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Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds
ISBN: HB: 9780300087338, Yale University Press, December 2000
318 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 illus.
A collection of letters by Sir Joshua Reynolds. It is the first edition to be published since 1929, and since that date the number of known letters has almost doubled. This volume contains 308 letters by the artist to friends, family and patrons, all...
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£30,00
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Eye on the Modern Century Selected Letters of Henry McBride
ISBN: HB: 9780300083262, Yale University Press, December 2000
374 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 illus.
Henry McBride (1867-1962) became a towering figure in art criticism during a long career that began in 1913 – the year of the famous Armory Show in New York that opened American eyes to avant-garde developments in European art – and continued until t...
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£48,00
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Flesh and the Ideal Winkelmann and the Origins of Art History
ISBN: PB: 9780300087369, Yale University Press, October 2000
302 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 43 illus.
A biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 18th-century German philosopher and aesthetician. Analyzing Winckelmann's magnum opus, "History of the Art of Antiquity", it explains the fundamental importance to art history of this account of the aestheti...
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£21,00
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Ephemeral Museum Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Exhbition
ISBN: HB: 9780300085341, Yale University Press, October 2000
248 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
When and why did large-scale exhibitions of Old Master paintings begin, and how have they evolved through the centuries? In this book an eminent art historian examines the intriguing history and significance of these international art exhibitions. Fr...
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£40,00
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Albert Memorial The Prince Consort National Memorial: Its History, Contexts and Conservation
ISBN: HB: 9780300073119, Yale University Press, September 2000
456 pp., 33x16.5 cm, 112 black&white illus., 200 colour illus.
A study of the Albert Memorial. It tells the history, discusses the symbolism, and gives an account of the recent restoration of this 19th-century monument. In commemorating Prince Albert, the Memorial exemplified the age, its material achievements,...
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£40,00
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Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe
ISBN: PB: 9780935573282, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2000
110 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 9 colour plates, 81 halftones
A scholar's desk, a warlord's castle, a pope's altar, the mouth of a volcano: in the minds of early modern Europeans, all evoked memories of ancient times, from Egyptian pharaohs to Roman emperors. The essays in this catalog explore the influence of...
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£16,50
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Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300085655, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2000
176 pp., 27.8x15.4 cm, 60 colour illus.
The author explores little-known works on paper by nineteen leading artists.
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£22,00
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Time Line of Culture in the Nile Valley and Its Relationship to Other World Cultures
ISBN: HB: 9780300085600, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2000
70 pp., 33.5x10.5 cm
A pictorial survey of Egyptian art and history from Paleolithic times to the present, with cross-cultural references.
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£6,50
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Ancient Egypt in the Metropolitan Museum Journal Volume 1-11: 1968-1976
ISBN: HB: 9780300085686, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2000
209 pp., 27.8x15.4 cm, 224 illus.
Anyone interested in ancient Egypt will give a warm welcome to this handy book with which the fine Metropolitan Museum of Arts of New York reunites a series of papers written by famous names such as C. Aldred and H.G. Fischer, originally issued in it...
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£18,95
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Modern Life and Modern Subject British Art in the Early Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300083507, Yale University Press, June 2000
344 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 120 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.
In May 1914 the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London opened its exhibition of "Twentieth-Century Art". The catalogue identified four main strands in modern painting but included a fifth group of Jewish artists, hung in the "Small Gallery". In this illum...
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