Arnhem Land – and applying both anthropological and art histori...

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Pictures of Romance Form against Context in Painting and Literature

Steiner Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780226772301, ISBN: HB: 9780226772295, University of Chicago Press, December 1991
225 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 49 halftones

How do pictures tell stories? Why does the literary romance so often refer to paintings and other visual art objects? Beginning with these two seemingly unrelated questions, Wendy Steiner reveals an intricate exchange between the visual arts and the...

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History of Art

Power of Images Studies in the History and Theory of Response

Freedberg David

ISBN: PB: 9780226261461, University of Chicago Press, May 1991
560 pp., 24.6x16.8 cm, 190 halftones

Contents: List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. The Power of Images: Response and Repression 2. The God in the Image 3. The Value of the Commonplace 4. The Myth of Aniconism 5. Consecration: Making Images Work 6. Image and Pilgrimage 7. The...

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Rule of Art Literature and Painting in the Renaissance

Hulse Clark

ISBN: HB: 9780226360522, University of Chicago Press, July 1990
230 pp., 24.8x17.6 cm, 41 halftones

What do Renaissance poetry and painting have in common? What are the social, ideological, and aesthetic bases for the links between them? And what role do those links play in creating the humanistic culture that still has power over us today? These...

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Piero Della Francesca The Flagellation

Lavin Marilyn Aronberg

ISBN: PB: 9780226469584, University of Chicago Press, June 1990
110 pp., 22x17.7 cm

Contents: Preface Historical Table 1. Introduction 2. Physical History of the Painting 3. The Sources of the Composition 4. The Setting 5. The Portraits 6. The Subject 7. Art Historical Context Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations In...

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