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Art of the Twentieth Century A Reader
ISBN: PB: 9780300101447, Yale University Press, December 2003
352 pp., 23.4x16.5 cm, 40 black&white illus.
This is a companion volume to a series of four books about 20th century art. Each book can be read independently and is accessible to the general reader. However, as a series they form the main texts of an Open University third-level course, "Art of...
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£16,99
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Futurist Moment Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, with a New Preface
ISBN: PB: 9780226657387, University of Chicago Press, December 2003
336 pp., 23.5x15.8 cm
Marjorie Perloff's stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of the early twentieth century. Offering penetrating consider...
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£24,00
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Evolution of English Collecting The Reception of Italian Art in the Tudor and Stuart Periods
ISBN: HB: 9780300102246, Yale University Press, November 2003
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 150 illus.
After a thorough survey of the background history of European collecting, focussing in particular on Italy's formative role in this phenomenon, Edward Chaney contextualises English collecting in the 16th and 17th centuries and draws together a collec...
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What Happened to Art Criticism?
ISBN: PB: 9780972819633, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, November 2003
87 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
Art criticism was once passionate, polemical, and judgmental; now critics are more often interested in ambiguity, neutrality, and nuanced description. And while art criticism is ubiquitous in newspapers, magazines, and exhibition brochures, it is als...
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£10,00
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William and Lucy The Other Rossettis
ISBN: HB: 9780300102000, Yale University Press, October 2003
352 pp., 24.2x16.7 cm, 110 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.
The marriage of William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919) and Lucy Madox Brown (1843-1894) united two of the most resonant Pre-Raphaelite family names. Their passionate and ultimately tragic relationship provides a fresh perspective on 19th-century marria...
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£35,00
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Treasures of the National Gallery of Canada
ISBN: HB: 9780300099447, Yale University Press, September 2003
288 pp., 28.5x24.8 cm, 135 illus.
Pride of place is given to the Gallery's unparalleled holdings in Canadian art, but European art – paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings – is equally well represented. Masterworks from the Inuit art collection are also included, as well as examp...
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£60,00
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Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300102031, Yale University Press, September 2003
160 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 30 black&white illus., 85 colour illus.
The Wadsworth Atheneum's remarkable collection of 20th-century art is due to a succession of adventurous directors and curators. This volume showcases the museum's holdings and provides details about their acquisition. The famed Chick Austin, directo...
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£45,00
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Hudson River School Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300101164, Yale University Press, September 2003
180 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 70 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
Hudson River School paintings are among America's most admired and well-loved artworks. Such artists as Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and Albert Bierstadt left a powerful legacy to American art, embodying in their epic works the reverence for nature...
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Aleut Art Unangam Aguqaadangin
ISBN: HB: 9781578642144, University of Chicago Press, September 2003
208 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 180 colour plates
Now in a second edition, "Aleut Ar" is a landmark work that provides a comprehensive picture of the Unangas, or Aleut people, and the place of art in their lives, both past and present. Full of extraordinary color plates representing collections f...
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£40,00
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Art History after Modernism
ISBN: PB: 9780226041858, ISBN: HB: 9780226041841, University of Chicago Press, August 2003
236 pp., 23x15 cm, 48 halftones
"Art history after modernism" does not only mean that art looks different today; it also means that our discourse on art has taken a different direction, if it is safe to say it has taken a direction at all. So begins Hans Belting's brilliant, icon...
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£23,50
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£76,00
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