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Walter Sickert Prints

Bromberg Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780300081619, Yale University Press, May 2000
312 pp., 30.2x24.5 cm, 500 illus.

Walter Sickert (1860-1942) was possibly the most important and influential early modern British artist. He belonged to the generation that absorbed the modernity of late nineteenth-century French art into British painting and printmaking. His outstan...

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Nature's Workshop Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts

Herbert Robert L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300081367, Yale University Press, April 2000
290 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus., 18 colour illus.

This book shows Auguste Renoir in an entirely new light, revealing an artist far more complex and thoughtful than previously believed. Seven unknown and unpublished texts written by Renoir, along with four other writings once published but now largel...

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Pelican History of Art

Arts of China to AD 900

Watson William

ISBN: PB: 9780300082845, Yale University Press, April 2000
280 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 300 black&white illus., 96 colour illus.

This is a survey of China's wealth of art, architecture and artefacts from prehistoric times to the 20th century. It investigates the beginnings of the traditions on which much of the art rests, moving from Neolithic and Bronze Age China to the era o...

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Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family Volume 5: Autobiography of Charles Willson Peale

Willson Peale Charles, Miller Lillian B., Hart Sidney, Ward David C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300075472, Yale University Press, March 2000
552 pp., 24.5x16.5 cm, 83 black&white illus., 13 colour illus.

This autobiography, written by Peale when he was in his eighties, spans American history from the 1740s to the 1820s, an era in which Peale was a primary actor in many of the young nation's significant cultural and political events. Peale begins by d...

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Chardin

Rosenberg Pierre, Beamish Caroline

ISBN: HB: 9780300083484, Yale University Press, March 2000
360 pp., 31.9x24.3 cm, 35 black&white illus., 127 colour illus.

Widely acknowledged in his time as a premier painter of still-life and genre scenes, Jean-Baptiste-Simion Chardin (1699-1779) created unsentimentalised works that appeal to viewers today for their richness of feeling and simplicity of composition. Th...

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Fragmented Devotion Medieval Objects from the Schnutgen Museum in Cologne

Netzer Nancy, Reinburg Virginia

ISBN: PB: 9781892850010, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, March 2000
150 pp., 27.6x20.1 cm, 15 colour plates, 80 black&white photographs

Medieval art survives today as fragments of larger works, usually displayed by historical period, geographic location, artistic medium, or iconographic theme".Fragmented Devotion" is the first exhibition to explore the meanings these fragments have i...

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Sculptures of the Parthenon Aesthetics and Interpretation

Rossholm Lagerlof Margaretha

ISBN: HB: 9780300073911, Yale University Press, January 2000
212 pp., 21x15 cm, 51 black&white illus., 6 colour illus.

This generously illustrated book provides a complete overview of current knowledge about the sculptures of the Parthenon and suggests new interpretations of the ancient temple's sculptural creations. Margaretha Lagerlof steps back from viewing the fr...

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