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Mapplethorpe + Munch

Steihaug Jon-Ove, Meyer Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300220100, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2016
256 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 150 colour illus.

This revelatory catalogue delves into the many affinities shared between two widely renowned and discussed artists, Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) and Edvard Munch (1863-1944), whose intensely studied work has, until now, never been considered in re...

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Hieronymus Bosch Visions of Genius

Ilsink Matthijs, Koldeweij Jos

ISBN: PB: 9780300220131, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2016
192 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 140 colour illus.

Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) lived and worked in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, where he created enigmatic paintings and drawings full of bizarre creatures, phantasmagoric monsters, and terrifying nightmares. He also depicted detailed landscap...

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Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman Technical Studies

Hoogstede Luuk, Spronk Ron, Ilsink Matthijs, Koldeweij Jos, Erdmann Robert G., Gotink Rik Klein

ISBN: HB: 9780300220155, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2016
496 pp., 32.4x24.1 cm, 300 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

Scholars have traditionally focused on the subjects and meanings of Hieronymus Bosch's works, whereas issues of painting technique, workshop participation, and condition of extant pictures have received considerably less attention. Since 2010, the Bo...

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Glory of Saint George Man, Dragon, and Death

Busine Laurent, Sellink Manfred

ISBN: HB: 9780300215755, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2015
304 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 250 colour illus.

This book offers the first-ever survey of artistic depictions of the legend of Saint George defeating the dragon. The earliest existing references to this episode in the hagiography of Saint George date from the 11th century, and the mythical conflic...

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Van Gogh The Birth of an Artist

Van Heugten Sjraar, Vellekoop Marije, Jansen Leo, Moens Bart, Tilly Pierre, Laloux Pierre-Olivier, Vouters Bruno, Daloze Marcel

ISBN: HB: 9780300212129, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2015
304 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 230 colour illus.

In 1878, at age 25, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) arrived in the area of Belgium known as the Borinage to work as a Protestant evangelist in rural coal mining communities. He failed in that vocation, and after months of soul-searching, in August 1880,...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 1 (1898-1914)

Pierre Arnauld, Clements Candace, Calte Beverley, Camfield William A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208283, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2014
504 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 425 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

This publication is the first of four volumes in the catalogue raisonne of Francis Picabia, one of the most significant, challenging artists of the 20th century. The works in Volume I range from Picabia's early pieces as an Impressionist in 1898 to h...

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Ravaged Art and Culture in Times of Conflict

Tollebeek Jo, Van Assche Eline

ISBN: HB: 9780300204476, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, April 2014
352 pp., 25.4x30.5 cm, 230 colour illus.

The year 2014 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and the beginning of the conflict that would become known as World War I. In addition to the devastating loss of human life, the Great War...

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Rene Magritte: Newly Discovered Works Volume 6: Oil Paintings, Gouaches, Drawings

Whitfield Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300188752, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, July 2012
164 pp., 32.4x24.1 cm, 130 colour and black&white illus.

Rene Magritte (1898-1967) was a surrealist artist whose thought-provoking works used ordinary objects to challenge how viewers perceived reality. His extensive oeuvre was documented in a comprehensive five-volume project, led by distinguished art cri...

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