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Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum
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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£75,00
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From Court to Caravan Chinese Tomb Sculptures from the Collection of Anthony M. Solomon
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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£25,00
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Ireland's Painters
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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£45,00
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Cowboys, Indians, and the Big Picture
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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£22,50
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Confronting Identities in German Art Myths, Reactions, Reflections
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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£20,50
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Sculpture Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion's Creative Dream
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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£22,50
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£55,00
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Well-Fashioned Image Clothing and Costume in European Art, 1500-1850
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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£16,50
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Andre Breton Surrealism and Painting
ISBN: PB: 9780878466283, DAP, MFA Publications, September 2002
448 pp., 26.6x20.9 cm, 34 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Originally published in 1928 and augmented throughout the author's life, "Surrealism and Painting" is the single most important statement ever written on Surrealist art. While many pages have been devoted to visual Surreali...
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£27,00
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Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting
ISBN: PB: 9780300094473, Yale University Press, August 2002
416 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 25 black&white illus., 300 colour illus.
An illustrated and comprehensive account of the history of Chinese painting from prehistoric times to the 21st century. It should be of interest to students and general readers who wish to gain an in-depth knowledge of Chinese painting.
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£40,00
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American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 1: Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1835
ISBN: HB: 9780300093728, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2002
444 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 450 black&white illus., 126 colour illus.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art began acquiring American drawings in 1880 and has since amassed a collection of more than 1400 works in watercolour, pastel, ink, graphite, chalk and charcoal. This catalogue, the first volume in a series devoted to the...
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£58,00
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